Balta1701

Mine’s better.

A Rick Hahn apology thread should feature an apology from Rick Hahn.

A quick search suggests that the average age of an A320 in United’s fleet is 25 years, and this one seems unusually low in the size of the first class area.

One of the things that stood out the most over the past decade is the high ground ball rates. It’s not just one guy, it’s everyone, and the longer they’re here the worse it is. Eloy, Vaughn, Anderson - these are guys who should be hitting line drives and fly balls over the wall, but they gradually become more and more ground ball heavy. Do we seriously think this is an accident, and anything other than the coaching staff telling them to hit the ball on the ground and put it in play? Theres a line in the article about how Reinsdorf wants guys who get em over and get em in. LaRussa comes in, and these guys turn into ground ball machines. Thats a coincidence? Naw.

I don’t have it in front of me but I don’t remember seeing it stated that Haber refused to comment as they did with Hahn. Did they?

No one hates White Sox fans more than…well we know.

None of them have a recent history of back or leg problems that also start affecting other muscles and their performance, so it’s ok.

It’s weird how two straight seasons the guy who has called out this FO has been a marginal roster vet. Its like they think they’ve seen enough that they’re saying screw it, I’d rather be out of the league than let this hurt other players.

For the better franchises out there, this probably makes him look more like a responsible leader.

Then he doesn't deserve anything resembling an apology and I get my 10 years of earned vitriol. If the White Sox organization can't get their act together and this franchise moves, Rick Hahn will be tied with Chris Getz as the number 2 reason why it happens.

Jesus Pham went ON THE RECORD with "What manager could have made things better?" Pham asked.

"Former pitchers describe Chicago's game planning as almost rudimentary. Rather than provide individual plans for each hitter, the White Sox offer generalities such as, "your sinker will play down in the zone" - an insufficient answer against, say, a lineup full of left-handed hitters who handle sinkers in that area. Minor league pitchers with high walk totals were told things like "work on your command," with no other specifics, in the offseason. Hitters expressed similar concerns. "They had information," one former position player said. "But you didn't get an explanation or a plan." -I wasn't kidding above, this has to be eating at this kid.

"They have people there with no business being in major league baseball" said an executive with another team. Shame that the GM has no influence on...baseball staff. How can we blame him for the people working for him, the GM's decisions can't be Rick Hahn's fault.

Then f***ing resign. You can already afford front row seats for the Bears-Texans game. Get out of there with your reputation in tact.

And there's no chance that a lack of modern training techniques and a "rub some dirt on that elbow it'll be fine" philosophy could be things that influence those injuries?

Rick Hahn had some of the most enjoyable White Sox players I've ever seen handed to him and he demolished it more than once because he was too cowardly or too dumb to say or do anything that would offend his boss. He should still be captured, tarred, feathered, and paraded through the streets of the south side as punishment for his years here.

THEN F***ING RESIGN IN 2014. OR 2019. OR 2021. LITERALLY EVERYONE ON EARTH WOULD HAVE UNDERSTOOD WHY HE RESIGNED IF HE HAD DONE SO IN DECEMBER OF 2020, AND HE'D PROBABLY HAVE ANOTHER GM JOB RIGHT NOW. INSTEAD HE'S A LAUGHINGSTOCK WHO WILL NEVER WORK AS A GM AGAIN.

Reinsdorf will keep trying for several more years. He will then, by 2026 or 2027, start saying how unfair the politicians have been for not giving support to his brilliant plan. That is the setup the A's were at a couple years ago. The City was willing to spend some on a new stadium but expected the billionaire owner to do their part as well. The end result is a team in Sacramento's minor league park for 2 years before they move into a ballpark that even the new city doesn't want to actually pay for.

JR has acted the whole time like a classic 1980s bully rich person. In the 80s he threatened to leave and they caved, so he’s expecting that again. He doesn’t realize the politicians no longer will cut a blank check for a stadium, but he has told his partners he can make it happen. The politicians are expecting him to put up a lot of money and give them a plan that is a good deal for the taxpayer, and for a blighted and undeveloped property in the city that can happen, but he won’t do that. He believes they will cave when they see his importance, and get this, no one in his employ has clearly explained to him that the world doesn’t work that way any more. The state won’t cave, nor should they, which sets up a standoff just like the A’s.

chances of a sweep in the final series looking solid, with Detroit right in a tight race.

I think 40-122 puts you clearly behind the 40-120 Mets. 41-121 has more losses than the Mets but a better winning percentage, that would be a tie in the standings with the White Sox listed ahead. 40-122 puts the White Sox 1 game behind.

The government should not be caring about white Sox payroll on their big league staff. They should be caring about the quality of jobs generated by the site, and Reinsdorf is notoriously cheap for what he pays his stadium staff. They should be caring about the tax revenue return created by developing this site and jobs created around it. So far, as far as I can tell, neither Reinsdorf nor Related have talked about this at all, and as a consequence the politicians are correctly saying that they need to make sure it is a “good deal for the taxpayers”. Reinsdorf apparently refuses to demonstrate this in any way, and instead expects that he can bully the state government with threats to move and bribes of river cruises.

Worth noting that the NFL concussion settlements I think establish a pretty clear precedent that a team has responsibility to act in the best interests of their players health in addition to their interests of winning. If a team pushes a player too hard or does not have the player fully understanding their risks of an activity, there remains liability on the part of the team.

Let’s not ignore the fact that Garrett Crochet has already done this at least two times for playoff teams and maybe half a third time rushing back too early to try to save a 2023 team. Is he going to be asked to pitch himself into the operating table or rehab room every year?