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Letting Crochet walk away in two years would be corporate negligence.

Hell they didn't act like 2024 was a rebuild year until they got on pace for the worst season in the history of baseball.

The Golden State Warriors are in the same market as the A's... well at least they were.

It should be for Chris Getz. Let's see if he can take advantage this time.

I would have made Andrew Vaughn homeless first, but you know...

And here's the thing, even with the pool of money the teams receive, it isn't cheap to run an MLB franchise. Take the White Sox numbers from 2024. Their 2023 payroll number was $187 million according to the spring 2024 Forbes numbers. Even with that number, the Sox had ANOTHER $129 million in operations costs NOT related to payroll, as even with revenue of $288 million, they lost $28 million on paper. We all know the Sox operation is one of the smallest in baseball, so even if teams start with $200 million in revenue on day one, most teams are going to have more than $130 million in operations costs before they ever cut a payroll check. Looking at revenue is a data point, but if you aren't looking at expenses too, you have no idea what you are actually looking at. It's like looking at someone's house value and assuming they are a millionaire because their place is worth a million dollars. It has nothing to do with their actual cash flow and liquidity.

Hearing Hays story, if you are convinced of his return to health, he makes sense as a flip candidate.

Forget it, he's rolling

If it isn't, why do you keep saying it like it has meaning?

Him asking for a lot isn't a problem for me, it's him not panicking if he doesn't get it on Day 1 of the winter meetings that matters to me.

I don't think effectively saying if the Orioles graduate their top 10 the Sox system might be better is the flex you think it is.

For the record, I would rather pay Nicky again than Madrigal.

1. He sucks. 2. He's overpaid at any salary. 3. He's not got six years of control or someone who could be flipped at the break.

Burn it all to the ground. Everyone from Poles down goes, and find some adults.

The irony being as baseball has gotten more detail oriented with analytics and stats, and the White Sox have refused to go that direction, they have fallen further and further behind the rest of baseball. Or can we not use wins and losses to determine if a team is bad? Is that allowed? Is that factual enough?

Yes, the way to make miserable people to see the light isn't for the White Sox to get better, it is for them to just deal with it.

That is exactly what his post was, thanks.

There is quite literally a place in the top of a post to control font, including bold, italic, etc. As to the above rant, I think you are wrongly connecting FACT with COMMONLY HELD BELIEF. All of these discussions are based on what people believe, and I have yet to see anyone claim any of your rant as a FACT, let alone the idea that EVERYONE believes it. That's ridiculous and shows you don't actually read the discussions, just get offended when the crowd in general doesn't agree with you.

Which is exactly where reports have the White Sox failing so badly with half assed attempts at it, instead of the deep and detail analytics real teams use.

He's still getting his toes wet in the zero entry.

Probably the premier move of Rick Hahn's career was not panicking on Jose Quintana and holding on to him until the next deadline and making the deal with the Cubs.

I have been posting the Forbes numbers annually. We haven't had a "profitable" season since 2019 according to them.

Ready to put the Black into Black Sox!