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Yes and no. Conservatism since 2015/6….when Trump’s populism swept white high school educated males and significant numbers of labor unions. Conservatism growing up was associated with Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Greenspan, Milton Friedman, Barry Goldwater, Thomas Sowell, Supply side, the Bushes, Reagan, Powell, George Will, Jack Kemp, Paul Ryan from Wisconsin, certainly lots more intellectualism than the Dems who historically ruled the unions with a relatively lower education level/base. (Tim Walz represents the opposite of that Clinton/Obama tie to Wall Street, investment banks and Silicon Valley…fwiw. Whether the middle 30-40% of voters will buy it, more women and Hispanics voting for Trump, Dems peeling off any additional white male swing or “dislike both” voters…will decide the election.)

Before the game, Luis Robert Jr. talked about his statistical drop off this season and tied those struggles directly into that of the team as a true leader and top-flight level player would and should do. Robert followed up those comments with two doubles, contributing to the postgame joy in the clubhouse. A throng of media members, probably as big as any group covering the White Sox this season since Opening Day, walked in to find players joking and "Everybody Dance Now," the 1990 hit from C+C Music Factory, blaring. Anyone who came to see history made by the White Sox will have to wait, with the White Sox winning their fourth straight at home and second straight series at home. “Wait one more day,” Benintendi said with a smile. “Maybe.” “If you start the year off great early and terrible at the end, it kind of leaves a sour taste in your mouth,” Martin said. “I think that's exactly what we're trying to do is put some good games together and we're trying to have some fun and win some games and go to Detroit and try to spoil some games for them.” As for that Detroit series … the White Sox moved Chris Flexen to Thursday’s home finale and ace Garrett Crochet to Friday in Detroit. The American League Central rivalries are going strong, even in the face of 121 losses. “They’re gonna be competing for a playoff spot,” Sizemore said. “We wanna throw our best guy up against this team that’s fighting for a playoff spot.

Not at anywhere close to this year’s salary. Will just play rookies.

Having worked for a black NFL receiver, it’s still all about tax policy, sheltering wealth and the Prosperity Gospels. Then again he was a born again Evangelical Christian to boot. That same player ended up in Miami Federal prison for real estate fraud related to the 2007-2008 boondoggle.

If a 625 ops with bottom quintile defense is the answer on the infield the team is doomed. Because Vargas and Baldwin all profile similarly, Ramos for now, and Montgomery still a work in progress. Benintendi has to repeat this the first half of next season. Then maybe they can trade him and only have to send $10-20 million along with his contract instead of 50%. But as a DH and not average LF, he has fairly limited attractiveness. Being LH helps a bit but those defensive metrics aren’t close to good.

bailed out by dp's two consecutive innings

Not Anderson again.

Winning despite only three hitters over 626 ops.

If Soroka expects a starter's salary good luck.

lol

Burger with 29 homers and over 70 rbis now. Minnesota behind the 8 ball. 764 ops 74 rbi’s, opened up lead over Min again tonight…

The whole idea of a still recovering but lacking in crispness and command on his pitches seems pretty ludicrous. 93~95 mph is just a pedestrian fastball in?the game today. And whoever targeted Shewmake for any reason than former first round draft was nuts. It's almost like the modified operandi is to dig up as many former high draft picks and watch them continue to fail and/or think fans will be fooled by former top prospect rankings into buying into any hope/faith at all. But Lopez had that amazing 5-6 fWAR season in the not so distant past and he could sort of be a local fan favorite storyline. Well, bollocks to that.

Still alive. Tied with Minnesota...but only three games remaining. Twins have more opportunities to lose, two more against Miami at home and then finish with three against the Orioles. Royals/Tigers two games clear at 9 games over .500. 2/3 just might do it for the Mariners. Of course expecting or predicting that six games over at just 84-78 would be enough...? The White Sox Effect.

Meaning neither has the capabilities and skill set required to run everything alone. So you have another two or three headed Hydra forming...like Hahn KW Getz.

Or he simply wants to stick around the next five to ten years until the JR milk train is over and he's run off every single possible partner.

Phoebe Cates-ish scene of that next generation. Or maybe Daisy Duke ... ah youth.

Rowdy Tellez now on that FA market...$200 poorer thanks to the spendthrift Pirates. Let's sign him and Kyle Hendriks and just call it a productive offseason. Maybe change of scenery trade for CJ Abrams since we still lack a true SS in the system. So three Soxish moves.

Saw Rony and was wondering who Ronnie was or if they brought back Romy Gonzalez as a player/manager just to be totally different...

The only team where fans are so exasperated they're actively rooting for characters like JR TLR and Clevinger to die. And then the egos and smugness of both Williams and Hahn running smack dab right into the daily carnival that was Ozzie and AJ to a lesser extent...simply untenable. To simply be replaced by Sale and Eating and the LaRoches vs. a checked out Ventura. Also. Rick Hahn has seemingly erased his very presence by refusing to acknowledge his part in this whole disaster. He would probably just point the blame to KW and Getz under cutting or betraying him.

Sounds quite familiar....luckily Ventura was spared being mentioned. Graveman obviously had that time when he was the Mariners' closer and was dumped near the end of a season when he was polarizing the clubhouse, pretty sure to Houston. And Kelly/Lynn/Grandal were always polarizing figures. You have to believe and Hendriks injury, Anderson situation, and then Abreu throwing in the towel as a leader are what finally broke the team. Ironically not signing two of those three along with letting Giolito go were best best decisions made from a pure baseball stand point. Then you had Grandal and Moncada influencing Robert as well...obvious why the Rodgers finally grew tired of Yasmani's defense and so called leadership. Just every veteran was a disaster and young players not ready. Madrigal even tried to lead and resistance to him was what eventually led to him getting cast out...and just injuries/attitude/non performance. Meanwhile you're forcing Vaughn to the bug leagues too fast in the worst possible position just like they did with Fields and Viciedo In past seasons...trying to cover up depth problems by pitching it with un prepare youth. But all these moves over time left a team with no natural leaders and situations like Robert not even knowing who Montoyo actually was after a year on the coaching roster. Also can see the Grifol was pretty much doomed to fail from the get go. And let's not even get into the negstivity surrounding Clevinger lol that even drove SoxTalk posters into exile even.

That’s pretty typical of how things used to be…from being around a lot of Pirates intl operations staff back in the day. All we can do is speculate until they fill in the blanks. Not exactly like Getz hasn’t become wary of non Sox friendly national reporters.

The way DET is on a roll and at home I wouldn’t be betting Greg’s houses. Skubal start Sunday if necessary.

Like Chris Getz’s previous role stateside…all aspects of running academy and DSL (basically all Caribbean and Central/South America) teams but also winter league placements, talent development, coordinating coaches/roles, “implementing system-aligned frameworks”, everything except for scouting and talent procurement.

Manager, Player Development/Latin American Operations According to LinkedIn Manager,Player Development/Latin American Operations Dec 2022 - Present 1 year 10 months Director, Dominican Republic Academy Dec 2018 - Dec 2022 4 years 1 month Manager, Player Development/International Operations: Grant Flick Assistant, Player Development/Video: Jack Larimer Manager, Player Development Latin America Operations: Louis Silverio Manager, International Player Development/Education: Erin Santana Julio Bruno is Field Coordinator in the DR, topline listed name

Still have room for Outman Kelenic and more “lefty savages.”