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Outside of the USA most sport leagues have two or three super teams that "everyone" watches and then they also support their local club. With baseball's organic randomness and playoff format, I think you'd still get some parody as far as who the wins the World Series (the regular season would be a different story) and unfortunately I think that situation could be the most profitable for the league. 3 or 4 super teams win 70% of the time, the next 10 clubs from relatively large markets win 20% of the time and the final 15 or so clubs shock the world once a decade. Manfred has some tough decisions to make, but owners (and players) made their bed during the last labor dispute. Both parties only cared about their total piece of the pie. Neither seemed to care about how the $ was distributed. Boras did almost nothing for pre-arb players and owners should have been willing to see the forest through the trees and traded a salary floor for a cap.

Why did he fire all of the coaches that weren't under contract then? He kept anyone under contract and replaced anyone who wasn't. You can get fooled by Hahn 2.0 all you want but it is ONLY about preserving the few million it would have cost to replace them.

If bringing in "new voices was a must" why did Getz sign off on bringing back the pitching coach, hitting coach, base coaches and Grady from the worst team in the history of baseball? Jerry wasn't going to pay two people to do one job, so we don't get fresh start over what??? Less than 3 million? I'm not sure another organization in professional sports would have retained essentially the entire coaching staff after 2024.

Jerry sure has a type, affable yes-men who have a masters degree in placating. My least favorite part of the interview was Chris sidestepping why he brought back the assistant coaches (who all just so happened to be under contract) IMMEDIATELY after he took a freaking victory lap on cleaning house and changing some processes. Props to Guff for asking, wish he would have followed back up on it. I appreciated Getz's candor about the Crochet stuff. Really wish he would have outlined how the org bent over for him at seemingly every step of the way prior to that trade deadline. As a face of the front office, Getz is fine. Just wish he was the frontman for a real President or GM, not just Jerry's errand boy.

He's keeping the coaches that were under contract. They replaced the coaches that weren't under contract. Jerry's way.

Wonder what Morosi's handle is here? Hi Jim.

If Jerry wants MLB ready position players to help save face in the short term, Getz is going to get worked (again). If a team is "all-in" enough to acquire the best available trade piece, they generally don't have MLB ready anything to spare, especially in this era. Jerry if you are desperate to improve in 2025 you have to spend some money. Trade Crochet (and Robert) for the best package of prospects that are at least one year away. Dealing him for a couple early arb underachievers that contenders are ready to move on from to save a few bucks while you chase 63 wins is a huge waste of value.

Robert needs to be a guess hitter... specifically where he isn't the guesser. To my eye it feels like he is just so stubborn about not missing a fastball opportunity that he consistently ruins at-bats. Let them get him out with fastball once in a damn while, it won't kill him. Put some tape out there calmly taking sliders away and that will change everything. The bench needs to give him a Yes or a No pre-pitch in most situations. I'm guessing Thames ain't the guy for the job. Then maybe down the road once he reestablishes himself, (and possibly learns to think along with the dugout & the pitcher) that then he can try and go back to a more traditional approach.

Oh your clock started? Better get an image and have surgery. Velo down? Not sure why? Better get an image and have surgery. The Sox were involved in the first chapter: Zack Wheeler getting more money because he pitched less. That was the beginning of the end. Unless the league office makes some drastic changes to service time and roster rules, the next generation of MLB pitchers will be nameless, faceless, supporting characters who go once through the lineup every 3rd day.

Pressure is on Getz to acquire MLB ready talent. Buyers of pitchers with one year of control remaining generally don't have high end MLB ready talent to spare.

What channels are missing from Directv stream?

What is Directv Streaming missing? Did anyone switch to that? I heard nothing about it but everyone yelling about Fubo. I google what it has and doesn't have and obviously get 100 different answers over the past couple years. Looks like it is a tad more expensive. I've had Fubo before and it doesn't have Turner. I went back to it again after the NBA playoffs because YoutubeTV didn't have MLB Network (Which is finally now included with MLB.TV so that no longer matters) and I thought the general picture quality was poor and it loaded slower. Also bought the stock at $40 and it is now a dollar.

Of all of Jerry's sins, using leverage to try and get a stadium deal is not in the top 10. This is how the game is played, almost everywhere, by almost every owner. Honestly, lets hope he is actually trying to build a new ballpark and this isn't some dog and pony show to appease minority owners and ultimately to get another favorable lease in Bridgeport.... which is what I fear is happening.

We didn't just trade for him, we fell completely in love with him and crafted a ridiculously lopsided trade to loop in another team to just take every possible asset the Sox had to offer. Vargas was clearly Getz's guy and he was an unmitigated disaster by every measure.

For the foreseeable future, the Sox need a vanilla announcer to just calmly call the game, let it breath and let Stone talk. Schriffen is the exact opposite.

Lol. He's accumulated 5 years of service time and has never ever even remotely fallen into anything even remotely resembling a routine. He had just pitched in an exhibition game. He is textbook example #1 on why clubs should manipulate the hell out of player's service time. The union didn't fight it last CBA. All Boras cared about was the total dollar amount. CAA are scumbags and I hope it costs Crochet big money.

How long do the Sox have to hold Crochet for there not to be compensation attached to him next offseason when he is a free agent? Is it Opening Day? 1/1/25? Has he even played (well) enough to qualify as a Type A? Because I'd trade his ass one day before that comp pick would be removed. That will cost him $$,$$$,$$$. Club had his back every step of the way. Drafted him slightly ahead of mock projections. Paid him slot. Straight to the bigs as a 20 year old kid, not some 24 year old super senior. Did not even remotely look out for the club's best interest regarding service time on two maybe even three occasions where they could have saved a year. Babied him in '21 and let him work all offseason only to decide he couldn't go in the spring and then he wanted surgery in April which essentially cost the team 2.5 seasons. Borderline fraud from CAA. Almost as bad as when they demanded Kopech get the call-up despite his velo being down then deciding during warmups of his second start that his arm hurt and he needed surgery. Then after that stunt Getz allowed Garret to remain a starter despite the entire planet assuming he'd be a reliever in 2024. Then the guy comes back from an exhibition game (where he pitched) and starts making demands about getting paid or he isn't pitching? F him. F CAA. This is why clubs screw players over on service time, because you might as well because you get zero and I mean zero credit for not manipulating it. I want Jerry to be Jerry one last time and stick it to Crochet and then croak.

I liked Getz's offseason strategy (considering the reduced payroll circumstances) but the execution couldn't have gone worse. They were were stuck with hoping and praying for Moncada, Eloy and Benintendi. They chose to cash out on Cease but not Robert. They could have dumped Vaughn and Sheets and replaced them off the scrap heap and chose not to. Pretty much missed on virtually every inherited player other than keeping Crochet a starter. Major Leaguers aquired: Shewmake, Lopez, Pillar, Soroka, Fedde, Flexen, Hill, DeJong, Brebbia, Fletcher, Thorpe, Maldanado, Clevinger. Obviously hit on Fedde, and DeJong was offensively all they could have hoped for (shockingly bad defensively). Otherwise incoming players ranged from underwhelming to complete trainwreck. Now the early return from the deadline could not have gone much worse. We just absolutely, positively cannot Getz and Barfield make 1 more decision for this organization. Please Jerry, hire an outsider ASAP.

Grifol's only problem was he wasn't Southside enough

Rick Hahn extended (and gave immediate raises) to the players his career was tied to, instead of using those funds to bring in more talent in the present, and somehow was cheered on by 99% of the fanbase while he did it. I blame myself.

Was Riordan the producer when Parkins & Spiegel brought a player's disgruntled ex girlfriend on the air and let her bash her ex for 20 minutes unencumbered?

Yea, he has been busted several times over the years for exaggerating or making stuff up. Last time he got called out for it he deleted his twitter for awhile until he realized he couldn't hit on awkward 19 year old White Sox twitters girls without his account.

How are we letting this weirdo get away with a clearly fake quote again? (paraphrasing) ?

I cannot believe Getz took a victory lap because he hit on Fedde. What a complete turd.

Jerry Getz what Jerry deserves