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I guess go into exile for a decade? Rebuilds are risky while the more established teams retool. The problem with baseball there are other owners to be angry at for those who like the game. There's 6 of them that are bad for the game. It becomes more of a business than a game. Interest is declining because it is less about the fan. It's not just attendance but viewers.

Loyalty and nepotism are always a failure.

LOL I watched the D'Backs tonight. Their pen can be so White Sox. That's probably why they'll stay home. Most pens were bad this year. All 162 games are important to avoid these scenarios. I guess it's good for baseball it ends like this. Bad if you are a wild card team if you have to play Monday.

The last comment was the best. Fire the GM.

So lemme get this straight. With the "Cinderella teams" that lost 100 games and go to the post season next year, Mr. Reinsdorf you decided after 2 100 loss seasons you are planning a 3rd one. s%*# organization you're running their Jerry. There are not enough middle fingers or F Yous to salute you. I don't think I can ever support a Reinsdorf team again. All of the bulls on the planet can't create the amount of bullshit you have created. You love baseball? It's like the guy who beats the crap out of his wife and says he still loves her, Too bad Bud Light doesn't do their real men of genius radio commercials. He could be a good one. Sox fans need to stop fantasizing bring up the Orioles. THEY ARE NOT THE FRICKEN ORIOLES. Hopefully I've said my peace.

This is a reminder for me to watch the Braves tonight since Lopez is pitching.

Jerry might buy the antenna and have it tore down

Most teams succeed the day after a clinch,

Ha! Ha! There's another Vargas out there waiting. No harm in keeping him as opposed the harm they get for him.

The Dodger are always up there. Yet they win over 90 games a year. That's the real need for a good farm system. You want guys who can fill in. They are happy to give you a player like Vargas,

The NFL is structured to make it hard to be bad for an extended time.

The Crochet trade was way overhyped. That was necessary in a sport that is diminishing in popularity. Fedde was your more valuable trade piece short term. Package deals with multiple teams are a sign of a clueless gm to pawn off someone like Kopech. So you end up with Vargas who has made the team worse. Prospect/farm ranking, and hauls are a myth for this organization. I repeat THIS ORGANIZATION. Don't bring up the Orioles, the 1/30 of success.

I do. The expectations wont be high. The managerial change for the 2024 Cubs expectations didn't work

There might be more after the postseason.

Does a fan have that kind of patience? Maybe 5 years? They could be like the Royals and have 2 years of success surrounded by s%*#. Rebuilds don't always work compared to retooling. Short success vs. sustained success. Imagine if Getz were in charge of these other small market teams, what players would be traded. That's a fearful thing.

Unfortunately those people don't last forever. TLR's success was also he brought certain coaches with him. Katz is well liked because he is int analytics, but isn't basically every pitching coach like that? Do you trust him with the upcoming arms. The funniest thing I heard was getting Fedde's pitching coach from Korea. Another one was put an ad in the paper Wanted the best hitting coach.

Only to get more dead weight. See Vargas. Your most valuable trade piece was Fedde and look what they got. Trading good to get better down the road is a myth for this organization. They can't identify and develop talent so what makes you think they can to do with other team's prospects. Then you have to look how much a good prospect will unlearn when they get in the Sox farm system. The Sox are decent with pitching prospects but those guys only work 5 days a week. I think most teams are stingy with their prospects. You look at all of the injuries in baseball and you need to bring up a not ready yet player who hopefully wont make things worse. I'm not sure how one would call a good offseason unless you are into #MakeBirminghamBetter I think they will have another chance to break their own record. Sizemore is the perfect guy because he is happy to work in baseball.

Sometimes other quality players compliment other players in the lineup. You can one stud hitter and all a pitcher has to do is put them on base.

That formula of the habitual losing small market organization. I consider the Chicago Reinsdorfs a small market team. Getz and his "Royals envy" is the only thing he accomplished. Habitual losing small market. Every owner cheap ass owner tries to adopt the Rays model. Then you have to Padres trying to overthrow the Dodgers. You are also not going to find a real manager wanting anything to do with this organization. I doubt Skip want anything to do with the Reds either.

I consider an elderly person getting a DUI just as bad.

Maybe one of those teams that think spending more money on a manager than a player is gonna be the difference.

They are a very solid organization but the Ray's model doesn't work for them except other than being "competitive" The word doesn't mean s%*# anymore. There's plenty of "competitive" teams but after the trade deadline they disappear. There does seem to be teams very cautious of trading their prospects especially fielders. Offense was down this year.

Bill Veeck scouted him long before that.

I get this feeling he'll live past the century mark

It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. People just want to hold on to those myths. Sox aren't the only organization with those myths.