Thad Bosley

Hard PASS on Mr. Tony LaRussa. If the association with cheating and A.J. Hinch bothers you, consider the fact that LaRussa presided over the Oakland A’s in the late ‘80s and all of their roiders who bashed their way to their multiple championships. The same thing repeated itself during his time with the Cardinals with McGuire in tow. LaRussa was in the know about the abundance of steroid use happening on those teams, and obviously he was fine with it. And I’m sure he has no regrets because today, he is a member of the Hall of Fame. I know cheating has manifested itself in many different ways in baseball over the years, and perhaps it’s not right to be selective on when to frown on certain types of cheating. But I don’t know, for me, I’d prefer to bypass candidates with this known association with cheating and just find someone else who doesn’t. That and any candidate like LaRussa who has found a way to piss off Hawk Harrelson, Harry Caray, and Jimmy Piersall along the way is no friend of mine!

So which was the greater crime against baseball humanity - Hinch’s involvement with the Houston cheating scandal, or Ozzie quitting on the team back at the end of 2011? I only ask because several posters throughout the years have stated that Guillen quitting the way he did pretty much disqualified him from ever returning in that capacity. Meanwhile, it seems the breadth of the cheating scandal was far worse, particularly in that it led to all of the suspensions and other punishments. For me, at least for now, it feels like a dealbreaker, but I guess I’ll have to figure out a way to get over it since it appears the guy will be the next manager. Chicago White Sox - Home for Wayward AJ’s!!

Does Hahn’s criteria take into account the cheating both would-be candidates were guilty of leading to their current suspensions?

Are A.J. Hinch and Alex Cora, renowned cheaters at this point, the best options this up and coming White Sox team have as their next potential manager? There is no one better who doesn’t come with all of the cheater baggage?

Any remote chance Ozzie had at coming back as manager was slightly increased with the removal of his arch rival Don Cooper as pitching coach. No way Guillen could come back after all the bad blood spilt between he and Coop after his departure.

Is that partially tied to an expected outcome on January 2nd when the futures for Colas and Cespedes will be determined? Don’t look now but that’s just around the corner. Does someone like Springer become more intriguing if they strike out on Colas and Cespedes and Springer is still available, and without a viable internal option?

They just need to have a transition plan that leads to Vaughn being the full time first baseman come 2023. Whether it's a 80/20 or 70/30 split next year with Jose getting most of the reps that then transitions to perhaps the opposite in 2022, I think the goal is to have Vaughn the long term solution for first base during this exciting window of contention coming up these next several years.

Sox fans seem to enjoy the broadcasts that they do, and therefore it contributes to the improved TV ratings.

The continued growing popularity of Benetti and Stone is also a big factor in the increased ratings.

Reinsdorf’s legacy, whatever is left of it after 40 full years now of mostly failure, depends on it. He needs this decade to be one of multiple success to mask his plethora of failure both on and off the field during each of his four decades as owner.

Lol - I was only addressing his little jab at me, but I see your point.

Luckily the off-season is just beginning which means you’ll have several months to work on your funny man bit that, at the moment, is not landing the plane on the punchlines.

It doesn’t say he left the game with “left ROTATOR CUFF tightness”. It says “left FOREARM tightness”. So why is everyone jumping to the conclusion that TJS is inevitable at this point?

Hahn did not “inherit” one of the “worst farms in the system”. He was the #2 guy in charge within the organization for ten years prior to his promotion to GM and was primarily responsible, along with KW, for the state and condition of the farm system at that time. And to date, many years later, he still hasn’t built a scouting and player development program that can achieve a top ten farm system status on its own and not rely on trading off major league assets to acquire other team’s top prospects to do so.

Gapper scores two with Dyson on the bases. Let's go, Jose!

Agreed. Good post

In a game like this, he's letting Mazara face a lefty?

Time to SOX 'em!!

Great speed on the bases! Gapper ties this baby up!

TA is amazing!

That was criminally bad

Nice, Yaz!

They got us right where we want them.

This is a game where it would be nice to show a national audience just how powerful our offense can be, and come from behind in this one with some thunder in these next five innings.

Nicky Two Strike magic!