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"Jerry just thinks he has the answers." / That folks, is the whole ballgame right there.

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Jerry loves baseball as an abstract idea. It's a version of the game that does not exist, and perhaps never truly did. Holding firmly to this ideal (to him) despite the game evolving and refusing to adapt is how we got to where we are today. The chasm between reality and his fantasy land will only widen until the org is freed from his antiquated notions of what the game is.

You know what's even better? The chairman hiring a competent and qualified president of baseball ops and getting the f*** out of the way. No more lackeys, no more forcing a drunken dinosaur on the org trying to make up for a 40 year old "mistake", set the budget and let your baseball people run the operation. Culture and leadership will sort itself out with qualified hires unfettered ownership's insistence on doing things backwards.

It’s hilarious that the pearl clutching about parking ignores the fact that many fans already have to walk a block or two to get from lots G, F, and L into the park. Heaven forbid that they walk a block or two from an existing lot or garage across the river or nearby in the South Loop. Or that humans can’t adapt to new circumstance and simply won’t be able to function with something new or different about their ballpark experience.

The Tribune using their vast media empire to s%*# on the Sox, Bridgeport, and the Southside in general at every opportunity didn't help matters either.

Shocker. It's almost as if he had to be activated by league rules and not because they want him on the active roster.

Why does the job title just sound like a joke to me?

AKA: talent exceeds org player mold.

Why the F would the Sox even want him? They are trying their damnedest to make Vargas a 3B and already have enough DH types.

Moncada being activated doesn't mean he'll actually play. They can't leave him on the IL or on rehab forever.

This is my question as well. OTA is great and all, but I would happily pay for a stand alone app w/o a cable subscription, even with as terrible as the Sox are.

115 and counting...

Its still early

“As long as Jerry’s there, there’s going to be an effort to improve,” Harrelson said. “It’s just that simple.” Do effort and improve have alternate meanings i'm not aware of?

No one quite envisioned the gaping hole in the hull after the collision, but we at least saw the fucking iceberg! Pity those in charge couldn't see the obvious.

Rudderless ship of ineptitude. Perfect summation. Feels like it has been that way since 2010/11/12ish with a rare moment of clarity when they went all in on the 2016 rebuild. And even then they half-assed it, with TLR the final nail in the coffin.

How the hell was he a highly rated prospect?

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36-126 does have a nice ring to it. I'll be surprised if they win 3 more games though.

33-113. But it’s not his fault the team sucks.

I would say this is merely shuffling deck chairs, but the Titanic already done sunk to the bottom, so those chairs are listless driftwood at this point...

He won't be on any short lists after his interim stint, that's for sure.

In other words, they already have the next manager lined up, but they won't announce it until after the season to make it look like they did a search.

They probably think simply having a process is innovative.