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The 2023 White Sox would be lucky to only lose 82…

seems appropriate for this thread...

Unfortunately, there is no floor for these hacks. They will discover new depths of futility. It is their only true talent.

I used to be that way, but while 2022 nearly broke my fandom, I found an escape watching out of town baseball. I fell in love with the game again watching good teams compete, even if I had no emotional attachment to either side.

And we will all celebrate the team changing hands. But until that point, replacing Hahn with Getz is just more of the same. I would welcome it, but it does nothing to alter expectations.

Both teams are ingrained in me too. I can however control how much emotional energy I waste on them. Both franchises desperately need change at the very top, and I simply can’t expect anything but the same half-assed BS until that happens. I’m still a diehard, but the jadedness runs deep. It will take a lot for me to ever truly believe on them again.

I mean, new boss just like the old boss.

I knew it was bad, but holy s%*#.

They should fire everyone, including the chairman. Don’t ask me how that works ?.

The opening day win in Houston was the slightest glimmer of hope. Since then they have reminded me who they are, and the many reasons I believed they would be much worse this year. Having zero expectations coming in, it’s nice that they did nothing to string along false hope of contending. Now I can pay less attention to them as they sink lower towards the bottom. Or at least I can expand far less emotional energy on their sorry asses and enjoy a summer’s worth of out of town baseball without caring how bad the home team is. They pulled off the bandaid early, and for that, I am grateful.

They probably respect him more than the drunken corpse you seem to want to bring back as a consultant. Which I admit isn’t saying much, but there’s no evidence to suggest that Pedro has lost the team a month into the season. He’s been awful no question, but so has everyone else in the dugout. Dragging TLR back could only make things worse.

The fucking Tigers have a better record. Pathetic. ????

So in other words you’re having imaginary conversations and are completely full of s%*#? Yet here you are flocking to a message board to troll fans.

Don’t worry, we’ll still have ‘Pedro’s boys can’t win a series’…

Is there honestly any doubt at this point?

Back when we had hope he'd be good...

In reverse?

More dumpster diving. Hooray!

I’ve reached the point of wanting this to crash and burn so bad they are forced to make change. I don’t know how much genuine pleasure there has been watching this team since the Yermin debacle. Perhaps even since the TLR hire. I reached this point with the Bulls too during the Butler/Wade/Rondo shitshow. I was much more live and die emotionally with every win or loss in my younger days, but I’m much more compartmentalised for my own health and sanity these days. I have no control over what the assholes in charge do, but I can control the amount of energy I expend. I enjoy the wins, detach after the losses, and try to not let fandom ruin the other pleasures of life. I will always have an allegiance to the Sox and the Bulls, even if the disdain and hatred outshine any love left at any particular moment. Knowing that the current manifestation of the org will never win a damned thing helps me stay more even keel with them win or lose. I still love baseball and enjoy watching good teams play, even if it isn’t the local squad.

Looking like less of an if than a when. Unless something drastically changes internally they are on the fast track to 90+ losses.

I fully expected a melt down when Bummer came in tonight. ReyLo coughing up the game was at least somewhat unexpected, while simultaneously being completely predictable.

Honestly forgot he was even still in the org.

Riding this mess out vs letting Rick Hahn rebuild again, be it retool/reset, bare bones tear down, however that might manifest, which one actually leads to competing for multiple championships first?

Rebuilding in 2016 was the right move, but letting the same FO do it then was as big of a mistake as it would be allowing them to do it again now.