Southwest Sider

I've been here for awhile and the players kind of ruined that feeling last year for me. Kinda lost when you hate the ownership, front office, AND the players. Normally I'm all about the players because they are trying their best but last year I did not see effort worth rooting for.

Another feather in this turd of an org. This is your 2nd biggest signing of the offseason? It has been a nightmare following this team ever since Plan "A" (signing Machado and Wheeler) failed. It's like they had no backup plan at all and now are grasping at straws and regressing back into their old pre-rebuild habits when it comes to team building. Cant wait for the knee jerk trading of our best prospects who turn into good players for guys who were good but then suck with us.

Yessir

Hes in bounds.

Wow you gotta be shutting me

Yeah but this can inherently create a higher possibility of an offensive black hole. Some sort of competent option should have been brought in, that way if the rookie significantly outplayed them then your decision is made. Now were hoping for competence from rookies and Leury.

I agree with the sentiment around here that if this is going to happen it will happen sooner than later. I actually think FO is playing this correctly and trying to get Cohen to overpay in prospects because Cohen overlays for everything else and generally gets what he wants. Eppler may be running the show right now and trying to do a "fair" trade but I think the Sox want and need Cohen to step in and overrule Eppler and pay what it takes to get a player like Liam. If that's even a possibility, I dont see a way where it all of a sudden happens in Jan or Feb. The package starts with their catching prospect or no deal, IMO. That is our #1 area of need and if they want one of the games best relievers, he is the piece that makes the most sense. They can always sign their next catcher in FA anyway.

If hes in Australia would you fly there and drive him to the airport? I ?

Couple of thoughts. If TAs been burning bridges with the Sox it's likely both parties fault. TA being immature and the Sox just being an ass organization. I'm not convinced the FO would get this trade right or that they wouldn't have this player burning bridges in a few years or just completely check out a la AJ Pollock. Or just one pretty good player and a bunch of fringe guys who may be good but wont be under this orgs leadership. I'd rather have an impactful controversial player like TA or Correa for that matter than not. This org needs to be the smartest in the MLB to succeed if they have a paper billionaire owner. They are one of the least smart teams in the MLB and regularly lose impact talent that Hahn is always looking for. Impact talent costs money so fucking get lost because real billionaires who treat this like a hobby play this game now and theres no room for JRs anymore. Take your profit and f*** off already. I'm not big on billionaires existing... such as it is they do. But if I was one I'd sure as f*** love owning an MLB team, signing good players, making a bunch of people happy and maybe winning a championship. Everyone here deserves way better than this and I frankly dont blame anyone for being interested in other teams because this is the most pukeworthy org i have seen.

Another feather in this franchise's hat, Not just the clubhouse but the franchise is toxic. Its run by a cheap owner who cant afford nice things, and a front office which at this point is beyond accountability. Is anyone held accountable for hiring TLR who was never held accountable? TLR would hav e been back next year if his health wasnt failing. It's no wonder our franchise players either cant wait to leave now or are being shown the door. TA being traded is holding him accountable for his actions, wearing out his welcome, but it seems this only applies to players? f*** this garbage ass franchise. Easily nothing more vomit inducing than this group of people.

Did you watch the White Sox last year?

Brine it or buy a pre-brined bird. Spatchcocked it, threw it on a bed of broth and pearl onions, carrots, potatoes, celery, etc, oven 450 for 1 hour, 350 the rest of the way home. Definitely yields a nice moist bird most of the time, and the familys always go crazy about it because they've only ever had shitty turkey in their life.

The lack of a serious pursuit of him is definitely a defining moment of the rebuild. Just terrible.

Smart ass. My point is that several generational players have been available during this window and the Sox have not gotten any of them and it's not only because they are cheap, it is also because they failed to do what the Padres did and continue building a top 10 farm so that they would have the ammo for a Soto in the first place. It's obvious this organization would not have been able to land Soto. You may want to check the multiverse again because there's probably at least one universe where JR doesn't own the Sox and they develop a strong minor league system with the ammo to land a guy like Soto. There's also a few where we actually sign him from the beginning since we were pretty heavily linked to him. Fucking dumbass game we're playing here.

The opportunity to take this team to the next level passed it by and I think it's possibly too late. Ohtani Machado Harper Wheeler Betts Turner Scherzer Soto All available in the past years and none ended up on the Sox. Getting one of the actual big fish was billed as part of the plan if I recall correctly. And they did not and basically gave up on any of them when they lost Machado and Wheeler.

Cleveland is a bad team with ok pitching that got kind of hot at the end here and beat up two total loser teams (Sox and Twins) to inflate their record. They will not make it out of the first round. I still respect what Francona has done and believe he would have gotten more out of this Sox roster if he were their manager, but this is more about how bad the Sox and Twins really are than how good the Guardians are.

He took all of the blame for the game and wouldn't point to anything specific when asked. He basically said he sucked and needs to be better and he let his team down.

This Cairo interview is fascinating.

Edit ignore. Confused poster.

Lol at the guy with a built for October sox shirt. No chance in hell. That shirt belongs in a dump.

Used to say I'm still a Sox fan even though I hate ownership because I like the players. Theres a few good ones as always but holy s%*# this group is largely unlikable.

Yes let's walk bad hitters. I love Pito but feel hes just delaying the inevitable.

Why is the ghost runner still a thing?

And hes not even contributing by trying to take pitches. He should not be swinging first pitch. Wtf?

This is bullshit. I hate this team.