Tony

Do you use a sleep sack?

Please find me these posts "on the other end of the spectrum" being overtly sexist, calling someone a "retard" or telling social media they are literally killing people. I'm sorry people aren't beating down Aubrey's door to manage their team and represent their franchise every day. I'll wait for those tweets, Chet.

Is this what being a "conservative" looks like?

This feels very White Sox

They are banking a ton on 38 and 39 year old SP's. Sounds crazy coming from a Sox fan, but if I'm a Mets fan I would have much rather them sign Rodon and another good bat than go all in on Correra

That’s why a lot of us didn’t think it made sense to totally blow it up this off-season. They will live and die by this core. They made that investment 3-4 years ago in these guys and said Anderson-Eloy-Moncada-Robert are the guys, they will live and die with those core players. Obviously 3/4 haven’t lived up to the billing at this point…and here we are.

For a team in their "window" it's criminal they can't add a $5-6 million dollar player. It's also criminal they don't have internal options that can play the role Adam Duvall would be asked to play, considering the now 34 year old Adam Duvall was fairly awful last year.

He’s a good fit. I’m happy they are spending some money. It makes me sad this is the largest contract in team history, and I still don’t think this team is anywhere near the “contender” they told us they would be.

This

I'll be honest, not sure it can get much worse than right now. My excitement level, along with my "faith" in this organization to show any interest in trying to win a World Series is at an all-time low, truly.

Amazing how quickly things change. Logic told me that they knew more than others when it came to the health of Rodon, they were using info no one else had and knew it wasn’t a safe bet. The Rodon/Kimbrel situation is really where all the trust fell apart, then 2022 happened and…here we are

To answer the OP's question: Not this

But Max is also right…it just doesn’t matter. A Jake Diekmam there, and Leury Garcia here…yes they are bad and short-sighted moves, but when teams like the Mets, Yankees, Phillies, Astros etc are making moves like they are, what are we talking about? I know it’s not fun to just throw your hands up and say “it is what it is” but that’s where we are at. The team was a total flop last year and objectively by any metric you want to use, the roster is in worse shape than it was during the 2022 season and they have shown NO indication they have any interest in making it better. The organization has 0 interest in trying to win. They’ll pat themselves on the back if they somehow dust off the 2005 horseshoe they found and get incredibly lucky in 2023, but aside from blind luck, the White Sox are no where close to any sort of contender for a World Series. That’s clearly not the goal of the organization, and they’ve done everything to show us that without actually saying it.

That was true before Steve Cohen entered the picture

They've finished .500 or below in 8 of the last 10 seasons. If you're still on the fence after that...

Going to be A LOT more to this story....

Why are we acting like he isn’t part of the organization anymore? “When Kenny ran things…” He’s Hahn’s boss. If he wanted a better scouting department and training staff, he could have it.

I simply can't fathom how this can be serious.

My prediction, which is nothing other than a gut feeling, they trade down and end up taking Skoronski from Northwestern around 8 or 9.

Gonna be an awful deal in come 2028-2029, but if the Padres can get a WS or two…you make that deal every day. Props to the Padres for actually pushing the chips to the center of the table. All you can ask for from ownership.

None of what Hahn said is "wrong" and these quotes are to be expected...but when you understand what took place with La Russa, and seeing their lack of activity this offseason, it becomes clear Pedro is expected to work wonders, and clearly Hahn believes La Russa actually cost them more than a handful of wins. The better approach would be to, you know, hire a new manager AND make impact additions to a team that finished .500 in their "World Series Window" but f*** me, right?

Don't worry, Rick was as disappointed as we all were, he told us.

It's clear with in all of his "Hahn Speak" that Rick thinks Tony was a huge problem and Pedro is going to be their "Big Addition." Like always, he's convinced himself he's smarter than everyone else.

I’ll throw a conspiracy theory out there just because nothing made sense in 2022. The Sox dealt with a lot of injuries but even so, it was the first time since 1990 the Sox didn’t have a player hit 20 HR’s. We saw multiple stories throughout the year about how Menechino was really putting an emphasis on hitting to all fields, going up the middle more, etc. He had a track record of that in Miami as well, but there was a major power outage from the Sox in 2022 and there were was discussion after discussion here about how things literally just didn’t make sense, how can a team built basically around power all have a collective “outage” and veterans like Abreu, Grandal, and even guys like Eloy-Moncada-Robert-Anderson all change their approach so much? How did it all happen to everyone? Did the Sox get tipped off to something before the season? Did they know the balls might have the juice taken out of them and try and “be smarter” than everyone else and get ahead of it? Obviously it failed in spectacular fashion and I think this is a fairly wild take…but I bring it up because we still never really had an understanding of where the power went in 2022

This should be a fairly large deal and some sort of deeper look needs to be had. I’m all for the game being entertaining but you can’t play with different baseballs for different teams because if “marquee” games.