Tony

More amazed by how trash the Royals organization continues to be. https://www.christianpost.com/news/kansas-city-royals-first-mlb-team-host-anti-porn-seminar-players-coaches.html

This is supposed to be in the heart of the Sox World Series window. Instead it's a below .500, drama-filled disaster. Just don't find the humor in any of this. It's all just such a wasted opportunity. It was all right there for the taking. I've said it before and I'm sure it will be said again. I just can't fathom how these billion-dollar businesses are run so poorly. Boggles the mind.

This is bad for the game

It doesn't matter though. It's an organizational failure. Hahn isn't an indentured servant. If he's powerless, he can choose to leave. And if he's as smart as some think, he'll land on his feet. If you make the decision to stay, it's on him, just like it's on Kenny, Tony, Jerry, etc.

It's the same picture

Man, that Ramirez decision is just the perfect example of the entire TLR problem. My goodness.

Unless new ownership comes in....this is all just re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic. I don't care if Hahn and Williams are gone, the new regime will have the same restraints.

The most passionate we've seen TLR during this tenure with the White Sox is when he was absolutely burying his own player for hitting a home run when he wasn't supposed to.

The problem is there are a few teams that are always so low and just up against the cap floor, there is "competition" sometimes to take on bad money, it's not a slam dunk like you might think it should be. However, I still contend something like the Seth Jones deal simply can't be moved, it's just too long of a deal right now.

You have zero idea what took place. Zero. You can laugh all you want, but I don't know who the source or sources are. What I do know is 1. Nightengale has been right on about the Sox way more than he's wrong 2. He's not running with this unless someone very high up told him it's accurate. Let's see if someone disputes it...I won't hold my breath.

I know you never agree with any form of White Sox slander, but it’s amazing your lack of understanding on a topic like this. Do you think Bob Nightengale just….made this up? The same Bob Nightengale that broke the news Tony LaRussa was being hired by the White Sox, and the same Bob Nightengale that has leaked countless other Sox nuggets over the years? What do you think happened here? He heard rumors from a guy who’s friend with another guy who heard this rumor over text, and Bob just decided to run with it? Or is it possible the USA Today baseball writer was told this information by multiple high-ranking individuals who wanted it printed, Nightengale confirmed it and printed it?

At this point, there is no evidence that logically would lead you to any other conclusion. The collection of Kenny Williams, Rick Hahn and Jerry Reisndorf working together have an abysmal performance record. There isn’t really any other way to look at it

"It" is the key word here. "It" is everything. None of what we are watching matters, because with this current structure in place, they aren't achieving anything that is going to get us excited as fans. This is who they are. Aside from falling ass backwards in 2005, they've proven time and time again that they are light years behind the elite teams in MLB. Year after year, season after season.....the joke is on us for still hanging around. We're the assholes.

We gotta stop these threads. It isn't happening. I just don't see many scenarios where Rick Hahn is selling off major pieces at the deadline.

I thought the same thing. That was a really bad look

My point is I don't think he has a market with that contract. It was a joke when Bowman did it, it looks even worse now. I have NO IDEA how that got approved when it did, especially with an investigation going on. It's incredible how poorly billion-dollar businesses are run.

I don't have as good of a read on the NHL as I did 18 months ago, but my sense is Seth doesn't have many options with that contract he signed....

lol, what an AB for Jose.

Those are the little moments the clowns don't pay attention, moves that get glossed over during a long season. But with 1B open and two outs, pitching to the No. 1 Overall pick instead of TUCKER BARNHART is just bat shit crazy.

I get it, but the 2002 White Sox were fairly mediocre, 2003 wasn't a total surprise but in 2005 you obviously won it all...2006 brought back basically the entire same team. The major difference was you replaced Aaron Rowand with an incredibly hyped-up 1st Round pick in Anderson, and replaced Carl Everett with Jim Fucking Thome. The pitching staff just couldn't handle it.

Combined all season, I probably saw 1 1/2 periods of hockey from the Blackhawks. Felt nice.

This seems accurate

That's an AWFUL trade. A 24-year-old 40-goal scorer for two lottery tickets? The odds of finding a player at 7 and 39 to replace his production have to be incredibly low. I don't get this one.

I'll take 2006 over 2003 in terms of more talent/more disappointment. They won 90 games and came in 3rd place.