FloydBannister1983

Of course he did but so did everyone else including St Joe Torre. He was better than his peers and they were all turning a blind eye. It’s a pox on all their houses, no doubt, including drunken LaRussa.

Also between "It's a good hire and I'm happy" and "I hate that you're skeptical and I'm incapable of ignoring your skepticism."

Fair. I have had to delete “Fire Dave McGuinness” and “Fire AJ Hinch” threads in the past.

Cough, sarcasm, cough

"Cautiously optimistic" yes. There's been half a dozen be "excited" posts. That's a giant leap.

Pre-drunken senile LaRussa was one of the best managers.

"Excited" is a bit of a stretch. The guy who said "puts pitchfork and torches back in the closet" was more like it.

Is it too early to start a "Fire Will Venable" thread?

It’s a ruse to keep Grady’s price tag down. They want to offer him no more than $2/hour more than the $15 he was making last year.

I don’t think it’s as pathetic as caring what another fan thinks but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. When I get like this about posts I put them on ignore.

All of this is as exciting as a root canal. You know you won’t be any better but you just hope you won’t be worse off than before but you can’t be sure until the Novocain wears off.

Not every team has an experienced bench coach. Like he said.

Garland was a top prospect who figured it out for 1.5 years. It happened to be in the right year. Buehrle was in fact the most unlikely to be a stud when he was drafted. Thank God he turned out to be one.

Who’s putting it down? It’s just reality that when you trade Carlos Lee for Scott Podsednik you are not building the team to win. That they got incredibly lucky is great.

Garland was dumb luck too. So was Podsednik. So was Iguchi.

Yes. It wasn’t by design. Contreras had an ERA of 5.30 the previous year. Jenks was off the scrap heap. Dumb luck.

They were competitive in the preceding seasons but no one in their right mind looked at the 2005 team and thought “Best team in baseball.” They were designed to finish 1st-3rd but not challenge the Yankees or Red Sox. Don’t get me wrong. I’m happy they won and I had a Husky named Buehrle and I have a dog named AJ and someday I’ll adopt a Paulie. But that team performed far above their ceiling that one year.

No he doesn’t get credit. A dumb monkey pressing buttons blindly would have won one World Series in 44 years. He is way below expectations.

Good article but I do grow tired of hearing how 2005 is a positive mark on his legacy. After 44 years of ownership mathematically he should have won at least one World Series and should have appeared in three. Screw crediting him for one accidental championship with a team that was not designed to win.

Hey!!! Dave Stewart is just as crappy an executive as any white guy! He has the record to prove it!

Of course there will. They will put an American League expansion team in the third largest city in the country. That is obvious.

Also in the modern era unless you are a season ticket holder who cares if your team is a few miles away or hundreds of miles away? You can watch every game relatively inexpensively, get commentary, everything you can currently get when not going to their games. i vow to become a season ticket holder of any expansion team that comes to Chicago.

At this point I hope they move to Nashville. Screw billionaires and their publicly funded stadiums. GTFOH. There will be an expansion team replacing them.

Sale wad kind of a steal. Started an All Star game and won a World Series with Boston. Moncada had 1.5 good years and is despised by the fan base.

I don’t think Getz will put together a .500 team before Reinsdorf is put out to pasture and new management tells Getz to turn in his keys and rips his name tag off his shirt. I don’t credit Williams with putting together a World Series team. That team was designed to be worse than 2004. It was a freak of nature, lightning in a bottle. Totally by accident.