FloydBannister1983

Also I remember LaMarr Hoyt and Jack McDowell regressing after their Cy Young years, Loaiza falling apart after his All Star season. I’m not sold that there will be no regression from Cease.

Agreed wholeheartedly.

You can’t be a traditionalist if you hate many of the ways the game has changed? I would rather the game end in a tie.

Nothing too wrong with calling a game a tie.

But the Cubs having a guy charge Randy Myers or their drunken fans starting a fight with the Dodgers bullpen has been memory-holed.

The playoffs did not exist twenty years before Reinsdorf bought the team. The Tampa Bay Rays didn’t exist until 17 years after he bought the team. They’ve won more playoff games than Reinsdorf.

Strangely there is a significant dip in years the Sox were in the postseason. 1983, 1993, 2000, 2005, 2008, 2021 (compared to the previous full season, 2019).

The Central since the turn of the century is the West’s equal and that’s just because of the Astros recent success. Before that the West just had the Angels in 2002 and the Rangers twice while the Central had the Sox, Tigers twice, Indians once (and a 2007 choke job from being twice) and Royals twice. Cleveland almost knocked off the Yankees this year. Detroit has had some strong years when they did not make the World Series. They are not an historic joke. Maybe just the last couple of years.

2006? Edit: I now see you wrote 94 wins within two years of the title.

Wasn’t Clemens great before he cheated? He won three Cy Young’s and an MVP by 1990.

He learned from KW who always gets his guy.

I believe Abreu said this very thing towards the end of the season. Something along the lines of “These guys don’t listen “.

At least he was able to sign Tatis at one point. I’m sure Shields was worth it.

Too bad Himes didn’t have Hahn’s leash. He acquired Thomas, Ventura, McDowell, Fernandez, Álvarez, Johnson, Bere. That team probably would have won the World Series in 1994 if it weren’t for the their owner sabotaging the season.

Ed Farmer was a great guy who gave this kid a phone call during his All Star season 40 years ago. They don’t make them like him anymore.

So maybe try something new, oh I don’t know, hiring a manager with a major league track record. Just once would be nice. Philadelphia and California and Cleveland and the north side team have done it. Maybe trying it once might be an idea since the other way had been a disaster.

It means stick with what you’re good at and don’t do things you’re not good at.

Who called you a moron? I called LaRussa (sarcastically) a moron. If you read it differently I do sincerely apologize for that.

I don’t think that team would hire Renteria. Nobody was beating down his door when he was sitting next to Ventura.

I thought the same thing. Renteria is a “serious baseball man” and LaRussa is a moron. That says all you need to know.

This may be the dumbest post in the history of this website. Congratulations you’ve done it. He’s one of the few managers in the Hall of Fame and one of only two to win World Series in both leagues. What a moron. I’m sure people in Oakland and St. Louis hates his tenures.

Bevington was a manager in the Milwaukee system for seven years and then a White Sox coach for six years before becoming manager. Sounds like Renteria. Working his way through the system and being handed a job he’s not qualified for.

Who said it wasn’t an intelligent hire? I said it didn’t work out well for the Sox. It’s one of the few intelligent hires in their history. And they kept the guy that fired him around the organization for the next 30+ years.

Not very well for the White Sox. They fired him before his Hall of Fame resume got going.

When good teams needed a good manager where were all the suitors beating down Renteria’s door if he’s such a serious baseball man? (It’s funny that naysayers are always told “You don’t know what goes on in the clubhouse” but homers are allowed to say at will “I feel like he does a nice job in the clubhouse”.) He’s a clown. A Latin Terry Bevington. There’s a reason the Cubs dumped him at their earliest opportunity.