Harry Chappas Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 On 11/9/2023 at 4:59 PM, Stinky Stanky said: Larrivee was a Packers fan. Rooney was a Cardinals fan. They both wanted to go where their hearts were. Ain't love great? Expand Benetti was a White Sox fan......continue to see just how poorly run that organization is. This does nothing in reality but it's another opportunity for the White Sox to show they are not serious. The optics of this are terrible as it was always a feel good story. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 On 11/9/2023 at 5:04 PM, TheFutureIsNear said: I don’t think any human on earth could talk about the last few seasons of White Sox baseball with a straight face. Did you want to hear how shitty our franchise is for 2 hrs straight every game? Gotta fill the depressing dead air with something. Bennetti is a high level announcer and letting him leave is dumb. Especially when it’s to another poverty franchise in the same division. No way Detroit blew him away with a huge offer Jerry couldn’t pay. Expand #SoxMath will be replaced by #SoxGripes, where Rocko from Oak Lawn calls in to talk about how much he hates Moncada for an entire inning. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FloydBannister1983 Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 On 11/9/2023 at 3:36 PM, fathom said: It’s truly amazing to me the amount of people saying they won’t watch the Sox anymore. I’ve never let an announcer dictate whether I turn a game on. Expand I thought they were saying that long before this announcement? The whole season all I read was fan’s apathy. The last two years actually. I don’t think this is what broke the camel’s back. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buehrle>Wood Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 On 11/9/2023 at 5:09 PM, Quin said: #SoxMath will be replaced by #SoxGripes, where Rocko from Oak Lawn calls in to talk about how much he hates Moncada for an entire inning. Expand Yes please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 On 11/9/2023 at 5:09 PM, Quin said: #SoxMath will be replaced by #SoxGripes, where Rocko from Oak Lawn calls in to talk about how much he hates Moncada for an entire inning. Expand They could just turn it into the He Gets Us segment where the Sox will tell us that we are all sinners unworthy of this holy franchise. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuban_sammiches Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 (edited) Jerry is not going to be satisfied until it's just Gordo in the booth with a mop wearing a Sox hat. Edited November 9, 2023 by cuban_sammiches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GREEDY Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 (edited) Boyer's press release is telling: It essentially reads that he accommodated Benetti for years, put up with all his BS and he has decided to leave (likely for a small raise). Edited November 9, 2023 by GREEDY 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fathom Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 On 11/9/2023 at 5:12 PM, Balta1701 said: They could just turn it into the He Gets Us segment where the Sox will tell us that we are all sinners unworthy of this holy franchise. Expand So we’re signing Kershaw? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 On 11/9/2023 at 5:14 PM, GREEDY said: Boyer's press release is telling: It essentially reads that he accommodated Benetti for years, put up with all his BS and he has decided to leave (likely for a small raise). Expand Letting a guy do national TV games and football games is not accommodating him, its the opposite, it is building your own brand stronger by having a well known broadcaster. 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFutureIsNear Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 On 11/9/2023 at 5:08 PM, JoeC said: I wouldn't characterize Detroit as a "poverty" franchise. The Ilitch family will spend money when it makes sense, and they've shown an ability to hire good people and get out of their way. Expand Yeah I honestly don’t even know about the Tigers owners and their financial situation. Bad franchise and not a destination city would have been a better way to put it. Basically, the statement the Sox put out is complete BS is what I’m saying. Going to Detroit is not a “career changing” moment like they tried to spin it and I highly doubt Jason even wanted to go there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lip Man 1 Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 On 11/9/2023 at 3:20 PM, Dick Allen said: Yeah, I don't know why Jason would bolt to Detroit. He loves the Sox. Loves Steve. Something had to piss him off. When he was just starting, I thought he was trying to do a 2 hour comedy bit in 20 minutes. But he grew on me. This is another Sox loss. Expand Here's why: “Jason Benetti’s deal with the Sox is up, the Sox hold the option for the 2023 and 2024 seasons. He went to Fox to negotiate that deal with them after he was told to do it and then come back to the Sox and they’d work something out. Jason wanted to get the deal done with the Sox first and then go to Fox or ESPN or whoever. Turns out when he came back to the Sox and said that he needs 40 days off so he can do the Fox work he was told, ‘no, that’s not happening.’ So I don’t know what’s going to happen to him or Steve Stone.” This was what a source told me last November as part of a story I did on the state of the Sox. Incompetent, dysfunction and inept describe the organization from top to bottom. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Side Hit Men Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 On 11/9/2023 at 5:16 PM, Balta1701 said: Letting a guy do national TV games and football games is not accommodating him, its the opposite, it is building your own brand stronger by having a well known broadcaster. Expand That's rational thinking, not Jerry Reinsdorf thinking. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 No reason to tune in to watch any games. Jason was amazing. This organization is a joke and I am done supporting it. 2 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeC Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 On 11/9/2023 at 5:16 PM, TheFutureIsNear said: Yeah I honestly don’t even know about the Tigers owners and their financial situation. Bad franchise and not a destination city would have been a better way to put it. Basically, the statement the Sox put out is complete BS is what I’m saying. Going to Detroit is not a “career changing” moment like they tried to spin it and I highly doubt Jason even wanted to go there. Expand Maybe the "career changing" move is to be able to work for a team that's willing to accommodate his national ambitions. Detroit has basically been a s%*# show in the booth since 2018 when Mario Impemba and Rod Allen got into it 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fathom Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 On 11/9/2023 at 5:20 PM, Rocky said: No reason to tune in to watch any games. Jason was amazing. This organization is a joke and I am done supporting it. Expand Did people really only watch to listen to him? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GREEDY Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 On 11/9/2023 at 5:16 PM, Balta1701 said: Letting a guy do national TV games and football games is not accommodating him, its the opposite, it is building your own brand stronger by having a well known broadcaster. Expand No one said the Sox didn't benefit. But they did accommodate him long before it was written into his deal. They didn't have to do it, and they did. And he left anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Allen Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 On 11/9/2023 at 5:22 PM, fathom said: Did people really only watch to listen to him? Expand When youre as bad as the Sox, people do tune in for the broadcast. Harry and Jimmy was the best show on TV when the Sox were awful. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chitownsportsfan Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 Meh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Allen Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 On 11/9/2023 at 5:23 PM, GREEDY said: No one said the Sox didn't benefit. But they did accommodate him long before it was written into his deal. They didn't have to do it, and they did. And he left anyways. Expand The White Sox release said they encouraged him to check into the Detroit offer. Would that make you feel you had job security? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 On 11/9/2023 at 5:22 PM, fathom said: Did people really only watch to listen to him? Expand Unscientific poll, but a decent amount of other team's fans have said that they would listen to the Sox broadcast instead of their own because Jason and Stone were that good together. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GREEDY Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 On 11/9/2023 at 5:22 PM, fathom said: Did people really only watch to listen to him? Expand No, the people in fact did not tune in at all. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Chappas Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 On 11/9/2023 at 5:23 PM, GREEDY said: No one said the Sox didn't benefit. But they did accommodate him long before it was written into his deal. They didn't have to do it, and they did. And he left anyways. Expand White Sox had an option and didn't pick it up so he was forced out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GREEDY Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 On 11/9/2023 at 5:25 PM, Dick Allen said: The White Sox release said they encouraged him to check into the Detroit offer. Would that make you feel you had job security? Expand Can't win with you guys. If they tell him he can't look for new deals they are taking advantage of him. If they tell him he is free to pursue whatever his heart desires then they are sending messages that his job isn't safe. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThirdGen Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 On 11/9/2023 at 5:16 PM, Balta1701 said: Letting a guy do national TV games and football games is not accommodating him, its the opposite, it is building your own brand stronger by having a well known broadcaster. Expand Then why did the Dodgers dump Vin Scully when he wanted to do national games and the NFL? Oh wait.......never mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 On 11/9/2023 at 5:16 PM, Balta1701 said: Letting a guy do national TV games and football games is not accommodating him, its the opposite, it is building your own brand stronger by having a well known broadcaster. Expand Remember when incredibly popular, nationally known Chance the Rapper designed these dope ass hats, then wanted to become a paid team ambassador instead of doing stuff for free and the org said naaaah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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