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Dumbest post in Soxtalk history

Excuse me, folks, But I claim to be the author of the dumbest post in Soxtalk history. Until you offer a post that gets ripped in Sports Illustrated .... I rest my case.

The meltdown from Sox fans that is about to happen over Joe Musgrove is going to be epic 😂

Especially from about 80 pct of them that have never seen him pitch

Am I the only one that doesn't really want Cruz on this team? Yes, he's been ridiculous and very good (especially against the Sox), but he's 40 years old. At some point he's not going to be able to keep this up, right? It would be so White Sox to bring him him only to see him completely fall off a cliff in production. I wouldn't HATE if they got him for the DH, and on paper this looks great in the lineup, but man, this feels so EE all over again.

Only 16 of the top 60 free agents have signed. There are still 8 starting pitchers available. I'm not gonna get upset because the Sox didn't give up assets to get Joe Musgrove.

I agree with James on this. The Sox need to change their strategy on the type of players they draft. They draft too many college players that are older.

If the Sox signed Q and Cruz, I would like their team more than the Padres

Haaaaaaaaave you met my friend, the AL Central?

If he feels a 68 year old catcher would make the Sox fans very happy then I think he needs to reevaluate what makes Sox fans very happy

I would find it absolutely hilarious if the Sox win the WS this year with both Q and Eaton on the roster, along with Jimenez and Giolito.

Gonna hold you to it after he switches to Boras

Cruz's stats the past 5 years have been .286/.369/.932 and he just got an abbreviated season to provide more rest. Yes, he'll slow down eventually, but unless everyone expects a monumental drop off, it hasn't arrived yet. Vaughn is your insurance policy. Depending on price - what's the downside?

One day you're starting a thread facetiously thanking Reinsdorf for being Reinsdorfian and the next day you're trusting Hector Gomez thinking the Sox are going to spring for Nelson Cruz because there is more to play with than we think ? You are on a world class roller coaster my friend. Trust your instincts not Hector. Your heart is in the right place but not your mind. One vague Tweet about Sox fans being very happy and you lose it. Is it fun to think about ? Oh hell yes but it's not bloody likely. As a matter of fact it's so much fun to think about I want this post to age very very very poorly.

This guy sent 62 unanswered texts and then said to himself, "I know! A dick pic will surely win this person over!" JFC the amount of weirdos on this planet never ceases to amaze me. What's amazing is the Mets might go down as the first team to ever fire their new Manager and GM in back-to-back years before a single game was played each year.

2021:

Whatever the White Sox would have had to give up to beat the SD package would have been a mistake. Plenty of other options still available for just money, and not all that much of it.

3 minutes later....”Padres sign George Springer”...

Impossible. He has shown in 29 games that he is a poor defender and may take years to become merely adequate./green

Go sign Q and La Stella, you're now one of the best teams in the AL, call it a successful offseason.

Like my cousin Jeff said, "everything is relative" 😁 I guess when your the cheapest of the cheapest and you bring yr payroll up to average, some accolades are in order All this money and hype in signing players etc and the hire TL as manager?? WTF?

Lots of love for Trevor Bauer in this thread. Why should he want to play for the Chicago White Sox?

Except for getting paid 🤣🤣🤣

I thought it would have been pretty messed up to start Kopech in the minors 2020. Not so much in 2021 though. The guy hasn’t thrown a competitive pitch in 2 years

SoxObama.

Let's take service time out of the equation for a moment. Given the last pitch Kopech threw in competitive play was September 5, 2018 and has a total of 14.1 IP, along with the Sox trying to compete for a World Series this season....I still think he starts in AAA taking out any service time "manipulation" It's just the right move given where he is in his comeback attempt.

I mean usually I would agree with you in this case but not on Kopech or Vaughn this year. Starting Kopech with the big league club would be stupid.

Axtually, this would be the best post in Soxtalk history.

I dunno, Peavy had probably 9 of the top 10 worst posts here...

If it helps anyone, this is what I know of Gomez's history with the Sox: 2018-2019: Continuously said that he believed Machado would sign with White Sox. Stated that Sox offered 8 years, $250 million. Chicago media went out in full force to tell him he was wrong about the offer (they believed it was $175 million). Obviously, he ended up being right about the offer, but wrong about him signing here. March 2019: First reporter to announce that Eloy Jimenez and the Sox were working on an extension, which was official within a week. December 2019: Retweeted a fellow reporter (Frank Castillo) who believed Marcell Ozuna was signing with the White Sox. Gomez was not the reporter who said Ozuna would sign, he just said he believed in his colleague's info.

Trevor Bauer already knows why. He's a student of the game. He loves baseball. He is focused on winning and improving himself and the team. He wants a ring and so does everyone associated with the team with the possible exception of the owner who likes to pretend he wants to win but is actually more focused on profits and doing things his way. As was said in another post, everything aligns perfectly to have Bauer on the Sox except he wants to be paid according to his talents and the Sox don't do that for pitchers who want big money for more than 3 or 4 years. AKA the Reinsdorf Way. We are still waiting for the Sox to sign a free agent who has more than $100M contract in 35 years of ownership.

What does one man’s penis in New York have to do with Jerry and La Russa? Was the penis involved in the DUI?

And the Cubs organization in 2016 gets even more unlikable

They hired him after they already knew about the DUI, why would they fire him over it simply because it became public? Regardless of how you feel about TLR, this is a very different situation.

It's comical how some of the local reporters will bend over backwards for Jerry. Apparently Paul Sullivan is one of those.

You're very weak if this "burns the heart." The Sox were never rumored for Musgrove. Don't have the prospects to make a trade like this. There are similar level pitchers in Free Agency right now.

Bauer should sign with the WSox to make up for helping the Cubs win the World Series

No. But so is Jerry, and he can’t even pitch.

Because we’re awesome and you’re running out of options bro.

We need to teach these young pups the history of Soxtalk...

This would apply to all the teams contending.

You need to find Padrestalk or something, because being a Sox fan has fried your logic circuits.

Have you met the Royce Clayton v Jose Valentin discussion?

I agree with your premise but really... the "dumbest in Soxtalk history"...can't be.

I don’t trust people who don’t swear.

I don't think this cruz stuff is true, but the sox blowing the budget on the top DH and top closer would be hilarious because it would both subvert and reinforce longstanding opinions on how sox operate.

I think I speak for more people when I say I don't give a fuck.

If Bauer gets an AAV of $40+ per year for 5 years I will like , no i will love, all your posts from now until I am no longer able to.