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I wonder what the look on JR’s grandchildren’s faces is when they open up what they think is an IPad and it’s some knockoff.

Perhaps...I’m quickly losing faith in Jerry, not that I had much to begin with.

I tailored it to match your style

Glad that one is done.

If this is where we’re at I sure wish we could have made the Lynn trade without Dunning because damn if our depth doesn’t look as garbage.

We’re all in a group chat together. Brian and others give Dayton a hard time because they think he’s Not Cishek. It’s just a joke.

You complain about everyone using small sample size for his bad base running and defense, but you conveniently don’t use it for his hitting.

This site has been shopping Madrigal. Why I don't know. The White Sox have not.

Mike Leake would be an absolute abomination of a signing. He is literally one of the worst starters when it comes to Statcast numbers and basically strikes no one out. How anyone would prefer him over Richards is mind boggling to me.

To be fair, Jerry is hamstrung a bit. What with the moratorium on trading bonus pool money for buyout relief.

Thats what she said

Just start a thread for every player in MLB and your bound to be right at some point

All in means putting all your chips in. Dunning is not all the chips ffs

F all of you for not giving Katz and Cease love. You all are gonna eat crow

I agree and I’m not expecting anything crazy like Bauer, but going into next season with little to no depth and a league average payroll is ridiculous.

we aare going to be stuck with god damn adam wainwright because this team won't shell out a contract over 100mil for aa premium talent like bauer, aren't we? Same shit, different year. We were playing low payroll for so long and were told the money would be spent... that's half bullshit and half true... the half true part is its spent poorly consistently throwing money down the drain.

And about as likely as winning the Mega Millions.

I may be a short sighted wet blanket, but Wainwright may be about right. Our owner has made it pretty clear through the years that he doesnt pay for starting pitching. Not the market rate. Trading a Jared Kelley is not to my liking because we are not a normal org. We can only get star power at that position if we get it on a first contract. We just dont engage labor on this point, and never will. It's even pulling teeth to extend our own best guys, and when we gave Danks his money then it burned us. We're only fine with it when it's like Buerhle who was willing to take team-friendly deals his whole way (but even then, we couldnt fend off the Marlins at the end when he decided to get paid) My one issue with Waino is what if LaRussa puts him into a playoff game because of EXPERIENCE instead of a SP who has had a better year to that point.

We are talking minor leagues so Pods started out his minor league career 48 for 68. About the same. It amazes me how some players get so much rope but some like Madrigal who was drafted only 2 1/2 years ago gets none, and he is supposed to be a finished product. But he sucks so much other teams won’t notice and will give you something good for him. And then Tommy LaStella can come in because a decent faction of Soxtalk has a ex Cub fetish and he will be way better. And it will only cost $7 million more and that is nothing to Sox ownership.

This is a perfect signing for this team.

How could you?

No we just sat through a pile of crap and mediocrity for years we want more

Welcome to Soxtalk!

Smh Ragah. Madrigal is neither. His speed, baserunning, defense, and baseball IQ were so overrated. If he wasn't an overachieving, little "grinder", he wouldn't be so overrated in those departments.

Jerry is going to waste this window isn’t he. This year it will be COVID, next year it will be the CBA. JFC, I’m turning into Jack Parkman.

Hell no, you can’t go into the season relying on Lopez. That’s how you get into a situation where Drew Anderson is starting a game for you a month into the season. Sox currently are nowhere close to having the depth they’re going to need for a 162 game season.

The Angels aren’t giving up any decent pitchers.

You get back to work and make a damned trade.

Get back to me when Richards actually throws more than 80 innings in a season. 37 year old Adam Wainwright did it. 28 year old Garrett Richards didn’t do it. 29 year old Garrett Richards didn’t do it. 30 year old Garrett Richards didn’t do it. 31 year old Garrett Richards didn’t do it. 32 year old Garrett Richards didn’t do it. But we should pencil 33 year old Garrett Richards in for a season. No that makes perfect sense.

In most countries of the world, those companies would be nationalized... at least until the crisis had passed. But you wouldn't find more than 10-15% of the Congress in favor of such a radical approach that values citizens' lives over corporations and the profit incentive. People Are ‘Faking It’ To Get Vaccine Priority, So Just Yeet Me Off The Planet https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/people-faking-vaccine-priority-just-010026098.html

Cruz just gives me flashbacks of every other DH "solution" we've trotted out there, and I get worried.

Public health is inherently political and requires strong political action from our government.

https://www.yahoo.com/now/texas-school-district-proposed-diversity-100050047.html Here’s a Texas-sized example that is the quintessential argument that’s dividing our country today (race relations)...as an educator there, I’m sure you can appreciate the “both sides” aspect of it. The fact that the Cornish family after all that time still didn’t feel welcome tells one that we still have a long ways to go, and it didn’t get any easier the last 4-5 years. In the end, “liberals hate America” is the other side of the coin just as as labeling everyone on the other side a wanna-be Charlottesville Proud Boy rightfully rankles the majority of conservatives. It’s the same argument Vietnam War protesters heard, or The Dixie Chicks. If you don’t love your country in the same way I do, feel free to leave. We can easily retreat back to these general arguments about legacy, diversity, cancel culture, identity politics and patriotism, but then we’re simply skirting the issue.

Tex, the bolded is garbage. I suspect you know it is garbage. But it's something a "liberal" on the Tucker Carlson show would say. Liberals all hate America guys! More to the point, if there were a "things you like about America" thread, I suspect people in this thread would have plenty of positive things to say. But this is a COVID thread, dude. And we haven't been doing great in that arena. Hopefully with an administration in place who wants to tackle this crisis, there will be more positive news in this thread and you can stop complaining about this thread not being sunshine and roses.

Tanaka deserves a job. We should help him.

+ 2) This move makes so much sense for this god damn backwards organization ran by JR and Tony. I would be 100% OK with this move as a 6th starter/depth role. Teams need 6 legit starters this year (and probably going forward). Get Wainwright and Bauer.

Man remember when the Sox were taking laps because they added salary in December? Where do we think they’ll end up in added salary? 12th?

Now all you need is Max Fried, but that will really draw out wisebri’s future luxury tax implications posts again...

Well said.

First, I thought the research you did on his last 30 starts was sensational. I would argue the Sox were in a huge slump when they faced Wainwright and we know Indians offense was bad. With all that said, I won’t mind him in the 5th spot if it happens. Sox are currently one injury to the big 3 away from a huge mess.

His stuff has regressed over the years with his 4 seamer now sitting below 89 MPH and basically abandoning his sinker (and above average ground ball rate) for more 4 seamers & cutters. Not the end all be all, but his xERA per Statcast in 2019 was 5.69. The only thing the guy does that good is not walk anyone and I guess potentially eat innings. He is a guy who’s probably on the brink of being destroyed by the league and I want zero part of him.

Months? It's been split for years. It never should have been a league by league decision.

It would be crazy to not add a solid SP. They've come so far to build a potential championship roster...you can't blow it now by cheaping out on the #4/#5 starter.

No, you specifically said "We have a mostly honest government, imagine third world countries where corruption is the norm" and you got called out for it, and I believe quite fairly. You then compounded it by saying "But I don't think Nigeria or Nicaragua are doing better" - when in fact, they are. Nigeria has 147 deaths, Nicaragua 168. If the US had the same number of deaths per capita, we'd have under 10,000.

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