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  1. 17 hours ago, Rey21 said:

    Dylan Cease, Corbin Burnes, Shane Bieber, Tyler Glasnow, Blake Snell, 
    Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Jordan Montgomery 

    Angels, Braves, Cards, Cubs, Dodgers,  Giants, Mets, Nationals, Orioles, Padres, Reds, Red Sox, Rockies, and Yankees all need pitching to varying degrees, if Chris Getz fumbles this… 

    The White Sox also need pitching especially if Cease gets moved. 

  2. 10 hours ago, ptatc said:

    Yep. The the whole organization is run that way. And everyone of them believe it. 

    It happens with the Yankees but it can also be a rule in other companiesas well.  I think it is dumb but the owner can make "some rules" and if a player doesn't like it he can go elsewhere. Obviously a ton of very talented -players have followed the rule in order to play for the Yankees. 

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  3. 2 hours ago, sin city sox fan said:

    I don't care who takes the field as long as Grifol is manager.   We will never win with him as the leader so I'm just waiting for the day he is fired so I can be enthusiastic about the Sox once again.

    The manager is one piece but not a big one. There are a bunch of holes and Grifol is not the person filling the holes.  Many of us hopes Grifol leaves but the manager is not going to turn us from a loser to a winner.  Maybe Grifol affects the team by 5-7 wins in either direction. 

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  4. 4 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

    Maturity-wise he failed the final test kicking that Gatorade cooler and missing two months in the heat of a pennant race.

    There were already red flags all over the place within the organization.

    That probably negates  Morosi 's take of trading Mariner pitching for Robert since they just traded 2 pitches to Atlanta. Looks like he didn't read yesterday's paper or it was an older article.  

  5. 1 hour ago, JoeC said:

    I mean, I guess the logic is that you'd be stocking up the farm and also replacing Cease with a younger, more cost-controlled pitcher.

    To me, having "good" players at this point is irrelevant. The team is going to suck, so whether you suck with a stud in CF or you suck with a dud in CF, it doesn't really matter to me.

    Except a stud CF has a much more attractive feel than a stud pitcher. If fans are choosing home games based on who is playing, the CF is the obvious way to go. I hope both Cease and Robert survive but it appears Cease is needed to bring in new blood 

  6. I just read this morning that the Red Sox are looking to add a 2B to strengthen a weakness they see . Seems like they are looking at Cincy and Yyankee 2B as options. Then I see White Sox have probably signed DeJong to bolster their infield. This is why we are shopping in the bargain bins for a player that was let go in 2023.  Luckily Getz found him................... 

  7. On 10/1/2023 at 6:34 AM, Dick Allen said:

    Forget no other team would hire him. Now you have a year of his work to evaluate. Other than the White Sox, who would ever hire Pedro Grifol to be their manager? The fact that Getz is bringing him back shows you he knows no more than the guys who were fired. More of the same. Enjoy your final years with empty parks, and a lot of losing JR.

    The bigger question is who made the decision to bring back Grifol. Was it JR or Getz? Was it strictly based on financials? Getz may have said thank you for the job and yes I will bring him back, as you say, for another year. 

  8. 14 hours ago, WBWSF said:

    The team lost 101 games and was difficult to watch. Is anybody surprised at the low  TV ratings? In my opinion there are worse situations. The Tampa Bay Rays won more games than the White Sox and the White Sox had better attendance. The Rays played  the Rangers today in the playoffs and had thousands of empty seats. They only sold   over 19,000 tickets for the playoff  game today. I think alot of people were surprised when the Rays announced that their new stadium is going to be in the same location as the present one.

    The Rays want a new stadium so they can start getting 10,000 fans per game. This is a total joke. I will say once again that Tampa Bay/St Pete really needs to move to a better location. They have done a great job of turning their team into a good product on the field. Now they need a fan base that will come out and support their team.

       

  9. 12 hours ago, Balta1701 said:

    In the way I wrote that I didn't call out any single player (note that he did choose to call out Anderson himself), I just noted that this season had gone very poorly (undeniable) and that they had a lot of work to do to get things turned in the right direction (which he apparently cannot acknowledge right now).

    But Hahn and Williams were here and they saw the same things. Either Getz( and company) is smarter than those two, JR has decided to put more money into the team or Getz is really Hahn 2 and he is just talking a good game.  We will see pretty soon if this is another rebuild or if JR is going to put up more money to turn this thing around. Because if Getz is only moving the pieces around the board we will be no better off. 

  10. 6 hours ago, The Mighty Mite said:

    The Lightning and the Bucs draw very well as they are located in Tampa which is where the majority of the people in the metro area live, that and St. Pete is a ghost town from May through the holidays. There’s also a populated area east of St. Pete which if people want to go to Rays games either going north or especially south have to go pretty far out of the way what with the Bay itself in the way. Bottom line is that geography does play a big part with the Rays attendance problems.

    Just my opinion, but It is 20 miles and 25 minutes between the Trop and Raymond James Stadium. It takes me 42 minutes to drive from SSC Florida to the Trop. It takes an 1hr13 minutes to drive from RI to Fenway. Again ,for  Tampa bay fans to Trop is a walk in the park. Their fans just are not real baseball fans old stadium or new.  Now the Lightning and Bucs fans are real fans and would go to St Pete or Clearwater or where  ever to see their teams. 

  11. 46 minutes ago, The Mighty Mite said:

    Big mistake building almost next door the The Trop, residents who live in Tampa and the suburbs and towns north of the city for the most part won’t make the trip down to which is basically south St. Pete.

    Not sure why geography would affect a site for a new Trop. I am a snowbird and have attended Rays games in April and Red Sox the rest of the year. Red Sox fans think nothing of driving 90 minutes or more to attend Red Sox games. In addition, Boston is a very busy traffic area in all directions around Boston.  Tampa is a moderate traffic area at best but is growing somewhat the last few years. It seems to me that Tampa or St Pete are not a real baseball towns. Maybe the weather provides too many other thngs to do. In addition, many people are transplanted from all around the country and settled in Florida so  their fan base is limited. They don't draw even when the team is having several years in a row of success.  But it looks like the Trop is going to get a new stadium. My guess is by 2030, the newness will wear out and the team will be back to drawing small crowds.  

    Miami draws limited crowds as well. 

  12. Charlotte has 12 games left while White Sox have 18. Not sure what the rationale is giving one of our  better prospects  less games as the season winds  down. I would think Colas should be getting as many MLB at bats as possible before the season ends. 

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  13. 11 minutes ago, Highland said:

    They have to know it, because we fans know it. We needed change and got the same old thing. On owner set in his ways and in complete denial. Meanwhile, Cease continues to implode as does Kopech. Does this team even have a rotation?

    I guess I would feel that a younger player would still be excited to improve their game. But it does seem like the team is just  on a downward spiral. Getz has a lot of work to do in the off-season. 

  14. 7 hours ago, bmags said:

    I didn't think Getz was destined to fail until the press conference. Being adament that he was hired to win now, but that they'll spend but not on the high end of the market...

    I don't see anyway that works and worry we trade out the prospect depth that we may get lucky on for some bad vet plays.

    It depends what "high" means.  The pitching staff needs addressing and the Sox need several #2 type starters. Hopefully not starters who are #4-5 starters looking to rebound after being released somewhere else. We also need some everyday FA  players in their prime who are looking for a new home. We should know how the team is going as the roster is constructed this fall. If it is the "same old tired faces" in next year's lineup we are screwed.   

  15. If Getz is now the SVP/GM , then I am rooting that he can start to move this team upward. Most of us are true White Sox fans , so we should hope that Getz starts to mold this franchise into a competitive team.  Probably won't happen next year but we hope to see progress in multiple areas of the organization.  Like many fans, I have my concerns that JR doesn't have a clue what he is doing. But as a fan, I hope Getz can start to turn this team around.  We will see fairly soon how much money is put into this team to start  building  Robert's new team around him. 

  16. 46 minutes ago, Buehrle>Wood said:

    It's a business but yeah can't imagine Giolito happy about going to Cleveland.

    I disagree. I would think a player at this juncture wants to be picked up by a team with a chance at the playoffs. After the season, Gio can still decide where he wants to go next year. So at least Cleveland is still in the race and Francona is well liked by his players. 

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  17. On 8/30/2023 at 3:24 AM, Chimpton said:

    Amidst all the doom and gloom of a disaster season and the depressing search for a new GM I just thought I would look for any positives I could find.

    • Luis Robert- not much really needs saying here, he is the best player on the team, can he still improve?
    • Lenyn Sosa- are we finally seeing what he could do at MLB level? Or is he just having a good spell when the pressure is off at the end of the season?

    Apart from that I can't really see many positives about the MLB team, but any positives anyone has from the minors or any I have missed?

    One statistic that jumps out at me this season. Sosa had 115 PA  and he had 1 BB and 12 SO.  Hopefully in the off-season he will work on what pitches not to swing at. 

  18. 8 minutes ago, Highland said:

    Yes, paying to watch a very bad team just to tell Jerry to sell isn't a great idea. Fans have been shouting at him to sell for a long time, and, as we all can see, it has had no effect. I don't understand how JR can watch this team sink to this level. But he won't sell, and fans taunting him will only increase his stubbornness.

    How about if the fans showed up outside the stadium and chant "sell the team". That way the point gets across with out the team making money off ticket sales.  

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