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Because they hired a culture leader and gave their flunkies a press release to write about?

Are there subsidies for that? Asking for a random billionaire.

Your job isn't to hurt yourself to make someone else rich.

You think Preller is going to get fired for a trade he made 5 years ago?

Eh, we’ve come this far…let’s get it all. Sox were an AL team in 1916, so it should count for something. Split with the Angels, get swept by the Padres and Tigers and finish 38-124 (.2345679).

Right, they are telling us they are gonna do all of that just like they told us they would do all of that in 2016. “Tearing it down to the studs” was trading Sale and Quintana and Eaton because the minors couldn’t be torn down any more than it was, because the minors was absolutely barren just like now. nothing is different here except the team is significantly worse off and it will take that much longer to climb out of the hole. you are welcome to believe what they are telling you, of course

Never gets old....1 post with the cap tip, 1 post with the loss #, and 1 post with Beavis never scoring.

https://www.mlb.com/prospects/stats/affiliates?teamId=145&date=09/18/2024 https://www.milb.com/scores/all/all/whitesox Go Kannapolis! Adams for AAA

Biggest surprise Last year, the Kansas City Royals lost 106 games. Over the winter, they guaranteed around $100 million to sign seven free agents: right-handed starters Seth Lugo and Michael Wacha, outfielder Hunter Renfroe, utilitymen Garrett Hampson and Adam Frazier and relievers Will Smith and Chris Stratton. Today, the Royals are 82-70. They are firmly in possession of the second wild card in the AL and have an outside shot at overtaking Cleveland atop the Central division. They will play in the postseason for the first time since winning the World Series in 2015. They are the perfect example of what can happen when a team -- regardless of its market size -- has an owner commit to winning and backs it up with savvy front-office maneuvering. In addition to urging general manager J.J. Picollo to add via free agency, Royals owner John Sherman greenlit the $288 million contract extension for Witt over the winter as well as a midseason budget expansion to acquire more talent at the trade deadline and via the waiver wire. The Royals have operated with a sense of urgency rarely seen among lower-revenue teams. And their targets have hit. Lugo was among the best signings of the winter and Wacha not far behind. Cole Ragans, acquired for Aroldis Chapman in June 2023, is a top-of-the-rotation starter. Witt is a superstar, Salvador Perez is bolstering his Hall of Fame case by the year and Vinnie Pasquantino is a legitimate middle-of-the-order bat (who they very much miss). And with the work Matt Quatraro is doing in the dugout, the Royals could pull off the rare Manager of the Year/Executive of the Year double. The Royals might be a surprise, but they're certainly not a fluke. espn.com

I was long in bed for this one.....

JR should build more rivers then

We need a 3-7 L10, at best, to keep our stake of history! I think we can do it.

If that's the case, why didn't he just keep his mouth shut to get off this shithole team and organization and sort it out later? To me, that would have been the better move.

Apologies....West Coast Delay......

And batting 9th for your 2025 Chicago White Sox, Center Fielder Rafael Ortega.

And then reality hits, and its a nightmare.

He will get a raise. If they bring him back, they are even more nuts than we think.

I’d be perfectly happy with 121, or preferably 122, losses. I don’t need the distinction of a worse winning percentage than a team over a hundred years ago. 121/122 stands out to all hardcore and casual fans alike.

lol. So let’s not ignore the fact he was doing his job as a pro athlete?

This time Lucy holds the football in place...

They didn’t tear it down to studs like they are now in 2016. And they did nothing to address any of the shortcomings of the organization, or bring in any outsiders. Reading this article, it seems like that’s different this time, so there’s reason for optimism. Will it work? I don’t know but it’s certainly different.

In 1998 if the Sox hired DePodesta instead of the As, I would have thought JR was full of crap and trying to sell us cheap ass players. I don't want innovation, I want things to stay the same. f*** JR for trying to fix the front office and take it in a new direction. The front office doesn't play. The front office is fine and has been for decades now. Just give them a $200 million payroll for next year and all will be fine. Well, maybe this might be a small step in a slightly better direction. I'll leave open the possibility it might help in ways we'll never know.

I lived the whole experience as a diehard Sox fan. WGN TV and radio was responsible for creating Cub fans in Chicago, down state, Iowa long before becoming a Super Station. St. Louis Cardinals did the same thing with their 50,000-watt blow torch KMOX. The Cardinals built a loyal fanbase throughout the South. The direct contrast was Dollar Bill Wirtz approach. The Sox were somewhere in between with their channel 44 and complete failure SportsVision. I am not disputing anything Dick Allen said about who out drew who, Cubs or Sox. I have argued almost using the same exact words with my buddy who was a Cub fan, god rest his soul. I am just trying to point out the road that got us here.

And this is why Reindorf partnered with the Wirtz'es to buy up all the parking lots around the UC in order to create the same type of atmosphere as Wrigleyville around the UC and the Sox are not his financial priority now. This is why it appears Jerry is willing to beef up infrastructure and the latest articles about that. Its way cheaper than paying Free Agents. It's probably all lip service anyway just to keep the majority of funds available for the UC project which is what his heirs will keep unless JR blows it like he did with Sportsvision. He may have been ahead of his time with that idea when the technology was worse but now he's behind the times and trying to catch up with the Real Estate sports mega empire that he now thinks is necessary to compete today. He cant do that around the current area in Bridgeport which is why he's been toying with the 78 project too but that's a long shot and why the Sox will be sold. If he could do in Bridgeport what he's doing around the UC he probably would. Once the Sox are sold following his death that should give his heirs a lot of money to finish off the UC project depending on how fast they can start building housing and sports malls and turning it into their own Wrigleyville.