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https://www.yahoo.com/finance/markets/stocks/articles/ceo-fired-900-people-zoom-151745864.html More interest rate/mortgage/refinance "victims" are piling up...

Yes, I do the same thing on drives and long second shots. The podium is super durable and took me a while to put together. It’s held together with numbers cam screws and cam locks. The actual Golden Tee system is just the deck part of it and it drops right into the podium snug as hell. Basically it doesn’t move when I wack it, the podium or the deck.

Aside from Cubs they’ve played trash teams. Time to assert dominance 💪

https://www.mlb.com/milb/prospects/whitesox/ Also Roch 11, Bonemer 30, Carlson 62, Hagen and Braden come off Top 100 $50k bonus baby Boston Smith 13th for #1 Seattle system gaudy 6/Top 16 from this year's draft Oppor still #21 Zavala 30th Seems Ian Thorpe also lost his eligibility... Sebastian Romero flies up charts Scouting grades: Hit: 50 | Power: 50 | Run: 55 | Arm: 55 | Field: 55 | Overall: 40 Romero received the second-largest bonus in Chicago's 2026 international class, signing for $1.5 million out of Venezuela in January. He's a more advanced hitter than most 17-year-olds, and his tools are roughly comparable to those of Jaden Fauske, who landed an above-slot $2,997,500 bonus as second-rounder last July. He'll likely spend his first pro season in the Rookie-level Dominican Summer League.

And are they going with three catchers on the roster or is one of Romo/Quero headed to Charlotte?

Not a catcher, no, and I was fine with the Bart acquisition. It just didn’t work out due to a random injury. However, Getz obviously had the prospects to trade for a rental starter, even after the Castillo trade. It doesn’t appear that Getz ever considered rentals since he even mentioned the additional year(s) of control for all the players he acquired at the deadline. He pretty much said it himself. That was the mistake.

I suspect that many people here on Soxtalk would agree with the criticisms and concerns of what private equity firms have done. We are all aware of companies that PE groups have ruined. The problem is the bizarre, incessant insistence by one poster that Justin Ishbia is uniquely diabolical compared to other MLB owners and that his ulterior motive is to buy the team from the benevolent Jerry Reinsdorf and somehow bleed the White Sox franchise dry before flipping it for a profit - casting it aside as yet another PE conquest for him. There's no room for rational debate, just constant lashing out and personal insults at everyone while claiming that he doesn't care about the issue. My guess is that the irrational anger at Ishbia centers around the fact that he is uniquely qualified, due to his personal wealth, to make new stadium happen - most likely in the South Loop. Ishbia suddenly dropping his Twins bid and emerging as the likely next Sox owner last year has changed the South Loop proposal from an unlikely Jerry pipe dream to a decent chance of actually happening. This might be why we keep hearing about PE malfeasance, Winnetka mansions, unsolvable ingress/egress issues, unstable infill land, polluted waterways that magically go from a river to a highly toxic canal once you go south of Roosevelt and then back to a river with water taxi service when you get to Ping Tom Park. Is Ishbia's mansion in Winnetka worthy of criticism? Arguably yes from other Winnetka residents, but I don't see how it affects someone's rooting for the White Sox. Are there broader concerns about the actions of private equity firms in general. Yes, but again, this really shouldn't be much of a hot topic relating to the future ownership of the Sox.

It was a good addition but I believe Tray was expecting a better catcher acquisition than Bart. If it was the 2024 version of Bart we were getting, that injury would look even worse.

It's funny how people wanted Getz to trade Bonemer, Carlson and others, but wail at the loss of Boston Smith and Mason Adams. Is there a mystery cache of top prospects that we've never heard of, but would have gotten every top player on the market in trade?

Im very nervous

I still think I'd rather have Quero around than Romo, but I have a feeling Quero will be booking a ticket to Charlotte shortly.

We'll probably get the active roster move tomorrow. Rogers probably isn't there yet.

I'd really like to see a more traditional lineup like the below at some point this season. #1 - Sam #2 - Chase #3 - Mune #4 - Vargas #5 - Beni #6 - Colson #7 - Braden #8 - Peters #9 - Romo

So...does this mean Romo isn't being cut?

Well, yeah. But Bart broke his hand

National Treasure movies are vastly underrated lol. (Also, Odyssey in IMAX 70 mm and Anne Hathaway/Obi Wan fighting off dinosaurs in a dystopian 80's neighborhood, Attack the Block for this generation...👍)

Well, they can’t put the real condition on the press release — “Loser’s Limp.”

Agee with you which put Getz between a rock and a hard place with no really good option but when you get the chance, you have to take it. It's not like the Sox make the playoffs on a regular basis or even have a winning season regularly since 2007.

Just like the PCA MVP statue campaign (probably goes next to the Millenium Bean)/"W"intrust flag flies high this year lol... (Also the Padres for some reason really upset WestEddy for all their wild/or responsible spending...that doubled their franchise value despite the elevated debt load.)

I love that you threw in the Free Masons. I worked with that guy for 10-12 years once. Once I figured out he was a paranoid loon I quit trying to talk him down from the ledge. I have to admit he was pretty hilarious whan he wanted to be.

Moonlight McDougal???

f*** them. They are losers. Sweep them.