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To quote Tom Waddle “My kids don’t get extra credit for not doing drugs.” And staying on the Bears theme…a few weeks ago when the Bears were playing the 49ers, Darnell Wright was sick and looked like he may miss the game. On Saturday, he was feeling better and the Bears flew him to San Fransisco on a jet with a member of the training staff. 10 years ago, Darnell Wright is probably flying commercial because that’s not the way the Bears did business. My point is while I’m happy to see them keeping up with the times, I’m not rushing to give the Bears extra credit for something good organizations have been doing for a long time.

Needed a guy in back end of pen

Where/when have I ever done that?

I mean, we know a ton of changes they have actually made. I agree we don’t the level of impact they will have, but even getting within the stratosphere of the rest of the league is a massive first step and there is plenty of reason to believe Getz has or is on track to doing that. Ultimately, it’s ok to acknowledge Getz has made legit structural improvements to the org without saying he’s fixed everything.

And that explains everything I guess. 🤣 Im just a fan trying to support the team the best way I can when I know I have to be patient because JR is preparing himself to leave his body and the Sox to be sold . We could get learned men with Doctorates and wealthy ruthless businessmen all screaming at each other in a debate about how to run baseball and it wouldnt solve anything. Youre not right, they wouldnt be right and I'm not even in that argument. I'm not qualified. If you want to pretend you are qualified to tell everyone how baseball should be run and be dictator over owners, players and fans and writers embarassment because your trolling is entertaining and because Soxtalk allows you to do so then be my guest. My current way of fanning in our current state is to support the players and staff since they are underdogs in this mess. Starring Jerry Reinsdorf as Simon Bar Sinister

The rumor was they planned on signing Ryan O'Hearn. He signed for about $15 per? Murakami's money was probably always in the budget.

And you don't need to be a blind sheep and always pretend that outcomes below the lowest projected are going to happen because reasons.

Is there an entity reranking teams as the off-season plays out? And who is projecting the White Sox to lose 100 games in 2026? I know ZIPS did the Sox back in November, but that was pretty much before they made any moves.

Might be time to get off the internet for a while.

Yep. Imagine if the Sox traded for an oft injured player who has been terrible the last two years? Wait we don't have to imagine, they've done that regularly.

Granted this is an AI summary, but for example....

This may have been the first trade I can remember where fans of both teams hated it. 😂

Change and success are two different things. Getz and Co. haven't had enough runway to see if those changes will pay off yet, and I'm not saying it's going to be an automatic failure or nothing Getz does can be good. But you, and I, don't know how much has been "poured" into player development. There have been a handful of PR stories about the importance of player development to this regime, and that's a good thing. But how much was spent? Are those investments just getting them on par with other teams that have been doing it for the last 10+ years? It's good to be hopeful as a fan. Not trying to deny anyone that. But it's been 20 years since 2005 and they've won the AL Central twice since then. And Jerry has been involved every step of the way. And he still is. So color me skeptical. Don't feel like it's a terribly difficult stance to understand.

He was hurt with a hip impingement, had a setback after he got hit with a line drive, and I think he just struggled to get his consistency back.

I believe that a lot of people here actually dread another 100-loss season, and aren't just performatively complaining about it to burnish their brands. Filling roles adequately so that we don't weather another 7-23 April goes a great deal towards energizing fans, and even "teaching the young players how to win".

They have made sweeping changes in player development. You can hate Getz because he was hired but you cant honestly say he hasn't made changes and poured resources into player development.

...And? It was seemingly the first time they tore things down with intent behind it and wanted to build something with sustained success. We applauded them for that, and a lot of us (myself included) thought the core looked incredibly promising. What happened? Nearly everyone on that list didn't reach their expected potential, to varying degrees. Passan listed out 12 names in his tweet, and anytime you're talking about 12 young players, you know the hit rate isn't going to be above 75%, at best. That's just how the game works. The problem was those 12 names listed were basically the entire roster. There was no fallback, no reinforcements being developed in the farm to supplement the roster, no pipeline. Why did those things happen? Lack of resources in player development and Front Office employees being given jobs they had no business being in. I have yet to given a reason to believe either of those things have significantly changed under this new regime. And until I do...I'll remain a skeptic.

Really like this move for the Sox. They need veteran leadership in the backend of the pen. They lost far too many games last year because of it. Dominguez is a nice addition, and could be worth a lot come the deadline if they decide to move him. Also, for anyone keeping track... projected fWAR for 2026: Robert - 1.8 Acuna - 1.3 Dominguez - 0.6 And the Sox still have ~$10M left if they want to add another SP or OF.

Sir, this is a Soxtalk.

What's that have to do with baseball or you thinking you have all the answers and telling people how to feel. You are a very dangerous man to freedom if you had any power.

In fairness, everyone in baseball said the same thing.

Yea that floor was raised a few floors in that guy's argument. I'm glad you saved me the trouble of looking those things up and pointing it out to him.

Have you ever watched another professional sport in your entire life?