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And gotta blare Ozzy over the PA system

But this is the White Sox we are talking about,,,,,,,,they don't do such things

But the Ishbia’s didn’t publicly show their excitement over the Murakami signing so that means they hate the White Sox and their fans. 🤣

"Same organization" or worse in some respects since JR is a lot less likely to allow too much spending with the imminent work stoppage and and even more risk adverse than before to make sure his son's sale of the franchise to the Ishbia family goes as smooth as possible. So bottom line concerns yes still the same or worse. However the "trying" part shouldnt be overlooked. Unless you're blind the progress is easy to see . Lots of wins behind the scenes that were unexpected with media darlings like Bannister , Venable, Rodriguez & perhaps Keller joining the front office and special emphasis on scouting & player development which paid off quickly with the Mune signing. The Shane Smith and Colson Montgomery on field success were mostly unexpected. Especially Montgomery who was being called a bust here by quite a few. Ryan Fuller was credited with taking Colson away from the expectations to perform in games and refocused him on his process. Also a win that motion capture/ analytics may have led to suggesting the torpedo bat. After that little switch it was bombs away. These are things that a bad team in a position to have some advantages took them and produced better than expected results. It gives me hope that whatever holes in Murakami's swing that frightened so many teams can be properly addressed by the Sox and we end up with a Thome or Schwarber type .Remember his power and exit velocities may have been muted by a very real dead ball era in Japan. It's not as if having the Top Rule 5 had historically produced even good MLB players. Hopefully the new DR Academy with Rodriguez and Keller in charge can produce some results in producing alternative sources of talent that the Sox well had always been dry on (DR talent) much like the Pacific Rim well had also gone dry. So in some respects with the emphasis on building culture, communication, infrastructure and PD it's not the same old Sox. They are ramping up for the ownership change.

Seems pretty clear that the Sox don’t intend to spend money on the outfield, likely with Montgomery being close.

not exactly a Sox trademark but more often like the other F word

Thanks, Just did! We'll see if it goes anywhere lol.

It's pretty unfortunate. Despite him clashing with some folks here and having a few strong opinions, he did provide valuable insight and intel into things. Especially on the draft side.

Never mind, CWS answered it. Too bad. I always enjoyed his posts.

Wow, thanks for filling me in. I do remember Harold disliked Haber.

What happened to Harolds Left Leg?

Some weirdo was harassing Harold on here, constantly making comments about Jeep Wranglers. Then some other psycho poster (probably an alt account for the other guy) basically confronted Harold and accused him of being the White Sox’s assistant scouting director who also happens to own a Jeep dealership. Unclear the truth of that, but doesn’t seem crazy given the inside info Harold had shared on this site. Also, based on what the psycho guy was saying in his accusations, he was either Haber himself or had a close relationship with Haber and held some sort of grudge against Harold, although I can’t recall if it was simply because he didn’t like him leaking White Sox business or something deeper & more personal. And shortly after the more direct accusations, Harold was gone forever and now we rely on the Times for India for our scoops.

In all seriousness though, hopefully they can fix him.

He has 3 years service time left before free agency.

BR 🤷‍♀️

How much team control does he have if he makes the team?

Damn what’d I miss? Fill me in on that big beefy gossip. Daddy’s hungry.

Reddit highlights: This person is known as "Kelenic Guy" around the baseball reddit forums.

Can we move the Jarred Kelenic thread to PHT

Humor

Love the signing!

Dang we get 1 APAC scout and he immediately turns Jerry into a weeb

lol

I’m adding Kelenic to the OD roster now.

BOOM!