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Calling Madrigal Magical when he hasnt even played a single game is the most cringe thing ive ever seen or heard.

That's actually not what happened, but it IS funny a bunch of journalists are trying to punish someone because of their free speech because their POV is different. Which has ZERO to do with baseball and his 79 fWAR. I guess he should have shilled for climate change, or kneeling for the flag, or abortion, or no person is illegal. He would have been a media darling.

I didn't say he wasn't good, he's clearly good. He's just not elite according to the numbers. And by the way, you have quite the ego. Anyone who doesn't agree with you doesn't know baseball, huh?

That's good. " Bang your trash can day" at comiskey. Could be a sell out.

I think Black Jack is just upset he is the most prominent White Sox of his era the team didn’t welcome back with open arms. Ozzie and Robin managed, Big Hurt is an ambassador and does TV work, even grumpy Carlton Fisk is an ambassador. Bo Jackson the same. Tim Raines coached. he probably feels entitled to something, but it shows being a jackass to JR usually doesn’t pay off in the end. Putting things in perspective, LaRussa was fired by Hawk before Jack had begun his junior year at Stanford,

I'm not giving up Madrigal and Vaughn.

If Bryant's grievance results in two years til free agency, Cubs will probably try and move him pretty quickly to maximize their return. If it's one year they probably hold on to him until the deadline and force someone to overpay. Either way I don't think he finishes the season in Chicago. just an unbelievable divorce for these two parties. Bryant should have been their bell cow for years to come and they fucked with him from the get go

Apparently when they picked up the 5th year option last spring they created a situation where it is guaranteed against injury but where the player can be cut prior to the start of the NFL year in early March if the team no longer thinks he's worth the contract ($13.2 million for Floyd). I didn't know that was the case with those options.

Realistically the priority seems to be TE. The offense nagy wants to run is similar to KC and Philadelphia. Those seem to run through Kelce and Ertz/Goddard.

No worries. I didn't take it as an attack at me. I just thought it came across as kind of arrogant. It's all good. Thanks for addressing it.

While I don't have any urge to trade for Arenado, one important thing that would be different in this case is that Arenado is actually a bonafide, legitimate star. The trades you're talking about are moves for guys like Jake Peavy when his numbers were already down from his peak in San Diego, Jeff Samardzija when we convinced ourselves he was way better than he actually was, and James Shields after his performance had fallen apart. When trades became available for guys who could actually change a franchise, like Miguel Cabrera, we made attempts at them but were beaten because we didn't have enough talent to made such a deal. The deals that killed the White Sox were paying high prices for middling players, because they didn't understand that they were paying high prices and they didn't understand they were getting back middling players.

These types of trade deals is what doomed the team to several years of subpar performances. We traded away our good prospects for immediate but short term gratification. We have a pretty solid young team settled at about every position and ready to compete LONG term so let’s not return to the old ways. That is my opinion and I realize others have theirs

I feel like Brendan Rodgers has been a top prospect for an eternity.

Idk, a bunch of journalists holding him saying hanging journalists is awesome against him seems pretty fair.

A significant portion of the population is hate-filled assholes so not sure how that justifies his actions.

Every team should just get real passive aggressive with how Astros players are handling this and hand out either miniature drums or tiny trash cans when playing the Astros.

So different that he turned white and changed his name to Matt Moore

That’s like the death penalty for SMU football in the late 80’s. Never going to happen...the owners care more about maintaining escalating franchise valuations. https://www.yahoo.com/news/should-the-astros-lose-their-world-series-title-174048506.html Vacate Allowing them to keep the title vindicates cheating “Do you know what wasn’t suspended? The Astros’ World Series banner. Do you know what wasn’t fired? Their World Series rings. ...Is it worth it? Unless MLB decides to vacate their title, it’s hard to say it wasn’t.” — Mike Oz, Yahoo Sports The Dodgers deserve to be remembered fairly in record books “The Astros should be forced to hand the Commissioner’s Trophy back to Commissioner Rob Manfred right now, vacate the title and forever leave that space in the record books as empty as the organization’s integrity. The Dodgers didn’t win it on the field, but history should forever note that nobody beat them.” — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times Vacating the title would be a lasting punishment worthy of the offense “Make them take down the banner at Minute Maid Park and vacate all records of their title. If you don’t think that hurts, ask the players from the 2004 USC football team how they feel about the Trojans being forced to return the national championship trophy because of NCAA rules violations.” — Bob Brookover, Philadelphia Inquirer There’s no question that cheating directly contributed to their victory “Let’s keep it real, they have a championship that there's a good chance they don’t deserve. We can say with confidence that the Astros cheated on the playing field and therefore didn’t deserve that World Series ring.” — Chris Broussard, Fox Sports

Players sounded like a bunch of arrogant wimps. They don't seem to have any idea what this scandal means and probably don't care. Hope they don't get near that World Series they seem to think they are entitled to.

There are so many variables that go into the success or failure of a QB: Scheme fit Coaching Play Calling Offensive Line Processing the game/reading defenses Existence of a run game (or lack thereof) WR/TE talent If you look at this objectively, most are out of the QB's control and Trubisky had the worst situation of the three QBs. Not making excuses for him, but he certainly hasn't been given a lot of the tools necessary to be successful at the QB position. His inability to read defenses well is definitely on him. However, it's up to the playcaller to recognize that and cover for him to the best of his ability.

That author is a LOSER anyone that gets up in arms over things schilling has said, things that a significant percentage of the population agrees with, is an over sensitive douche.

I get that Schilling is a bit of a bag and I probably would not get along with him personally, but he is a HOF pitcher. Not voting for him makes no sense in my opinion.

Neither are the Sox , not for Arenado anyway.

Oh, OK Rob.

My heart bleeds for them. Aren't they supposed to working on a 5-peat at this juncture ? They're fortunate they beat Cleveland.

Soxtalk can really suck. You get a little excited about something you read...you post it and then the howling negatives come out of the woodwork to tell you how wrong and stupid you are. Ok Vaughn isnt Bellinger...hes Frank Thomas 2.0. Better? .300 hitter with 30+ homers and 100 walks hitting in a lineup with 4 other superstars. Im gonna go dream somewhere else.

You shouldn't ever be reading anything into stats of players the same year of their college season. He held his own and was fine. This ranking should have been expected.

I'm not mad at the White Sox - this is a LaRussa problem, not an organizational one, and there's a lot of reasons LaRussa is gone and that may have been one of them.

I will say, I have no idea what camera's were good enough in the 1980's to zoom in from the outfield stands into the fingers of a catcher... But I don't know why Jack would make this up; well, he does hate LaRussa but still. Odds are this is true, and makes me even happier that we fired this ass hat.

So you're saying all of the writers should get together and decide which ones won't vote for him so he stays under 75% in the first year. Got it. Jeter is a no-brainer Hall of Famer. If you want to say he's a Robin Yount or Paul Molitor level player, ok. I agree, he's not Ruth, Aaron, Mays, but let's stop criticizing no-doubt 1% of all-time players. It's just stupid to do that,

Yeah his market completed died (which is what I expected).. There's got to be a point in which this would be a fine move... 3 years for 12-15 million a year seems to be that range.

Anyone else have a strange feeling that Castellanos falls into the White Sox lap at their price?