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Spoken like a true abuser. Well done. I guess victims of police brutality and those who have lost loved ones to drunk driving should just get over it too. Please log off Soxtalk and leave the rest of us in peace. /rant

Nba teams must have just picked better business men to run their teams. Weird! They seem to be dolling out money and contracts like its nothing. Since I'm not a lawyer proving collusion in court that means it doesn't exist lol. Just like 2008... no bankers did anything wrong because none were criminally changed. Nice insight cali. Carry that absurdly wealthies water.

"Why do you even care" is such a cop out. He cares because 1) this loser that you keep posting about clearly knows nothing and 2) when he enters the forum and sees there are new posts, he probably assumes it's something meaningful. This shit is not

You are probably in the wrong place if you are looking for an echo chamber.

LaRussa is the Manager. Get over it.

A little bit of discernment in which tweets to post might spare some of the reactions you get. Just my opinion. Nothing wrong with posting news or rumor, but continually posting a burner account rapidly proving to be phony and then complaing about its content here and not on Twitter feels like the wrong forum to voice said opinion. Again, just my opinion. Not everyone here cares about Twitter burners even if some of the info is worth discussing here.

Building a wall? No. Tax cuts for the rich? No. He has destroyed the Republican Party. They have no idea what they stand for anymore. They have to check with him first. They did get their judges. I wonder when they realize it probably wasn’t worth it. The guy is one big con man. He isn’t anything but a Trump. Many years from now he will be looked at as one of the biggest mistakes, if not the biggest, voters ever made.

To me, it’s more that there are plenty of threads discussing how awful the hire was for numerous reasons. There was no reason for the Tony issue to get forced into the thread.

Hahn is the GM. Get over it.

Lol People who compare owning a professional sports franchise to things like a landscaping business are literally hopeless in these communications. Is the local landscaping business subsidized by my tax dollars? Did we all help build the landscapers headquarters? So let me get this straight, they aren't required to spend when revenues have soared well beyond costs for the past 40 years but when they aren't making money hand over foot they can also use that as an excuse not to spend. That sounds like a good deal for owners. Glad you all are so sympathetic to these people lol Teams laying off workers left and right after making billions while using tax dollars to build stadiums. Amazing people support these crooks.

What does this prove exactly? Nba players and teams have revenue % split agreements for player salaries. The cap is based on prior years revenues and etc. They didn't use last year to set the cap because they thought it was artificial and not a good barometer but because the cap is based on a percentage of revenue, there has to be an escrow incase revenues don't bounce back. This is literally no where near the same thing. Their cba and salary cap are based on revenues. Baseball has no cap. Theres no requirement to meet a certain percentage on players salaries. Nba teams also don't have closed books in negotiations as mlb owners do. This is actually the nba saying we'll pay you based on where we both thought revenues would be next year pre pandemic but if the revenue is greatly affected by the pandemic the cap would be lower so salaries would have to come down. Its actually the exact opposite of the mlb who already intentionally shortened last season to deprive players of salaries. Amazing this post has 2 likes as if some point was proven.

Not really. Owners aren’t losing more money than they have to just so they could pay players their full salary. www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/30211678/nba-revenue-2019-20-season-dropped-10-83-billion-sources-say%3fplatform=amp “The league and union are negotiating methods of artificially inflating the 2020-21 salary cap to keep it around $109 million, sources told ESPN. Those talks have centered on placing a larger percentage of each player's salary into an escrow fund. If at the end of the season, total player salaries exceed their mandated share of overall basketball-related income -- about 50% -- some or even all of that escrow money would go to teams.”

Phillies were like us just a year earlier and since 2017 signed Arietta, Wheeler, Harper, McCuthchen and Santana for $630 million...and that got them two year where they were a combined four games under .500 record and now they are in a financial mess...so you'll have to explain to me the side benefits they are getting. 2016 Orioles were a young talented team that had won 89 games and gone to the playoffs and paid 160 million (not 60) for Chris Davis and he bombed and now their franchise is in ruins. Last year the Nationals "won" Strasburg for $275 million and they ended up 8 games under .500. You think the Padres spending $450 million on two players the last two years pushed them over the top? You think that won't bite them? Last year they got 4 WAR out of the two of them for $50 million. Next year they will be 28 and 31 and cost them $53 million. OK it would be fun to be the Yankees or Dodgers with their annual $250 million budget...but we aren't so we have to spend money wisely. Last year we got Grandal who is top 3 catcher in baseball...not sure why that's not a blockbuster deal. We also got Keuchel who put up 2.1 WAR for $18 million while the Yankees got the shiny penny in Gerrit Cole who put up 2.2 WAR for $36 million. I honestly think you have PTSD from the rebuild. Come on man we are White Sox fans. They had a great off season last year, the team has a ton of talent, our payroll is only $100 million for next year ($20 million less than the Padres), no really bad contracts on the books (like Meyer and Hoesner are for the Pads) and the free agent market has just begun. Don't wallow in self hatred until we see how this plays out. Enjoy the process.

Last time the Bears came out of a bye and got their butts whipped by the packers, it cost everyone their jobs

40 years of being cheap is not negated by signing Dallas Keuchel and Grandal to $50MM or $70MM contracts. That's like the going rate for normal players.

Or, and maybe this is crazy, people can use their better judgment to decide how much validity they want to assign to a particular rumor or twitter personally...

100% Carlos Rodon will have multiple major league offers for next year. If you think differently you vastly underestimate how hard it is to find major league pitching. Teams will absolutely be willing to throw a couple of million to bet on a Rodon rebound. It is the kind of thing the Sox will be doing for depth in this rotation with other pitchers.

Plenty of slow days ahead. And this would've been a good thread if the OP didn't drag his anti-LaRussa schtick into it. And into every other thread. We've run that subject into the ground and there are threads for it. You have to wonder if this thread was about Mazara or just a guise to talk more shit about Larussa.

Why do I see the headline - Broncos score more points with no QB than bears do against Packers

I'm following this thread but not sure I understand what should be expected of MLB owners. Should they be expected to ignore the economic impact the pandemic has had on their businesses because their businesses are professional sports teams? Should they be expected to maintain or even increase spending in the face of reduced or perhaps zero gate receipts? Some owners are fiduciaries to their minority investors. Would it be a responsible decision to ignore the financial dynamics of todays environment simply because they had the wherewithall to acquire professional teams in the first place? Do they owe fans visibility into their financial situations because we don't believe they are spending as much as they should be on payroll? Should owners of privately held pro sports franchises be held to a higher accountability standard than owners of other private businesses?

One more thing.. you know why we don't "know" their situation financially? Because they keep their books closed intentionally so they can make these laughable claims. Owners refuse to actually prove what they claim because they can't. The onus is on them to justify their claims, not on me.

Give Ozuna, who teams feel is a DH, $100 million. Trade Vaughn. This is lunacy. Why do posters want the Sox window to be open as short as possible. We put up with losing to get guys like Vaughn, not to trade him away so the Sox can have their payroll locked and are one injury away fro 3rd or 4th place.

Oh darn, another LHP in the division

WSD also had the Sox hiring Katz before anyone else, and has been on call-ups in the past. He has info.

Right and the democratic members of Congress mostly would want to do things like ban chokeholds or create more jobs with social workers or psychologists, not defund police forces. That kind of policy is horse shit that will never pass Congress.

If you refuse to take risks in the future because of past mistakes, you're choosing a different way to lose. The free agents you referenced all had significant warts and were not considered top of the market. Bauer just won the Cy Young and has put up #1 or #2 starter numbers for at least the last 3 years, and IMO more like 5. He's going into his age 30 season, so a 6 year deal (which is more than I'd like to see but likely what he'll sign unless he actually does the 1 year deal thing) would give you his age 30-35 seasons, which should provide value given the caliber of pitcher being signed. This is the "one piece away from a championship" move, and IMO the Sox are.

Fire Pace. Fire Nagy. I've seen more than enough.

Fire everyone

Mitch doing Mitch things. Yet the moron who traded up for this future Canadian league QB is still employed.

Phillies lost an est $145M and have limited spending prospects at this point. You could expect a team like the Sox might sign one guy and cry poor.

Nonsense! How do we know the guy with the day old twitter account isn't telling the truth?!

He should send a gift basket to the Bears front office every year for not drafting him and ruining his career.

Vaughn is not a prospect you extend early. That's asking for a Sean Kingery situation. Vaughn is also not someone who you say "Oh, we can't block him". He's a good prospect, that's it at this point. With that stated, Joc in RF and SP is the way to go for me. I think it will give you the largest ROI for next season.

No disrespect to Harold but does he even have a track record as strong as Portillos? Portillos has a few moves under his belt with extreme specificity. We constantly believe all these board members with sources but look down on others who post burner accounts? WSD had the same info as not Cishek at the deadline and both were wrong yet we go crazy when he tweets. Rabbit or Macsaendz or whatever their names are haven’t gotten anything in forever but if they pop up with some vague crap we go nuts. I don’t get it. We either ban all burners and insiders or we allow the posts until they are proven wrong. IMO

What’s hilarious to me is the twitter accounts in question get analyzed for days, yet Harold will post something on here and it barely gets a response. Maybe he should change his name to Harold’s Chicken, and more people would pay attention.

Yep that’s me. What’s going down Yearnin’ for Yermin?

What do you mean? You think rodon's wife's opinion matters? I'm confused why this is the worst you've read when 1/3 of the posts are believing some food themed twitter post has any grain of truth.

Absolutely one of the dumbest things I've read on this site in a while, but then again I don't see most of your posts. ?

They talked about pasta. Tim said his wife makes pasta when he hits home runs. Tony says he likes the spaghetti at the American Legion during a hard night of drinking. Tony said that sometimes he has the maid order Olive Garden via GrubHub but there have been occasions in the past where after about 8 beers and a couple lectures to the maid about what an embarrassment and a disgrace she is to him, the maid ended up leaving and going home, leaving Tony with his phone trying to figure out how to use it. He can't work those app things. So that's why he always keeps a couple cans of Chef Boyardee on the counter so that way he's always got a good meal in case he's hungry and too wasted to find to car keys. Sometimes the damn pull tab breaks off and he can't get the can open normally, but when that happens he just pounds away at on the floor with a roofing hammer like a caveman. Eventually it opens enough to shake out the raviolis. They also talked about family. Tim says he has a happy marriage and beautiful children. TLR said his wife a something-something and his children have always been a disgrace. Nobody's ever done anything for him. All of the things they have in life is because of him. They should be more thankful.

I am fairly certain The Supremes want no part of these court cases. Their role is discretionary.

My sentiments exactly.

Crazy indeed.

Come on, simple look at stats would show you Springer would have the best K rate besides Madrigal on the team last year from the main guys.

Somebody get Ray Ray a body bag, because CaliSoxFan just murdered him!

Ok Mr. Know-It-All . Perhaps you are the attorney that can prove collusion beyond a shadow of a doubt. A least I can admit I am ignorant whereas you seem to know every teams financial status and that owners are conspiring to hold down salaries. You're just an armchair quarterback like the rest of us with an over inflated opinion of your own opinion. You may have the last word on the subject.

If he's going to milk the pandemic excuse as a pretext to go cheap for another offseason id rather go with Joc ona 1 yr deal and use up whatever money we do have to use on a SP instead. But I thought I saw somewhere that TLR said if he was going to manage he wanted JR to promise he would spend what it takes to win?

Ozuna is not a fit on this roster. He can’t play defense and hits from the wrong side and blocks our best prospect.

Ozuna is not a fit on this roster.

So the Sox aren't interested.