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Balta realizing Cease may indeed get traded for a haul

baseball_gal_aly realizing Cease may indeed get traded for a haul

Who’s excited to overreact to Cease’s start tonight

Head is amazing no matter where it comes from.

You're being overly generous. The Rosenthal Rangers package is hot garbage.

A bunch of wannabe KatyPerryBootyholes if you ask me!

Sir, this is Soxtalk.

No Jones no deal. F*ck 'em.

As mentioned, Preller and Cashman are in self preservation mode. Cashman has to blink (I hope)

The Rangers don't have multiple top 100 guys. Outside of Carter and Langford it's just Walcott. The package mentioned by Rosenthal is super underwhelming.

Do you actually believe someone at risk of losing their job would just sit by and do nothing? How does that make any sense to you?

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That Lynn trade is looking fantastic!

How it would impact the performance of the Sox is the last thing that should matter

Lost in the Cease drama tonight was Nastrini pitching 3 scoreless with 7 Ks. Not bad.

Balta gave me a contrary report and so this is bullshit.

The Cole injury concerns seem to have set off a flurry of rumors/activity. I see no rational reason why Getz would lower his ask now given that Cease has looked stellar in spring training. The demand seems to be there.

He mentioned the Padres. Huh

He's definitely not on the opening day roster. Capt obvious...............

Footlong Comiskey Assface tweeted that the Rangers are involved, but I hate that account so I'm not going to post a link.

I’d prefer Arias over Jones. There is easily a packed without Jones they could figure out.

Snelling or Lesko plus Head feels so much better than a Rangers package.

@Balta1701 - Where you at?

Isn’t Porter a backend 80-90 guy in most publications? yes, the rosenthal package is booty

I’d hope we’d hang the phone up fast

It’s like Poles likes the general idea of having cap space but not actually using it. Does anyone know if there’s a real time cap space tracker anywhere? Curious how much they have left because 2 yrs for Hunter, even at $24M per, is not crazy. (specifically the 2 yr part)

Don’t forget about wetbutt23.

McGuffey is not as baseball clueless as Chuck but he’s still pretty clueless if you listen to him on their podcast. He was on the Puig for RF hype train along with Chuck. They are both old school meatball fans, but at least they have the balls to rip the Sox a bit unlike most of the ass-kissing Chicago sports media guys.

No

Balta NERVOUS!

I'm really hoping Cease got scratched tonight, most just because it might indicate a trade, but if they are deep into discussions with anyone the Sox should take all precautions and protect their asset. If he pitches tonight then that would indicate to me that nothing is close.

Nope. They needed Cease or Snell before an injury. Cashman needs to make the playoffs or he's fired. They're clearly going all in (hence the Soto move)

Most starts in the league since 2020.

I know spring results aren't supposed to be indicative of regular season results but...you have to take some of it into consideration. I mean, they are 1-8 in the last 9 games. The team has to at least feel like what it means to win. I have a feeling this team will barely win 50 games. It will truly be a historically awful season.

All I know is this exact same group was running through walls, playing hard, and winning games when Ricky was here. A change was made and then started a slow, but consistently picking up speed, fall off until at some point everything just collapsed. Pick your poison as to how or why. Honestly it really doesn't matter. The well was poisoned and the tree died.

Right. Which is why the entire team, including himself, all regressed randomly at the exact time, despite having been just fine for years. Makes total sense.

TA definitely had a part in creating the toxic atmosphere. I'm glad he found a home, and I hope he has a nice season. But I am glad he's not playing for the Sox. I too have hope for the future. This year may be rough, but I think we'll see a more cohesive team with much less drama, laziness, and (bad) attitude. So many Sox fans love to spend their days looking in the review mirror, huffing and puffing, and shaking their heads in a "I told you so" manner every time a former Sox player hits a home run or strikes out a batter. I don't care about former Sox players when they're playing for the Marlins or the Braves or whoever. Out of sight, out of mind. I'm concerned about the current team...and bitching about their performance.

Tim Anderson WAS the toxic situation. His being gone (along with Fat Lynn and Grandal) is my main reason for hope this year and going forward.

Because if there’s any job in the world where you’re expected to have success and be evaluated based on that success…it’s GM of the White Sox?

Chuck works with and loves, Ozzie. Ozzie thinks and knows Pedro is a clown and probably tells Chuck that every night. This quote is ridiculous. If you have to do something, do it. Don't say you have to do it to a reporter. He's a joke, and everyone knows it except the White Sox front office.

Mark an X on the day TLR was announced and connect all of the dots until we reach last year’s catastrophe. Placing the blame or the majority of it at TA is certainly curious. Not saying he’s blameless, but the toxicity is bigger than one player’s terrible year personally and professionally.

I am starting to think there is a sector of Bears fans that are dumber than cub fans. What exactly was Poles going to do with Fields? People want to blame Getsy (I did). He got another job. So now we look at Fields. It appears that potentially nobody wants him. If that is the case, the Bears should not want him either. tht is wht is happening. That is not Poles fault. In actuality it worked out perfectly. They get a better QB than what was out there last year. Yes Stroud appears to be better than thought but they were not taking him at #1. Maybe Poles turned down a 3rd round or even a 2, we don't know. What appears to have happened is that all of football sees that Fields is a great athlete but maybe not an NFL QB and not one they are investing heavily in.

I mean, there's one thing that could make it less than a decade, but hard to schedule that.

Lack of leadership and mostly accountability.

We actually do have enough warm bodies in the rotation that trying him in the bullpen mid year is an option.

Loosely translated it means "I am sooooooo f'ing over my head in this job I'm just making s%*# up to sound remotely competent. Clearly, I've failed with this quote, I'll do better next time".

They should have replaced him on base with Maldonado. Remind him what actually being on base is like.