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Bro the mopes you're yelling at have been living and dying with this franchise for decades. We know what the Sox' median season is. We know what the spreadsheets say. Like, focus on some positives sure (even I have) but just don't yell at people not blowing sunshine and rainbows before the season even starts.

Comrade, I've been online for awhile. See, I didn't name myself after the first White Sox team I was ever aware of like you did. I have been called a Ron Schueler lover, a KW stan, a Rick Hahn fanboi, and now that I have a Getz obsession. I'm a White Sox fan. I don't follow them to shorten my life by decades like you do. I just follow them. I don't try to make people feel like sh*t for being positive. That's malarkey. I'm not really aware of this type of fanhood. You like a team, so you attack everybody who thinks players on that team will do well? Even when they have track records of doing well? I thought you were factually based. Sounds like you are too emotional to follow this sport. I don't think you've ever done anything patiently.

I had season tickets for 30 years. I hope they win every game they play. Last year when they hired Pedro, I was fired up. He seemed perfect. Turns out the guy was a fraud. He is awful. Then JR finally comes to his senses and fires Hahn and KW. He doesn’t search for a perfect replacement, he hired Getz because he said Getz knew the organization and he couldn’t waste a year. I liked his first trade. It’s somewhere on this site if you don’t believe it, but after that, and until the Cease trade, which again, I thought was pretty good, I gave a B grade, all he acquired was and is crap. This will be a wasted year. They are terrible. Not even trying. Call me a whiner. I consider myself an educated consumer. I was sold a bill of goods. I won’t be fooled again. The organization is full of bullshitters, and it starts at the top.

I’m sorry, the card says Moops.

Why do they have to be “whiners”? Does anyone call you a “stupidly over-optimistic homer”? I get the impression that @Lip Man 1 is a long lifetime Sox fan who has lived through Jerry’s entire awful reign and longer. The same owner who has done nothing with the Bulls since Jordan left because it’s a money maker. Perhaps you should listen and learn from your elders. But do what you want.

Can I take the under on July? Once most of Getz’s acquisitions are DFA candidates by July that he keeps hyping up as having promise, he won’t be posting much at all.

Am I the only 1 that still can’t get over how horribly the Oscar Colas situation has gone? In 1 calendar year we went from having a top 100 prospect who was too good to leave in the minors, to signing scraps late in spring to play over him. Was Colas that immature/unprofessional? Just seems like Getz and crew made it apparent that Colas was never going to get a shot at the RF job from the beginning. And I’m not saying Colas has really earned anything, but with the state of this organization doesn’t it make sense to just give him a shot to bounce back?

@Dick Allenis not a guy that has a history of puffing up the Sox. For some reason, that seams to be your reason to exist here. Like just calm down a bit it's only March 23rd. By July, there's like an 80% chance we're 10 under and your account will be deactivated. If we're not? Well, crow then. There's only so many strawmen people can knock down in the meantime.

For good reason. Haven’t you been going on and on for weeks about the Sox giving Pillar $3M? Now they release him and that’s an issue too?

You take spring training way too seriously. I hope Nastrini is good pitcher, but chances are he won’t be all that good in the major leagues in 2024. Command isn’t the greatest.

Shouldn’t White Sox hitters be taking advantage or does this only happen to White Sox pitchers? At so,e point, and now, in spring training, I understand why you don’t want to, you’re going to have to realize they aren’t as good as most teams. And that they suck.

There's a webcast: https://www.mlb.com/video/cws-sea-spring-training-webcast-91983

That was my favorite part... ranting about someone who had already been released.

Sox wasted a lot of at bats with Moose and Pillar.

“Paul DeJong sampled a Bong” sounds like the start of a Humpty Dumpty style poem

My earliest personal memories of the Sox go back to 1960 when I was five years old. This season will be my 64th as a fan and Sox historian. I hope to outlive current ownership and see better days for this franchise.

It’s pretty frustrating we kept the same 101 loss manager and hire an unqualified yes man to not “waste a year” and they are in fact, wasting this year anyways. Like wtf.

Gotta love how the only way to “save” a JR-owned team is by trading their best players, rather than resigning them. JR is an embarrassment to competition. It’s too bad he didn’t just stick to real estate. Having an owner that just wants to make money rather than win is the worse possible scenario as a fan.

Great. He has 27 games at AA with an ERA over 4, 4 games at AAA last year also with an ERA over 4. Send him to AAA and call him up when he starts impressing. Thanks for agreeing, entire career makes it obvious.

That’s the title of my debut rap album. Out next Friday.

This should be the takeaway.

There is no reason to move Colas right now. He could literally spend the next 2 seasons in Charlotte before the Sox HAVE to make a decision on him in ST 2026. He’s an extremely talented guy - let’s see what happens before just cutting him loose or trading him for pennies on the dollar. There are all sorts of personalities across baseball. To say Colas shouldn’t be allowed in the Charlotte clubhouse is pretty over the top imo.

Stop trying to make me hate Caitlin Clark

Paul DeJong sampled a bong. Paul DeJong sampled all game long. All Pedro's coaching and all Jerry spent, couldn't make Paul DeJong FAST again.

Well, Dejong is NOT going to embarrass the White Sox and us fans by . . . . Repeatedly get suspended by the league Act like a bad ass then get knocked on his butt in a fight Slap a teammate be disliked by his teammates to the point that no one cheers when it's announced he make the all-star team make us watch and wait as an opponent checks and overturns a double play because he missed stepping on 2nd base . . again have countless errors repeatedly get picked off base Dejong is not going to be Tim - building my brand means more than wins - Anderson. For that reason alone, I expect the Sox to be better, maybe only slightly better, but better. But they will be significantly easier to watch.

Sox would have to take on the 3/$19M he is owed. No one is claiming that.

I mean if you are going to catch feelings over Pillar, you should expect that to also generate discussion.

Or stop going to games. Or stop watching the team. Or stop following the team and spazzing out over every non-move. I gotta say I didn't think that the release of Pillar would hurt feelings outside of the Pillar household, but here we are.

How about that 12 innings in spring training isn’t a good way to make a decision about whether or not a guy is ready for a callup?

I've never claimed they're better than all the other teams. Just because I'm not constantly whining about every single development, and tying it all back to Jerry Reinsdorf demanding that every player suck so he makes money - doesn't mean I don't acknowledge reality. Are you suggesting that Nastrini forgot how to pitch today? Or that he sucked all along, and he's been lucky up til now? At some point, the glum crowd are going to realize that they sound ridiculous when they pretend that even good things are bad.

With Cease traded away and the decision to cut both Pillar and Moustakas loose, Getz has saved Jerry $13 million. Getz won’t be getting fired. He probably just got an enthusiastic pat on the back from Jerry.

They absolutely should give him a chance to earn his spot back at some point. But I have no issue making him earn it. He was dreadful in 2023 and obviously didn’t earn any respect from the coaching staff or FO.

DeJong is making like double the minimum. If he’s a 1 WAR player, that’s probably a win. Dallas, on the other hand, got paid.

I'd probably throw Mendick out in RF before Eloy.

I'm very surprised I didn't see Thorpe in their write-up. If you can't include the Minor League Pitcher of the year from last season as a top pitching prospect then I have to question the Sox rank. He's definitely among those less than 2 years away which was their criteria. And they talked about the Cease trade in the Padres write-up. So unless they did the worse teams 1st before the Cease trade and the Padres after the Cease trade , they have no reason to exclude Thorpe. Sox would have ranked higher than the Mets and tied with 2 other teams if their score was 1 higher. So theoretically they could be been ranked higher.

The fact that they haven't been able to leverage financial flexibility into tangible assets doesn't mean it's still not valuable. The purpose on an exercise like this is to quantify value. Having money to spend is very valuable.

Oh, I get it. You haven't been watching baseball for that long, so unless you can recognize names, like Ohtani, Messi, LeBron, or The Queen of England, you have no idea if they're good at baseball or not. Actually, Brebbia has faced live hitters yesterday, or today. The days blend together. I understand your philosophy. You don't think the White Sox will be competitive in the next few decades. Conversely, you don't think the White Sox should sign or keep any players who won't be on their next championship team. Since you don't think the Sox will be Champions in the next 40 years, and none of those players have been born yet, you think the white Sox should just put posters of drawings of baseball players in the field for the next 40 years. That's untenable. But you have the weirdest way of telling me I'm right and that you agree with me. Thanks.

That’s absolute trash to anyone that isn’t a homer. Kopech has no idea where the ball is going and two of the other guys are rejects from last year’s team that didn’t perform. Brebbia, your setup man, has yet to face live hitters due to his calf injury. For the most part ,who the f*** are you kidding?!? Touki is garbage and shouldn’t even make the team as a long reliever. What fucking dimension do you watch baseball in that you think some of these scrubs are good?

100% ok with DeJong now if we call his home runs bong hits

Iowa State women with the second biggest comeback in NCAA history. Down 20 in the first half to MD...win by 7. Middle Tennessee State overcame an 18 point deficit to take out Louisville...have won over twenty in a row now. LSU in Baton Rouge next up. Down goes Bruce Pearl...Auburn losing to Yale biggest upset on men's side so far today.

Like you?

The bong line might be the funniest fucking thing I've read about the Sox since Getz took the reins

Doing everything they can to not see Gavin Sheets in the OF or on this roster. I love it.

That's Pedroball baby!

All these dude's flat-out competing and they're still adding on March 22

Are the Padres at home? We were told their gun is slow by 4 mph so that would mean Cease is throwing 101.

I think we will look back on this trade in 10 years and all agree it was an A+ return when Zavala ends up being a legit star posting .400 OBPs year after year with 25+ bombs per and Thorpe has made 200 (mostly quality) starts for us.

I doubt Pedro makes it to August. Don't you just love it when the manager is both stupid and arrogant?