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When you set 100 losses as acceptable you are part of a losing culture and part of the problem. f*** him for saying it and moreso for being okay with it.

It never ceases to amaze me how bad they are at PR/Media Relations. Just shocking levels of incompetence, but that checks out with the rest of the organization.

This is probably true but the choice was to give Sheets 500 PA or Colas and they went with Sheets and let him put up another negative WAR season. So they tried to shoehorn a DH that can't hit league average who is older than Colas and can't play RF, into RF rather than just play the actual RF in a throwaway season. Puzzling.

I don't think many in Chicago do have bad feelings for Justin. He's a good dude, got a pretty raw deal in Chicago but also just didn't develop the way they needed him to. Best case is Caleb is great, and so is Justin. Everyone wins. Plus, would love to get that 4th this year from Pitt.

No. Rowand hit 24 and 27 homers in two separate seasons. Fletcher would need Jose Canseco’s secret serum injections to sniff Rowand’s power numbers.

Yeah, we will definitely end up with someone else who has no other options. Or someone we had to convince into taking it who didn’t even want it (Ventura).

Unfortunately it is all to American with a long and nasty history behind it

Not to mention the roster roulette that Captain Panic was playing for a couple of months.

Until JR is gone this organization will be a 💩hole of unqualified people running the team top down.

My guess is that NBC Sports Chicago got some pushback from MLB.TV. 28/30 teams were allowed on pre/post game when the Sox were still blacked out. It became available about 4-5 weeks ago. I noticed it immediately (as did some of us other non-Chicagoans)

Huh, Mr Deer In Headlights at his into presser is a little surprised his team of washed up has-beens and never-were's is flirting with the modern era loss record. Good to know he is as dumb as he is bad at his job...

A little surprised. Heh

I remember hearing talks like this 10 years ago when he was 78, Everyone was all like: He can't have much time left right? Welp...

Incompetent people making incompetent decisions about other incompetent people. And what do we get? Incompetency. Amazing.

Maybe he's open to the manager position. What better person to manage a team of scrappy, slap-hitting players than him?

He's days away from turning 26 and he's not performing while repeating AAA. He's been terrible in majors in 300 PAs. He's a non-prospect.

Dumpster Fire Nachos?

Schriffen is going to be at Ultimate Fighting this week. he said the White Sox made a statement with yesterday's win. So clueless. Ultimate fighing, slamball, maybe the hot dog eating contest, a weekly college game... that is what he should be doing. Not MLB PBP for an unstacked team.

The team is also worse because you suggested trading for Dominic Fletcher instead of Jake McCarthy. Shut the hell up, Josh.

Are you serious? The Mariners are at least a .500 team right now (actually 73-71), have the 7th ranked farm system per Baseball America, and they are willing to spend money. If you were a quality manager, would you choose to sign with Jerry and the White Sox who are going to set the worst record in MLB history this season, are rumored to drop their payroll to $100 million this offseason, or the Mariners? Do you typically enjoy career suicide? Quite honestly, it’s hard to think of a worse team for a manager to choose than the White Sox. Also, the only manager Jerry was willing to pay big bucks anytime recently was his buddy TLR.

Nightengale is generally derided as a hack, until he writes a negative sentence about the White Sox, then he becomes Edward R. Murrow.

Katz surviving The Culling is nuts, hopefully the new manager gets to pick his own guys

This goes back to the idea of are Bannister and Katz really as good as they want us to believe? Nastrini, Iriarte, and Schuster are 3 great examples of guys who just did nothing to improve this year.

I didn't know you could walk more than 1 guy per inning, and actually wear a MLB uniform. But here we are.

Officially letting the Sox know, Nastrini ain't it. He makes Touki Touissant look like Greg Maddux with his control.

shocked that this is the first late inning PG against this team in 2024, how does Marcus Thames still have a fucking job lol

The fact that Chris refuses to play guys he traded for and developed in favor of meaningless veterans is such an indictment on his last two job titles.

Colas supposed lack of development is a pox on Getz previous role. As we know, this current stance shouldn’t surprise anyone. The White Sox always wait for their prospects to be totally ready before calling them up.

What a fucking loser.

This is why a portion of the people want to defund the police. A person like me never has to worry about a traffic interaction like this. Lots of my friends aren't so lucky. Hard to blame them for wanting major changes.

They are at least a Bachelor’s and Masters degree away. Hopefully not a Doctorate.

If you knew you’d be this bad, then why have so many of the acquisitions been for “near-ready” prospects or the awful Bummer deal?

Sorry it was actually 2 months. Just went back in my post history Sox pre/post was added Jul 1st. Start of this season 28 teams were available. https://www.mlb.com/live-stream-games/help-center/subscription-access-pre-post-game

Sox/ISFA already own the site of the original Comiskey Park. Build there and for God's sake, this time respect the Architect and Architecture of the original. Don't fvk up again My Savarice.

Nice quote, clown. Great job on your offseason and the trade deadline. Where is that improved defense and leadership? Oops…

Sprained MCL for Odunze, he is week to week

Can’t waste a year.

Again it must be so refreshing and mentally encouraging for any player to get out of this incompetent organization. Losing begats losing and given the state of the franchise you can understand why unconsciously guys just don't do well in this environment.

I'm glad to see they aren't rushing him into the lineup. I hate to laugh at someone's career drying up but how can you take this organization seriously?

Was it really? Well s%*#.

Terrance Mann in Field of Dreams. Talk about overcoming adversity in your life and becoming a true success.

Sizemore was SO FAR DOWN THE LINE that this still works as a springboard for him. He was literally on a $15 an hour internship with the D-Backs last season that he had to talk himself into, if he parleys this into a minor league manager position for a couple years or a base coach slot for some other team, that's a pretty solid move forward. You could literally think of him actually managing again in 5 or 10 years and no one would remember this, all he'd have to say in an interview was give it as an example of how a GM and manager should not work.

Seattle is a better situation by almost any metric. Stanton is a much better owner than JR. Dipoto and Hollander are far more favorable than the Sox “single decision maker” Chris Getz and the corpse of TLR. The Mariners have given out a contract over $100m, hell Julio is almost 3x their largest contract. Their average attendance in a smaller market is over 10k higher than the White Sox. They have actually made FA acquisitions like Nelson Cruz, Robinson Cano, Ichiro Suzuki. It’s a ridiculously better spot for any GM offered the job. We can also mention that Washington has no state income tax which is a pretty big deal for someone making a few million dollars when compared to Illinois. Chicago is a better city, that’s about it. However, Seattle is a pretty good urban city as well.

Getz will give up on Colas, non-tender him, then go somewhere else and put up .270/25/85.

Glad the Sox Cuban pipeline dried up. They’ve been so lazy with that s%*#. Maybe now they’ll scout the DR and sign 19 cheap prospects like all the other teams

I’ve been really disappointed with his bat. i follow college baseball and i was impressed what he did at Arkansas, he just hasn’t done it for the Sox. i personally think he takes WAY too many pitches. Also, he’s always behind in the count.

That's a lot of words that don't actually change any of the facts at hand. 1. Kopech flat out stated he wasn't listening to White Sox coaches. 2. Kopech is killing it in LA. I don't blame the Sox for that, I blame Michael Kopech for being uncoachable.

He's pitched 16.1 innings with the Dodgers and pitched 376 with the Sox. Do you really think he's any different? All it took was a week of a new coach? That was the difference between Kopech being a bust with the Sox, a former top prospect who crumbled for reasons we know all too well, and the best reliever in the game with the Dodgers? Some guy in LA making a couple good points? If it was so straightforward, couldn't he have done that earlier and potentially earned himself a lot more money? Maybe he'd even still be starting, right. Or could it simply be that it's not a very large sample size and variance in pitchers' performance is incredibly high? The "Lol Sox" narrative sort of overrides common sense. I would expect fans who follow the team closely over several years to know better than journalists who want to ride some popular narrative for the sake of their careers (dodgers good, sox bad, best of both worlds. double the ppc revenue). I'm glad Kopech is pitching well and I hope it lasts, I hope he becomes great. It's just a silly narrative to think after the fact that he had all this value. Personally I thought at the start of the season we could've gotten Jonathan India for him. That seemed like a reasonable trade for both teams. Or a player like that. Maybe Vargas is a player like that (neither are very good). Maybe Kopech returns to normal and he's not suddenly a pitcher who doesn't walk anybody or give up any home runs. Maybe it doesn't happen in the postseason the same way it did with Lynn. I'm gonna take the career averages on this one, frankly.

All Kopech had to do was listen to coaching, and he refused to do it here.

The trade was going to look lopsided no matter what we traded. Kopech sucked and we needed to move on. Everyone knew he would pitch better somewhere else.