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Plenty of veggies in the helmet nachos. It's basically a health food

Good for Jason. He deserves it. Hopefully when we get to a new ownership in a few years, the club will stop going out of its way to alienate good employees.

Eh, Schriffen is better. I heard he has a big offer on the table to do play-by-play for Slamball again.

I'm coming around to the thought that the White Sox aren't repeatedly marketing Robert and failing, but they made the decision that he's the best option as their CF, and if another team wants to change their plans, it's going to cost them.

Doesn't sound like much to me.

JR driving him away and replacing him with someone who is highly unqualified doesn't impact the play on the field, but it sure typifies how he has run this organization over the last two decades. At least when the decade is out, our team should be under new ownership. When Pope Leo throws out the first pitch at the new ballpark, I don't expect Schriffen to be there unless he bought a ticket to the game.

Yeah, now that the Sox have the *checks notes* 4th lowest payroll in baseball after the Murakami signing, they must really be all-in!

Good for him. I wasn't at much of a fan until his replacement showed up.

I've got a new diet staple then next season....Cuban Comet Sandwich and a Helmet full of nachos. Thank you, Doctor.

The only vegetable i've ever seen at Sox park is a grilled onion.

I didn't mind watching Benetti get a little sloppy on occasion. Nothing wrong with that at a baseball game. Plus it provides good contrast from Stone acting like he would light up in flames if he even came in contact with a piece of food in the booth.

January 6, 1964 – The White Sox revealed their new road uniforms, a bold powder-blue that departed from traditional gray. The South Siders thereby kick-started a road uniform look that lasted for two decades across Major League Baseball. The base powder blue had navy blue accents trimmed in white. January 6, 2005 - Needing catching help, Sox G.M. Ken Williams took a gamble and inked catcher A.J. Pierzynski to a free agent contract. A.J., who had a reputation as a ‘clubhouse cancer’ turned out to be a model teammate and his contributions to the 2005 World Series champs, would be incalculable. Sox announcer Ken “Hawk” Harrelson pitched A.J. to the front office since he knew him for a number of years (both lived in Orlando, Florida) and got the organization to take the chance. Two of the most memorable A.J. moments took place in 2005. The first came on June 18 when he hit an opposite field home run to cap a four run ninth inning as the Sox beat the Dodgers 5-3. The Sox were wearing 1959 replica uniforms for the game. The second and far more important moment, came on October 12, the second game of the A.L.C.S. With the Sox down a game to the Angels and tied in the ninth, Pierzynski struck out then started running to first base as former Sox player Josh Paul, the Angels catcher, rolled the ball back towards the mound thinking the inning was over. A.J. thought the ball hit the dirt and was trapped which required a put out at first base. Umpire Doug Eddings agreed and Pierzynski got the base. The play led to the eventual winning run, evening the best of seven series which the Sox went on to win in five games to get to their first World Series since 1959. Another 'classic' A.J. moment came on May 20, 2006 during a Cubs/Sox game at U.S. Cellular Field. Scoring the first run in an eventual 7-0 Sox win, A.J. got tangled up with catcher Michael Barrett and went back to touch home plate. As he was doing so, he bumped Barrett which resulted in the Cub player losing it and sucker punching him. Four players wound up being ejected in the fight. A.J. would play for the franchise from 2005-2012.

I have the impression he values loyalty over competence.

I wonder how Trump’s distraction war will impact the Venezuelan market. Obviously my thoughts are with the people of Venezuela, and baseball isn’t important right now, but I do hope that the players were able to make it out in time.

BA really likes Bonemer

https://awfulannouncing.com/nbc/jason-benetti-top-candidate-mlb-voice.html

They have Cole Young as basically their only 2B right now. Looking at the profiles there's a good shot that Sosa is the better player in 26, in what should be a contention window for the Mariners. I dunno, I'd argue you are never getting 9 WAR from a catcher again, and even regressing to a 4 WAR star puts them behind the 8 ball a bit. They need to try and improve.

I feel like there's a joke in there about some recent staff members....

Shocked that Harbaugh got the boot in Baltimore after all that he's accomplished. If the Bears hadn't already grabbed Johnson, I'd hire him in a second. He won't be unemployed for long.

Great for Jason. Anything that gets him away from Detroit more often.

Meanwhile, Jerry thinks it’s a negative thing for his sportscasters to get national attention. 🤣

I actually agree....but I couldn't resist

Yeah, I didn’t say anything about their payroll. And actually neither did the other guy. I was just making fun of the *checks notes* thing.

Whatever that means... If youre happy with the Sox payroll and think it signals an investment in winning then i can't help.

If I had imaginary notes I’d make them much more interesting.

This, after signing Murakami it really made no sense to trade Robert. And if the Sox were to trade him for an underwhelming return and he explodes with a new team, I’ll speak for myself, I’d be pissed because we all knew what his potential is.

Wow. I've so gotten into your head that you now think your thoughts are actually mine? LOL. Buy a guy a drink, first. The choice here seems to be that either Chris Getz and the entire White Sox front office are so completely in over their heads that they are regularly misjudging the market for Luis Robert, or Robert's their CF this off-season, and they'll move him for a non-trivial return. I can understand how breaking nonsensical narratives down to simple realities confounds you, since you're the one who has chastised the entire board for not being embarrassed enough that you thought Vinny Capra and Oliver Dunn are better players than Shane Smith because the Brewers rostered them while exposing Smith to the Rule 5 draft. I prefer to run with the explanation that requires fewer yoga classes for pretzel-shape twisting. Seriously, before you start typing "make it make sense", or "I'm just laughing at...", consider that for multiple trade deadlines and offseasons, the Sox have entertained trade talk for Robert, and wound up keeping him. A rational person might surmise that Getz looked at the offers and decided that plugging Robert back into CF is worth more to the team than the unsatisfactory package or return the market is offering. If you really think that Getz is receiving offers that are worth more than playing Robert, it's incumbent upon you to tell me something more about these offers you know exist instead of pretending to be laughing.

so wild to me that Quinn soured on Kliff. That offense still had juice despite the terrible injuries. I'm assuming him and Jayden stopped getting along or something? If I'm Joe Schoen I'm putting my keys in his hands.

I don’t know. It was a slippery slope. They kept him for too long without trading him but we all have hope that he can somewhat reproduce his 2023, but it just hasn’t happened. Betting on Robert is like going to a casino and expecting to win. You have high hopes at first but keep getting let down the more money you lose.

To me it seems that the Sox thought they would have an easier time trading him for prospects of value but no teams want to give up any decent prospects and they also want the Sox to eat a large part of his $20 million dollar salary. I doubt they want to keep him into the season and hope he raises his value considering how injury-prone he is but they may be forced to.

I hope so. They certainly shouldn’t give him away just for the sake of trading him. Like you said, he’s their best option in CF and I’d like to see what he can do with a clean slate in this new lineup between Colson and Murakami.

John Paxson punched a guy and because he was a 40th percentile or so GM kept his job for another half decade. AKME are one of the worst FOs in the NBA and there is zero talk of a hot seat. I realize Michael ostensibly runs the Bulls but this is a JR hallmark. He is extremely hesitant to put in the hard work to find better employees. He's been this way going on two decades.

I agree with them 100%. I've had him as the top Sox prospect since midseason. For me, he's their best-looking A-ball player since Colson.

Garfien had a good talk with Phil Nevin about why he came to the Sox and what he does.

A Robert + Leasure to the Mets trade could be interesting, but not for Luisangel Acuna.

I, for one, am shocked to hear WestEddy is coming around to the idea that Getz didn't misplay his hand and was actually right and in control all along.