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Convincing people he didn’t fail terribly in his previous role

Getz's biggest accomplishment was convincing JR he was the person for the job.

Drinking seems to be the best way to tolerate this team.

Would love to know just how bad it has to get for him to lose his job. If they threaten the loss record again, you have to make a change. He’s shown no ability to scout professional talent.

Couldn't this just go in the pre-existing Getz bashing thread?

They started 4-16 last season and 4-22 the year before, so honestly 4-8 barely registers to me. The pitching was fine enough, look moderately less hopeless with RISP and it shouldn't take them another two weeks to find win #5 like it did last year. Teel and Pereira should be back by then if nothing else, and they'll be past the service time cutoff for Antonacci and company. too

The idea that it takes time to change things organization wide buys him endless time....and why does the MLB club still have to suck? If he cannot evaluate MLB talent that is a big damn problem.

hopefully Ishbia will be sitting in the front row with a sell the team sign

Baseball feels like an especially unfortunate sport to play as a public masturbator.

I see these jokes are just gonna keep on cummin.

Nice stroke by McGuire

Makes plenty of sense to me. He's been terrible. Let him work on getting his confidence and stuff back in AAA. If it works, and he remains a useful starter, you just bought a year of control. If it doesn't work, it certainly wasn't going to work against big league hitters. Sox absolutely have to work on the fringes with player control, until they don't. And that isn't happening until JR is out of the way.

I thought this was going to be an invite to tag along. I'm not going to share my experience now.

Their outfield plan of Baldwin/Hays, Acuna and Pereira sucked. Pretty sure it was rated the worst in baseball coming into the season.

Exclusive entry to the pre-game Crawl beginning at 11:30 p.m. (Crawlers only until 1:40 p.m.) Please note, you must enter the Stadium by 1:00 p.m. to participate in the Crawl. Sheesh, 11:30 pm until 1 PM the next day!!

Gabe Davis might be a dude.

Another great Getz accomplishment is being such a great company man that Jerry let him fail upwards to the GM position.

Like I’ve said in the past, a monkey throwing a dart at options to choose from to decide on them likely could do as well as Getz has.

I can’t believe some predicted this team to win at least 75 games.

We stinks

Have a game Chase

Would it have been any worse than what they got?

Why is the guy who lead your team in home runs last year on the bench again?

When Derek Hill is your late inning PHer, the roster makeup probably isn't a winner.

Duke Newcomb with a clean inning.

As someone said earlier, no excuse for Sosa not to be in the lineup somewhere. This looks like a split-squad lineup.

You think Reese would have a stickier glove

I’m probably in the minority, but I absolutely hate the ABS thing. It takes on way too central a role in the game. Just have the strike zone totally automated.

they're also bad at scoring runs, as well as playing defense oh and coaching, oh oh and managing a bullpen don't get me started on building a professional baseball team

Is it me or is McGuire a better catcher than Quero right now

Is "inflammation of the ERA" a valid IL stint?

After the way the Sox stint went, I am going to guess Gio would rather retire than come crawling back to Jerry.

He told 2025 Burke to hold his beer

Front offices aren’t making decisions in the present based on assumptions of what could potentially change in the next CBA. They will continue to manage their teams under the current rules.

As the Forbes article points out, the Sox rank 30th in terms of revenue generated and well below the 29th team. They're bringing in significantly less money than the Marlins, Rays, and homeless A's. Think about that for a second, teams like the Marlins and A's are bringing in more money than the White Sox. As a fan worried about the future viability of this franchise, I find that very disturbing It's not hard to believe they lost money this decade with Covid and trying to start up a new RSN that carries 3 crappy teams, but where would they bring in the money to pay down that debt? Attendance is near the bottom of the league, TV revenue is down, I can only imagine sponsorship revenue has cratered, they don't get the revenue sharing that small market teams do. The economics of baseball have changed. There was a time when it was profitable for JR to play in a stadium where he paid little to no rent and got to keep the parking revenue. That's no longer the case. Teams that are making enough money to have huge payrolls are doing so through developments around their ballparks like The Battery or Gallagher Way, high attendance, and the teams with massive fan bases can still bring in a lot of money through their TV deals.

Doesn't this put in line for a Schultz call-up? I think it would be 1 day past the service timeline should he start for Smith. No idea where hes at in terms of IP

Not sure you're getting more then 3IP out of Schweitzer his first time out so if the goal was to save the bullpen in the next few starts pretty sure you just did the opposite. I'm hoping the MLB pitching staff is like a revolving door with Charlotte. Keep shuffling everyone with options until they make an undisputable case for a MLB job. Fedde should be cut within a month and if Kay isn't giving you quality innings then it's time to try him out of the pen.

His fastball command was still terrible yesterday and he’s killing the bullpen, might as well give him a start or two in AAA to iron out the issues in a low pressure environment. Don’t hate it.

If you can explain to me how the White Sox would have taken on a newer ownership investment to pay off operations debt without accruing any operations debt, I will listen. Until then, yes I believe it, considering Ishbia was brought in early to pay off the money the Sox have spent the last 6 years losing.

If Sam Presti called up Michael Reinsdorf and said "I want to run the Bulls" do you really want Reinsdorf's response being "Only if Billy can be your head coach?" If Presti says no to that, you're eliminating Presti from contention?

Doe anybody believe the White Sox have lost money the last 6 years? I'll believe it when JR opens the financial books to the public, which he won't do.

Shortest opening day starter to sent down timeline ever

It’s absolutely wrong to force a coach on a gm. That’s not casting a wide net, that’s eliminating people by placing a qualifier on the hire. I like Billy and I would like him to stay but if a new GM came in and said he wants to clean house, I would let him do it and not say “well you can’t choose a HC”

As a much bigger Sox fan than I am a Bulls fan, I'm just thankful that it's not the White Sox that the Reinsdorfs want to keep in the family.

After he gets fired in a decade and people blame him for everything.

As you can see in the tweets above, Michael Reinsdorf had a very awkward and nervous press conference where he both admitted they needed to do things better but also pointed out that their process is solid and they know what they are doing, already putting out there if you don’t like Billy then don’t bother. It just wasn’t a very confidence-inducing talk with The Chairman jr

You realize your entertainment isn't more important than player development, right?

It's 5 days. Who cares

Also, it would have been a great time to have played Lenyn Sosa in LF this spring to see if he could handle it so you could also still have his bat in the line up. Cant' wait to see Benny back out there every day.

Here's the problem; we have been talked in to the idea that THIS is how you attract companies (not just sports franchises) as a community. Every city of a reasonable size, and every county and state have Economic Development teams whose entire existence is to hand out incentive packages in the form of tax incentives, and other cash prizes, to businesses to "attract" them to move into a community. Companies use this communities against each other to improve these dollar amounts and awards. Even the trillion dollar plus market companies like Amazon engage in these games to get themselves more subsidies. Look the myth of the welfare queen is out in popular culture, but there is no bigger welfare queen in America than the billionaire. Sports team owners are no different than Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, or any of the other CEOs out there getting paid by taxpayers to make their billions somewhere else.