WestEddy

Does nobody recognize that 4 offensive starters are on the IL?

Does the Sybaris now have WiFi?

It's just weird that everybody's like: "We should screw every player so we can have more control!!" "Jerry Reinsdorf's EVIL for not paying every single player the maximum of what they're worth!!"

Please make any sense, Holden.

How would Ed Herrmann, Ron Kittle or Ritchie Zisk respond to you calling them "retreads", just because they didn't win it all? I respect the s%*# out of your work, but you sure have no respect for the guys who play the game.

He was. If you thought he was going to be an All-Star, joke's on you. He's a 4th OF. When he starts, he'll be exposed, as I said when I "hyped" him. When you're running backups for 4 starters, the team will suffer. I guess Getz sHoUlD hAvE kNoWn that Kyle Teel would get injured in the WBC. I guess he sHoUlD hAvE kNoWn that Baldwin would hurt his elbow. I guess he sHoUlD hAvE kNoWn Hays would be injured 12 games into the season. I guess Getz sHoUlD hAvE kNoWn Pereira would sprain his ankle, and they'd all be out together 14 games into the season. Tristan Peters can hit a baseball sometimes, and he plays credible CF. He's a nice backup. So is Derek Hill. When they start, they get exposed. Acuña was supposed to be eased into CF. Oh well. Baldwin's out. Boo-hoo. Suck it up and be a man. Hays, Pereira and Teel will all be back soon. Ant-man will be up soon, as will McDougal. You want to screech about hype? Here's my prediction: Sam Zavala's playing in Chicago before Braden Montgomery, and you'll be on 4chan boasting about how your boyyyyeeeee Getz plucked Zavala out of San Diego's minor league system. Eat it Navy Brats!!!

And repeating meaningless bumper sticker slogans doesn't invalidate the good work the rotation had been doing this month. Getz did a great job with this group.

We're talking about the pitching staff. Did they change the rules where they get to hit again?

When they're winning, the Sox wind up in the top 5 for payroll. Which of their starters do you think they should be extending besides Cannon? Maybe Fedde should get 7/210 also?

Plan? Who cares? He's adjusting. And whatever he's doing, it's working well...

So why do you need the Sox to do more than what the rest of the league normally does?

They extended Lynn after Danks. I don't think they should be giving 10-year deals to pitchers, either.

The Sox were talking to Giolito, and it never got close. When the team was losing 100 games in 2023, do you think they should have started extending that core who could never string two good seasons together? The Sox figured out putting Lopez in the bullpen, then traded him. All of this is a distraction from the main point that the White Sox have extended their pitchers when they're winning, and to suggest they never do that is trollish BS.

You're not even making a point. Yes, they extended Lynn. Neither Kopech or Lopez warranted it, and Giolito and Cease were going to do free agency. Do you suggest they give Jon Cannon 7/200 just to say they did?

Then say that initially and stop moving the goalposts. You say s%*# you know isn't correct, then keep throwing sand to obscure your obvious error.

Looks like a Cannon start tomorrow

Not really an old friend, more like the blind date you cancelled the day before, and never looked back

Hooray!! We're saved!!

The best GM candidates have answers and strong opinions for all of these questions.

Both Sale and Quintana. Buehrle was either extended, or allowed to go to free agency and matched, once. Danks was famously extended. Floyd pitched past 6 full years for the Sox, and I'm sure one of them wasn't for free. They also had talks with Samardzija and Giolito; both were set on testing out free agency. Y'all carp on about "historically..." There is a precedent for the White Sox under JR for extending pitchers.

Yes there is.

No, you're projecting. I'm simply comparing this team to last year's 2nd half.

No. They lost 100 games last year, and the team in the 2nd half was night and day compared to the first half. If they wind up 62-100, and Hagen Smith, Schultz and McDougal are in the rotation? Mune, Colson, Teel, Ant-Man, Vargs, Meidroth, Quero and maybe Pereira or Acuña are productive, that's a great core to add to.

what do you mean dissected? Burke, Martin, Fedde and Kay all look fine. Venable said only the first time through was going be a ramping up period. I know you love to call everything Sox related a failure before it even gets started. The rotation will probably be Schultz, McDougal, Hagen Smith and 2 others by August. That was the plan. Paez was quickly jettisoned, and they have replacements. Shane Smith needs work, and they have a half dozen prospects at AAA to step in for him, not 38-year-old AAAA dudes. Really, you could certainly pretend that 4 positional starters getting injured 2 weeks in was bad planning. The rotation looks fine, and working as planned. That's called a good job of roster building.

Sure, but again, they're just trying to get to the point where the starters are getting stretched out and regularly going 5+ innings. Schweitzer, Davitt, those guys are fungible.