WestEddy

2029? That was thoroughly laughed at. "How dare anybody think this team will be competitive this decade?!? 2030, at the earliest."

That's good, because I don't really need to be taken seriously by people who start screaming for the GM to be fired who has this team competitive 4 years ahead of the schedule that was rammed down everyone's throats, here. No, Castillo hasn't worked out, Doyle hasn't set the world on fire, Bart got injured quick, and Brazoban has been ineffective. I was underwhelmed by the TDL. At the time, I said it looked like they overpaid in every deal. But that's supply and demand. I'm disappointed about all 4. As an adult, I can understand what they were trying to do. The 2nd half collapse didn't stem from a bad TDL. The offense all fell in a slump for weeks, and the pitching looks gassed. But hey, let's all look at who caught fire after the TDL and declare those are the guys we should have traded for. By trading less. Great fucking analysis. If you'll excuse me, I'm going to go hold this front office accountable by pouting like a tired 4-year-old whose mom cut his cheeseburger all wrong.

I agree. People need to take a break.

Usually, most people understand that a question mark at the end of a sentence shows that a question is being asked. Liptak seems to be inferring that the people who don't get so enraged they're still able to function must be on this site 24/7.

Why are you including his average on the season? Is Chris Getz now responsible for his stats on another team? Do teams usually send hitting coaches to other teams to coach up the players they will eventually trade for? That's an outlandish claim.

Not sure what these numbers are. A lot of people here were lecturing us for a good year or more that this team would not even be "competitive" until 2030, at the earliest. So, I think you meant to say: predicting 5+ more seasons of horrible records, knowing that's excessive = Genius

Show me the lie in that. They thought they could tap into his previous offensive success, and they appear to be doing that.

I suppose I'm labeled a "defender", and I was around last night. Do I have a duty to sit here, read and respond to a bunch of people yelling for the manager and GM that have this team a good 4 years ahead of schedule (by some people's claims, here) - to be fired? I don't know what your understanding of a normal employment agreement is, but a GM works for the owner, and every owner "allows" their GM to work under the rules and budget laid out for them.

Victory? They made a trade, and it looks like whatever changes they've made are working.

He sure looks like he's had an impact over the last week. I get that you need to portray everything as "worst ever", but the Doyle trade wasn't quite the catastrophe it's been laid out as.

It relates because you called it "literally" (which means actually true, not metaphoric, or using hyperbole) one of the worst trade deadlines of all time. Doyle has improved with the Sox, and depending on what's up with Tristan Peters, that move looks fairly prescient. Getz saw a lack of depth and brought in one of the best defensive CFers in the game. You need to move that one over the the win column.

They have Doyle hitting .250 since his arrival while playing elite CF defense. Sometimes knowing what you can do and then executing does look like arrogance.

Which part did you like best? The part that said that it's "faulty thinking" to be able to emotionally bear missing the playoffs, or that Getz shouldn't have gone all in, just make a slightly, incrementally better trade that would have been insanely successful beyond our wildest dreams?? like, how are people demanding we not "accept this collapse as tolerable" even find themselves able to post? They should be in the middle of the street screaming themselves hoarse until the neighbors have them forcibly committed, like they demand happens to us who understand the relative unimportance of sports in our lives.

Kenny Williams' 2005 deadline was picking up a utility infielder whose OPS+ was 33 in his 99 regular season at-bats. Literally. Worst of all time. LOL.

At least we hold the tie-breaker with Detroit.

I think we can extend the Braden Montgomery experiment.

Get back out there and give your family ice cream headaches.

You just can't stop.

Oh, God!!Chris Murphy!! Pay him a lot more, then cut him. Then fire everybody!!

Sorry, I'll join in, bitching about every single pitch like I would do better.

Go back and read.

Actually, I've been making the same argument for 3 years, now.

Sure. But some people are angry that this mostly pre-arb team isn't carrying the highest payroll in the game, like that's something to dunk on this year.

Okay, if Reinsdorf brought the payroll up to $250M+, they'd win every World Series going forward. I'm on board.