WestEddy

And if Maldonado has plans on being a manager, one day, he may just take the DFA and go be somebody's A-ball catching coach.

Okay, I'll agree with you. I don't know how stringent JR was on the budget. I do believe that the Sox were in such a bad position that they really had to overpay to bring in players. Benintendi probably should have been a 3-year deal, but I'm guessing they had to go to 5 to beat out another offer that wasn't even as good as their own 3-year offer. It was also a strange off-season that really reeks of collusion. They had offers on the table to guys like Pham and Clevinger for months.

I think when you put kids in this position, and there's no big veterans to carry them, they press, and start doing bone-headed plays. Shewmake and Sosa are going to be exposed. I'm surprised/not surprised that DeJong and Lopez are far and away the 2 best defensive players on the team.

Poor guy seems lost. Just the look on his face walking back from another strikeout. On a personal level, I feel terrible for the guy. Drop him down to AAA, just so he can feel what it's like to go on a bit of a tear, again.

Okay, then I'll do this. they say the jump from AAA to the bigs is the largest it's ever been. On top of that, our AAA facility is a bandbox that inflates offensive production, where guys like Colas, Chuckie Robinson, Lenyn Sosa and others look like viable offensive pieces - who show up at GRF, and proceed to hit .120. I almost think it would be as productive to leave Colson Montgomery and Quero at AA, let them hit .400, then promote them straight from Birmingham.

And replacing them with utility or AAAA guys exposed those replacements during an historic slump. If we had a guy in AAA who could step in, rake, and pick it with the best of them, he would have been in the opening day lineup.

And "poking the bear" was a lot of just making a comment, like, "I'm liking this bullpen", and getting clobbered. Which, again, is expected. There are people who show up to mock every single statement and move, and jump on every person who isn't negative. You called me or my comment a train wreck. When I give it back, I'm "getting personal".

If you're going to quibble with the word "stars", fine. Then let's say that Getz came in, saddled with 5 veteran players, all of who could have been expected to hit like major league baseball players, as they have in the past. And all 5 either got injured early, s%*# the bed, or both. And if somebody wants to jump in and start arguing that no, none of those players should have been relied upon, then you're only making a more sympathetic argument than I did, as they came into the season with 5 dead bodies they had to roster.

Great analysis. Fletcher's more exposed in CF than in RF. That's why CF play is more valued than RF. Fletcher has positive numbers in RF, negative in CF. I didn't like the Maldonado signing, but I didn't beat the pulp of that dead horse into liquid. I sure hope Getz set a date of reconning, after which, Grifol's fired, Vaughn is optioned, Benintendi is benched, Maldonado is DFAed, and they move on to the next stage of drowning.

Well, not having a "wait and see" attitude didn't really change anything, either. So my choices were to start screaming back in December, or figure out what or whom to root for. You do what you want, and I'll do what I want. Nobody's stopping you. I get lots of advice, here, of what I'm supposed to be thinking and feeling about this team, and why I should be apoplectic about each individual move. If that's what you're calling a train wreck, I sure hope Joe Biden shows up and comforts everyone.

Looking at the individuals, Maldonado, Benintendi and Vaughn are the worst full-time offenders. Fletcher's over-matched in CF, while he's adequate in RF. DeJong and Lopez are the team leaders. While Sheets is in negative territory at 1B, he's way better than Vaughn.

I would. I'm a fan who tried to have a "wait and see" attitude towards the moves that no amount of my sarcasm directed at the FO would change or reverse, and now I'm the face of the franchise, here. Even when trying to just let it drop, people are tagging me to drag me into somebody's sad metaphor attempt. That's fine. I'm happy to mix it up as a diversion. I'm not "embarrassed" by this start, I don't hate total strangers for not playing baseball good enough to make me feel better about myself. Sure, I'll curse at the TV, and all. It is frustrating when you just want to see a commanding inning.

Pedro seems resigned to being fired, just says the things he does after every single loss, knowing he has a landing spot as a Royals scout, or something. Usually, just seeing that their horrendous play has gotten people fired is enough to jolt guys into a bit of an attitude change. I don't even blame the "saying something stupid" on him. There's nothing to say. The only logical thing for Grifol to be saying after every game is really, "Why am I here?" WhiteSoxDave from barstool interviewed Getz in ST, then did a full interview with the 108 guys. His distinct impression was that if Grifol couldn't get anything out of Moncada, Jimenez, Benintendi and Vaughn, he'd be gone. If we're making up metaphors, you can't really kick the pilot out of the plane until one of the passengers has read up on the instrument panel so that air traffic control could talk him through crashing the plane into an open field.

Train wreck? That would apply to the White Sox, I'm not sure how it applies to people who don't collapse and cry on the floor over every single manager quote. Is that the opposite of a train wreck? A grown man rage-weeping because another grown man mumbled some incoherent BS about his losing baseball team?

And here you go, again. Did your "everybody sucks" proclamation also cover predicting Eloy's OPS on April 23rd? A .750 OPS would be a minimum expectation of an average major leaguer, which nobody but Gavin Sheets and Paul DeJong are above. I didn't cry and moan that those two should be instantly DFAed in January, so by your rules, I get to say I "predicted" their production, right?

I thought all you nay-sayers vowed to ignore me after the last dust-up. I guess I'm must-see-TV.

What about him? It's a desperate move, I agree. Have you heard about their terrible start to the season?

If that's the main thing you can see to pick on, then my work here is done.

And I didn't think the "pecker" comment would strike a nerve. We're all bigger than we were 12 years ago. Sorry. I'm 60

Yours is the ridiculous argument. Robert, Moncada and Jimenez are the "stars". You know, guys who could OPS .750. All three have been out at the same time, injured for a total of 11 games in 4 years. Yes, all three are injury prone. I'm not sure what point your making. They suck because they get injured?

ok...

I would remind you that 3 stars were all out, injured after 10 games, and 3 other veteran hitters were OPSing their credit scores, but that would require the Admins to shut down the string while they clear off all of my patient, intelligent corrections of all of your melt-downs.

Funny when a guy who last saw his pecker in the flesh during the first Obama administration mocks actual athletes in a slump. You complained about everything, you didn't predict anything. Big difference.

Says the guy who can finally file his own EZ tax form due to the ad revenue I'm generating off of clicks. You could just say thank you.

...but I'm the troll.