WestEddy

Nightengale is generally derided as a hack, until he writes a negative sentence about the White Sox, then he becomes Edward R. Murrow.

It's funny that you think Romy Gonzalez would have a .770 OPS with the White Sox.

I actually found one, but I'm not telling anyone.

We're on the same page, Ralph Wiggum.

Love how you guys misrepresent something, then complain that you get called out on it.

Read the string. It was in response to a guy saying the Sox had to start spending this off-season. I replied that the Tigers made some big signings, but that I don't think the Sox are at that point. It's almost like, if I'm saying such outrageous stuff, admins wouldn't have follow me and pretend I'm saying really outrageous things.

Wow! Seven consecutive games. That sounds like a lot.

I told you? LOL. The question at the time was to guess win totals.

I carry water for logic. Seriously, you wrote way too much about the White Sox not replacing a .550 OPS hitter with another .550 OPS hitter from AAA for 7 games. Did you know that The Taliban just outlawed the sound of women's voices in public in Afghanistan? There's something to get pissed about. Not flying another shitty infielder to Chicago to help carry the equipment back into the clubhouse after another loss? Not so much.

And I've seen people who just scream about every single move, and attack anyone that doesn't match their rage because they're miserable - thousands of times across multiple platforms. And when those players we've been waiting on figure it out, they become "their guys", like the complainers scouted, developed and pay them. It's like we're all working off of templates.

Everybody's pissed off at this team right now. I rewatched the last out of yesterday's game, so I could flip off the TeeVee and get my own rage out. It really sucks. People are sniping at anybody taking a "wait and see" attitude, even the FutureSox guys who have a little more insight, I think. Nobody is saying "fans are wrong to be mad". It's the insane misrepresentations and admin stalking that has just gotten bizarre.

Nobody suggested that.

It seems like there was a general purge of scouts around the game this summer. I think the Nationals cleaned house of "highly respected" long-time scouts.

Yeah, right after the Tigers' horrible 2003, they added Ivan Rodriguez, Carlos Guillen, and an injured Magglio Ordonez. They then signed Kenny Rogers for the 2006 season. Pudge and Magglio bought into the FO vision right away. I don't know if Getz has that going for him, right now. The Sox might want to go another season sorting through the top end of their system to see who can actually play the game, first. Maybe if they get a hitting development team in place, they can take a flyer on 3-4 guys who may need fixing, like they did with Fedde, Flexen, Soroka this year.

They've sucked at pro scouting. I think they had Hostetler doing pro scouting this season. Time to upgrade.

Yeah, nobody's saying Chris Getz was a star but you. Okay. I'm done.

If you "admitted JR's press conference was a joke", then it wouldn't come up as the basis of every single argument. This is the first year of a rebuild. I get it that you're surprised that the first year of a rebuild could result in a bad record. It gets tiresome laying out the same argument of what Getz was left to build from this season, comments about how free agents avoided the team because of bad defense/clubhouse rumors, etc - only to have you ignore them the next time you decide to start this all up again. The fact that Getz is revamping international scouting, and all the development systems as GM says to me he was stopped from doing that under Hahn/KW. You don't like Getz, because Jerry Reinsdorf lied in a press conference. Period. So you spend your days criticizing every single move multiple times to keep a narrative alive.

Dude, I really don't see the point of this comment. Getz is the GM. I have an unwavering attitude attitude of "wait and see" in the face of people like you whining that I'm not joining you in having a good cry. We're in the first year of a rebuild. I choose to not whine like a man-baby. Zavala was an example of the White Sox becoming able to develop the defensive side of a catcher's game. What has Getz done? Revamped pitching development. It sure looks like he's cleaning house, which is what every Sox fan has been screaming about for the last ten years. Please tell me why I shouldn't just ignore your comments, going forward. You seem to have a chip on your shoulder towards me, and regularly misrepresent what I say.

Ho hum. JR's press conference. I suppose you'll always have that for rage bait. LOL. And there you go, avoiding answering a reasonable question with diversions. You love your tiny sample sizes when they support your "JR said something untrue at a press conference" narrative. Good thing Getz didn't grab up Michael A. Tucker and Canaan Smith-Njigba to take this team to the World Series Reinsdorf apparently promised us this year. U funny.

Dude, $60 million was tied up in 4 players Getz never signed. Getz wasn't the GM for the 2023 season. You're just throwing dishonest BS at the wall. You don't write a check, throw it on the field , and that check wins games. Benintendi, Robert, Yoan, and Eloy proved that. And Getz didn't even "spend" that money. I get it. You hate Chris Getz, and will torture every single fact, even if it doesn't really fit, just to trash the guy, and keep on pushing your narrative.

The conversation was that nobody traded a top 100 prospect this deadline. The Cards wouldn't even part with Jordan Walker, who is high ceiling, but has shown about as much as Vargas has in the bigs. I don't know how long it will take for Vargas and Fletcher to grow into the roles Getz envisioned for them. You seem to expect them to plug in and be .300/.400/.500 hitters, or else they're garbage. And you've already admitted you're being harder on every move and player because you hate Getz, so if Dave Dombrowski became our GM, and Fletcher was his first trade, would you have been calling him garbage out the gate, then?

The team sucks. Everything they do pisses us all off, and justifiably so. I just think calling it "moronic" is strong. This feels like the 2nd or 3rd time this year they've done that. Sitting a guy for a few games to see what he does. This one went longer. They had the extra guy, anyway.

How many times has it happened this year? A few? I seem to remember people going nuts over Colas or Ramos being on the roster for a day longer and more vociferously than sitting somebody for a week before they put him on the IL. Hahn/KW did it much more.

Again. Pick a lane. Are you mad because they bring up a guy for a game to have 26 guys, or mad because they wait a couple of days to see if a player will heal quickly? It's not asinine. Asinine is pages and pages of people whining about every single roster transaction. Baldwin's a guy OPSing 560. The guy they bring up will hit a whopping 1-21, and everyone will scream that Getz should be fired for making a roster move, and not developing a guy they just picked up off the waiver wire. Nobody even tries to make sense, anymore.

Counterpoint: No you wouldn't have.