WestEddy

In this very thread, @CaliSoxFanViaSWside wrote: "That's ambitious but as I said in Multiple posts I thought there could be a chance that Murakami & Montgomery could be the White Sox modern version of Mantle & Maris." That doesn't really qualify as a "comparison" to me. Like saying you and some lady dancing are doing your own "Fred and Ginger" routine. See how there's no comparison there? But you and RubRub then started weeping openly that anybody would mention Mickey Mantle on a White Sox board. No comparison, just referring to two teammates who could possibly be competing for a HR title as a version of Mantle and Maris. You know, the way our language works. I'll let you have the last word on this as this subject of whining about somebody calling a potential HR race between teammates a mantle & maris version is getting way inane.

Double play short-hand could be M2M2M.

This must the lurking thought police ss2k5 keeps warning us about. How dare somebody compare one potential HR title chase to another? Boiling 3 players on the same team having a historic collection of HR streaks down to "a win or two" is next level minimalization. Something amazing is happening on the White Sox. You and RubRub see yourselves as gatekeepers of happiness. Being as dour as y'all are, and trying to mock people who are happy after a win is the true silliness. You make more sense when discussing poo or rub-rubbing one out.

...That other teams decided to pass on considering time clocks and roster restrictions. The Dodgers didn't really have the 26-man roster space to wait for Vargas to add 12 pounds of muscle and drop his hands consistently. The Rays didn't feel that had that for Pereira. The Sox are in that period of their rebuild.

So then we don't need to hear about this troll-level silliness until both Colson's and Mune's careers are over. Great! Let's reconvene in 2040, shall we?

I always love the gatekeeping of which players can and cannot be compared. It's a message board, for heaven's sake. Two teammates in a potential HR chase is evocative of the most famous one.

Getz is acquiring projects they've identified and need to work with to see if they can sus out the ceiling they see. He seems to give good shots to guys, then move on when they're not running with it. I'm not sure where this "admitting they were wrong" stuff comes from. If your task is gathering a group of 5 guys to see if there's an actual player in the group, if one is a success, the other four aren't necessarily failures.

Wow, not even Mantle and Maris did that. How silly to compare these guys to M&M. Wait a minute...

Davis is also an UDFA, developed through our system.

I can't understand why his family and friends now tell him they don't follow baseball anymore.

Wait, I thought somebody said the Sox lost the DH. What was that about?

Colson never implied that Vinnie Capra was a better baseball player than Shane Smith, either, so at least he's smarter than you.

Three of Monty's whopping four starts at 3B were done in the first week. Because it's the Chris Getz White Sox doing it, of course, it must be the wrongy wrongest thing a team could ever do. I like the idea of having multiple options at each of 7 positions on the field for flexibility.

No, I really do get it. Whatever the Sox choose to do that's out of the box, you'll whine about incessantly. It's great that you think something. Bare minimum for carbon-based life forms. Maybe write it down on a cardboard sign and walk around an intersection with it.

LOL. No, it isn't.

I can't imagine anyone giving a s%*# about a move in a very small amount of games. I hope you have enough Kleenex.

COUNTERPOINT: No, it isn't. But hey, it's fun to pretend 4 of 24 games is "constantly". Relax.

For real.

Circus Vargas

This will be known as the Vargas game.

Not sure what this means. Unless the Mets front office wrote this blurb at the time of the trade, they took Acuña back straight up for Scherzer.

Maybe so. They did run him out of options and were looking to compete for a pennant this year. They don't really have the resources to try to develop a player at the MLB level.

The Rangers were vying for their first World Series in their existence. Calling the acquisition of the most dominant starter on the market a "salary dump" is certainly a choice. Unless you think the Rangers were dumping Acuña's minor league contract. Or only half of it. LOL