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Poopy Sox strikes again!

Seems to be some people here conflating liability in regards to cities (regarding moving and not having a team somewhere) with an inability to move being caused by anti-trust.

This just isn't true, honestly. Been plenty of polls suggesting that the South and Western Suburbs are more Sox (northwest Indiana too) than Cubs. Cubs have the north, more of downtown, and obviously the far west into Iowa, middle part of the state and far north suburbs; Cubs also have a bigger national following due to their days on WGN, and they get more tourists because of their ballpark location and because for some reason fans like going to a garbage dump because it's old. The actual split within the close suburbs and the city isn't all that varied. If the Sox are good they'll be around 47-48% of the split.

I'm high on Vaughn too, just not sure what that has to do with right fielders. ?

You know what they say about assumptions!

GIven that it's a bit at this point, I find it equaly amusing how offended people continue to get over a word that really isn't offensive in anyway.

@Chicago White Sox Can you help our pal. He seems to have some doubts. I don't have time to dig up these quotes.

The guy created a thread complaining about things other people post so I have no idea how this defense can even be made.

The funny thing is I'm absolutely excited for the season. This doesn't take away my excitement at all for the current team or the players. It's actually why I'm most frustrated with the leadership, because I am so optimistic about these guys and want to see them succeed. Also, creating a thread to lambast peoples thoughts isn't typically going to generate responses such as "man, you're so right. What was I thinking?"

Rick Hahn said the Sox had a weakness in RF and expected to target a power lefty bat for the position. Was Rick Hahn being negative?

"A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the infromation until that point."

Maybe it'll end when you stop making these absurd water carrying threads over and over again.

Forgot all about this lol Then news broke that they were surprised those guys signed before the lockout so they shifted. Shifted to signing Harrison and Velasquez ?

I want him to be good to. I'd love to be wrong, but fact is he was a bad acquisition and an even worse contract pick up. We been hearing about kimbrel being on the move shortly for months. The market isn't there. Hahn blew it If the plan was always to bank on some contender having their closer blow out their arm in spring it was a terrible strategy. People that thought kimbrel would net a viable mlb player were always crazy

I honestly probably don't respond to 99% of James posts and he likely responds to me more than I do to him. Mostly because I don't disagree with him all that often. You're a victim of the moment and some recency bias here. I respond to posts, not posters. If you look through my history I respond 95% of the time when I disagree and to almost anyone. People just get very bizarrely defensive when i did it to James. Chitown a great example here. We been on the same page this offseason so in the boards eyes the beef is over. It's never beef for me, I'm just responding to posts regardless of who makes them. Edit: I've also been spot on about kimbrel from day 1.

Where's the eye roll emoji response when you need one.

It's a stupid ass policy. You can attend games but can't play in them. I don't care what beliefs on covid are, that policy is dumb af.

I actually like James, agree with him more than I disagree with him typically. It just so happens that when we disagree it seems to be more offensive than when I disagree with the rest of us idiots here. As anyone knows, typically if I'm responding to your thoughts and etc, I have enough respect for them to go back and forth on the mindset. I agree with James that ST is meaningless. I really disagree with them when it comes to how Kimbrel looked in general. Spring training is not about results, but it certainly is about approach and process.

This just isn't true though. ST results are entirely meaningless, but Kimbrel not being able to dominate bums with just his stuff, regardless of his control, is absolutely problematic. It's not as if he was some veteran trying to work on something new today; he was showing the same issues he had shown all second half last year and none looked corrected. I agree it doesn't impact his projections for 2022, but I think it does tell a tale about whether or not his stuff has bounced back. Also, calling a young players production who has never seen the big leagues meaningless also just isn't true. Young players more than anything else can show you things in spring-training. It's not just results driven, but regardless his approach and production certainly have meaning.

Jose Ruiz has about as much of a track record of success as a reliever as Graveman.

It's been said ad nasuem, but they signed one reliever coming off a career year with no track record in the roll to a multi-year deal that exceeded the values that better and more reliable arms got (like McHugh). And they signed another reliever who hasn't been pitching in high leverage and was injured to a multi-year deal when there were possibly better options for cheaper. Given how important every dollar seems to be with this team, they jumped a market to set the market and then almost everyone after who was comparable ended up signing for less.

Maybe we'll hear that they offered Joc more money pre-lockout but he wanted to wait and ended up taking less!

I actually think the Sox have been pretty transparent that nothing is coming and that they're done with acquistions via the FA market.

The White Sox bullpen will again rank in the top 5 in baseball in total games blown.