Look at Ray Ray Run

Why do people say this and list three teams. In the history of the game, only the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Cleveland Indians and the Oakland Athletics have a smaller "largest contract in team history." Even the Tampa Bay Rays have offered 26 million more than the Sox ever have. Please stop acting like fans want the Sox to be the Yankees. I want them to act like every team in MLB that isn't the bottom three spenders in the game. Diamondbacks gave Greinke 200 million. Brewers gave Yelich 188 million Mariners gave Cano 240 million Padres just gave Machado 300 Million Orioles gave Chris Davis 166 miLOLion Blue Jays gave Vernon Wells 126 million Those teams have smaller market shares than the White Sox and all have offered almost two to three times as much as the Sox have.

Timmy is gonna be our Walter Payton - god be willing. My uncles still sit around the holiday dinner table reminding me that Walter was the back up place kicker and the 3rd string QB. "Did you know that Walter was as good as Adam Vinatieri and Peyton Manning but he wanted to be Jim Brown instead!?!?! Amazing Athlete." In twenty years I'm gonna be my uncles: "Did you know Tim Anderson was compared to Buster Posey and Mark Salas, but wanted to be Ozzie Smith! Amazing athlete and individual!"

I like Jimmy a lot - I think he knows that; I have complimented his work plenty and even commented that for someone I don't know he seems like a heck of a guy as well. I don't know if you haven't noticed Ron, but the insiders tend to get a bit more defensive when they are disagreed with or called out. I don't really care if you're an insider or a homeless guy living on 35th and shields, if I don't agree I'm gonna have some fun with it. Most people just joke around back and enjoy the banter, but some don't. Also, I think Jimmy knows now that I - in no way - am calling into question the validity of his thoughts. The only time he got upset was when I joked that he was carrying water because I know how much he hates Jerry and would never carry water. I hate taking these threads off tangent like this so I'll leave it there. And Ron, if you haven't figured out that I'm messing around on here by now I can't help you my friend. None of this is serious. For 1, it's baseball - a game - and we're White Sox fans; misery is our company. Second of all, we're in the middle of the pandemic and I'm working overtime trying to further my career, get my masters and donate a lot of time to helping a lot of people in need. This is my escape from those realities. Carl Everett for White Sox President of Baseball Operations 2021! Jerry ain't telling Carl no!

**White Sox sitting at the local Hold 'em Table** Community cards: A(h), J(h), K(h), 10(h), A(S) White Sox: "Well, we're all in!!!" Real competitive teams: "We call." **Sox turn over pocket two's** Real competitive teams look on in amazement... "Uh, OK." *Competitive teams turn over and show AK and AQ* White Sox: "Well, we tried."

sigh, pal get over yourself, move on and learn to take a joke. jaysus. now back to the topic at hand.

lol. I have good fun here on these days; it's a nice break from work and the grind of this pandemic. This holiday season has been tough. If people take it seriously, or personally, or can't manage rebutting someones response who disagrees with them... I'm sorry to hear that and wish them the best in finding their confidence! You won't see me calling people names or getting personal as raBBit tries to claim though, but everyone knows the best people to raz are those who can't manage it. i'm here to generate some discussion and rile up the troops! But always remember:

? Devastating to hear. It's hard when someone presents you with some tough truths. I still remember when you accused me of carrying water for the front office. And didn't raBBit delete a bunch of posts to hide the fact that he was wrong about something on this very forum? That makes a lot of sense; people who care about being right and what others think of them online tend to be an overly sensitive bunch.

So you think the White Sox are going to spend big on a RF'er and SP now that they acquired Lynn and Eaton. Listen, you can ignore all the tea leaves that points to the Sox spending no money - trading for the affordable SP and signing a cheap replacement level RF'er - but I'm done giving this team the benefit of the doubt. All they do is lie and pocket the money they make from fans without investing it in the ball club.

I responded to a post you made in a thread I was posting in. I've told you this multiple times; you seem to think I seek you out. When I post on days like this, I post a lot. You happen to be around on these days and your so self involved that you seem to think I'm here searching out your posts and ignore that 99.9999% of my posts are not directed or responding to you. It's really odd. People bust my balls all day when I post here, it bothers me about 0%. Do I poke at people who get really defensive when everyone doesn't agree with them? Of course, that's the most fun. Just as people call me a loud mouth opinionated d-bag at times, which is an accurate assessment of the way I bust peoples chops. There's really no way to justify signing Eaton to be your starting RF'er in a year that you're all in. Not only do I think Eaton is now not a good baseball player, but I also think he's a dick. He's also immature and thought a child was the leader of his team when he was 27/28 years old. He wasn't some kid.

The Yankees are 100% bringing back Lamahieu, and I would bet they sign Bauer. The Dodgers paid 385 million for Mookie mid-season instead of waiting for him to be a free agent. Amazing to see the spin on how cheap the White Sox are over and over and over and over again.

look another guy who can't take a joke online. I even had to add the i kid i kid because i Knew how upset you get when people don't bow before you on this forum. You stopped posting well before I arrived buddy, and if your skin is so thin that you can't bust balls online talking about the Sox then i feel bad for you in general.

How do the White Sox have a better lineup than the Yankees? They have Madrigal, Eaton and no DH at the moment. Eaton and Madrigal could both very easily be bad. Ding ding ding.

I'll throw this in here as well as it's always good for a laugh. There are two guys in my baseball life that I remember hearing openly hateful things directed at them from their own clubhouses; Adam Eaton and Nick Swisher. I guess Carl too, but man people just didn't understand the Dinosaur man!

The Royals are going to outspend the White Sox in the 2020 off season lol

I find it fascinating how you continually pick Adam Eaton's career year to explain his talents; completely ignoring what has happened over time. For his career Eaton averages 11 home runs per 162 games. In his career, he averages playing 103 games in a season - over 8 years. That means Eaton, on average, is a 6-7 home run per season guy.

Never forget when someone tells you it was just one guy who didn't like Eaton: Not surprised someone like Rabbit likes Eaton, sounds like they got a lot in common. ? I kid, i kid.

No lineup with Adam Eaton and Nick Madrigal is the toughest lineup in the AL; it's certainly not better than the Yankees lineup. And what are you talking about? The Sox didn't just not sign Bauer/Springer, they signed a guy that a team whose trying to contend - the Nationals - didn't even want to pay 9 million dollars to. Saying people are upset because it wasn't Springer is a joke; Adam Eaton wasn't one of the 4 best available right fielders. You can just ignore the last two years of his career if you want to pretend he's someone else, but those years happened. He's never healthy and guys who struggle with injuries age worse than guys who don't. It's very possible the White Sox just signed a well below average starting outfielder to "fill out" their roster in a season in which they're all in... but please, tell us how it was such a great move.

I'm done letting the White Sox tell me they're kicking the can down the road. This all would be a reasonable take - thinking they genuinely didn't like the OF market and like someone next year - had they not traded an asset for a one year SP rental. By trading for Lynn, the White Sox signaled that they were all-in for next year. If you're all-in and going into next year with an embarrassingly low payroll, then why should anyone believe this team will ever spend? They were supposed to lift the payroll when the window opened, instead they "filled" their two most glaring holes with guys who cost - combined - 2 million dollars more than Jon Jay and Yonder Alonso.

So to justify Eaton being a good move we have to literally throw out his last two years - post 30 - of his career? In 2019 Adam Eaton was the 16th best rated RF'er - of 24 - in 2019. Adam Eaton isn't an upgrade; he absolutely was not someone you had to go out and sign this early in free agency to sure up a position.

I take full responsibility for that, the Sox did this just to spite me. To be honest, this shit has me real bothered. Real glad I cancelled my tickets now. If they're not going to invest in the product to improve it for my viewing then I'm not giving them a dollar of my money. I might even move!!!

Amazingly enough Joc was somehow BETTER than Eaton last year. Eaton falls in line with nothing; he's a bad defensive outfielder. If that was the move then they should have signed Brantley.

Adam Eaton never plays full seasons - he's always hurt. Guys who get hurt a lot age worse. He's not getting younger and every sign points to further decline. You can't sell me on this one Dick, this is an atrocious move that has everyone around the game shaking their head.

Well, his three year trends are not good, bad, and awful. Eaton also just called into AM 1000 and hung up the phone after a question he didn't like lolol

On what? Chuck is already selling Eaton as the guy in RF. Their big splash is going to be a pointless closer. Just amazing.

Adam Eaton was worse than Nomar Mazara last year. We replaced a dirt hole with a blackhole.