Look at Ray Ray Run

Are you insane? He accepted 7 million dollars less to NOT play here.

There are zero scenarios where the sox sign pederson and have the off season they should have. The only hot takes are the clowns trying to win the Value Series.

Your cherry picked evaluation of the comparison. Your convenient cut off. Why don't you show me the past three years. Here's one for you, since 2018 Joc and engel have played in 608 games and accumulated 7.3 fWAR. Springer has played in 313 games in that same window and accumulated 11.3 fWAR. Hes played nearly half the games and has 4 more WAR. You guys have lost your minds

Cool. He showed he does NOT want to be here. Amazing to watch people ignore the human element of sports over and over.

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They're not signing bauer, you guys have lost your mind. If they wont pay for the position player they wont pay for a sp.

He has a career 689 ops vs lefties. Please spare me the small sample arguments. I wrote a piece about engels changes last year - I'm a fan of his. If ne plays a lot he will be exposed and should be relied on as a 4th outfielder. Thats it. Expecting him to perform vs a lefties all year in a playoff hunt is classic white sox.

Great im not gonna celebrate a Joc bargain bin signing though, certainly not gonna let people pretend to sell me that it's almost the same as springer while saying engel will play a lot lol. Sox fans love pain and misery. Justification for every awful move.

Guy told your organization 12 months ago that you aren't good enough for me and people think sox would trade for him.

Enough of this. My goodness. We're trying to win baseball games, and fans are worried about maximum dollar value. Smh And engel has had one decent year in his life where he wasn't unplayable and sox want him to be a heavy platoon player. Its baffling. Engel is A FOURTH outfielder. Nothing more

They wont. Stop fooling yourself. The sox have never come close to playing in the deep end of the pitching pool. They are very risk averse there. If they don't get springer it will be another cheap out off season and I'm not celebrating the bargain joc buy at all.

I want absolutely nothing to do with a guy who didn't want to play here so much so that he took less to be in Philly.

So I guess we're not getting springer lol. This team is a joke honestly. Never play in the big kids pool. Sox have two real holes and they're gonna plug them with bargain deals. Its embarrassing sox fans are excited or ok with this. Jimmy been telling us the Sox been in on springer. Now selling us on joc. Lol

Heard Kasper last night talk about why he did this, and the guy sounded like he was having a midlife crisis like me - but 17 years later lol. He said he had goals and dreams in his life and that as he got older, he realized he should pursue them now; screw money and etc because he already made enough. He basically used the example that he didn't get to call a world Series game and it killed him; it was his dream. He said in order to pursue dreams - I believe he even just started a band he's losing his mind so much lol - sometimes you need to do things that others wouldn't understand. To be honest, that made a ton of sense to me. If I was rich enough and happy in my life, who cares if I take a 50% paycut if I'm fulfilling life long dreams and goals. This actually made me like Kasper a lot more.

I think its an almost certainty that he returns to Oakland but im interested in how his market plays out. Id give Marcus 2/30 or 3/48.

Makes sense; I've never gotten into the podcast craze. Certainly many people have; similarly to youtube videos or twitch streams, just never been media I've consumed. With this forum, the Athletic and twitter I already feel ashamed of how much of my day I spend consuming White Sox information lol. If it improves a type of media you consume and enjoy - beyond the standard radio broadcast - then it makes sense.

I was genuinely curious as the your answer, in no way was I being critical of you. I like to try and understand things I don't. Sometimes that comes off wrong online, but I even tried to acknowledge that I was a douchbag as to lighten the mood lol.

Yet you're still as overly negative and concerned as always.

Fair enough and I can respect people get entertained by different things, and in those circumstances you have no dog in those fights. Certainly good examples. I love when gus Johnson does close college basketball games but its the games being close that help drive gus appeal.

Just curious, why? What does that do for you? I enjoy benetti and hawk was awful at the end, but the product on the field was what mattered. Id take a playoff team with zero announcers over a "smart informed" regurgitating TeamSpeak on national platforms that I don't have time or desire to listen to anyway. Attention from major media has always been some weird thing sox fans have sought; as if attention from the masses was more important than the product. In my life the Sox have had, arguably, the best and most famous trainer in sports, the best and most famous groundskeeper in the world, the best organist at a sporting event... and in that time they've never made the playoffs back to back years. You get attention by winning. And honestly ill admit that my douchey arrogance at times gets in the way and may be here; i just dont really give a shit about len kaspers baseball opinion. I certainly dont consider him to be some baseball savant.. sports Talk radio is most often a waste of brain waves. An announcer can certainly assist in the entertainment level or a broadcast ever so slightly but not to the extent of acting as if we signed a player of any kind. Or proclaiming it the biggest move like dope merkin did.

Nah, a lot of smoke around marquee being trash and the cubs cutting corners across the board. Seems like Kasper wanted out like many others in the organization.

Thats pretty weird but to each there own.

I get media guys just love talking about how great each other are, and they think they're a huge part of the show, but its just offensive to have takes like Merkins for an organization that never spends on top level player talent. Give me a deaf mute in the booth and an elite FA signing for once. Jesus.

Farmer and DJ were so bad you literally didn't know what was happening often and it took nothing away from my white sox experience and took nothing away from the world series. Id prefer we spend money on things that actually matter regarding the quality of baseball product. Kasper is fine but this celebration by sox fans is beyond weird.

These are the real hot takes. And as I said, been a sox fan long enough to know the MO here by the two mouthpieces of the organization.