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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.

Cool, I've never tuned into a baseball game for an announcer.

Been a sox fan long enough now to know that tweets like this are more than being excited for a fellow media member.

Yeah, its whatever. Certainly not as big as a major FA like these morons are implying,

DJ is awful

Merkin and Garfein saying shit like, "this is bigger than any FA and should make sox fans just as excited." Already setting it up to do the classic Jerry. Invest in everything but players.

I actually have always liked Dahl.

Jace Fry just settled with the Sox.

Taking the Twins over the white sox 2000-2020 is absolutely mad though. The twins have lost 18 playoff games in a row. Why would anyone want that? Thats insane. Sox maybe don't have a lot of division titles but they had a wire to wire dominant team who set playoff records.

But their sustained success led to a title. Its stupid to cut off the point.

The dodgers won a title so his point feels off. 1 playoff appearance would really suck. Titles are what its all about but 9 years of pointless regular season baseball for 1 year of success is easier to commit to hypothetically. I am just reminded about how much bad baseball I've had to watch In the past decade. It sucks. If the sox have a cubs kind of run I would be thrilled though. We've never made the playoffs two years In a row for God sakes.

You have a better chance of winning a title by being real good for 10 years than you do being great for 2.

This is how White Sox twitter goes: Sign every FA Trade for every star available Who cares what we give up. Just get star players for big money.

?? When keepin' it real, goes wrong...