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I dont hate conservatives, but I think we could make soxtalk great again by changing your password and not telling you.

and in classic lawyer speak hahn will claim recent means whatever he wants it to mean. I do find this soxtalk turn fascinating. I was called Rick Hahn by people on this site two off-seasons ago haha and I like a lot of what hahn has done, but when it comes to managers there's no reason for me to believe that Rick hahn doesn't like TLR. And I don't buy for a minute that hahn is vocally against the move and being overruled.

The hands on the knees and pacing all game was giving me anxiety watching it.

Next stretch run, pick another team in the race to follow. Watch their games and follow their fan bases. Every loss will be flooded with critiques of the manager. This is not unique to white sox fans.

Yeah the thing I hate about Tony the most is he loves the attention. He baths in it. I just dont want to deal with his pompous face and attitude everyday on TV and in interviews but the impact wont really mean shit.

I know he's the GM of a team who fired his manager and within 3 weeks is going to have a new manager hired. I know he's as involved with these decisions as anyone else and that constantly giving him the benefit of the doubt is nonsense. I know they did not formally interview bochy so I know hahns claims and talk was exactly that; hahn talk. He will claim 10 years is recent or he didnt want to give anything away. Hahn is not innocent in this. Period.

You guys really need to stop thinking hahn will ever tell the press anything meaningful. He tells you what you want to hear without actually saying anything. He mastered this lawyer speak years ago. Hahn will say an opportunity came up that he couldn't look past.

As a Hahn "fan" I guess people would claim me to be, this post is insane. Hahn is on board. Stop assuming all moves made by the Sox that you dont like are made by someone else. Hahn doesn't exactly have a great track record evaluating managers.

Its actually frowned upon and youre not supposed to do it. TlR would be breaking that retirement HOF code for a manager but when has Tony not made everything about himself?

Lol so this guy doubled down. Didn't even see this one. I stand corrected. My bad orlando.

Eh, you guys hate on the manager and blame him for everything anyway. At least now you guys will be hating on a narcissistic prick and not a nicer guy. I can't stand larussa so ill just blame him irrationally whenever I want to blame someone on the sox. Ez pz.

to be fair, tony is not on record saying that this year. He said this when kaep first knelt and many more people were blasting him. I doubt Tony has learned much since then since being humble is not a real strength of his, but just wanted to clarify the time.

And was interested. I'm pretty bummed and I dont get it.

I heard they did not interview Bochy. Which is just awful. And make no mistake about it, every manager out there wants this job. Bochy was interested.

After reading the NY post article today on the Mets sale and de blasio, maybe Jerry will bring in A-Rod to mentor him as next Sox owner lol

My main man, and former White Sox legend, Royce Clayton

For all who don't know this story: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/941717-ozzie-smith-tony-la-russa-lied-and-acted-like-a-coward "It wasn't so much about my playing time as the way it was done. I was under the impression I was going to have every opportunity to do what I do. I was told that the position would be earned in spring training. And I thought I did that. I did everything that was asked of me" The manager who led the Oakland A's to the 1989 World Championship responded. "This was the most disappointing thing in my career in St. Louis," said La Russa: "Twice to his face I told him that the other guy was a better shortstop on an everyday basis. All he's got to do is look in the mirror. And he can go out with honor and dignity rather than some kind of attempt at camouflage." I want to emphasize how distasteful and absurd LaRussa's comments were in response, but it reminds me so much of an immature young Kenny Williams response.

isn't the point of macro-analysis to help make micro-decisions? I agree that part of a managers decision is personal, human, and in-the-moment related but it can't be void of macro thought. Just because you can't quantify something, does not mean it doesn't exist. It's the managers job to read that extra percent to make the best decision.

Bernie is such a nice guy, but for a national baseball writer he really has no sources and his takes are usually pretty hot.

This is actually the best part to me; they don't even realize that they're telling on themselves when they post that ignorant nonsense. Rays make World Series with payroll 1/4 of Dodgers. Rays proceed to lose to said team... meatheads come out in droves to blast the idiotic analytics people who couldn't beat the Dodgers while spending 25% as much money. I found it more concerning that Cash said he'd do it again; like bro, you're supposed to learn from your mistakes. Let's work on not planning games at 2pm and never adjusting. That's not what analytics says to do.

and your posts are a great reminder why one shouldn't listen to old people and their big guts.

Being old is an underlying condition. Thanks for coming out.

I almost feel the opposite; you ever spend 200 straight days around someone? If you can't connect with them, they rub you the wrong way by about day 10. In football and basketball, at least you have more time away from the dick head coach ha.

Why do people at Soxtalk think Lance Briggs would have the slightest idea about who the Sox were hiring as manager lol

Oh great, Dave Duncan. This is such a Bruce tweet; don't be shocked if Dave Duncan is involved... he won't be a coach. So LaRussa is going to be brought in and start making non-coaching personnel moves? Jesus... Arizona 2.0 here we come. Vaughn and Madrigal got their bags packed and are ready to be shipped out for some pitcher who will be out of baseball in 2 years.