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If these moves are a precursor to getting an mlb ready 2nd baseman for Cease (Busch, Ortiz) it makes a lot of sense. 2024 seems like it'll be a "kids can play" type season with a few vets filling in the holes in a bridge year, and honestly that's probably the best we can hope for in 2024. Either it will be nice to watch some quality defense, even if there's no offense.

My God the attendance was a disaster because of his own dedication to loyalty resulting in the worst front office in the game. How can he possibly be this dumb? Great. More prospects to watch. Can't wait til this rebuild fails and we start over in 2028.

Anything think Stone will just up and retire?

Tony Larussa to the broadcast booth?

I can't imagine Stone will want to stay.

If Beckham is in that booth next year I'm not sure I'll be able to watch

The money was available.....Jerry chose not to spend it.

I agree with this 100 %. And I love all the rebuild talk. This organization had every tool available for an exceedingly successful rebuild and failed in every way. I don't like the idea of waiting 4 years for them to do it again. The hell with it at this point. Bring me washed up veteran's for that lighting in a bottle. Anything is better than this.

Kenny always gets his guy

Honestly, a veteran lefty like Montgomery or Snell would go a long way towards repairing relations with fans and showing a level of seriousness. Will it happen? No. But a lefty veteran to anchor the staff from 2024 into its next young contending team should almost be a no brainer.

I, too, would like to give Getz a chance. But not removing Grifol is a giant red flag right out the gate. If he pleasantly surprises me in the off season, great. But Grifol remaining is killing any optimism for me.

I think you nailed it here. So I apologize for any snarkiness. I was responding based on the understanding that yes, independently, a victim cannot bring charges, that it is all contingent on elements of the crime, evidence, state evaluation and law enforcement response. And the fact that right or wrong, they won't do it without a cooperating victim.

Yeah, again, not true. Police can act as complainants on things like public safety violations (gun charges, domestic battery with an intimidated victim, narcotics offenses, or even discharge of a firearm from the example you provided). However when a victim completes a report for theft, battery, assault, auto theft, etc. they need to sign off on willingness to pursue charges (in cook county a criminal complaint). The state is not going to put time and effort into investigation, prosecution and incarceration if the victim says "meh, I got my stolen goods back don't care." The state will file the complaint but not without cooperation from a victim. If a person is a victim of domestic battery and says "this person just punched me please arrest them." Police can't just say "woah woah whoah, we make that decision."

This is entirely wrong.

This conversation is devolving.

Honestly this. I don't want them rushing Montgomery or Quero to be "competitive" next year but they will. And great that they're cutting shitty coaches but how does it make any sense to gut the coaching staff and keep the manager.....especially if he gets off to another crappy start and they can him too?

Of course they would if it saved them in pr. There was zero evidence with Clevinger and there are still people calling for his head.

Saw this one coming.

I've had a very low opinion of him. Yet somehow this interview reduced my opinion farther still. "Give me whatever percentage you feel you can give me today." My God.....

No thanks.

If they built out there and had a decent product they'd get 30k every night. A good portion of their fan base from the south side 30 years ago is out there. That being said I think they're fine where they are....sans the occasional falling bullet.

Great watch if you want to get a sense of what he's about.

Pedro showing why he's the right man for the job today.

That would be in keeping with his personality.

Kenny really went out on a high note didn't he?