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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?

Southpaw takes pictures with kids on the fundamentals deck in the 5th. My boy always makes sure we get up there every game. In case you're interested...

Lot of people here wasting a lot of time and energy arguing over a white trash custody dispute of a slightly above average pitcher. Move on folks. Either live with him pitching for your team or don't.

How are the royals still behind them? Can't wait until the post-game where Grifol tells us he's going to sit down and take a look and address what went wrong with this ballgame.

F*#k Pedro Grifol. Worst manager in my lifetime for the worst White Sox team in my lifetime. How do they manage gut wrenching losses when they're 30 games under? It's baffling. But s%*# bring him back!

Almost more egregious is his tone in post game press conferences. Apathetic with a hint of condescension towards anyone who questions his decisions. I feel like when he took the job he was unaware that part of it was to talk to the media. If the dude was just a tad likeable, or seemed to be at all genuine in taking any responsibility I'd at least pull for him. But he has absolutely no redeeming value as a "face" for this ballclub. The fact that he had the audacity to say he has no concern over his job status shows you how unaware he is. Even if his job is safe he should be acting like it's not if he truly takes a shred of accountability for this disaster.