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Kane County Cougars have been kicked out of affiliated baseball.

Baseball GM's generally have a couple of layers of management above them. Hahn certainly knew when he was promoted to GM that he would not have unilateral control of all baseball decisions. That isn't part of the GM job description. I would assume that if this rebuild concludes successfully he may replace Williams at some point and hire his own GM similar to what just happened with the Cubs. Or maybe another team will offer him a President type role. Regardless I'm sure he knows that doing the best he can with whatever limitations Reinsdorf and Williams place on him is the route to that position. I see nothing in the Lynn or Eaton deal that would indicate that he was opposed to either deal. This is what teams do when they are close-fill holes.

I'm not sure that I can think of a single championship team in the history of baseball that was completed without trading a couple of prospects along the way. Its always a mix.

I think the claim is that LaRussa forced Hahn to make this trade as he has history with Lynn. Which of course ignores the reality that the Sox were interested in Lynn at the trade deadline when LaRussa worked for LAA.

Maybe he means divisonal? Getting in the playoffs a bunch of years in a row would be huge for this team and increases the odds of getting hot once in October.

Seven different teams have won the last seven World Series. One and done is the standard in the current MLB.

The fact that Passan is OK with this would seem to indicate that Kasper has a clean driving record.

I absolutely told my children growing up that the Sox manager should be their role model. Unfortunately it was Bevington.

That is the beauty of December. You can be optimistic to the point of insanity and there won't be evidence to dispute it for six months.

Hahn may leave sometime, but I think Hoyer understands that GM's often don't have the final say. They'd probably still have Jimenez if he did: If Jed Hoyer Had Been in Charge, It's Possible He Wouldn't Have Made the Jose Quintana Trade | Bleacher Nation

That article is from 2013 and Eddie Einhorn passed away in 2016. I believe at one point Einhorn owned as much if not more of the Sox than Reinsdorf. So its possible he bought out his interest and significantly increased his percentage at that time.

No.

Pretty much all of them, which is remarkable at 120 years old.

Veeck bought the pennant winning team during spring training 1959. He didn't build that team. He did, however, tear it apart afterward. Veeck also tried to move the team, albeit much more quietly than Reinsdorf.

Veeck's health was also a big reason the move to Denver was averted. As I understand it he would have run the team with financing from Marvin Davis. But Veeck's health had deteriorated to the point where that wasn't reasonable. They supposedly had a handshake agreement on a lease for Mile HIgh Stadium.

Veeck deserves his spot in the HOF for his contributions changing the atmosphere of the game to a fan oriented experience. He was, however, a bad judge of baseball talent and drove the White Sox from a pennant winner into mediocrity his first time here and had no chance to compete his second. However, we would probably all be A's fans today without his efforts, and for that we should be grateful.

I don't know about the White Sox past or present, but I do know that a lot of teams have the bench coach pretty much run spring training, complete planning and day to day running of things.

Pretty much every manager in the history of baseball has at least a strong say in selecting their bench coach, whether it be retaining or replacing the current one. Complaining about this is ridiculous. If it was the buddy system, he would have retained McEwing as bench coach.

I would like to see that. They have a great ballpark. I would do a couple of road trips.

There is definitely a lack of AAA and AA teams in the area, at least reasonable driving distance. The Cougars attempted this synergy with the Cubs, it had only a minor effect on their attendance and the Cubs bailed quickly to South Bend.

The Indianapolis Indians are a Pirates farm club, have been for a number of years. And the Iowa Oaks were a Sox farm team in the 70's and early 80's I believe.

This sucks. I'm sure that when someone put the numbers in a spreadsheet this makes great sense. Which is exactly why decisions shouldn't be made by spreadsheet alone. A multi billion dollar industry needs to be better than this.

I just googled "Tony LaRussa time traveler" 428,000 results. Hopefully he uses that skill to help the Sox.

I will add on to this: Bill Veeck was probably one of the most socially progressive owners in the history of the game. Read up on him. He participated heavily in the civil rights movement in the 60's, and was well know for his support of equality. Veeck hired LaRussa. He didn't just pick him out of the blue, he hired him based on what he (and Hemond) learned from his time in the minors and as a bench coach. He knew LaRussa inside out, and was a good judge of character. If you are calling LaRussa racist, you are also stating the Veeck knowingly hired a racist, and implicate him as well. Say what you will about Reinsdorf, and there is definitely lots to criticize, his history has been one of promoting and supporting minorities, both in the office and on the field. Again, I don't think there is an owner who has been more involved in baseball in programs and hiring decisions to promote equality. Just read the comments by Kim Ng about him that came out this week. Reinsdorf knows LaRussa inside out as well. If you are calling LaRussa racist, you are calling Reinsdorf racist as well for his involvement with TLR. Reinsdorf and Veeck have probably done more for the cause of equality in terms of actual action than the majority of "woke" message board attackers have done in total their entire lives. I'll take their judgement on this issue over the screaming mob any day.

It would basically be a public admission of guilt. Not going to say that if he thinks he may beat the conviction. Seems unlikely to me, but always possible.