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I was expecting a regular miss, but yeah, no way they were getting that field goal.

It’s such a bummer to read something like this. The Sox are bad because Jerry Reinsdorf fucking sucks at his job and he deserves every bit of failure that comes with it. The only unlucky ones in this scenario are the fans. They don’t deserve this.

On second thought, I think the Cy Young award will just be honorarily given to Goose Gossage each year. And by Cy Young award I mean Goose Gossage award.

Two things about the bolded: I think you're overlooking how easy it can be to miss the playoffs with Skubal and Tyler Greene and a bunch of replacement level guys. That's not really a recipe for success. Especially if you don't have a historically bad team in your division to help pad your record. Who is the Bobby Witt Jr equivalent for the Sox in this scenario? You know, the perennial MVP candidate and consensus top 5 player in the game type guy who is also still a few years away from entering his prime. Edit: I just realized by Tyler Greene, you probably meant Riley Greene. Point still stands.

Passan: “BREAKING: For 18th consecutive season, the Cy Young award goes to: Nobody.”

The criteria for Hall of Fame pitchers will evolve along with the game. Time passes, things change. Such is life.

Caleb has not been good and the midseason regression is concerning. He definitely deserves some blame here... BUT The offensive line isn't just bad, it's 2024 white sox levels of bad Receivers are not open on many plays The play calling has no rhythm, imagination or identity Caleb is a ROOKIE I would consider those reasons for his lack of success, not excuses. Again, Caleb deserves some blame, but he has not even remotely been set up for success.

It’s situations like these where I always wonder whether the subject is tone deaf or willfully ignorant and which of those is the worse option.

I was curious if someone asked him about Caleb being the starter or if that was unprompted. Sounds like it was the latter and oh boy

Chicago sports 🥳

My man you’re becoming a parody of yourself.

Using the 121 loss season as an excuse to be mad about things that never happened seems a bit disingenuous.

Not sure if you heard, but Getz could've gotten Jake McCarthy instead of Fletcher and Luke Keaschall instead of Vargas.

Keeping him is not a realistic option with JR, therefore he has to be traded. It sucks, but such is a life as a Sox fan.

Similar to the Venable hire, on paper this seems like a step in the right direction. Now keep doing more things.

He was obviously not good that one year, but I think it was more of a hypothetical question on whether he could improve enough to stick had he fully committed to baseball long term.

Keegan Pancake LFG

Remember Cole Kmet?

Genuinely surprised it took until the third page for meatball takes.

If paying superstars lots of money because they might go into slumps is wasting money, what do you consider paying less money to bad players who end up, in fact, being bad?

That’s completely not the point. Two of those guys have “scrap” level ceilings, while the other two were acquired with much higher ceilings in mind. The fact that they are all likely to end up as scraps is irrelevant to the initial point, which was that Getz did not “dump Kopech for peanuts” because he thought he was getting much much more than that in Vargas.

If you’re saying that Getz knew Vargas was “scraps”, you’re giving him way too much credit.

And one of the reasons relievers are considered so volatile year to year is that they’re working within the constraints of relatively small sample sizes by nature.

You keep saying they sold him for peanuts because that’s what Vargas’ value looks like after the fact, but they legitimately thought they were getting a big piece back in Vargas. That trade speaks more to their (likely) swing and miss on Vargas than it does to what they thought of Kopech.

Some of these schmoes just don’t appreciate the true power of magic.