PitchatRisktoZisk
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5 hours ago, Lip Man 1 said:
"You’ve got to flush these things, there’s nothing you can do other than get a nice rest and get back after it tomorrow, try to save the series and get ready for Kansas City." - Pedro Grifol. 😆
Flush twice, it's a long way up to Jerry's suite.
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At least we will get a great draft pick in the 1st round......... What?!? Wait?!? What?!?
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29 minutes ago, Tnetennba said:
If there were an award for nonsensical word salad, Pedro would be the run away winner. What the actual f*** does that combination of words even mean?
Loosely translated it means "I am sooooooo f'ing over my head in this job I'm just making s%*# up to sound remotely competent. Clearly, I've failed with this quote, I'll do better next time".
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2 minutes ago, SoCalChiSox said:
I was told Santos was untradeable because of the injury.
Let's hope he passes his physical and the trade goes through
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The Sox need to put Cease in bubble wrap and we all need to pray to whatever deity we believe in that he stays healthy and effective through July 31. There will be injuries and lack of performance by some contending teams and a few surprise teams that want to "go for it". Getz set his price and evidently didn't budge. That's fine for this cycle, but if we don't deal Cease by July 31, 2024 then he becomes a 1 year rental and the price goes way down.
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Failing to trade everyone except Robert is malpractice. This team will lose 100+ next year with or without Cease. Get max value now.
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I'm so sick of listening to JR and Getz talk about the talent on the team. We finished with 101 losses! Everyone except Robert and (maybe) Cease should be moved if we can get any value at all. And to them saying "we're just a couple players away from competing for the Central division", just stop it. The only 2 players we could add that would make us competitive are Ruth and Gehrig!
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JR will never hire Ng and appear to be bowing to pressure..... or common sense. Getz isn't qualified to be Assistant GM let alone the GM AND VP of Baseball Ops. He led arguably the worst minor league system (by W/L record and lack of development) in baseball. That gets you PROMOTED in Jerryland. Getz got this job for 2 reasons...... he'll work cheap and do EXACTLY as Jerry commands.
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Can't wait for SoxFest 2024!!!
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Talk about utter dysfunction. The team loses 101 games and the only change will be to demote the bullpen coach. Everyone else was part of the Grifol idiocy, a pipeline to the owner (Boston), or tied to our new pitching guru (Katz). Once again, NOTHING changes in this organization until Jerry no longer owns the team.
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1 hour ago, South Side Hit Men said:
This is not true, though I'm assuming he is joking.
Len Casper was solo for the second game in a row, and has done this previously this season.
Also, the Sox will be on WGN this Sunday (and likely next) due to the garbage bears.
Of course I was joking. If JR truly had his way, the broadcasters would be in a studio in Chicago (or better yet their basements) and use the opponents video feed
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38 minutes ago, The Beast said:
Who did radio today if McKnight and DJ did TV?
No radio broadcast today. JR consolidated announcers, did a simulcast, and saved on expenses.
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2 minutes ago, pcq said:
Whatever the opposite of synergy is.
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As over his head as Grifol is, I think Sosa did that on his own. Not smart on any level. Yeesh.
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2 hours ago, Lip Man 1 said:
From Sox Machine site today:
"Meanwhile, at FanGraphs, Michael Baumann does a good job of informing the general baseball audience about Reinsdorf being the root of all the White Sox’s problems, and how much of a(n AL Central) force they could be without him.
There’s no structural reason the White Sox can’t be successful. They have history and branding half the league would kill for. They play in the third-largest media market in the U.S., and though they share it with a richer and more popular neighbor, if Houston and Philadelphia and Toronto can spend enough to put out a winning team, so can the White Sox. Most important, they play in the easiest division in baseball, where the last-place club in the AL East would have a decent shot at winning the division.
They’re also lucky enough to have an owner, Jerry Reinsdorf, who cares whether the team wins. Not every team can say the same. Unfortunately, Reinsdorf seems to care how the White Sox win.
That last concept always needs to be appended to any allegations that Reinsdorf wants to win, and assumptions that losing makes Reinsdorf miserable. It’s another form of the famous-to-me Cigar Aficionado quote about Reinsdorf’s m.o. from 1995: “Throughout the fall and winter, he was still driven by the dream: to create a World Series winner in a business climate that made sense to him.”
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-white-sox-are-getting-a-facelift-they-need-a-new-head/
Being in the AL Central is really a curse for us. Jerry (rightly) believes we can compete for division championships and playoffs every year by doing things exactly the way he has for 40+ years.
If we were in the AL East, we'd be in last place every year and be eliminated from the playoffs by Labor Day. That would be enough for Jerry to "consider" changing his approach. Now, he can keep trying to win "his way" with sycophants throughout the organization and pocketing tens of millions from international and gambling deals before we ever break Spring Training camp.
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To be clear; Jerry's statement of (paraphrashaving here) having a single decision maker named by the end of the season, he is talking about an EVP/SVP of baseball operations. He's not talking about a GM. He's not consolidating Kenny/Hahn roles into one spot (as some have posted earlier). He's going to name the guy/gal for the "big chair". Then that person will find the GM...... and so on down the line.
After reading 19 pages of posts, my brain is a little mushy, so please straighten me out if this is not people's understanding.
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5 hours ago, Dick Allen said:
Pedro can go back to KC with Matt Nagy.
Now I get it!!! When Hahn said he was going to hire a manager from a team with recent championship experience, he thought Grifol was with the CHIEFS! Now it all makes sense.
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Just now, oldsox said:
Stone was on the air after the inning ending catch by the fight fielder.
Hmmmmm, really? Watching on mlb.tv and didn't hear him.
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Any clue what happened to Stone? Jason has been doing the game solo for the last several innings.
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And we all know how well Jerry responds to be told what to do. He'll double down on his 40+ years of how he responds to fans........"@%#& the fans"
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12 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:
10 more losses to guarantee another losing season under Rick Hahn!
“Accountability around here is not a problem.”- Kenny Williams 4/25/23
Well...... if we deconstruct that quote, it makes a lot of sense. "Accountability" is not a problem. Similarly, "Polio" is not a problem....... neither exists within this organization.
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Watching a legit manager against an imposter like Grifol is a stark comparison. It's sad to see us fail at virtually every aspect of baseball. The sadder thought is this clown show of JR, Williams, and Hahn aren't going anywhere. They are why we can never have nice things.
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My favorite team is the White Sox. My second favorite team is whoever is playing the Cubs. Anyone that doesn't feel that way is not a Sox fan........ brought to you by an OLD White Sox fan!
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Talk to me after the parade.
Ramos getting called up
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I was ok punting this season as the beginning of the rebuild. Signing a locker room full of "has beens and never will bes" was fine to let the kids develop in the minors. We are a whole 6 weeks into the season and it's time to bring up the kids?!? Thank God we hired Getz....... it would have taken a whole year for an outsider to learn how f'ed up this organization is and realized he'd have to scrap the whole thing and reboot. Why can't we have nice things???