JoeC

This is why JR won’t entertain this.

The difference is that Baltimore still had a clue of what it takes to compete in today's game, even with terrible ownership. JR insists on "his" way.

I at least have some modicum of hope for the pitching side of the coaching equation.

I wish I could dissent.

Yes - thank you for putting it much more elegantly than I did / could

That’s cute you think they could be thinking of us

Yep - so the drop-outs from injury would more frequently happen in the minors, I would think

Plus, I wonder if they just got hurt and fell off the radar before hitting the big leagues back then, due to the way they just ran pitchers into the ground even in the minors? So basically the big leagues were largely full of guys who had already been filtered out as being able to handle 250+ innings a year?

Putting aside the year-over-year jumps in innings, pretty good example of survival bias, I see. What abiut guys like Bird Fidrych? Jason Bere? Darren Dreifort? There are dozens of other names that people don't remember or recall because their arms fell off after a year or two of abuse, and their careers were cut short. I'll even throw Koufax on that list, as his arm basically fell off at age 30. Anyone can list up Hall of Fame pitchers with long careers and say "well they did it, so why can't Crochet?" They conveniently forget about the ones who didn't "make it." This may come as a surprise, but there are more who don't survive the way you're suggesting the team treat Crochet. This organization is doing a lot of things horrendously, but attempting to limit Crochet's workload is at least logical.

I'm telling you. It can be a reality show / documentary / mockumentary. The Front Office, focused around low-level ticket sales office workers, with an occasional glimpse into the actual on-field product like 30 Rock.

I'll just let Don Cherry take this one in a very non-PC throwback: https://youtu.be/kjXyvc1S-ZE?si=JFE57UTod0OFQrCz&t=10 (Trying to get it to embed for me, but maybe not possible in mobile Chrome for some reason)

They're also still a team 20 games ahead of the Sox.

But we CAN have "When I'm Sixty-Four"

Can't wait until these songs stop having a statutory vibe to them.

An injury sustained while signing the longest contract extension in team history

What types of staffers do the Sox usually send to those clinics? What a disgrace.

Getting out of anything more than a prorated minimum salary of that contract is a W.

Seriously - just apply that energy to a low-level marketing intern who is told to cold call you to hit you up for season tickets. Then turn the intern's side of that cold call into a scene in The Front Office.

By drowning him in a Scrooge McDuck style swimming pool of profits?

Seriously - can you imagine a The Office style series of talking heads?

I say hire Ozzie for the rest of the year, and turn it into a reality show. Feeds into Ozzie's ego, and it gives JR an additional income stream. It makes this team somehow entertaining.

Tough bet…

Pretty sure it’s not Grifol. Pretty sure that players don’t want anything to do with the White Sox, not just with Pedro

You misspelled “poop.”

I don’t want to ruin someone like Sizemore.