JoeC

I'm actually not entirely doom-and-gloom about the future of this team (2~3 years from now), based on this core. Not nearly the hopes that I had going into 2019~2020, but definitely a "get a couple of these guys to click, a reclamation project to work out, and we're in the thick of it" situation. Let's not mortgage what decent future we have by "going for" 63 wins.

Did we send over more cash considerations??

Supposedly officially happening: https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/07/white-sox-trade-austin-slater-yankees.html

No. Maybe @ptatc has a different opinion, but if you’re forcing guys to pitch through fatigue, you’re asking for mechanical breakdowns and inefficiencies, and you start to ramp up your risk of injury due to poor mechanics and weakened support structures.

Back on topic now. Would burning a hot dog actually produce white smoke? Like, fully incinerating one.

And we have the one owner whose track record would even dispute that "except Michael Jordan" part, if it were happening in the 2020's.

Finally, a good return on a trade.

Facts.

Would be great to have team ownership stock options as a form of athlete compensation.

I don’t remember Harold Baines doing anything like Teel did for his first homer. What a selfish prick. </sarc>

Any tweets, credible or otherwise, from various stadium concession related item accounts?

Thank you for this post and giving me more insight into the art of pitching. This right here, as an engineer and former athlete, is why I'm falling more and more in love with baseball as I age, in spite of the Sox's best efforts.

Poor guy.

With Robert having two $20M options (i think), the Sox having ridiculously low payroll obligations, and Ishbia money coming in soon, is there a scenario where the Sox pick up his first option before a trade, then throw in the money to essentially turn it into a cheap 1-year deal with an option for the receiving team?

I will preface this post by saying that I am in no position to disagree with anything you’ve said above. For curveballs, would tunneling matter all that much? Meaning, if the pitch looks that vastly different out of the hand, does it force the hitter to essentially have to completely adjust their estimated trajectory and timing? Or is there an alternative pitch tunneling combination? I’m thinking of Gio’s short-lived-patented “high change.”

Probably flushing something.

I was commenting on the re-naming of Andrew Vaughn to Aaron Vaughn. ...but yes, I do sort of agree that Vaughn is helping Robert's trade value.

I have to ask about Aaron Vaughn... I can only imagine it's Andrew Vaughn's newly adopted persona, channeling his inner Hank Aaron while slugging it out in Milwaukee.

Diminished Skills?

Schriff seems OK as long as he just lets the game come through him. I think he'd be great as a "vanilla" broadcaster, honestly. Just call what you see, maybe with some emotion to match the moment. Treat the color guy like an interviewee, but don't force it. As soon as he gets excited (or pretends to be excited), it just feels forced. I don't think it'll ever be as bad as the "we're not gonna take that" bit, but the excitement just doesn't feel natural from him.

"Do your best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." It's part of the natural evolution of society and language.

There were signs.

Scary

It's almost like having a great young core in 2020 be ready to take the next step, only to bring in an ancient dinosaur of a manager to lead the team and watch nearly all of the players regress and rot away. But nobody would be dumb enough to do both of those things.

Yeah '93~'94 was genuinely the product on the field.