The Beast

Pushing for this year is all they can do at this point. This is what I don’t think people who want the team blown up understand very well. This isn’t the Chicago Bears. It’s the same owner who won’t fire his front office. It is also April 18 and not the trade deadline at all.

Hey, it could happen.

Quietly there is a scoreless inning.

No thanks.

Also, don’t look now but at this moment it is 5-4.

I really want to see some power that we saw in the early 2000s. Some good hitting for base hits and home runs would do this team some good. I haven’t given up yet like other posters have. A ticket should be bought in the same spot and this should be hung at each game when the bullpen blows a lead or there is a bad loss.

What good would come out of sucking? Letting players with club options go and retooling the team? That’s what I think Giolito and Lynn will return if they are dealt at the deadline. Assuming they don’t get out of this funk and continue to suck.

What gave you the itch to try teaching again, what did you find hard around student teaching and why did you go into finance instead of education?

Except I can’t see it happening. I’d wager that there won’t be many deadline dumps at the trade deadline. I think posters wanting another rebuild are going to be underwhelmed by the return they would get. This team is just not great as currently constructed and I hope Grifol has some say in how to retool this offseason. I doubt they would rebuild.

What a bummer this team has been. Slow start and not enough good pitching and power.

Get this game on the road. I can’t take too much more of fantasy football content on the flagship station. Connor did his best with rain delay theater.

That’s totally fair. I was thinking more from an overall perspective and not a 2022 perspective. The jury is out but I think the new schedule will hurt a team like the White Sox.

I see a continued trend from last year where they haven’t been able to put it together. Either they pitch well and don’t hit, or they hit well and don’t pitch and they rarely put the two together. At best, this team looks like a .500 team. They probably benefited from playing their division so much that they didn’t have to compete as much against the other divisions and that is how they could finish in second, just what JR’s philosophy is. Now that they have this new schedule, they just can’t keep pace with the other teams. The rest of the league got better, the Sox did not.

The AAA guy didn’t throw the ball into right field though. And Moncada can’t deal with his injuries to play third right now.

That’s what Bernstein and Holmes mentioned today. Not sure how true that is but it’s possible.

Remember that game against Seattle where Jim Parque and Jon Rauch pitched and Mike Cameron destroyed them? That was fun.

My god, I have the website on and didn’t even want to turn the radio on. Giolito sucks. Is there anyone at AAA that can come in long relief? These games remind me of Bartolo Colon against the Twins in 2009 and David Wells against the Cubs in 2002. Luckily Sean Lowe came in to hold them in the game against the Cubs whereas Colon and the rest of the staff sucked ass.

Jeez Giolito is getting smacked around. What the heck is with the pitching this year?

I’m not sure if you know how or want to separate relevant posts out to the job thread or start a new one since the other one is a few years old. Your career transition is a good story, particularly because you went back to school after a long time. I am sure the commission checks and benefits helped you go back to school, even with a divorce which had to be tough. Are you satisfied with teaching as opposed to your old career and have you lived decently with the pay? I’m glad to hear you had a successful career change. It’s important to recognize when something won’t work out and how things change you. Where did your wife go after teaching? What jobs did you try out before getting your role now? I know that my organization has some teachers in the talent development area, so those skills make sense. That is a good way of looking at money and living life. I am a son of a salesman and I think most of my siblings make more than I do, but between my wife and I, we have enough money to put money in the bank, have enough cash flow, save for retirement and college and raise a son. I would like to earn more, but I also believe that there is a diminishing return with money at a certain point. Now about me. My educational path is a winding road. I was an average student in high school, was misplaced in my math and science courses and got an average ACT score. I went to an average Illinois state school for my first two years of college wanting to be a sports journalist or an English teacher. Neither panned out and despite having decent grades, I wanted to transfer home to get some business courses and gen eds taking care of at the community college before getting a business degree at a private school in the Quad Cities. I got my business administration/management degree, worked in PR, marketing, a call center doing FMLA administration, at an insurance company doing sales support and for the last year or so I have done data analysis/analytics for the same insurance company. I also received a master’s in data science during my time at the insurance company and the company paid for most of it. The job pays pretty well and some days are interesting, but there are days where I feel disengaged, like I could be doing more, like the next team I am wanting to work for could train me more on data structure and data visualization and that my company could invest more in fixing the issues with our data since they are going to invest into a CRM (something I have done some training modules on). This year I am going to be 35 and I have had thoughts in the back of my mind of either getting better at what I do now and advancing to that next team, somehow going back to school to do nursing, so I would have a job that wouldn’t be easy to automate, would pay well and I would get satisfaction from helping others or moving to another company to get the training that I seek and get in an industry like healthcare. The challenge is that my wife wants another baby, we own a home and pay for daycare. So I don’t know if right now makes sense to go back to school or if there are nursing programs in the evening. It seems like I could get the best of both worlds if I upskilled in data analytics/engineering/visualization and then made it my goal to work for a healthcare organization. So I have that to consider too.

That is a fair analysis of Kopech. I tend to think that he will figure it out and be a serviceable pitcher, but I don’t think he will be a star. I also think he could also belong in the pen, but they didn’t get another starter to allow him to be that. I’m optimistic Lynn also still has something in the tank, even if he’s fat and old. I get those vibes too, but I still sense improvement coming that will change that narrative. There are signs that support a continuation of last year and a difference from then.

I know, but look at the reactions from some posters and Chicago media.

Don’t have time for that, but I’m sure there’s overreacting. I mean if it were one month in, I would be more upset. But it’s only April 6. They sure are.

Are we saying Lance Lynn’s career done like Michael Kopech’s was the other day? (He’s had a bad performance today but I wondered if we were overreacting again.)

What did you switch to? What caused you to make the switch and how did you manage your living expenses while making the switch? I’m thinking I’ll have to make another change in the coming years which I think I might write about in the job thread…

Thanks! Someone has to play outfield when someone gets hurt. Leury isn’t that guy anymore so Romy has to be.