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on topic: I getz that Ng is far and away the superior candidate but I feel like it's too late and it would only be damaging to hire her as president or whatever unless you actually remove Getz from the organization entirely. Who's the boss? Who are employees supposed to actually listen to when their two bosses give them conflicting orders? Try working in an environment like this some time, you probably won't want to stay long. I actually find it amusing how gung-ho some people are to re-create the exact same organizational f***-up that only ended a few months ago. Wishing Ng the best but it won't be with this team unless Getz spectacularly fucks up and is fired before she gets another job. A committed SoxTalk poster would be trying to find his skeletons.

The lack of a vowel in the Romanization is throwing me. Fun fact: it's the Cantonese-equivalent of the surname Wu

more choices and every one of them is worse. maybe doing the same thing for 50 years is how it becomes a tradition and part of everyday life instead of a trend. maybe that's good for business, ask the catholic church.

Something tells me the Rangers' good "culture" has more to do with spending a bunch of money on good players and winning games because of it. I don't think we were talking about the Rangers when they were bottom-feeding the last decade. Bochy seems like a good manager though, maybe we only lose 94 games with him at the helm.

I think in this analogy, Chicago might be closer to Beijing than it is to Rio. Chances are it would’ve been a spectacular failure but look what they’re doing with the Olympic village site now (Michael Reese hospital site). The cost is five times higher and for something arguably much dumber and unnecessary. At least I like sports and it could’ve easily been converted into something useful.

uhh what's the record for most home runs given up in an inning in a playoff game? this meltdown happened earlier than anticipated.

I actually like Mondesi if he ever played. Seems like the exact profile you want at SS unless you have a star there. Maybe that’s Montgomery but if you’re going to have guys in the lineup that can’t hit, at least they should be plus defenders at SS or CF.

Without guys on base you don’t get rbis. There are better metrics though it isn’t useless. Batting average seems like one of those “basic” stats that probably tells you a lot, I don’t know that rbis says a lot except where the guy bats in the order, whether or not his teammates are any good, or he has the big papi mindset to hit the ball extra hard when guys are in scoring position. Otherwise rbi total probably parallels these other more useful stats. OPS isn’t a great one but it gives you a better idea of a player’s caliber.

It feels wrong that this is the most baseball I’ve watched in my life and that of course this was the year to do it. The primary reason is that I’m sick of the bulls and trading away the future for a terrible ‘win now’ roster. Impossible team to watch and its soiled the nba for me. I still genuinely think the Sox are in a better position over the next five years than the Bulls are.

I don't think it's that complex, I think it's actually common sense. Do you achieve an erection by choking and beating your sexual partner within an inch of their life? Personally, I don't. I actually think it's pretty fuckin' weird. It seems like a mental disorder that a kinder society might've picked up on and intervened in earlier to prevent these sorts of heinous acts from happening. Yeah it is heinous, it is immoral. I'm not religious, my politics tend toward left, but I'm a human being and I know what's right and what's wrong regardless of the very American logic of 'it doesn't affect you, just mind your business' because it does affect me and the rest of society. It's liberalism turned hedonism. Why care about a baseball player? Because sport reflects society, especially baseball and American society. I want the White Sox to win but I also want these 'role models' to actually act like role models, they're paying them enough money and it isn't that hard to not be a scumbag. And these guys like Bauer make things worse for themselves by acting like entitled children, that everyone else has wronged them and it has nothing to do with their own actions. I'm not "woke" in the sense that I think women might lie about such things because the millionaire athlete didn't submit to extortion. But look at Derrick Rose. He "won" his case and couldn't be convicted of a crime, but all the evidence nonetheless exposed him as a slimy weirdo. Trevor Bauer may not be a criminal who deserves life in prison, but I don't want to root for that loser and I don't want my team to sign him either.

AZ and Milwaukee are the only teams I want to advance, shame they had to meet now.

But why would you be into that? You’re really missing the point. I don’t want to associate with psychopaths who “consensually” get off on being depraved monsters. It’s sick and inhuman, I don’t care if it’s legal or not.

Personally I wanted this game to go like 20 innings. I like watching the Sox even if they’re losers. They’re still our losers. And it means the regular season is over, that’s kinda sad.

Last day of school vibes

My goodness, a song that’s “SPECIFICALLY about getting a blowjob”? Now I’ve heard everything!

he is still owed 46 million dollars, the Royals should be the one giving up prospects to get out from that. I can't imagine any scenario where any prospect more valuable than Wilfred Veras is traded for Perez. I'd actually like the guy on the team but you'd have to be foolish to give up anything of actual value.

Dylan Cease has pitched 16.2 innings in his career during the seventh through ninth innings. Logan Webb has 26.1 IP this season. nice outing but did he even consider not throwing so many pitches?

I sure hope not, it was an attempt at a joke considering the track record of professional sports teams, but specifically Omar Vizquel and Brad Aldrich were front of mind. Speaking of Vizquel, I had this video game when I was a kid "Triple Play 2000" that led me to believe he was the best baseball player that ever lived. I didn't think about him for 20 years until I heard he was molesting developmentally disabled batboys...

This is all a great point and I don't disagree with it in principle, I just have trouble imagining a scenario where they hire or promote or otherwise create this many executive roles and then hire the ensuing staff to make it worthwhile. Somehow I imagine it's 6 VPs, Getz, Jerry and 5 personal assistants because the 6th VP's just quit due to a pending sexual harassment lawsuit. I think it's great that they hired the supporting VPs they did and maybe that means turning over a new leaf. I don't rule it out, I'm just not optimistic that Reinsdorf actually wants to pay salaries to staff an organization. I'm not the sort of fan that thinks Reinsdorf is "cheap" when it comes to spending on the Sox or Bulls roster, but I imagine he views players as assets and front office staff as a sunk cost.

I think a better analogy is that the boat is actually a submarine and everything will seem normal for a while until that extra gravel or air (dead) weight added to the ballast causes the sub to sink slightly lower than it ought to and it implodes and everyone dies a horrific death. at least with a boat, there's a chance to evacuate.

too many chiefs, not enough... I wonder about an organization where half the staff has 'manager' or 'executive' or 'president' in their title. One time I worked for a company where every wagie's title was "such and such manager." the company is no longer in business. in the context of Reinsdorf organizations, too many 'decisionmakers' seems historically like the primary problem.

throwing his helmet down aggressively is what got him tossed. one of the worst calls i've ever seen considering the circumstances. on the flipside, the cubs blow it again in spectacular fashion. i like cody bellinger hugging acuna in the bottom of the 10th instead of holding him on the base, pre-congratulating him on his 70th stolen base. next ball in play is atl walking off the cubs. bad team, should've traded bellinger.

I thought good pitchers came to the Sox to die and vice versa. I thought the Dodgers just told pitchers it was all in the tongue and the finger and their careers were rejuvenated but guess what Lance is still fucking bad

why decline the option? the only possible "benefit" I can imagine is that it saves Reinsdorf money. either he performs better next season and you trade him for literally anything, or he expires next season and it's the same thing. they're not going to decline the option but I bet he plays more at 2b next season and they sign somebody like rosario or (100% chance of happening) adalberto mondesi

I think it's hard to put the White Sox below the Mets or Padres, especially the Mets and their con artist owner. The Sox and Cardinals were worse than everybody thought, but in retrospect there's nothing surprising about their underperformance. It was a bad combination of bad, overpaid players. The not-Dodgers and not-Yankees were gilded losers and deserve far more scrutiny. The Mets are a worse team, were more overhyped to begin the season and, as far as I can tell, Steve Cohen is a bigger asshole than the other guy, but the Padres are stuck paying their losers for the next decade and have to make decisions on Snell and Soto. At least the Mets got rid of their most overpaid losers and turned them into maybe-good players. The Padres might also still make the playoffs, I don't know why they'd publish this article now instead of waiting literally a week. Anyway, the front office turmoil should be viewed as a positive for the Sox, it's a good thing that those guys got fired even if Getz isn't the 'right guy'. Not to mention, that fat fold shooting mystery is arguably the funniest thing I've ever heard about happening at a baseball game and ultimately baseball is about entertainment so that should be reflected in the rankings.