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McGuffey answered this as well… Kenny wanted to trade Burger to the Marlins so he did. Hahn wanted to trade Anderson to the Marlins but Kenny vetoed it. Kenny loved Anderson. Like I said, Kenny had the sole decision making on trades with the Marlins and Yankees. He was the final say on trades with those two teams.

You already know the answer to this — because Jerry runs his organization like a goofball and the Sox front office was a clown show. All I know is, if Hahn and Kenny couldn’t even align on trades, I seriously doubt Getz had any sort of opinion or power in the decision making.

Ryan McGuffey already stated in his podcast that Kenny Williams alone traded Burger to the Marlins. As ludicrous as this is, Kenny had the sole power and decision making to execute trades with two teams over Rick Hahn — the Yankees and Marlins. The trade had nothing to do with even Hahn, much less Chris Getz.

Awesome, haha. Jerry hand-picked one guy. No one else had a shot. Resumes were not necessary or reviewed.

You beat me to it but this is what I was going to say. I doubt you can find everything in a physical but the glaring things should show up. The Orioles just pulled back a contract to Jeff Hoffman for 3-years, $40 million because of something that showed up in his physical regarding his right shoulder.

Thanks, haha. I just assumed by reading the release that everyone listed would be attending both days of SoxFest, considering there is a footnote that says only Buehrle will be attending the first day and not Saturday.

Not at all. I hope Vargas becomes a star, cuz god knows Jerry won’t allow Getz to sign one in free agency. And whether you pull for Vargas or people think he sucks, none of it matters. Only Vargas can prove his own worth. So far in his career, he has failed to do so, and that isn’t a result of fans on a message board saying that he sucks.

Oh, I see. I assumed he would be there every day considering the footnote that Buehrle will only be there one day.

I’d rather not live my life by what Hillary Duff and Wanda Sykes think, but you go ahead.

Like I said, the White Sox are the trading post/whore house for the Red Sox.

Most players that are forced to sign with the lowly White Sox are probably crying on the inside at the very least.

You already know how cheap Jerry is. We had both Cease and Crochet at the same time, yet the team still wasn’t good enough to win anything. Perhaps the Sox will be good once their young players develop, but by then do you think Jerry would have paid both Cease and Crochet their going rate in free agency? As much as I am not a fan of Getz, trading Cease and Crochet was all on Jerry, not Getz.

It’s a shame Getz didn’t just trade Kopech for Albertus and Perez and dealt Fedde in a separate deal.

No on Wilson. He has at least shown some history of success. Yes on Leasure. But neither one throws enough strikes. They both walk the world.

His 2021 and 2022 seasons say that you are full of s%*#. The Dodgers thought he was a commodity.

Sorry, I had Getz’s previous job title wrong. He was the director of player development.

Leone didn’t exactly having recent signs of much success in his prior two seasons.

Meanwhile, the Giants are out there DFA’ing better players than the White Sox have on their roster… “Giants designated C/OF Blake Sabol for assignment. The move is necessary after the Giants signed Justin Verlander and needed room on the 40-man roster. Sabol, 27, should see interest on the waiver wire as a player who can play in the outfield as well as catch, so it wouldn’t be a surprise if he was claimed or if the Giants were able to work out a trade for the backup backstop.”

Bwahahaha, he sucks but at least that garbage makes me laugh. This one cracked me up…

Why did the former Director of Player Personnel and Assistant GM have such a collection of schlubs to begin with?

Yeah, it’s a shame that Getz didn’t help develop more players in his previous role so the cupboard wouldn’t be as barren as it was when he was gifted the role of GM by Jerry.

41-121. Enough said.

Oh yes, sorry, I’m sure he meant that anyone who praises Getz is gay. Either idea is just plain stupid.

Yet none of those players were actually around for the WS team. Cameron had been traded for Konerko six freaking years earlier. Lee was traded for Scottie Pods in the offseason. It was just a series of moves that all panned out for one season. There was no rebuild. If there was a rebuild, the team shouldn’t have fallen apart after just one more season.