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Vargas’s best position is likely DH as well.

I agree with you that it isn’t going to happen, but it IS a “bold prediction”.

You are hyping up 37 ST plate appearances each for Vargas and Sosa. You did this last year as well and we all saw what happened. Regardless, not one team in baseball is trading a Coby Mayo for a Colson Montgomery, Sosa, or Vargas, because of a tiny sample size of ST plate appearances. The larger sample size of actual meaningful MLB plate appearances tells a more reliable story. Miguel Vargas (age 25) — .586 OPS in 591 career MLB PA Lenny Sosa (age 25) — .604 OPS in 578 career MLB PA Coby Mayo (age 23) — .293 OPS in 46 career MLB PA I know which player I would pick out of those three in a split second, and I wouldn’t need to ask Ryan Fuller. He’d take Mayo too. But if Fuller is truly the solution, why didn’t Mayo have more success in his small sample size in the majors last season?

I call BS on this. The guy hit .293 with a .964 OPS and 25 homers last year in the minors. Meanwhile, we are hoping one of our top position prospects that hit .214/.710 last year can save our lineup, and that’s only IF his back issues ever fully clear up. Or that a guy with no position or glove will actually start to hit in the majors after 591 garbage plate appearances in the majors. Ripping on Mayo but having hope for guys like Vargas and Colson is the peak of hypocrisy. Afterall, if the Orioles are that unwell off with Mayo, what does that say about the Sox with players like Vargas and Colson?

Is that Luis Robert running to first base?

Thankfully the Sox apparently haven’t hit rock bottom yet, even with 121 record losses last year! There’s always a deeper grave for the Sox to aspire for! 🤣

Boom. This would be an opposite side of the spectrum when looking at Burke’s background in the minors. Hopefully he magically figures it out but walks will likely always be an issue for him.

Your problem is that you need to have hope for this team for whatever reason, otherwise your world will apparently be shattered. To LipMan and other people who have seen the same things happen to the Sox year after year, like injuries, misdiagnosed injuries, and ultimately failure and suckitude, this crap is just par for the course. You see it happen so often with the Sox that “it’s laughable”. That doesn’t mean LipMan or anyone else is praying for injuries. It’s like watching the same train wreck year after year. Why you care so much about what other people think and have coined them “grumps” is more a reflection on you and that you can’t handle any criticism of your favorite awful baseball team.

Haha, and what is a brown noser? Someone with their nose up another person’s ass?

Grumps cheering for injuries? No, but not surprised that you would claim that. More like many injuries that start as wait and see and turn into TJ surgeries. The Sox timelines are always off. It happens all the time. No one is rooting for it to happen. It just happens. I remember when Thorpe was supposed to be fine for ST and there was no expectation that he wouldn’t be ready for opening day.

It happened a few times/injuries with Deng though, not just the meningitis diagnosis. How often does it have to happen before it is a running theme due to failure, rather than a one off incident?

That’s epic, coming from the master of all Sox/Getz ball washers. I remembered Deng blaming the Bulls medical team and just posted the video. Perhaps the same deadbeat owner of two losing franchises is bad at picking GMs, who in turn are bad at hiring the right people in their respective organizations?

I never said he sued them. Deng said his options were to sue and likely retire from basketball or not sue and continue to play basketball. He wanted to keep playing. Listen to it for yourself…

Great callout. There’s an interview that you may have seen where Deng flat out blames the Bulls for failing miserably with his injury diagnoses. He mentioned how he contemplated suing them but decided against it since he was primarily a Bull for his entire career and didn’t want to ruin that in any way.

Also shocking that anyone would ever question a cream of the crop franchise like the White Sox.

If you ever got your chance to interview for the Sox GM job and won it, would your teams have won 130 games a year?

Doesn’t Crochet also have way more command/control than Burke?

Imagine not making this roster… How soon until Fletcher is selling car insurance?

Okay, I guess I can expect them to compete with the Lions, Vikings, and Packers then. We’ll see…

It’s a bit strange that you care this much about people on a message board that you will more than likely never meet in person. Also, no one put Autumn Dreaming in her place. Go back and read her posts. She was basically complaining that people were negative about the team. So apparently you should only ever be happy-happy-joy-joy about the Sox and can never doubt them, even when history has shown that the doubters have been right more often than not? And Gestapo tactics? LOL. Is SoxTalk a concentration camp as well? You know, you aren’t actually being forced to logon to this site and be punished and belittled as you claim.

Someone mentioned the same thing a week or so ago and I think the answer was that he has always done it. No idea if it has affected his back though.

It only went over his head because he misread it. He had all day to get there.

What a botched play in CF. That wasn’t really a tough play.

The Bears needed a stud pass rusher. Poles just got a guy. What was the point of having so much money if you just grab second and third tier players? I see them being a .500 team at best.