WhiteSox2023

Words aren’t even needed, but his idol in life is Bernstein. ? And what would you call this look, hillbilly emo? https://x.com/shane_riordan/status/1792588328207847841

No one would even know who the hell Grifol was, much less any of the Sox players. A 16 year old high school girl sure wouldn’t. ?

Yeah, I’ll take the guy that can hit and stay healthy over the guy who is always injured and even when he’s healthy he can’t hit.

Yup. Devers has out-OPS’ed Moncada by .100 points in their respective careers. Sad.

Might be a package deal to a team needing both a starter and bullpen help. They would both only be around $5 million for the rest of the season closer to the deadline and then around $10 million for next year.

I saw this quote in another thread. Pukeworthy. ? ?

Grifol is a moron. ”Beni is a consistent pillar in our lineup.” Yeah, cuz they can’t cut him cuz of his obscene contract. It makes no sense to call up a guy like Fletcher if you aren’t going to play him consistently. Figure out if he can play or if he’s a bust like most of Getz’s other acquisitions.

Getz failed to find both positions as well (see Lopez and Fletcher), but apparently you only want to rip Hahn for these same failures.

Also, can we stop using injuries to Eloy and Moncada as an excuse? One should expect these two guys to be injured more often than they actually play at this point. To a lesser extent, Robert is starting to show the same signs of being injury-prone just like those two.

When has a JR owned Sox team gone after the big fish? They will do what they always do in free agency and spread their money out on a bunch of mediocre players, rather than signing one star that could out-WAR their entire offseason. It’s sad but true and it doesn’t matter who the GM is — Getz, Hahn, or Kenny. It’s Jerry’s call. He doesn’t believe in paying the price that top free agents cost. It will be more of the same strategy — sign mediocre, mid-level or lower tier free agents and hope they match their career years.

There was hope last year that they would be good. This offseason, we watched our new GM sign a bunch of guys that everyone knew would suck. I don’t find any of these terrible vets likable.

I like how he is using lack of fan support as an excuse for the team losing without having the balls to say it. Grifol is a coward and a clown.

Bummer’s numbers are starting to look good. His K/9 is good but his WHIP is still high from giving up too many hits. But it could still be a good trade for both teams with the Sox getting Shuster and Gowens. I’m skeptical on Shuster but we’ll see. Lopez, Soroka, and Shewmake are trash unfortunately.

If you watched each and every one of Getz’s roster moves, it’s pretty obvious he panicked. Trading talent for Bailey Horn and then having to DFA Horn is one example. He started out not wanting to cut bad veteran relievers loose to later cutting both these same vets as well as prospects loose to make room on the 40-man roster for new players.

Well, that didn’t last long… Cutting one horrible pitcher to bring back another horrible pitcher who should also be DFA. ?

He’s bad but he makes it worse by pretending to be completely baseball stupid just to set up Stone Pony to answer a question. But like @southsider2k5 has said, The Legend isn’t looking to help any of his partners very much by sparking much discussion.

Compliments of @Quin…

Banjo Getz. ???

Remember when Flexen was tradeable for about 5 minutes? ?

Nope, I heard it live. The dude literally said this on air. “Dan, I’ll have sex with your mother.” A sports radio producer said this live on air. Why? Cuz he’s a moron.

Riordan is still an immature idiot. He talks like a teenager and he’s over 30. He would’ve been fired by any real company. https://www.thedailybeast.com/chicagos-shane-riordan-absent-from-radio-show-after-threats-to-bone-rival-radio-hosts-mom If you like Cubs talk, Spiegel is your man. He’s a Cubs fan and will always steer the conversation to the Cubs, just like David Haugh. Which I guess I can understand since the Sox suck. Parkins is like an infomercial hype-man. Listen to him and count the number of times he says “that’s amazing” or “that’s fantastic” or “that’s outstanding” to any lame comment or barely exciting story. You could make it a drinking game and you would be hammered by an hour through the radio show.

After being DFA, Bailey Horn was traded to the Red Sox for Jerry’s favorite thing… cash.

Does it seem like there is any rhyme or reason to some of Getz’s decisions / moves?

What did he say this time?

Someone else argued with me that Keller was a good signing.