WhiteSox2023

The irony is how similar the level of success is between the two teams. It shouldn’t be a surprise that JR would want to imitate a team that had a brief window of success, won one World Series, and went back to being perennially bad. The Sox were already the Royals, a decade earlier.

Branch Rickey… viagra to JR’s ears.

Typical Jim Thome fluff. They all have a great swing and can be productive, etc.

“The 2024 White Sox — Losing with Respect.”

No one could believe it because it makes zero sense. If you want to prototype a team, there are much better examples to follow on both sides of the spending spectrum with the Rays and Dodgers. But no, the Sox choose to copy one of the worst teams in baseball. There can’t be a dumber franchise in all of sports.

That’s amazing and embarrassing all at once. The Sox are the only team that would use a perennial loser like the Royals as the prototype for their big front office change and rebuild. The “bad” as Moustakas’s position is absolutely hilarious.

It’s definitely the worst I have ever seen. It think it has the chance to be historically bad.

Jim Thome on The Score talking about the Sox, including George Wolkow and Eloy.

I wonder if another obese whale of a teacher will harpoon herself once again with a pocket pistol?

Former Royal? ✔ Bad? ✔ Cheap? ✔ Getz: “Sign him up!”

Worst 4-5-6 of all time?

Sure, they can… but they won’t. Have you not been paying attention to JR and the Sox in free agency over the past 20+ years?

Not a very well thought out post, huh? I bet you are feeling it right now… you literally had no clue how bad you were trolling yourself as you hit that post button. Man, I bet it burns…

We’ve seen this song and dance before. Good enough to just make or miss the playoffs. Not good enough that it means a damn either way. ?

Half the roster is already cooked, but they still have to field a team. ?

I think it’s a combination of “Poles got his guy”, he didn’t want to potentially lose out on Bates to other interested teams, and he also thinks Bates can be an above average center on a cheap contract, rather than overspending to bring in a legitimate starting center. We will have to wait to find out if Poles was correct in his assessment. I don’t really think he was duped by the Bills. The facts were out there — Bates started for the Bills two seasons ago but he was on the bench last season. So either Poles sees something in Bates that the Bills didn’t, or Poles is wrong and Bates is just a backup quality OL. A fifth rounder is not a massive loss. Many fifth round picks end up being cut anyways. Now Poles’ trade of the first pick in the second round for a lazy bum WR will forever be his legacy if he fails to get the job done with the Bears.

Maybe one day it will happen. But am just assuming that our Dark Sith Lord will outlast Soto hitting free agency.

Konerko is right. Vaughn is definitely not a home run hitter. ? Konerko could probably outhit Vaughn right now.

Well stated, unfortunately.

The Sox are starting the same type of player at SS, 2B, and catcher as well. You shouldn’t be surprised.

“Our current ballpark will never be profitable. We need one billion to fund our new ballpark. Damn cheap Sox fans…”

I think his cerebral palsy impacts his eyesight.

If DeJong was just a bad hitter last year, I’d have some faith in a turnaround. But he’s been awful with the bat since the end of the 2019 season. He is what he is.