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Isn’t it challengeable. Wtf.

Ok - you are confirming it. Last time they interviewed Willie and than hired TLR (no other interviews - including Hinch?). This is already a step better - presuming they go through with the interviews.

This is nice. Technically last hiring cycle did they interview Hinch (I don't remember)?

That was all a play by the White Sox front office to keep people off the scent.

Dj Moore is intriguing.

Fields much better today. Two weeks of real progress. Let’s see a third week of improvement against Washington!

That is my point - my understanding is the Sox rank very low in both depth and financial pay of there scouts, front office, analytics and development people. So they have basically poured every dollar into major league talent vs. allocating more to the minor leagues, development and scouting. The reality is - putting more money at the lower levels - enables you to run at the higher level with a lower payroll and they have to take a better, long-term view for how they balance. This is not to say the Sox don't pay a fair wage to there scouts - my understanding is they just have far fewer people and similarly in the higher level front office roles, they basically have an echo chamber of limited minds vs. a deep, integrated, highly open front office that will drive collaborative discussions and challenge.

I am convinced they will trade White for someone who can give them insurance for Lonzo. It was preseason so I hope this bites me - but Dragic looked toast. On the other hand - Terry was way more athletic / quick than I expected.

Preseason and bulls overall were sloppy. I see why I have read nothing about White - cause he looks like the exact same player he was since his rookie year. The opposite of that was Williams. I read about his workouts and he looked much different. Last year he looked slow before going down - he looked much quicker this year.

Let the bulls surprise us in a good way!

Petis, St Brown - look at there career numbers entering the year. Wow - they are legit nobodies yet being asked to be #2/#3's at this point. That is U G L Y

The Sox goal should be to have a top 5 scout, minor league coaching, analytic, and development staff in terms of comp. I don't care if there payroll is 15th in baseball - I want an org that manages its baseball people and strength and development and pays them and builds a unit with depth, expertise and specialization where appropriate. That should be the focus - if that means they cheap out $20M on payroll to fund it - so be it.

I don't know if it was last years hamstring injuries or what - but his defense fell off a cliff. Than again - so did Robert's. Makes you wonder.

The National narrative is the opposite - the national narrative is the Bears have given Fields nothing and all of the issues go beyond Fields and he basically has zero chance. The truth is somewhere in between. Games 1-3 - it was a lot on Fields; Game 4 - I'd say Fields was better (still wouldn't say good) - but a lot of parts around him were just a disaster.

I didn’t watch yesterdays game so watched more highlights last night and today of his misses (not his makes) and wow at the amount of them that he had zero chance or his teammates completely wet the bed. First few games - I saw a lot on Fields - this looked like a better Fields but everything around him was utter s%*#. Whether guys dropping good balls or mustipher completely wetting the bed etc. Not saying Fields was great but there was progress…there was also complete s%*# play around him. Oh and Jenkins was a monster.

I enjoyed the 1st season of ALl of Us Are Dead. Just saw where there will be a Season 2.

Signing Correa would be a-okay in my book. Dude didn't have his best season and put up 5 WAR. The defense also upgrades across the board - presuming Tim or Yoan is okay with it (cause one of them has to pivot). Doesn't solve the righty dominant lineup issue but shoot - team is a heck of a lot better. Only issue with Carlos is he seems to miss time almost every season (so in that case he'd fit right in). But man - a year ago he was a 7 WAR player (and if I round up one year of 6.7 - he basically has 3 seasons of 7 WAR production). Dude instantly becomes best player on the Sox.

I don’t know how engaged Kenny is or isn’t this days - but he is and always will be 10 times the GM Hahn ever was. But like Paxson with Bulls my impression is KW has other priorities Vs day to day of White Sox and focus on talent development.

Let it burn to finish - no mercy - they need to clean house - front office on down.

I really don’t see Tony returning. So the real question is whether Hahn and Kw are back or if only one of them are back. I think 95%+ no Tony, 75%+ odds brand new mgr (ie no Cairo), 30% one of KW/RH gone, 10% all of the above are gone. That to me is what we watch for and the intrigue of the offseason significantly increases as more change happens.

This sounds super cool - especially since this is a test and not a real situation where if we failed it means the end of the world

Bochy would be awesome.

I was pissed - I was planning on going to a game on saturday and was hoping he'd get to 699 and I'd be a vulture at the next games. Had to be electric to be there live.

As much as I have come to expect anything out of this org - there is zero chance Tony is back. I mean oh my goodness if he is back. Quite frankly - I am really really interested to see what happens over the next few weeks. I think Nigtengale had said at different times - if the Sox didn't win, it wasn't just Tony that would be the fall guy and now I'm really really interested to see what happens. If nothing else - Tony can go down as health related and than JR can do TLR a solid by dumping Hahn (with KW retiring) and laying the blame on Hanh. I could care less - as I will support whatever it takes for there to be a changing of the guard in Chicago - top to bottom. Of course they'll follow it up by hiring Getz, which he could be the next Theo himself but if whomever they hire is from this org - I literally want nothing to do with them by default.

Honestly - I am happy they are fading now. Gets rid of Hanh / Kw's excuse. They need a full restart when it comes to coaches and front office. Get rid of the inwardly focused nature of this franchise. They wouldn't know what a good franchise was if it hit them in the head. They are so past the times and completely oblivious to what real franchises do, including how they spend their money and what true talent development and analytics looks like. They are 10 years behind in the times and that is the legit truth.