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Why not, if you have tolerated JR as owner for this long ? Everything wrong with the Sox is just a trickle down effect.

I've said that a few times even though I can never be 100% certain they weren't talking to him before the Lynn injury. I've also said they may have also talked to Martin Perez since the signed Velasquez for $3M 2 days after Perez signed with the Rangers for $4M.

OMG how strange you are ! You just ignore everything else wrong with the organization. Then you tell me I'm carrying water for TLR when I just told you his hiring was a major disaster ! At least when I do me I don't try to twist what was obviously not carrying water for TLR into something else. I post honestly. You post untruths that try to push off as truth. He is just a small piece of what the organization has been doing for year after year. Who hired TLR ? Oh it was JR ! Who is the chairman of the board of the White Sox ? JR ! How many playoffs have the Sox been in that advanced beyond the 1st round in 40 years ? 1 You are carrying water for JR and that is a lot closer to the truth than me carrying water for TLR which I was zero history of. Why the hell would anyone carry water for TLR ?

LMAO sure keep sticking your head in the sand. I'm not saying hiring TLR wasn't a major disaster but if you think he's the only problem you are extremely gullible and shortsighted and have ignored 40 years of baseball with JR as the owner.

It's easy to pay money on payroll and when it goes to hell, reduced payroll. The hard part is spending the money for top people in the organization and paying them for many many years and acting as if you care about building an infrastructure that would allow you to win. The problem is, if you do that and are always in a position to win then you have to keep spending large amounts to keep it running that way. When you hire incompetents you can keep them around and say it's loyalty when it's really part of the master plan to spend less and make more because your team sucks. Winning isn't cheap. Losing is much cheaper over time as long as you can fool the masses into thinking you're really trying to build a winner.

If that's what you truly think you haven't been paying attention for 40 years. I mean sure it's great if you want to wrap things all up and put a bow on it and think things would've much different with whoever Hahn hired. Hahn would still be and GM and JR still the owner.

Those guys would be throwing good money after bad. And while that is typical of the Sox to do they do it in much smaller chunks on a lot of relievers who cost waaaaaaay less .

If you're asking about 2022 you're asking the wrong questions. What is wrong with the franchise is ownership's inability to do things that teams who run good franchises do. This isn't all about money so no need to bring up the Dodgers but the Dodgers just add to their wealth by also spending money also. It starts with hiring the best people in many areas of the organization. Scouts, analytics, bio-mechanics, coaches, executives who have built or had a big part in building other successful organizations from the ground up. They decided to rebuild without doing any of that stuff . I would think a business man like Reinsdorf would understand that spending on infrastructure is a small fraction of what he''ll spend on payroll for players. If he gets the right people doing the right things the farm system could've provided more talent for years. But nope, JR handicaps them because he doesn't like paying for extremely young talent . Kenny Williams should have been fired when the Wilder scandal happened. Hahn and/or Kenny convinced JR to rebuild but then someone should have convinced JR to fire Hahn and KW and hire people from Tampa Bay. Of course it may not have mattered since JR is still the one pulling the strings. The rebuild was doomed long before the Sox hired TLR.

If Timmy wants to broaden his horizons by playing all over the world for his country more power to him. He might get to see how truly dedicated players care about the sport and learn something from his team mates.

I think this is often overlooked just because the team has been .500 for a year. Plus WARP time missed might be under estimated because it's hard to estimate just how much WARP a healthy Robert and Eloy could generate since we've never seen a full season from either one. I know these estimates on WARP missed could also apply to the Rays and Dodgers who have also missed a large amount of estimated WARP due to injuries.

This was from Tenor where i just dragged it but from giphy I have no idea. I'ved tried embedding the url but it just turns up as a link. Oh ha I was going to say just experiment hence the scientist .gif

Haven't been paying attention to the Grandal situation. Kind of surprised he's already in a rehab assignment.

Duke Ellis with a busy night for the Barons 4/5 ,a double, 2 runs scored, 2 stolen bases and an error.

Not getting out of this one.

2 for 11

LOL wow prolonging the agony .

Not much of a stretch from ABreu but then again he's not expecting a 15 MPH throw .

Double or nothing with your last $1M for the 9th ?

uh uh.

Kellyoke.

Time for defense. Lambert don't fuck up.

There we go Pito !

Robert missing some good pitches

Strained hammy again like 4th time in career. Maybe more.

Good job Rey. How bout a 2 Homer game Vaughnie ? I'll take one from any other White Sox player too.