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Or did you mean to say you are not Not Cishek ? The old Shell game ? Did you stay at a Holiday Inn express ? Bananas.

I'm sure you know he could be pulling our legs.

Sox are going to have to take a look at all viable starting pitching candidates not just the popular ones thrown around here. Plenty of them will have successful seasons next year. There are always a couple of big surprises. No one knows definitively who it will be. Plenty of people like to talk in absolutes like some things will never happen . Just look through the LaRussa thread. You will see plenty of examples of that.

Ken Berry a childhood favorite and 50 years later Robert now an adulthood favorite.

It did at the trade deadline but apparently TX wanted the moon or ,you know ,we didn't think he was necessary. I don't think most of the board was in favor of it then. I was very vocal that it made more sense then than it does now since we can chose some FA instead and we could've gone very far in the playoffs with him. No one who is still pissed about losing to the A's but didn't want Lynn during the season should still be upset.

Are you advocating that Tony Robbins could be a baseball manager ? I think that in order to have "great abilities to relate to players" you need to have an extensive background in baseball .How can you relate to them without having many of the same experiences they have had ? Statistical information is great and should have a great deal to do with how you make decisions but observations where you apply your baseball wisdom are just as important. With either stats or baseball acumen decisions can go awry since there is never a 100% right choice either way. The only right decision is the one that works which means all managers will be 2nd guessed time after time.

Renteria ?

Not a whole helluva lot is the answer you are looking for.

LOL I guess it depends on the source of the lyrics. The source I checked says otherwise. You're probably right but the point was if we got scrutinized about our brain function every time we couldn't remember where we left our keys as much as a manager does about his decisions in the dugout we'd all be accused of losing brain cells at a pace of a 76 year old. But either way I feel fine. I do love that song though so good choice.

Jerry's reputation is on the line ? I'd have to know what that reputation is before I could declare it's on the line. If I had to venture a guess as to his established reputation, I'd say he is a very smart man, loves baseball and is loyal but loves being smart with money more. The Sox losing more than they win is an already established pattern in his ownership. I doubt a few more years of that pattern will sully his reputation in the rest of his time left .

Good post except when we get to your last sentence. 1st you say there's a decent chance it works out which I take to mean the Sox already have enough talent that in the years LaRussa manages that the Sox win a Championship ? I actually can't see how that would be blind luck. If the talent is there and if the Hall of Fame is truly reserved for the best ever then LaRussa isn't a terrible choice if given a fair shake by the players. It's not like the Sox hired an organ grinder monkey to manage the team .Yes I have said both LaRussa and Hinch would've been bad choices and would make the Sox look idiotic but what looks idiotic now ,in the inspection stage , doesn't mean it won't end up being a smart move in the end of the season review . He's here . He isn't going anywhere (God willing ). So now it's time to give the guy a chance to do what he was hired to do . If I want the players to give the guy a fair shot then I have to do the same.

You know it isn't quite the end of the world as we know it. I mean if we want to start thinking every time we forget or make a mistake after a certain age we are to be pitied and thought to be unable to function in our jobs we might as well all be killed when we hit our 30th birthday like in Logan's Run. By the way the last 2 words are "and aeroplanes. " Is a typo or incorrect spelling a sign that your cognitive powers are waning ? I know he's a terrible choice but if you are making the argument that he's not sharp enough to manage a ball club then that pig just won't fly.

My mama said, "you can't hurry love No, you'll just have to wait" She said, "love don't come easy But it's a game of give and take"

Hey good list but I don't see how you could leave off not only how players on our team feel about the hire but players around baseball, specifically free agents. You could make an argument that money talks loudest I suppose when it comes to the majority of Free Agents but it just makes the organization look soooooooooooooooooo ridiculously idiotic. How our players feel is the main concern. The fact that the Sox now have to reach out to reassure them to give LaRussa a chance shouldn't have to happen.Every disagreement with LaRussa among players now has the potential to turn into hatred for the organization. Lucky for Hahn he tied up our young stars to longer deals because he's probably not going to be able to do that now.

I was re-reading the thread and your post got no likes or anything but you really nailed it when you said you didn't get the memo that the Reinsdorf Loyalty Program had ended so the overtures to LaRussa had to be legit. Sometimes being anti Jerry means you are correct. Hiring LaRussa put your arch rival SS2K5 into a deep tailspin.

Which street corner are on now so I can come by throw some nickels in your tin cup ?

I think all of you should be as ashamed of yourselves as the guy who called it by the name we all understand should not be used. This always seems to be the case that instead of educating, we voice our disgust and that leads nowhere. If the ignorant need correcting do it. Educate them. By voicing your disgust you are only saying "Look at me I am an enlightened person. " We all must do our part to make the world a better place and shouting opposition is better than nothing but not as good as applying rational thought and education or in many instances re-education to the process. Instead of using your own words that might show your disdain use a well written article on the subject such as this one. https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/23074/

And this surprisingly is where you , me and the majority of the board who voted feels. Many of us cannot say who we would hire but we know who we wouldn't hire. You want the transition to a new manager to be as smooth as possible. To accomplish this you eliminate controversial figures, therefore, no LaRussa, Hinch or Cora. After that you start the interview process with Bochy, Alomar, Quatraro and whoever else you are supposed to interview per league mandate and who fit the criteria that Hahn laid out in his initial press conference after firing RR. Let everything run its course. Show you took the time necessary to make a wise decision to make a high percentage of your players, organization and fans applaud the decision and the process.

Three Dog Night, one of their many great songs. Oh I never been to England but I kinda like the Beatles !

If White Sox ownership/management can piss even you off, now you understand how many of us here have been feeling for years. They aren't a group to put much faith into.

D) None of the above

And I am really not saying that LaRussa would be the cause of all that . 2-7 are my normal view. Right when we start thinking Sox management might finally have opened their eyes those eyes start looking in the wrong direction . Sox ownership is Lucy holding the football and we are Charlie Brown falling for the same trick again and again as Lucy pulls the football away when Charlie Brown tries to kick it and ends up flat on his back . Call it the carrot, the brass ring, the con man's best weapon is the mark wanting that elusive thing of value.

I find the wanting Hinch as repulsive as wanting Larussa .I mean you might as well consider Ozzie Guillen while you're at it if you are looking for a controversial hire.

!. Sox hire Tony LaRussa 2. Sox fans look for silver lining 3. Sox fans get aluminum lining. 4. Some major young pieces get traded. 5. Sox miss the playoffs. 6. Fans continue to look for silver linings. 7. Repeat 5 and 6 again and again.

Not sure someone of Reinsdorfs age ever considers his nuts on the line. Every morning he can be vertical is the most joyous part of his day.