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I think what sucks is because we get a manager search every few years we still hold out hope that we'll find some guy that can perform some bottom-up transformation. But I kinda think even if we had hired AJ Hinch, he's not that good of a manager without executing for a smart front office (see his first years).

this is one of those things about the suburbs. There's extreme winners and losers. For anyone on north and west or farther south sides, 35th and shields is a little painful but not bad. Move them to Tinley /Orland Park and it's painful east and south, and there's no "take a train after work and uber home" left. For football, I never minded the idea of them going to arlington heights. But for baseball, inconvenience is death for me attending a weeknight game.

I'm fascinated by how the best run orgs do so well at hiring. The Royals, with new owner, get put in the same situation as our clown show, let Grifol go and hire Quatraro. He works with their young players and helps turn them around. The sox hire Tony LaRussa, a retired, old out of touch manager who was completely wrong for the team. The astros hire Dusty, a retired older manager who was the perfect steady hand for that team. The Mets hired Buck Showalter, a kick in the butt who had mellowed out and got them an exciting year after underperforming for a few. We will sit here and look for a profile we like. But for these roles like GM, like manager, the interviews and reputation and set-up they have matters a lot. Whomever they hire, we have to assume he sucks, because Jerry Reinsdorf believed he would be good. That's called updating our priors, I think.

I think it may have been hard to make a last minute change in london with 200+ people getting shelter, etc. I understand them going later considering they'd be away from families for 2 weeks instead of just the weekend like the bears. It's a tough situation but I think they deserve some grace here, hard to make last minute adjustments with a huge operation like this.

More realistic is you'd take 3-4 pitching prospects over one can't miss one. And no, i'd take the can't miss one.

I'd counter that this board was pretty much in agreement that the sox should not take high schoolers because they couldn't develop them because of Courtney Hawkins, and it was mostly just ignorant of the fact that the sox weren't drafting high schoolers so the one that failed stuck out. They finally stopped that crap and their drafting has gotten much better. Yoan Moncada was only an oft injured but definite MLB starter, and Kopech was just a ok then dominant closer, so the white sox should never again trade for top prospects? It's a dumb idea. I would be more open to "don't trade your everyday 3B for a 25 year old pitching prospect coming of TJS" more than Moncada.

Luis was signed, and Eloy was in A ball. That deal also netted Cease, who became one of the top pitchers in baseball. Those trades were actually fine, they netted starters. The problem was just laziness. The concept of trading for good prospects is not unsound because of the last rebuild.

Haven’t been following but assuming this trade is near complete right

I watched the steelers/cowboys last night. Main thoughts: even as I wanted to move on, it was clear Justin Fields was a top 25 QB in the league. The Steelers don't need a lot at QB to win, but he is so much better than what they got with Kenny PIckett. You never know but I 'd be surprised if Russ gets job back. I think we should have gotten more, but you can see that Arthur Smith is providing about the best offense for him, and Smith didn't even want him. I think it's true that nobody really wants to make an offense around Fields, and 75% of the league is Shanahan/Mcvay now which isn't a great offense for him. Jalen Tolbert is finally getting more play on the cowboys, even Velus had outplayed him from their 3rd round position. Third rounds under Poles (Pickens, Velus, and I'm gonna throw out Kiran) have been confusing to me. Kiran may be great and that makes it all moot, but still 3rd round should be solid starters, strange to me to go huge project so soon.

For example, bengals got right last week vs panthers, hang 38 today vs ravens. Could have easily been a ho hum affair like last week even if they pulled it out.

I don’t care it was the panthers. They’ve looked much better with Dalton prior to today on offense. Only thing that stopped bears today, once again, was penalties.

He’s a much better run blocker, hard for me to complain as everything has been better with Pryor vs davis

Lynn trade was fine. Hard to time young pitching...and imagine not getting into the playoffs in 2021...oof. Compared to hahn trying to fill RF with Nomar Mazara and then Adam Eaton, this is like acquiring Fernando Tatis Jr. for James Shields.

“It’s so good because the players are earning little and are still hungry for success”

I have no doubt they could sell out a full week.