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He definitely has a positive rep as a talent evaluator, and his drafts were pretty good when you look at 'what could they have drafted instead'. It's more that this team needed a big swinging culture change, with a no doubt boss (imo). When it was rumored Myers and Masai Ujiri, I think it was exciting. But grabbing obscure secondary execs and succeeding just doesn't seem likely from a Reinsdorf. They are far too vulnerable to lazy execs who won't bother them.

oh no did I get duped.

yeah I'm confused here.

I have no idea here, it's definitely been a post-covid thing where the outfield concourse is just a mad house. I still put SOME of that on concessions - as I think everything takes too long and people are waiting for their groups or given up on watching the game the first time it takes 30 minutes to get a beer. But I maintain this is not the way it is at most other ballparks so I think it's something to how the white sox are doing it.

2 exec roles is becoming more common as sports get so professionalized. Letting the GM provide more detailed oversight of scouting operations than the VP is one of the more typical ways, while the VP deals with on-team decisions/coach relationships/agent relationships and total strategy. Or vice versa given what the head guy wants.

I'm going to go against the grain here. The White Sox do NOT do a good job with food and drinks. They do good marketing with food and drinks, but their concessions (imo) are horribly run. I don't go to tons of games at other stadiums, but I have to say it is rare to lose a full inning to waiting in concession lines. The white sox staff the bare minimum every day. It's actually easier to get food on a packed day than a slow one. Sitting in a light section? Sorry yr walkin halfway around to home plate to be in a massive, slow moving line. Part of this is the food choice. They put stuff on there that cannot be served fast enough, that their part time emps aren't trained in. Everything is just WAY too slow by how they staff it or their food. Give a 'gameday classics' stand that just has a bunch of hot dogs that are equal to the ones in the stands, and sling em out fast and I'll eat that trash before waiting for nachozilla or whatever the f*** they add each year that takes 4 innings to get.

I just want to enjoy this ride and not immediately turn it into something to be nervous about. He could have easily been awful.

Also more forgivable when you are throwing a true 9Ip

I also find it amazing how late Murakami gets his foot down and how smooth it all is. Probably more noticeable because of how high his foot goes. But his foot doesn’t go down until ball is at least halfway to plate and he looks so unrushed. Like the ball is a frisbee floating in the air except it’s at 98 mph.

1) looking forward to this roadtrip ending as I cannot stay up. 2) this is astonishing considering the offseason scouting

The past few weeks has been making fun of Reinsdorf for just going after a safe Paxson guy, but uh, going for a cheap, inexperienced guy from two bad orgs isn't better.

Im so worried about calling the top … but unbelievable job by our pitching staff, so much so that I want to give credit to Bove. But everytime I do that they immediately tank so I am not giving credit to Bove.

We will remember this day forever.

it's hilarious to me that mlb still hasn't fixed the linking on the players for the score page.

This would be number 2 as well. Probably see you never

Was able to secure great seats for Muni v. Ohtani

looking forward to McDougal.

no doubt, but 3rd round is a low-line starter pick for most teams, esp at the lower positional value groups like S, G, C, RB. Instead we have been taking high positional value groups in the third, but have been reaches, and it hasn't worked! Take a 'depth' wr in 5th/6th?

I feel crazy about the lottery stuff. It is so indicative of the times. The lottery has done absolutely nothing to stop tanking, in fact it likely has accelerated it as it, imo, encourages mid-level teams to give up last month to improve odds for a massively higher pick vs. just 1 spot lower. Despite it not solving anything, the response continues to be "let's make it more lottery-y". Were any 'tanking' teams punished by the lottery? The bulls traded their whole team from when on verge of the vaunted 'play-in' to move from 11 to 9, because going from 11 to 12 doesn't matter, but going from 11-9 may improve odds marginally for a franchise changing player. The lottery encourages tanking, it does not discourage it! And yet the nba is trying to potentially reward teams who are sitting star players all the time, who actually have star players. Is giving them an avenue, when they aren't top 3, to potentially hit top 8 for a year and enter lottery for maybe another star rookie. It is so dumb! Taking away the guarantee of a top pick didn't encourage 'well it doesn't matter lets just win', it just led to 'man lets be as terrible as possible to get the best odds'.

Isn’t that just the trend in baseball now? Nobody wants to seem to waste bullets in the minors was the quote? I think ptatc also talked about how the physique build up was as important to teams how as “arm” fatigue. ^bastardized paraphrasing

It's funny because I think we thought he'd be a guy that would dominate early and fade as he moved up. He's kinda done the opposite but failing so early I was super out on. But yes - I don't think he'll be more than a call up guy for spots.

You wouldn’t be the first to make that mistake (cough browns)

The WR pick is absolutely inexcusable. The idea that narrowing down your board so much based on fit that you are taking tiny punt returners in round 3 means your process sucks or your coach is over fitting to his scheme

Loved the pick, felt like a ravens pick. hate this draft. Man we need a lot

How embarrassing for Reinsdorf that his underlings have to consistently fire themselves because they care more about the integrity of his org. Except AK, he would have stayed forever.