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I took my kids to family fest yesterday. If any of you do this, some advice from me... I struggle to get anywhere on time with my kids...and that's a problem with this event because they shut down the activity stuff pretty early. I assumed we'd watch some practice then go play...bad idea. In reality, the 11:30-12:30 part of practice is what you can gear for, and you can do the activities from 10:30-11:30. That said we still had fun getting to see soldier field with them and them seeing Fields and Kmet - whom for some reason they are obsessed with. I think his name is just easy to say and remember. But considering games are too expensive, I think this was a better family experience than pre season game - and way cheaper.

JRs problem is he is a rent seeker thru and thru. It's why he is obssessed with costs and is so short sighted on investments. He's just a landlord, fixing what he has to, collecting his money, and spending 95% of the rest of the time just fighting taxes and labor costs.

When you rise up in the white Sox, you learn the key to success is just don’t let out the secret and you can be safe, fat, and rich enough. The secret of course is just not to acknowledge how lazy and bad your co workers are, and of course, how lazy and bad you can be. Its why Marco Paddy can bring in half classes for 5 out of 10 years. It’s why our core always consists of listless players. It’s why all of Hahns deputies get promoted out of their positions instead of fired.

Also he was only in AA to end last year for the “project Birmingham” experiment.

That’s a real nice start by Carela

Lmao

So embarrassing.

What the hell is this

Friedman selling him in exchange for more intl money tells me all I need to know about what was more valuable.

Absolutely despise our approach to international. For an org that has struggled to maintain depth, they use it to pick one or two guys they like, then a bunch of guys that roll into camp. Imagine if paddy didn’t serve in a lazy org that demanded nothing of him? Maybe that was the appeal.

Gonna throw this out there: all the GMs have each others numbers.

this has been all over the score this morning.

yeah maybe we split this out.

Still commanded a decent chunk of change - this deal was nearly fully guaranteed to get it to 1 year. I'm sure there's no lack of interest just not in signing a specialist to long-term.

Just give me Colson, Popeye, and Ramos homers

Ah nice. Definitely was clear that there was a steep drop after Tonyan.

Of the reasons why the Sox have not won, this is the least significant.

Ricardo Brizuela with an insane pitching line out of relief.

Disagree, when you don’t have a decent farm and young pitchers are a rarity, all the more imperative to stack up a particular year to be good. Unfortunately he wasted what he had left on Craig kimbrel.

if I was hahn, which I could never be because I have dignity, I would try to acquire a supplemental pick. With a potential top 3 pick, plus an extra million, would really make a draft with fewer compromises.

like it's all the bad of 2017 without the fun of having 3 garcias in the outfield.

This team seems like it's not very good.

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Yeah he's been pretty awful.

There's no guarantee back surgery makes anything better or means he'd be "without pain"