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Im happy with how bham is now stacking up. To me this is why getting guys like remillard and Elko are good moves even if you aren’t expecting them to be top 100 guys (overstatement). Now you have an older guy who won wins a college World Series, plays with emotion and can be a leader while a bunch of prospects gather like Colson and Ramos. And yes I think that matters even though minors is about development. Sox have shown horrible minors teams are a sign of poor org health.

Wow sounds like there was a nice breeze from all of his hits whizzing by.

One of the good days. Good pitching and hitting.

it is kinda funny. Robert is having a real ass season and they are like "check out our .750 ops first baseman!"

All of them have nice power which is a good first step. Definitely not gonna get excited again by being a god of walks in that league that looks more like kid pitch walk numbers. But speaking of succeeding. Jordany Chirinos' last two starts have been excellent. He had no write-up from Badler.

It is not up from when “everyone” made the declarations you are stating. 34k per game is 11% lower than 2015-2019.

RF of the future.

One thing I'm hoping gets integrated into video games is the use of an LLM like chat gpt into the dialogue of sports games like madden. The nfl draft could be so much more fun, with starting conversations with other GMs and getting real dialogue from your scouts. I actually had it do this when it came out, gave it some fake players. It generated scouting reports, prioritized them based on team needs, and then created some trade offers and talked thru them with me. Was a lot of fun. And then, you know, Madden is out again, and it's just the same canned 5 dialogue points, and it's so boring compared to what could be there. Would likely need an additional cost, but considering franchise is the main thing i'd play for, it would be way more fun.

Did anyone hear the original Jesse Rogers report that talked about TA? Because the only thing I"ve seen is from aggregator Daniel Greenberg...who sucks.

FIRE BLOOM, THE GLOOM OF DOOM

His transcript reads like a teenager caught in a lie creating an overly elaborate excuse. The “are you accusing Grandal of lying?” ?

The fire Hahn thread here was from last July. The idea that people were fine with him in spring training. I really enjoy when people make up a fake person, make them a fake group, and then lecture that group in a post.

the comments make sense when you assume they shipped out the people that weren't "pulling in the same direction", i.e. a commitment to living fat and lazy and not airing public grievances. These guys made the mistake of wanting to win instead of just wanting to not do things that suck like attending meetings.

ugh this audio is brutal

you weren't even born and I was only around for the second half so I'd say for our lifetimes the sox take the cake for embarrassing atmospheres. One thing I didn't include was the 2007 locker room story of the blow-up doll. But didn't seem like it fit like these s%*# shows.

TA is right to call out Grandal, but it's also true that it really isn't a "no-wrong" situation when calling them out is just embarrassing them in front of their teammates. But Grandal hit a coworker...just can't happen. I know it's baseball, and there's some leniency. But, not reading this and seeing an innocent party. Just a trash org.

woof, being forced to remember 2016 is depressing. If we want confirmation nothing will change, in roughly 5 months there was: - laroche - sale scissors - Guaranteed Rate partnership. The third bullet may seem small now, but at the time it was a huge joke with the down arrow logo. Was three straight whammys of the sox being a national punchline. The team was bad but not this bad. But Hahn/KW were strong as ever. All that happened was Robin wasn't renewed.

See to me this sounds so much like 2016. I feel like I have very much experienced this.

Maybe i'm too familiar with white sox... but has any other clubhouse come close to these stories now? 2016 spring training / drake laroche as cult leader 2016 season Chris Sale scissors 2023 season kenyon middleton dragging dirty laundry 2023 season TA/Grandal fight exposed the only other team I can remember on this level was that one terrible 2012 red sox year that fired Tito? was that 2012?

i'm sorry guys. I'm gonna wait a bit on this one because I think Shane Riordan is a moron. He's probably going to be wrong in one aspect that makes the fact that he's wrong worse.

True chef's kiss moment was bringing Eaton back and macsands was alluding it was for more fire and leadership. As most on board expected, he was DFAd a few months in.

This'll just be "Drake is our leader" pt 2

Pretty sure you could trade Moncada for Anthony Rendon meep meep

I recommend paying for BA. Their hot sheets are helpful. At this point, you'll read names, think they are interesting, see an update on them months later and think it's the first time you read their name.

It is always funny to look back. I still think sox should have won that series. The As weren't good. But the guy in the deciding game went throughlike 7 pitchers in an inning and not one could throw a strike. He had to rely on our rookie pitcher who was starting to run on fumes, and then leaned too much on our same-year-draft pick to throw an extended run. But then everyone else in the bullpen failed. It wasn't a good strategy for a must win game, yet...at that point we only had Giolito and Keuchel as any start of starting pitcher. Kind of a roster construction issue. Just a ton of young pitching on that team, and of course, a Hahn-special of getting Gio Gonzalez for a final retirement tour. That said, I think Ricky was really good for keeping a bunch of players thrown to the wolves to keep a good attitude and keep coming at it. I also think Steverson actually got MOncada to change his approach in 2019, so he was listening to someone. But I'm not sure Ricky could have made the shift successfully to getting a bunch of players who know they belong to move together.