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I mean none of these guys in the list above are entering the season with a position, not sure what makes Burger any different.

So, I've tried to be realistic with the constraints and place of the team and stuff blah blah. Immediately following the loss I actually felt good about running it back in general. That last game featured Sheets hitting a home run for our lone run, and the night before there was a beautiful double from Vaughn. Tepera was nails in the playoff. But running it back meant re-signing 'Los. And so they are just worse than last year. I do absolutely love Joe Kelly. The handling of the Rodon QO is terrible. I am not swayed at all by the health stuff. The worst case scenario is just a 1-year deal. The best case scenario is it's a 1-year deal where he again throws like an ace. The next best case scenario is he declines, signs elsewhere, and your extremely barren farm system that cannot produce enough bullpen arms and utility players gets another $1 million in budget for the next draft. Inexcusably bad. Kimbrel, just incredibly dumb. He seems miserable, I'm miserable because he seems like a whiney baby and hate watching him pitch, but I actually do think picking up his option could have worked out fine. I didn't even value the money, I actually thought, and still believe, that paying off $4-5 million of his contract (putting him at $12 mill) would bring back more value to the org than merely getting $15mill cash. But the worst thing instead happened in that they misread his value, and now are paying $32 million for two relievers (but $18 million for a starter? Oh my heavens but he could get hurt!!!) Then second base. Ooh how this hurt, especially being a leading proponent of trading madrigal because you can get by finding second baseman cheaply found its major flaw in that argument: That assumes you have a competent front office. The cheap second baseman were there, even if you didn't want $10 million tied up in escobar, Adam Frazier and Joey Wendle provided high contact 2b that hit well against RHP. Not incredible guys, but Madrigal wasn't incredible. He was a nice complement though in approaches, which these guys also found. Instead they now have 2 powerless RHH second baseman who aren't very good against RHP. And they are paying $10mill for the privelege. I don't even give an F for conforto. The rest of the F goes to how they are handling their scouting. This is the 500th time posting this, but the white sox are at a disadvantage in that they are the stupidest FA team among the non-competitive balance teams, but do NOT get extra picks and INTL budget. And our current Scouting Director and Marco Paddy have been running a strategy going after small volume of what they deem higher impact talents. The result is bringing in smaller classes. And it's such a wonder why they are 30th already? The depth is once again the issue. They cannot operate this way for the "sustained success". They aren't idiots, but they are worse than 28 other organizations at this. And yet the team looks pretty great still. Hell, the rockies made a world series in 2008 or something. It happens. Forgot to mention I gave an F grade.

We should start a DAO to buy the goose.

I don’t buy that but I think he could be a good reliever since his height can give him a weird look on hitters.

I think Romy is way more promising. Guy hit like 20+ HRs last year in Birmingham and plays all over field. Honestly not even sure if Sanchez is better than him at defense

Obviously Burger.

THAT BIRD SUCKS AND SO DO ALL OF YOU

Though the thing is, it's not a lodge. Craft Stand for the creatives Frank's Fridge (*not selling big hurt brew) Buehrle's Brews AJs A Joyous Collection of Beer Microbrew Market

This is a big thing for me not because I ordered from there (I'm a normie man excited about Miller lite for the aluminum bottles presumably now sold to me with walking vendors???) but because even though I understood that they were using the alliterative "K" for it's relationship to the strikeout symbol, it all felt a little too "Karz 4 Kidz" to me.

Eh let's cut him some slack. Adolfo had a rough comeback after his TJS in 2019, then the pandemic happened with no minors so he started in Birmingham to start the year where he crushed 18 home runs, then went to charlotte where we thought he'd have a 50% k rate, and instead kept hitting dingers but actually cut down on his krate from birmingham (still at 32%). Problem is he isn't a versatile outfielder, but I'm sure sox would say now it's 3 deep at CF for Robert > Engel > Leury. But all 3 of them have injury issues.

nobody has enough power and just because someone sucks at hitting for power doesn't make them some whizz at getting situational hits. I know we all loved mark kotsay hitting grounders to second base every time up, but at least he wasn't hitting doubles. That would have really set them back.

It appears we DID get coke, and I am happy about that.

You know who was better than Adam Haseley? Luis Gonzalez, our 6th outfielder last year who is know on the Giants and was actually able to play a good center field.

He runs like he's in cement compared to 2019 and hits for toddler power. Our right handed hitters can slam grounders off right handed pitching just fine already.

Excuse me sire the piping plovers are chicagos most cherished bird and famously nest on montrose beach. A real birder delight.

Totally agree. not afraid to repost my own work I was very proud of (took >5 minutes) but posted to the outdated thread.

Wow those marketers are talented AF

Tampa never seems hurt by any one piece.

It seems like Miller just wanted as much real estate as possible in the park, or as little distraction from their coor products. Which, cool, we get to see the white sox use this money now on Craig Kimbrel.

Guys after organizing our fan power to try fire hahn, tlr, and southpaw, I think our next act should be to try and replace the goose with something we prefer. Miller and Coors never had leo burnett create a dumb animal spokesperson, so we have complete freedom here. The goose was beautiful, it was frightening, I both wanted it pristine but also desperately wanted to see it get what it deserved (hit with a baseball because it chased me on golf courses). This is the best replacement I could do, with the pristigious, punchable piping plovers

Oh no the goose is gone? Our dream of sparks flying out of its eyes when it's hit by a baseball are crushed. They should just keep a goose, unaffiliated to any product. And just have it be one of those things fifty years from now where we are like "yeah that's the outfield goose. Just one of those things"

One thing is man could we please get coke instead of pepsi? I don't understand why they hate their fans so much.

Well those miller lite aluminum pints are the best stadium beers since they can't get kicked over and get real cold. A+ happy to have it be the thingy again.

He's better than 2018 Adam Engel, worse than every iteration after.

Has any player been successfully unwound from that "hit like you are in tball" style?