bmags

Not saying this is Katz but just along the lines…

I am optimistic on Turner after seeing him move to edge Monday, and am still a believer in Burden. Sunday will be interesting...will the saints pull the bears into the drudge or can the bears put their foot on their neck? I feel like Caleb has been a much better Home qb, and our run game looked so much better with Benedet/Wright. Sure would like Grady Jarrett to play. great signing 👎

jesus that has our revenue as the 2nd lowest in league while still being treated as a big market team. JR is so, so bad at this.

Yeah I probably should have raised it, kinda eye balled it going off of ages available but mainly just didn’t want to throw in Tucker.

One thing I will give to Poles is Darnell Wright is a hit. We are so much better running to his side, and it was obviously a struggle without him the week before.

he sucks at trading mid season too.

That was an intense game, can’t believe they pulled it off. Weather looked nasty so I understand the nerves of just running heavy to go for a FG. I know people love broadcast talk, but Jesus that was a ridiculous broadcast. Aikman lecturing Caleb about fumbling a bad snap on 3rd and 1 (that he recovered) then not saying anything about Daniels doing the same. Ridiculous night

I love how facing an offseason where Josh Naylor is a north star that will be talked about ad nauseum, fans are given a choice to live in an alternate reality where we went after impactful players, and are instead like "No thanks, I'll stick with Naylor chief"

I’m sorry but you need to read the card he gave.

It’s crazy, there is like no pitcher under 30

I was thinking of a scenario around the giving season, I'm not sure what holidays Ishbia celebrates, he hands Getz an envelope with $160 million in it and it also has a coupon that says "good for 1 player". So we aren't talkin Kyle Tucker, but we are talkin most of the other free agents, I guess. I gotta say I don't have a great feel there. Who would you be most excited to add to our extremely bad team? For me it's Schwarber. He'd almost certainly become obsolete because he joined specifically our team, but to have a no doubt lefty power hitter to add to Colson would be sweet relief after the last few years. Most interesting thing to me was not wanting to block out our infield and let our young guys play out. So then you have a stretch where you probably would not have enough for Bellinger, and so it's mostly others like Alonso that I'd like. Until you get to pitchers, which bore the hell out of me. But I guess re-signing Dylan Cease would be great, you know, really stick it to the padres when we roll out Cease and Steven Wilson in the same game. They'd be so pissed lol.

Vikings still being good with Carson Wentz deserves more credit I unno

Edge in the morning, edge in the evening, corner at supper time.

bummer how just small things could change everything. Imagine had we drafted Konnor Griffin, putting us with the #1 overall prospect, a likely #1 overall pick targeting one of the top college SS in years, and Colson having just shown the power that can survive at 3b. I'd be feeling pretty cool about that offense in just 2 years. But instead it's Colson, a wild card pitcher, and hopefully Roch.

Gonna go with a D The Good: - Some long term starters showed up The Bad: - I know we are supposed to ignore previous years, but with it being the 3rd straight 100 loss season we didn't even have pieces left to trade, so no exciting deadline piece added. - Bullpen still bad and looks like they'll have to pay to improve it - Still too full of tweeners who aren't great at defense but not good enough hitters to put on corners - Very middling year on the farm

I think I'd say the reason I'd be especially skeptical that Getz will work is for the White Sox to work he'll need to be uniquely good at getting B/C level free agents to be successful and even the Dodgers struggle on that on a year to year basis. But the sox don't have a choice unless this is the greatest drafting and developing team in the league. And I'm skeptical.

I do wish the players union would admit that anti-tanking efforts were a failure and baseball could admit that just absolutely creating a cyclone of rules that uniquely screws 2-3 fanbases (not franchises!) is stupid but fortunately for them those fanbases have been so whittled down nobody gives a s%*# about them and baseball can talk about moving them to smaller locations where they can hand them cost-controlled goodies.

The one good thing about pitchers is they can randomly just find it. But, obviously given Konnor Griffin, it's going to be hard to accept a college pitchers long winding road to competence.

It's funny the split, but worthwhile to do because we have quite a few different players in the second half. But for me it's funny because the point of this post is actually a bit in free fall. Walk rate post ASB has been much lower - in part due to Colson's poor walk rate, Meidroth not walking as much and being injured, and Vargas injuries. By end of sept would be funny if we were at same spot. But, second half saw strike out rate go WAY down while power went way UP. That's worthwhile.

Not that good so far for hagen

This has been just a legitimately good stretch of baseball. The Sox deserve their flowers, I was worried when we had the losing streak it was going to fall apart. But THAT was the blip, not the winning! Great second half, great job to our young hitters and good job to Venable for figuring out how to make pitching staff work enough game to game.

One thing I love about Colson is I feel like we had like a decade post 2015 Royals of “actually doubles and contact are good! I want a guy that gets on base by any means possible” and even with Vaughn this idea that gap power was the best part of Konerko. but no, actually home runs are what’s awesome. Hitting the s%*# out of the ball is awesome. Colson I feel has brought back our love of power, which was only lost by not seeing it for so long.

yeah I imagine that'll be tough to come back from in time for a pitcher.

And yes. Long term I think they can, but come on

This kills me. You can’t have 4 top 60 picks and it make zero difference. Hopefully turner can make one