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I've read the original posts a number of times, and it does not say this.

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The thing that is hazy though is from what I read it’s not actually clear what was stated as happening in the meeting

Reading the report, I was most agnostic about Bowman, and I think you in general are right. But when you get to then end and realize this guy left the hawks with an ability to keep at it, all it took was him telling Scottie that this guy should never work again. Granted, that just pushes his abuse to other industries. If I’m Wirts though, I would basically ask all involve resign or be fired. No reason to keep them and be nuanced. There are too many people that could succeed at sports.

I know you all believe that any quality of a team, anything that happens, ultimately is attributed to the manager. I disagree. It's so weird how Tampa and Boston have had all these great managers, isn't it? So crazy that the Astros are just dominant despite hinch not being there. I mean...boy, Gabe Kapler over there in San Francisco, sheesh, he must be an amazing manager. Definitely we learned that when you put him on a team, good things happen. Joe Girardi man. That guy, what he did with those young Yankees teams, Boone couldn't have done that. I bet if you put him on another talented team he'd definitely get the most out of em. And sheesh, TLR. You take that guy out of St Louis, good luck ever making another world series.

I've written a lot of stuff on this but not much more to say. Was listening to the score and they were saying how Bowman should have stood up and demanded action or stepping down. To me, the worse part is no dramatic action like that was needed. Literally just caring a bit more...following up more with a "hey did you take care of that thing" would probably have worked. But he didn't really care. McDonough didn't really care. Quenneville didn't care. The trainer didn't really care. The HR person...hoo boy, did not give a crap. I fully believe there was no cover up here, because that would have meant they thought there was something worth covering up. Instead they were just annoyed. McDonough couldn't be more full of crap, but holy hell I hope that HR rep is not in that line of work anymore.

I have no feel for this, am just hopeful.

I mean we know this will just be settled and nobody will remember.

This doesn't track with me at all, but it certainly indicates that signing castellanos is clearly a terrible option.

pretty much every criticism of castellanos has stated more than his defense, so it's hard for me to believe someone could pick up that people were criticizing him and not understand why they were criticizing him.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/32486646/los-angeles-rams-owner-stan-kroenke-angers-nfl-owners-financial-pivot-related-lawsuit-st-louis-move-sources-say I wonder if this will have effects on how much league may help Bears with new stadium. Trend has been toward financial assistance from league, but we'll see if that changes.

Oof

Bravo working TLR and a video clip into this again somehow.

We have a good commissioner to lead us all through this

He’s a good player and good players are in general good, but Seems just a bizarre choice when we walked away from the Astros series thinking we were too heavy on right handed, poor defensive corner infield types and then sign Nick Castellanos.

The good news on point one is that come trade deadline, it is usually the most abundant thing to acquire. Hopefully bulls are performing well enough we think that adds a real edge. For point 2, I think the other side is they just need to shoot more of them. Vuc/Ball/Lavine/Williams should all be launching more than they have. Caruso too. But it will be very important for Coby, he's such a good set shooter, we need to see caruso/ddr create those looks for him when he comes back.

1) this is great content 2) Oh man, I can see a world where Ozzie actually becomes heel and takes that heat from machado/tatis, I can also see the world where ozzie gangs up on Tatis with Machado and makes everything worse Overall, managers don't matter really. Their organizational pitching system needs to be figured out, not sure Ozzie solves that.

I don't really think there is much of a difference between Michael Reinsdorf and George McCaskey, I think (hope) that Reinsdorf just nailed his search and McCaskey has not. My interpretation is they both just want to hand it over to people to run, support them, and have them be successful. But they don't really know what successful is supposed to be or look like and fall in love with everyone in those positions and end up shocked when things aren't working out. So if Reinsdorf took over, do I think anything would change? Maybe, it depends on if Hahn truly has a more progressive vision for running the front office maybe we'd see it. But reality is I think we'd see KW and Hahn just continue to run the sox and if it went into the ground we'd hope he brings in a new group that does well. So I don't see anything particularly magical about him, wouldn't be happy or upset until he shows otherwise.

It's a fun, classic caulfield quote because correcting it makes it wrong in a new direction.

who is a top 5 draft pick

Missed the fourth, sorta glad. Happy for Lavine that winning 4 games in a row stat is put to death. I think this team kinda needs Coby in that second unit. Caruso, DDR, alize/green/djj/tbj don't have a lot of shooting. Especially where Caruso is lead facilitator and Coby can be a spot up shooter or get the ball at ends of breakdowns I think he adds a lot. He just wasn't a PG. Pats rebounding numbers are so putrid. That's something that I'm concerned is either there or isn't. He feels like he's in Tony Snell territory right now, and I wonder if putting him in the second unit and putting more scoring demands on him wouldn't help.

I'm not surprised though, with there only being 4 preseason games now.

non-covid illness or vet rest day, who can tell.

I will say when he outlined the team he wanted in his beginning press conference (long, athletic, swinging ball from side to side, aggressive) this team is a lot more like that then it was before. But I think other than that the bulls may be the biggest black box of an org in the city. Maybe some of the writers eventually make relationships, but there did not seeem to be any national writer or local that had the finger on the pulse of what they were gonna do.

Just to avoid the game of telephone, I don't think there is a chance in hell the sox sign bryant. Someone asked for dream acquisitions, and I was putting together what a "best free agent" list would be like without any constraints. My argument for Bryant would just be that if we addressed our RHP/contact/groundball issues with 2b and DH, then he would be the best RF acquisition in my opinion. And I actually think there are people who may say Marte maybe better or still stick with an upside play in conforto, and I think tha'ts interesting. But I still really like Bryant a lot. But no, the white sox are not getting Seager and Bryant and Schwarber and Max Scherzer