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sigh. The reality is if it becomes a reality that I can go to sox games this year I'm buying the biggest ticket package I can afford because it means I get to hang out with sox fans and watch Tim Anderson. JR, LaRussa, they are going through an excruciating, pointless security checkpoint before flying off to vacation. Pointless pain, but, come on I want to watch the sox.

Sox are just trying to take some of the heat off of the tigers. They have just been getting crushed for that Hinch hire. Finally, we can hear about something else than that Hinch hire!

Right. People make mistakes and entitled to forgiveness when they show it. Drunk driving affects a lot of people, myself included, personally, but you know it is done in ignorance not often done in malice. But that's when it happens once. When it happens multiple times, there's something going on there that needs to be figured out. And you can't just blame the people criticising.

easily. Ten times out of ten.

brutal. this was good.

In all seriousness, getting two DUIs after age 65 - it's hard to believe this isn't a problem. Either he's drinking alone or around a bunch of alcoholic friends that aren't telling him about these things invented 120 years ago called "cabs" (let alone the recent improvements). And beyond that, JR owes his employees an apology. Many are in jobs that are true charms, but lots of pressure and have really been working toward total alignment toward winning. And he stepped around that in an "I know better than you" move, pissing over their work. That's what would happen with normal people. The white sox will feign offense, use the criticism as proof that only they are right and every critique is hysterical, and steer the tank into a minefield. But these are some damn good players, so we'll see if it even matters. The fuckin mets made it to a world series.

Jerry sells rights to sox games to Quibbi.

Bizarre. Not sure the virus respects school employment, but that said, I'm sure you won't feel relieved until you know, but this would be an incredible edge case. Good luck Tex.

I'd put odds it was transmitted at <.01%

So you are off for two weeks or need to keep going?

Odds Tony can follow the strict rules likely in place to start the 2020 season and isn’t getting ripped in bars after games?

I hope so but in jerry organizations stuff like this tends to make them more insular.

Good to be cautious but being outside is a huge help. I’m sure you’ll be fine but I’d try to isolate for five days and test

I don’t think he has an issue, I think the dip made last year seem better even though it’s likely an aberration.

I do not. But, as someone not a fan of paying for control in trades, I would be more supportive of him than Marquez.

I was comparing it to his own numbers so more a factor of the 2020 drop off + his own improvement. It's why I'm not sure he was that much better this year.

He also had much better homer suppression this year...which is another thing I don't like banking on and paying for.

Yes, exactly, they are all more productive than Madrigal and you can sign them for 1 year deals and go to the next average offensive second baseman on the market.

He may be as productive as Kolten wong...and kolten wong was just cut. There just never seems to be an issue finding a second baseman that can produce the kind of numbers you are discussing. Last year, there was Schoop, Cesar Hernandez that were easily available. Wong, La Stella, Gregorious, DJ all available this year. I'm also not saying cut madrigal, but if he gets you a piece elsewhere, I'm going to drive him to the airport, and will likely have to escort him all the way to the gate.

I agree that I don't like buying control, and I could see woodruff becoming a #1 before Marquez. That said...pitchers are weird and unreliable, and if I could trade a kopech and cease to get a Marquez I do it 10/10. And if I have to trade a vaughn, I would have to be at mid-season with some certainty in the team's needs at that point. The problem with the cubs wasn't quintana. It was that they needed a quintana because all of their high priced acquisitions were not adding value while the rest of their cheap core was, and then they started producing when their core dropped off. It happens and as much as I laugh at it, it was a bit unlucky and probably should have worked better than it did. If the white sox trade for a woodruff, sign a Quintana, a top line (hendricks, treinan, colome) reliever and George springer, they have time to use draft + international to build up that depth, meanwhile have much higher certainty of production in 2021 which is really really valuable.

so they aren't just going to select a mark bartelstein client?

DJ Lemahieu is 6'4, 215 Kolten Wong is short, but 20 pounds heavier. But most importantly, in 1400 PAs in the minors, Kolten Wong hit 33 home runs. In 1400 PAs for Nick Madrigal in college + minors, he hit 12 home runs. So, it was definitely feasible that Kolten Wong's 1 homer per every 44 PA pace would net him 10-12 home runs in the future in tougher competition. 550 PAs would net you that. Nick Madrigal averages a homer every 116 PAs. Sure enough, in 109 PAs this year he had 0 home runs for the white sox. That would put him around 4 a year. So Nick is smaller than those guys or has hit for less power than those guys at similar levels, and does not have the frame to get meaningfully bigger. This is why it's unlikely he'll be a 10+ home run hitter.

not groundbreaking and reads like speculation because Moderna was the other mRNA vaccine. But thought worth sharing.

Same, and madrigal would be like, exactly the same issue the rest of their offense has. Just remarkable lack of power in tha tlineup.

Yep, he took it over after his dad died, and has made losing elections in illinois his personal calling for what feels like my entire life. He did make it to a state senate seat, but has failed over and over getting to a federal level (or real state level) edit: to be clear though he really did turn oberweis into what it is today, but he didn't start it.