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Every year sox hire an aging veteran as insurance on a minor league deal and people freak out thinking they'll take a young players role on the team, then they never get called up even in some cases where it makes sense. This is a true "if mendick and anderson get injured" move.

I think they are good now, but I can't keep up with the crazy kids and their twitter, as we saw today.

Stroman has agency and leverage and is going to use that to put himself in a situation he enjoys, which may include not playing for a 76 year old curmudgeon. Seems reasonable.

creating the social media video of tim anderson reading "I am so very excited to play for Tony La Russa" while Reinsdorf holds a gun to his head.

This feels like the "us against the world (world being the fans of the team he owns)" scenario Jerry thrives on and by thrives I mean stubbornly ignores until it consumes the org and he pulls the trigger for change 3-4 years too late.

The news y'all have been waiting for.

Good lord. @fathom was right, this does feel like Tennessee. Can't we just have nice things? I'm telling you they should have just hired Thome. Everyone would be like "it goes against everything hahn said...but hey I love Jim Thome"

This wouldn't have happened if I wasn't bored waiting for your buddy to tell us how to feel.

@Jose Abreu IS RIGHT, I WAS WRONG I got confused when he started liking a bunch of old tweets making me think we were past the speculation. Editing old posts.

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I see Stroman liking a bunch of tweets making fun of jay cutler, and praising keith law for putting him at #4 free agent.

edit: incorrectly said I couldn't find the likes attributed to him

I'm kinda hoping the blow back here matters, though I don't think JR reads enough twitter and if he does his feed is garbage. Also I think most of these stroman things are fake. But this is good for us, I think.

come on man.

nothing we didn't know aside from that today it may not be announced. He resisted idea that Hahn was against this, saying typically JR would not circumvent staff and push for a hire. He may suggest but not force it, adn this would be different. He sounded like a wounded puppy.

Texted my old friend tim from college. I asked him if I should be worried. Tim said he thinks he'll be fine. he's a cards fan. so basically book your world series tix.

This interview was pathetic but Bruce says he only heard announcement would be before the weekend, not necessarily today. Also he sounded scared of every question.

I imagine that bruce loves this. It's been hard on him having to try and follow baseball, bringing back characters from 10-20 years ago? Right in his wheel house. He's going to list out every name he remembers from then.

I'm optimistic as hell about this team, but it's not yet very deep especially in pitching. If Giolito went down that would be a body blow and they'd need to really figure something out in season. If they get some good (and I mean good, not filling out #5 with gio gonzalez types) depth in SP I'm as optimistic as any. But 162 game seasons are hard!

Stars and scrubs team at the top of their budget that just needs a few pieces to scrape into the playoffs? Sounds like a job for Rick Hahn.

Very possible. Playoffs not even close to guaranteed next year with bullpen regression and without key additions to SP.

dream release today: "After talking it over with my family, I have decided to stay in retirement. I thank the white sox and chairman Jerry Reinsdorf for his interest, and may find a role within the organization to stay involved in the game of baseball that I love." ^ tony you can just copy that.

This is true and it's not true. 1) I think players have more power in their communications than they did then. Stuff gets out more readily. 2) He had lots of open battles with Smith, Rolen, Reyes and Rasmus. To not even be a cards fan and know this stuff should tell you something. This team needed some more accountability but was mostly on the same page. TLR plays favorites, and that could cause some open rifts. Will that affect on-field winning? Maybe not, but he hasn't had a lot of very young teams. I don't think Matheny was a great manager, but I do wonder how TLR does with the '13 cardinals which were such a different group than 11.

Oh, I see the confusion. That's actually how we measure age.

The good news is there's not that much difference between managers so I don't really care if he knows the difference between Geren or Quatraro.