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Looking for our takes people. I just can’t seem to make up my mind on Stroman. I am this man personified I don’t think he’s bad. He’s kinda good. But he feels like that “solid B” free agent that Sox pay 80% of the what the A free agents get but get only 50% of the production. Is anyone really pro or really anti Stroman and could let me know what you got?

Yeah it's definitely pointing there.

I don't know why but the one scene of life that I miss so much is going out to meet a friend for dinner after work and getting there before them. And just sitting at the bar with a drink. Probably because I have young kids. My fantasy is sitting at a bar by myself lol.

Haven't shared this before but my mom works retail in the south. The store which is national mandated masks, her boss flouted it. My mom wore a mask but came down with it along with half the employees (guess who was the source). Thankfully, my mother's case was very mild. I think when this all pans out the viral load issue will show masks helping in that department, but we may have just gotten lucky. She took FMLA in March-May to take care of my grandparents, but after that there was nothing she could do except quit. She had to go back just as cases were rising in SC, and we assumed it would be taken care of. Had it gone worse, it would have been so bad.

I think interesting part to me is I knew a number of people affected in March, we really tightened our circle since and after april didn't know any contacts in IL who had it. Starting in september it has been really bad. Friends, family, 2nd-hand contacts all coming down with it. This recent wave has really been apparent to me. Ultimately, we've been careful and will just keep what we've been able to do to keep going. But just staring at winter and knowing it is really going to be like this for months is wearing on me.

This is the way we always talk in october, then the chips start to fall and you realize we won't get all of our A options and we get desperate for someone like Joc. Last october if someone had a dream offseason of grandal + keuchel + mazara + gio gonzalez they would have been crushed as overly pessimistic.

He's riskier than he was but there is a big difference here in that Joc Pederson's wRC+ in his career (fuller seasons) have been 116, 128, 100, 126 and 127 until this years 88. That 88 was 20% better than Mazara's 68. Mazara's wRC+'s have been 91, 87, 95, 94 and then 68. So he was never as bad as he was this year but he was never a plus offensive player. Pederson was typically 20% better than average offensively. He is riskier, but I'd certainly put 10 mill down on that while going after Springer and Ozuna. But my priority stays on pitching, i'd put reddick in OF if it meant I could get Bauer + Odorizzi.

Still not at office, but we get emails if anyone who was in the entire building gets a confirmed positive. Got maybe 3 from March to September. I've gotten one every day for last week and a half and a bunch of people who were all last there 10/9. Wondering if a superspreader event happened.

I'm actualy opposite here. I think we've started to overemphasize this hire too much. I'd rather see white sox re-imagine the manager role than lean back on the 2010 era. Hinch/Cora/Quatraro are the inbetween there and the ideal but hinch cora have baggggage

I don't think so, honestly. Very, very few owners from the 80s left. This was the new crews first taste of a league in trouble. If anything they may be happy they won't have an owner with cash issues they need to worry about.

boy mookie betts sure is good.

Feels like jerry would vote no because he thinks cohen will be a big driver of salaries.

https://thatballsouttahere.com/2019/10/13/phillies-sam-fuld-manager-candidate/

Cringe last scene for me but yeah pretty entertaining. I can’t stand Eddie Redmayne though. Cohen and strong were great.

Wait but Mike Trout did struggle

CK killing it. Glasnow is so filthy.

Me when they re-sign Mazara https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJaSaXSJ/ (had to embed link when video was crazy big. Maybe I should just delete this. Oh well)

For the record Fuld has interviewed for quite a few manager positions last few years so it’s not out of nowhere

I think that anytime someone mentions Ibanez

I'd be happy with this. It's the baldelli route and that's fine and good. I'd rather sox have a system where manager responsibilities are more distributed than the superstar manager route.

Tired of larussa talk so lets do it. Pros: Good name, I could see it working I like "Rising Star" as a thing Cons: No experience Stanford - annoying alumni, but maybe this is a pro as they are less annoying than michigan (sorry @Brian ) His name's pun potential more often denotes bad things so maybe we'll put it in the bad column too

So your point is that Luhnow was happy when he was hired that he would have decision-making power over whether the astros players were allowed to do banned things, and if he would have told luhnow he wanted to stop doing a banned thing, he would have lost all credibility with his players and all hell would break loose. Solid argument, I'm going to tap out.

Gametime tactics sure. They trusted his info from being around the players. If he would have said he doesn't want players using rapsodo, he wouldn't be the manager.

https://nypost.com/2020/10/20/world-series-confidential-randy-arozarenas-future-with-rays/ no real news but, whatever, some snippets on TLR/Bochy

Of course Hinch wasn't in charge of the clubhouse.