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I hope that VP Pence is staying far away from the WH and trump campaign.

no idea but it would be a very good idea for the white sox to find out.

This is going to keep spreading in the WH if someone doesn't put the breaks on and try and get it contained. Obviously WFH is not an option for many security reasons for some employees but you'd think 8 months in they'd have created some quarantine area with a bunch of SCIFs* *of course this didn't happen

this is not happening because they won't just shed him, but if he didn't cost much, shooting for a Bryant bounce back year in Right Field wouldn't be terrible (was it his throwing shoulder injured?)

but we've had how many TEs now to be the U and all of failed to get open? Maybe he doesn't understand why that is effective in Reids offense well enough.

Yeah, though the defense is very good. And in the nfl I always just want to win however you can because you have parts of the season when you are hot and cold, and banking wins when you aren't at your best is crucial to a winning season. The colts dline is very good. There is not really a comparison in the division, though packers/vikes is better than lions that's for sure.

I do have to say, averaging basically a 3.0 seems unlikely (so does toronto averaging 200k viewers(?) Forbes is a lot of trash but we have no where else to turn.

I really think Nagy needs to look himself in the mirror on his responsibilities. From reports on his private beliefs, he thinks the issues are with lack of inputs preventing things like the TE, his QB, his oline, etc in his offense from performing. But when they provide all of those TEs and none of them look good? He has some pretty damn good receivers and some interesting pieces at RB. He has really bad QBs and unproductive TEs. He needs to make an offense that acknowledges and works within that. Not keep bending another roster to do something it keeps not doing. Maybe it's just playcalling, but something needs to change.

I continue to think the problem is people are only responding to a generic "vaccine". It's a hypothetical. If J&J comes out with it and its available in march of next year, the data looks good and gets a lot of buy-in, you will see survey results change. If some vaccine comes "out" before november, people are going to be skeptical of the data.

rookies make big impacts every year.

forbes.com/sites/maurybrown/2020/10/04/mlb-sees-local-tv-and-streaming-viewership-up-over-4-for-2020/#6985d3d63dac Sox outdrew Boston Red Sox, Washington Nationals and Cardinals in viewership. Hopefully Todd Ankin had to pay up.

Yeahhh no Jack is definitely going to give us his diagnosis on how Moncada has recovered in every game thread next year plus a couple individual threads.

What’s the opposite of “a pleasure to watch”

The perfect DH in terms of improving our weaknesses may well be Tommy La Stella I’d we can convince him. Just to add to this, he is a low K% guy with a 130+ WRC+ vs RHP

Not saying Bauer isn’t, but there will be a lot of suitors for him and we can’t guarantee we get him. The yanks may very well throw around cash. It would be a hilarious fit, if Bauer’s gone that’s where I’m saying don’t force it.

I don’t disagree but I also don’t want to force it and pay for a #2 as a #1. Get upper average depth and wait for one to be available (and develop the hell out of our prospects to make sure we have pieces of its via trade)

Also: I think we should really consider Odorizzi this year

I think this is right - but the added benefit is the outfield free agents next offseason are excellent. I am more in tune with some calls last year for some modest players. More than impact, balance. RF needs to be good v RHP, but also would help to be higher OBP or at least sub 20% k rate. A team worth watching is ATL, they made a surplus of OF this year and have two prospects worth moving in or trading. There will be odd men out. We also may see a better than typical number of players not see their options picked up.

What the hell is with all of the national writers acting like the Padres won a World Series?

this is exactly right. It's more complicated than people are making it out to be, and I think it is relative to the type of pitchers they targeted.

if I'm a person being asked this question about any other team, I would shrug my shoulder at any manager being fired except probably cash and francona (get well).

I agree with this but also struggle with it. The job was not easy this year, and taken as a whole we got a LOT out of very young bullpen pieces. You had 2 pitchers come up who had just been throwing fake games and asked to take a lot of starts Rick has supplied a lot of poor command guys, some with exceptional stuff. They will have a high flame out rate. He couldn't get some great arms in rodon, lopez, and looking like Cease to find any control. Makes me nervous for Kopech. So it's really hard to judge. I agree, it doesn't feel like he had a good year. But I don't know really how much blame lies where. The scouting staff/dev/hahn do seem to have had some success finding pitchers with good sinkers or changeups. I think they should lean into that a bit more at least on the major league market while they tweak their power arm development.

like Herman Cain?

the best thing that Adolfo and Rutherford can do is play great and become trade pieces for bullpen/5th starter help

Didn't say it was their best chance, but it was A chance, and if we marginalize every chance we get in the next decade because "lol this team isn't one piece away" each year then yes you will have a lot of first round exits at best. B