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Its insane and so embarrassing.

As someone concerned when he didn't show up to media his last game (which I had more context on later), gotta say I was pretty impressed with Williams, who had some media come pretty hard at him, how well he handled and even seemed to relish a bit. He's clearly not going to be a "gosh what a nice guy" type player, but I do think he has shown he can handle this pretty damn well. I do wonder how much frustration we will see from media types who will now be exclusively with players who, like, never read the sports pages of a paper and who did not digest their athletes exclusively through the eyes of beat writers. The press conferences are going to be different with people like that.

We damn well better be top 10.

So glad so much influencer/tangential NFL Media was able to convince their bosses to party and network so that we may read hundreds of the same blurbs on who a team is meeting. Extremely valuable info.

plus do we think they even still have any old, marginal prospects to trade after we raided that cupboard this weekend?

Sounds like we could have waited for Horn to fail at the MLB level because he sucks after every promotion and then traded Dalquist for him.

Bigger lie: Paul DeJong is 6'6 or that he is good on offense?

Jesus christ, the guy is 26 and still has no guarantee of making an mlb roster. That does not scream "decent chance to be part of the sox bullpen for the next half decade" unless it is meant as an insult to how terrible this team is. Is anyone a wee bit interested to see how Thompson, who was able to pitch 130 innings as a starter last year, could have seen his stuff play up in a reliever role (which Horn already had to transition to because he was a garbage starter in college?), where his fastball could be thrown harder and his two pitch arsenal was less of a vulnerability? Could that have made the guy "extremely likely to never make it) (which again we are discussing for a guy who was 22/23 in AA last year, vs a guy was a bad reliever in AAA as a 25 year old and was unlikely to make the team so was traded? I don't know. Makes you think!

giant you say

Every GM in baseball : "Chris what if I told you that we may make available our 26 year old starting pitcher in AAA" Getz: "Don't f*** with me, are you serious?!?"

Fathom talked about how Robert succeeding in this system means he must have been the greatest natural baseball player of all time, i've talked about how we run our prospects like mr. glass in unbreakable (a widely watched film we all know and love), just blowing up class after calss of them trying to find the super human that can succeed... Our pitching was so garbage last year top down. Mena succeeded getting guys out should have been a sign he was super human. He's basically Nolan Ryan now in a real org. Thompson is not close to Mena, but he is athletic and actually pitched and didn't just get injured all year. Not great, but a starter in AA. He's probably not a hall of famer but at this point my assumption is solid 10x all star.

Peter King was awesome. He wasn't necessarily insightful, but he put out THE gossip column for the nfl. It was great, Breer does ok, but I think the old guard was extremely tight with King and there's still a lot of old guard.

hmmm. this is a dogshit trade.

Good god. i had high hopes Getz new org charts would solve this.

Probably the biggest reason to follow ACL this year

avier Mogollon, 2B, White Sox Mogollon was arguably the biggest pop-up prospect in the White Sox’s system in 2023. The Venezuelan infielder was a low-dollar signing in the 2023 international class and put forth an outstanding debut season in the DSL that included a .999 OPS and 10 home runs. Mogollon is a twitchy athlete with the potential for 50s and 55s all across his scouting card and a plus arm that could handle stints at shortstop. He’s also already shown the knack for pulling balls hard and in the air. Badler https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/22-dsl-prospects-who-could-make-noise-stateside-in-2024/

Oooh, also have a designated gate as "the Hate Gate" and it's just a bunch of statues of La Russa like hanging up "La Russa's lounge sign" over the original Loretta's lounge. And like, strewn with covers of Cigar Magazine interviews with Jerry.

This guy reads so talk doesn’t he

Yeah they are like a suit you rented for a wedding, but then the wedding got canceled and you never got to use it, so now you just have to wear it every day to get your moneys worth anyway even if it is not, like, the BEST thing to do. It's just what has to be done.

New sheriffs in town.

Eh no can’t get behind that. An org running well on pitching coaching, trainers and scouts is doable and has been a huge advantage to places like San Fran/MN and most notably MIL. Doesn’t mean it will work with kopech but he’s got the biggest range of outcomes.

I read this 3 times and visually I have no idea what I’m supposed to picture. How close is the hula hoop to the pitchers front? Is this like that da Vinci sketch with those arms and legs everywhere? https://soxmachine.com/2024/02/brian-bannister-white-sox-michael-kopech/ But main thought reading this is glad to see the progression of focus here on command. I thought Katz focus on stuff over all and not worrying about walks as much made sense when the pitchers played in front of a defense so bad any contact would be a hit. Bannister seems to be gently layering in some changes to harnessing this now with our worlds best / cheapest defense. Good luck to ye.

It wouldn’t really be high end real estate as you’d have to either make weird shapes to get people access to windows, or create lots of windowless condos. OR - you could go into a public private partnership to start pulling more residential right next to the loop to at least help support its retail and restaurants as the solutions are figured out.

That is…not why they haven’t built anything.