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That was incredibly impressive turnout last night. Madison wisconsin reported to have 94% voter turnout which is crazy. A lot of bills to remove the friction from voting passed as well.

Dead people is a much better vote because it allows either an appointment or second special election. THis was voting in the affirmative that a holocaust denier and neo-nazi should be in power. Some amount would have voted yes here out of confusion but 23% is way more than I thought and pretty scary.

“Sox sign top free agent” betting markets must be crashing rn

Exactly

*whispers* hey guys I think if we end up getting the number one pick this year we may end up pretty good*

I don’t think this is true. Rainer has an easy playbook to follow on Charlie Baker and other NE governors, he tried to be Scott walker except he had no legislature. He was not a good politician and accomplished nothing.

It’s hard to be, but one Is most stay away from is Eovaldi.

So it’s behind a paywall and not anything new but Rosenthal clarifies again that Sox could be big spenders and said it also aligns with new tv deal, which the bundling of bulls/hawks I guess sounds still promising even if not what it was years ago.

Nice bucket of cold water after some fun news.

Also the Mariners have been the white sox spirit animal. I was secretly still hoping Dipoto pulled out a playoff birth despite having already seen the future and knowing it will fail. A lot of his paper clip trades ended up being terrible. If you are consistently trading with the rays, you are probably losing.

He then qualified that Haniger, Paxton, Diaz unlikely to be traded. If this is happening I can't believe Dipoto gets to run this rebuild.

I wouldn't really say at this point WCJ can't be elite (which I will say is top 15). He has incredibly high bball IQ, he has good post moves, and he has been able to guard guards much better than I expected. And he's only 19. To become elite, he would need a big leap, but I don't see anything that limits him from a massive jump. It requires luck and is rare, but I think it's more likely WCJ becomes an excellent offensive player than Lavine becomes a good defender.

I listened to Morosi on the White Sox Talk podcast. Little cooler than you'd expect from tweet. Says sox are at the table, he'd peg them for 30% to land one of them. Says both is not likely but they are looking to make a splash. I've gone back and forth on this, initially being fine being out. But with Arenado heavily likely to be re-signed, I think sox need to think about signing one of these dudes a year early, and just not feel the need to complete everything this year.

I don't read Nightengale tweets like that. He is Kenny's mouthpiece, but he seems to have been used last 3 years to cool market discussion on sox. When there's a tweet that's like "sox are planning on moving quintana", nightengale will say "sox only looking to move him for right offers". He has basically been an anti predictor for the last 3-4 years with sox after having been a reliable source for a while.

And shout out to Garfein and his team as well

Unfortunately the trib sports section has been gutted. Poor Paul Sullivan is doing the job of like 10 reporters, a few beat writers sharing teams. Luckily the athletic picks up a lotta slack.

For me that’s the best part.

Ha yeah that’s a fun article.

I have found Morosi to be particularly inaccurate. But yes, for a while the idea that sox would be a player was non-existent because they were just speculating on how teams may respond. Now they are reporting what they are hearing, so it's nice to hear this.

Only posting this to say it's notable this is not how Rick Hahn sounds.

Wow. Man, really wish it was someone other than Morosi saying this (or depending on where you stand, maybe you do like that it's morosi)

Relevant, unsure to where:

I don't know that any team has ever tried committing $600 million to two players in an offseason for winning a title. Could be a winning strategy!

This is all true. Prior to the hustle parts though I read about people being negative on signing Machado because his relatively lower walk totals means when he loses a step he might become more of a .780 OPS manny of 2017 than the .900 ops manny of last year. I like manny, but something that has been brought up before.

There are aspects to the way the bulls spend money (or operate) that are very similar to the white sox and I would point to as a Jerry Reinsdorf way of running things.