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Lol I would have been so embarrassed listening to them try to talk through that

Yo handy Morales is absolutely crushing the ball too

If you offered me the Sox being contracted but Jerry losing all his money and his worthless kids needing real jobs, or the Sox sticking around but Jerry lives another 15 years….I’d have a really hard decision.

https://www.chicagobusiness.com/sports/white-sox-could-leave-guaranteed-rate-field-chicagos-south-side

i would like it to be august 30 and badler has his 12th reply to this thread and is like "Mogollon with his 25th home run"

ah gotcha

wait so does he have 9 now or 10? I feel like after 2 yesterday that was 8?

He's having a very bad year, and he's had very bad years before but many thought it was weirdness surrounding the green monster. He clearly is a bit better in more spacious fields like KC, but our corner outfields are pretty small. Also he's slowing down. And there was a danger with inexperienced outfielders causing danger:

yeah what a bummer. I wonder what happened.

This is horrifying to say but I think if a normal org was doing it, it would make sense. The bears (why I'm saying it's horrifying, the bears are our upside org for the sox to follow) had a consultant come in mid-season last year to evaluate. It got some ridicule, but I believe it was performed so that they knew which parts of the org needed overhaul so they could pin down what candidates had experience in that area. So even though we could see the results for the bears, it was a useful exercise. With the sox, I believe it's being done to judge how little they have to do...i.e. a scapegoat as you say.

The last year I’ve found it helpful to see JR as just a landlord. Other owners may get into this to try to build the next great dynasty. Some may want to build or keep the next great sports brand. But the bulls and Sox are just like investment properties to JR. And he could have found some contractors that told him that investing more could lead to a higher price point to rent, but that’s risky! Jerry’s puttin in the old cash, only suckers get left holding the bag. and so in two franchises he found partners who stayed for two decades telling him that he could do the bare minimum, get back a decent competitive team, and just sit back and collect. And when it collapsed for the bulls we saw what that approach left - a skeleton org compared to the rest of the league. A scouting staff of like 4 people, no player dev, a training staff more likely to kill a player than save them. And now the Sox will pull back the curtains and we’ll see the same. The equivalent of a child playing with adults. The hard work of building some world class operations instead farmed out to outside consultants. Penny wise and pound foolish every step of the way. A horrible owner, but a pretty normal landlord.

We just need more time!

Rikuu gotta be our top prospect by year end.

Power is all I give a s%*# about in dsl. And Ks for pitchers.

Holy smokes

Finally, a Rikuu Nishida appearance

Yeah, at least a week of it

and sox might be wrong (obviously) but it's quite clear what they think about him. He has been in AA for like 4 years. Him and Perez were quite the duo for a while down there. perez moved up, he didn't. And then they chose Seby over Perez. And then they traded for a bunch of catchers. Maybe he's a 1b for good, he's got a productive milb bat, but his catching days in this org don't seem promising.

Yeah, he was older though

6 homers seems really big for DSL. I can’t remember anyone near that recently. Small dude too. I wonder if he can fill out more.

Fun pitching game there

Glad it wasn't mono!

I think the same stuff that led to getting Taylor I could argue would apply to Schulz, who also lost his senior year to mono or something. And their belief in Colson came from his improved approach in his last handfull of high school games. They don't really seem to care about small sample sizes if they've showed a new ability.

i'm fine with all of them going. I don't think anyone who grew up in this org could possibly lead it anywhere but where they've been.

Costs are a bit inflated due to having to retrofit it into a 100 year old building, and since it is landlocked, ensure all that square footage also uses extra space for classrooms, etc. But regardless, yeah, to me $35M for a capital project seems kinda cheap