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Thanks. My layman's interpretation of that is that JR wants the city to guarantee him new revenue streams and profit in order to hopefully get something out of it themselves decades down the road. f*** that s%*#.

f*** that noise. I'm not a card carrying DSA member by any stretch, but if that's what JR wants, then the city needs to mandate it has a roof and that when the Sox aren't using it the city can do whatever it wants.

I just looked at Eder's stats. LOL! Dude could not have had a more White Sox like start to his time here.

I was thinking more of Colas and Sosa, who could presumably be playing everyday instead of the washed up vets they brought in. There's zero argument for either of those guys you listed starting anywhere near MLB imo.

I get that but the youth we do have close to "MLB ready" flopped last year. I'd probably prefer to just trot a couple of them out for 600 PA and see what shakes out, but it's hard to say if that would be any better than just getting them some more time down in the minors to learn and grow without the pressure of performing in MLB.

West Coast White Sox. They've got a projected 85 wins and are making win now trades for relievers with injury concerns in order to perhaps squeak into a wild card. Thank god we found a team as dumb as we are to make a deal with.

Yea you'll love it until Moose Tacos is named player manager.

That's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard a GM say. He might have well of just said he's bringing TWTW. But is he bringing more than his projected negative WAR should he get any playing time?

Matt Latos, god that was a flash in the pan season for the Sox. Started what, like 20-10 and then went 20-35 or something and were out of it by July.

I was fairly buzzed and said something similar but more depressing and deleted it. In general I think I was trying to say that not even the Sox are bad enough to where they need to sign a negative WAR Moose Tacos to a camp invite. Like, he could pull a Rollins and hit 400 in spring and then go 0-28 to start the year. He's that bad and old. He hasn't had a semi useful season in 3-4 years.

this post sucked. can we have a delete?

Classic photo of those guys:

Read the fucking room JR!

Some shots from a prior age I took back in 2014.

The responses to that from Sox fans are brutal. And well deserved. Who the f*** are these guys? And why does one of them look like bootleg Zach Lavine?

Ozzie was the man, until he wasn't. It's best for everybody to keep the past in the past. We already tried with RV and TLR.

Between his baby mama drama and his on field play TA had negative swagger the last two seasons. Dude just fell off.

The dumb thing about having awful managers and teams since Ozzie left is the Ozzie revisionism. Ozzie was part and parcel of the #grinder #TWTW bullshit that infected the franchise after 2005 and remains to this day.

We're having the same general conversations on Realgm Bulls board as here. The bulls are mediocre instead of just bad, but they've been mediocre to bad going on 20 years now. Not much to get excited about given ownership seems to be the common denominator over the years of mediocrity and failure.

He's the Jim Boylen of the Sox. Great job JR! You've managed to hire two of the worst managers in the history of pro sports on both your clubs!

My hope is that it's just coach speak. But this dumb mofo came in last year promising the moon and delivered a garbage dump so yea, hard to be optimistic. If the org really thinks this guy is an above replacement level manager than the Getz era will follow the general path of the Hahn era most likely.

That is an absolutely amazing quote. It wouldn't surprise me if half of it was written by an AI prompt. Even for Merkin, that is a word salad of nothing.

You'd think a guy hired by the same folks that gave us horrendous stretches from late stage Guillen, just along for the ride RV and asleep (and drunk) at the wheel TLR would perhaps be a bit more humble. Manager of the White Sox? That's a clown gig bro.

If we're going on Swaggermetrics, we're fucking bottom tier. Hard to have swag when you stink.

No reason to chase a higher payroll as a fix to 80 wins or 75 even. Just take the year to reset. That's all we can expect from Getz in my opinion. He's not gonna rock the boat but just realizing the reality of the roster would be a good start.