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I don't follow. Jason and Stone carried water for the org at almost all times. If they did offer any critiques, it was aimed at individual failings, and certainly not the FO. To be fair, this is par for the course with contemporary announcing crews, but you're seeing things in Jason that weren't there. Jason is a nice story, overcoming adversity to become a top play by play guy nation wide, but as a Sox announcer? That I have to listen to 140+ times a year? He was not anything special and was unable or unwilling to say a bad word about his bosses.

Well it's a little easier to call plays when you have Amon Ra, CMC, Gibbs, Lamar, Mahomes and so on. The two QBs that aren't elite but just good (Purdy and Goff) are surrounded by elite talent. Detroit has the best offensive line in the league, SF might have the best overall collection of skill players when healthy. Chicago needs help everywhere. Get a bunch more good players and the coaching will probably sort itself out.

I saw some photos. Looked cold AF but not much snow came down? Looked like Michigan and then the areas to the east of the Great Lakes got much more. Can't really complain about the weather here. We got down to record lows for a few days a couple weeks ago but now it's back up to high 40s, low 50s. Typical gray mist but you can tell winter is getting over as the sun is now setting at 5 instead of 4. Few more weeks and we'll be talking about pitchers and catchers.

Joining a long, heralded list of Sox Talk produced expert meteorologists, we have now added expert geologists and civil engineers.

Husky Stadium upper deck is the worst I've ever been in: great view. steep as s%*#.

It's almost all bedrock. Famously, some of it is jutting up in places including Central Park. It's also a major part of the subway history, going through or (more preferably) around, over, and under it. Thank you for coming to my ted talk. Pretty much. It was basic ass hot dogs, pretzels and nachos, cheapish US macros for beer and for sweets you had ice cream and froyo, an early 90s phenomenon. I feel like the Sox were one of the first parks that started to serve more diverse s%*#, like the bertucci bros area.

Don't worry once Trump gets into office and pressures the fed we'll have free money again for the financiers. I'm only half joking.

Same with Seattle. Almost all of downtown used to be tidelands and they chopped like 150 feet off the "Denny Hill climb" and trucked all that dirt down to the bay in order to fill it in. Unless they are building a tunnel under the new stadium, I'd expect modern engineering to have no difficulties working around any fill issues under it.

This has me tremendously excited. As excited as I've been since the start of the Covid year season. So, tell me, it seems like the perfect storm to get a half private, half public stadium built in an awesome setting -- why is it just now being talked about? Is this really viable? It sounds too good to be true, honestly. The Sox playing in an intimate, modern stadium in a neighborhood well served by transit with plenty of room for organic growth around the new park? Get it done!

His "cancer" was turning from a 4-5 WAR player into a .5-1.5 WAR player. Is he a "good" club house guy? Probably not, but in a winning team, he's just another cog.

Given we aren't contending for anything but the cellar of the division, and it's *just* money there's almost no reason not to sign him as a flip candidate. So it won't happen.

I'm guessing he either gets 2/15 or 1/10. Not much value in a projected 1 WAR player. Ironically this off-season TA free agency is exactly the type of dumpster dive signing the Sox have always loved.

Dude, just take the contrary bone out of your mouth: stop chewing on it, it's bad for oral health. It's a salary dump. Haniger is a busted down shell of himself. They were on the cusp of winning the division (after a mid offseason which in part created their slow start) and then at the trade deadline made a couple minor, timid moves again. And now? They already traded away their starting RF and 3B. They are clearing salary for Ohtani I guess. Oh wait... I've said it since I moved out here a decade ago: these two franchises, Seattle and the Sox, are two sides of the same coin. The similarities are remarkable.

Luis Robert and Julio deserve better.

Salary dumps and shitty minor moves. Mariners and White Sox franchises:

Why does it look like they are in Wrigleyville in the photo?

Nah, he sucks now. Sticky stuff guy.

I don't know. I'm not gonna pretend to be following close enough to know. How any anybody really? Younger fans I guess. At this point in my fandom it's "show me" time. Talk and new hirings are just that. I wasn't trying to be overly snarky when I replied to Harold that I've been hearing about a "new tune" on the South Side for 35 years now. But I keep hearing the same music, ya know?

Ironically ownership and management seems to believe that you can turn 50 cents into a dollar at the MLB level but that you can't turn 25 cents into 50 at the scouting and development level. I'm not saying we have to be the Rays or Dodgers but I'd settle for being like Cleveland, who at least can consistently produce pitching. I just saw that ZIPS thinks the Guardians have 18 pitchers (!) projected for an ERA+ of 100 or better. Do we have 4?

Not asking for a Steve Cohen, but someone willing to spend on the little things that add up like foreign scouting, domestic scouting, minor league instructional staff, analytics department, and so on. We don't need a 200 million dollar payroll but we can't continue to be penny smart but pound foolish.

There's a lot of billionaires that want the prestige of a winning sports franchise. We just need to find one.

I was briefly on his softball team in NYC. Nice guy, but I think he's been mailing it on with his writing for about a decade now, since Deadspin went belly up.

I've heard some version of this for 35 years.