Balta1701

I was once at a game where Dallas Keuchel started for the Astros. Danny Farquhar realized there was a sound coming out of the dugout, and the Astros panicked and ripped out their video recording equipment after that game. Can we trade him for Keuchel? I'd be happy with that.

Naw this team is still one of the healthier ones in baseball. Injuries are up a lot this year League wide.

Dunn did come back way too early , but maybe there was some complications here.

Didnt Adam Dunn come back a week after one of these?

0/4 today drops you back to .536.

Exactly and where does that leave things? There are only a handful of options. -The Reinsdorf group pays for a new stadium with little public money. Why are you laughing? -They get into a situation like Oakland the last few years, where some people want to make a deal but neither side wants to leave money on the table, and the state and city are demanding Reinsdorf can’t get the same amazing deal as last time. -The team is sold, and new ownership has to decide whether to move. Entirely possible that the new ownership could be a group from another city.

And if that’s the case, when you met with him earlier in the offseason you outline what will happen if he doesn’t work with them. ”Our number 1 goal with you this year is health. We need you to participate with it this way and work with us honestly. But if you won’t, then we will have to be much more aggressive in taking away your playing time and resting you, because we can’t let minor injuries build up until you can’t swing like last year. Either you work with us or we have to treat you like Buxton.” I look at Robert having one day off in all of April and suddenly having a sore unmanaged leg, or Anderson playing the first 12 games in crappy April weather without an Offday then getting hurt, or Burger playing 15 straight games after his two Achilles injuries, and I say “this is just a rerun.” Theres very little room to criticize Grifol on lineups or bullpen decisions so far because Rick Hahn gave him a terrible ball club, all his options are bad. But here, we’re seeing the same failure to develop any professionalism that has been the hallmark of the Rick Hahn years, over all 4 of his managers, and we got a window into it under this staff yesterday.

Ironically, Robert clearly needed a day off anyway.

Ask it this way. What happens if the team continues to White Sox for the next 5 years, the fan base atrophies and shrinks, and then Reinsdorf and Co. go to the city and state and demand another sweetheart deal on a new stadium?

I do think the scalp of Rick Hahn will sate a little bit of the anger. I also think that several more years of struggling will leave this fan base as withered and apathetic as the As were The last couple years, primed for moving.

If he’s willingly ignoring them, then I’d say they definitely never earned his respect, wouldn’t you?

But at the same time, they never sat down with Robert to come up with a clear understanding of what they needed each side to do and build a level of respect (and to introduce the bench coach). There’s no agreed on plan for how they’re going to keep Robert healthy, which I think everyone could have seen the need for after the last two years, and as a consequence he felt it acceptable to wing it. He shouldn’t do that, but it shouldn’t be a question, the coaching staff should have made expectations clear for each player well before today.

No, you just need to chime in to make sure no one attacks the coaches for the fact that the players aren’t interacting with their coaches. Obviously the coaches play no role in the coaching staff. Heard it all before. It’s one part of how we got here. Always the excuses for the lack of leadership.

Coaches have no impact on players and never interact with them and that’s why you need to defend the great work of this coach. I’ve heard it before. No longer any patience for that nonsense. You may give credit to any of the White Sox recent coaches for all the recent success, that’s fine.

The streak did make the Sun Times cover. That’s something.

I know where this went but I’m just going to take that as a description of Rick Hahn’s 10 year career.

That’s a bullshit way to excuse a bad job by several coaches.

This does NOT make Grifol look good. His player admitted that they are casually lying to him and his staff. Robert may as well have said “I don’t respect Grifol enough to tell him about my leg.” Same statement.

He’s managed the last 2 games.

And they don’t trust their manager and training staff enough to tell them about stuff that is hurting. Super.

That’s… … ..worse?

… … …what?

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