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Maybe a parking lot full of Jeeps?

That's dire.

Honestly we don't KNOW much about new ownership. We know that Ishbias opened a money spigot in Phoenix and at Michigan State. We know that they are seemingly investing billions in the pre-planning to make this park possible, and to make this area an earnings center independent of the stadiums. So far my educated guess would be that Ishbia spares no expense towards a new stadium, but we have no idea WHAT a world class stadium looks like in Ishbias eyes. He could envision something more like Jerry Jones Cowboys Stadium as a model. Maybe he wants to endear himself to Chicago with an Old Comiskey replica. Maybe none of these are accurate. TLDR; We have no idea what Ishbia wants, why waste time nitpicking some irrelevant work?

We have definitely had a history of guys having a big bender of a season at Charlotte as a last gasp before disappearing, but in theory Gonzalez should have a higher ceiling than most of them, so who knows.

All while being lectured by the ministry of mediocrity about how great things really are.

If he showed even a flicker of life, he wouldn't have been sent down in the first place. I know we want to dream back to his prospect hype days, but he couldn't even win a roster spot with the White Sox until there were multiple injuries in the OF. The Sox even called up a guy too hurt to play the OF before Kelenic.

Why are people spending so much time on a randos imaginary stadium rendering? It'd be different if there even a real idea to go off of, but as of today, there is nothing real to go off of.

If you ignore everything else including valuation of contract over prospects and letting value go to near zero, he did great!

Never wonder why I mock your over the top defenses of Getz.

On pace for. Hopefully you are smart enough to understand the difference.

One of two things happened when Getz took this job. He and Jerry were both full of s%*# when he took over talking about this being the quickest way to competing and yet they still held on to Robert knowing his extensive injury history going all of the way back to his pro debut. He honestly believed the hype about this being quick and held on to Robert thinking he would help speed things up despite his injury history and coming off literally his only full pro season with no injuries to speak of. Either way, Robert was probably the biggest mistake of Getz's career since his last promotion. They rode him from a superstar to a post hype prospect return, when it could have been way different.

He would have really been vindicated if he had dumped him for the biggest offer out there the winter after he got the job and probably had 2 to 3 quality starting players from that deal on the ML roster today.

Consensus? No way. Hell even I was saying I still liked my preseason 69 win prediction. I liked it in a down week, and I still like it in an up week.

Keeping in mind the guy who was in charge of their minor league development, was in charge of their disposal from the Sox.

While many other guys got knocked for work ethic and attitude, Kopech definitely wasn't the most dedicated or coachable guy from the sounds of it. He could well be standing in a hole of his own making.

I will continue to hold the 3 straight 100 loss seasons against him instead. Or I will keep mocking Ron for his trolling threads. Come on man.

He's been done. The years of playing through injuries just fried Eloy, Yoan, TA, and Luis. It's why waiting years to trade him was always stupid. Dude had an injury history going all of the way back to Rookie ball.

I think the only question is has he topped out, or does he have another level. I do think with some of this, there was the idea that he might still have another level, to make him generational, but he hadn't really shown a step up this year which would separate him from the rest of the pack. I do think he is a guy who will be on the Gordon Beckham path to the majors and will probably be in Chicago by July 4, 2027 in some form, and that is as is, today. Can he push into that next level of a regular all star? Well that seems to be the question as of today. While he might not have separated himself, I don't think there is any question he grades out as a really good MLB starter.

Ron needs to apologize for this thread not being about Jerry Reinsdorf incest hiring Chris Getz.

JFC! Ok, a hammy wasn't good, but this is see you in 2028.

It is uncanny.

Deflection

So you deflecting to BUT THEY WERE NOT COMPETITIVE wasn't a deflection, but WHY they were ACTUALLY non-competitive doesn't matter. Sure Baghdad Eddy.

The carve out for non-competitive teams is hysterical, because it tries to exclude the fact that that the lack of competition is very much due to their own doing. -This is a franchise that hasn't gone outside of the organization to hire a chief executive who wasn't already getting a paycheck from the White Sox, maybe ever, but at least decades. -They are a franchise who was among the last in mlb to make a minimal investment in Latin America -They are a franchise with no presence in the far east. - they have the smallest front office in baseball -they were one of the last to make a serious investment in technology, but are seemingly still looking for intern level people to interpret and create data. -they are the last team in baseball to spend on a nine figure contract. -They may be the only team in baseball without a team President in the front office instead of the C suite. I could keep going, but the point remains that the Sox spend so much time being non-competitive because they refuse to compete!

Hopefully he can ACTUALLY translate to the real club, instead of it being a AAAA bender.