southsider2k5
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1 hour ago, Quin said:
Idk, but Cali stakes claims to players right away so he can do exactly that.
Example: For years pounding the table telling everyone how they were incredibly wrong on Yermin Mercedes.
For the record, now of the independent Amercan Association Kansas City Monarchs.
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45 minutes ago, wegner said:
I went to look for the wild card standings and saw just how horrific the Sox are currently on the road.....they are 1-13 away from Chicago. That is a pace to win 6 games on the road all season. Great googly moogly.
Sorry for the negativity there....one could argue at this moment the Sox are one of the hottest teams in baseball after that epic win last night.
And there is ONE person who might...
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13 minutes ago, TaylorStSox said:
Come on. Ramos is a better prospect than Colas and Sosa. He'll get the Vaughn treatment, then everyone will cry that he was given too long of a leash.
I would have thought the Billy Hamilton part would have given away the joke...
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3 hours ago, SoCalChiSox said:
Now that he's turning it on hopefully he'll be starting in Chicago by the latter part of the season.
And then sent down.
And then called up
And then sent down
And then DFAd for Billy Hamilton.
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My hometown kid played himself up to 39th and the Rams!
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1 hour ago, WestEddy said:
I root for a baseball team. I don't feel compelled to pretend to be "subjective" by screaming about every single innocuous move, some of which, actually make sense.
Should have just stopped there.
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1 hour ago, WestEddy said:
Not being a whiney man-baby isn't "carrying water".
Whining about whining... is still whining.
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42 minutes ago, WestEddy said:
I get tired of the "he won't be on the next good team" complaint. They have to play the games on the schedule. I'm not sure how putting a first year rookie back at AAA to work on things is "panicking". This team is not going to be a 20-140 team. Once they stabilize, win a couple of games, and they're not a daily national news story, maybe then Sosa, Fletcher and Colas will get a full 2-3 month shot to see if they stick.
I get tired of you carrying water for this stupidity, but here we both are.
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1 minute ago, DoUEvenShift said:
Any good movies or series on apple TV? Cause I sure as s%*# am not paying $9.99 just to watch this s%*# tonight.
Ted Lasso is great. Also a fan of Manhunt and Franklin so far
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45 minutes ago, Dick Allen said:
3-22 teams operating like the White Sox currently are operating, are not living in reality. I'd much prefer watching Fletcher put up a .650 OPS than watch Otega put up a .680 OPS. Like you say,, it's probably really unlikely, but Fletcher has a better chance of being able to help the next average White Sox team than any of these dopes Getz is bringing in. This season is already toast. Don't get rid of mediocre young guys for mediocre old guys.
This. Exactly this. Even a chance at Fletcher being your 5th OF in 4 years or a situational lefty in AA is better than a chance at nothing in 1 year.
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3 minutes ago, TaylorStSox said:
I don't think you're wrong, but the majority of these moves are completely inconsequential.
If he traded Montgomery for some serviceable MLB players so that we could win 60 games, then I would be irate. These other moves really don't matter.
Individually they are probably not much. But the whole idea is future talent hording at this stage. Even a small chance at a future is better than no fucking way.
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6 minutes ago, fathom said:
From what I heard, some of the smarter teams in baseball were interested in him at the deadline and during the offseason. Don’t forget that a lot of other teams didn’t care about the performance of Sox players last year due to awful environment and defense.
Who and for whom?
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Just now, TaylorStSox said:
Panicking would he calling up Schultz, Montgomery and Thorpe and then trading Robert DFA'ing Horn is not panicking.
Besides, if you're going to panic, starting 3-22 seems like a decent time to start
I fully expect Montgomery to be called up any day at the rate we are going. Look it is one thing to sign vets as place holders so as to NOT rush players, but the fact that other kids (no matter how marginal, they have a better chance at future value than Rafael Fucking Ortega does) are getting released to make room for this trash, that is a problem. When you KNOW you have no present value, you stop worrying about present value. You start worrying about your future value. Trading a low level guy for a lefty specialist, and then releasing him two months later to make room for a guy who has no future with your team is just stupid. Now you have blown through two potential future pieces (again, no matter how small those odds are) for a guy with no future at all. Why? So you can lose 105 games instead of 110? JFC how stupid can this franchise be?
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1 minute ago, fathom said:
Sox went for quantity over quality. Other teams were absolutely interested in him, but Getz used it as a trade to fill roster spots at the big league level.
What were these other offers?
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18 minutes ago, TaylorStSox said:
He inherited a historically bad major league team with a bad farm system, a historically cheap owner and 2 valuable assets - Cease and Robert. What's he supposed to do?
Not freaking panic during the first four weeks of a rebuild?
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31 minutes ago, Quin said:
The thing is, I can no longer tell if this is Getz trying to rebuild, win, or try to just not be the worst team of all time.
But the thing is, he's failing at all three.
He's panicking like he has a month late period.
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33 minutes ago, 77 Hitmen said:
If the Sox are such a money loser, why has the franchise value gone up significantly over the years? The latest I've read put their value at around $2B and around middle of the pack among MLB teams. I'm not a business guy or an accountant, but how can such a thing be true if the team has been losing money for several years now? Serious question - not just a rhetorical one. Maybe there's a great explanation for this. According to this site, they've gone up $400M in value since 2020, in other words, since Covid started.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/194606/mlb-franchise-value-of-the-chicago-white-sox-since-2006/
Supply and demand for ego projects has been the single biggest driver of franchise values in the last few decades, versus back when sports was actually a normal business model. A pro franchise has become something closer to a megayahct to be shown off to the world versus something to profit from.
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29 minutes ago, Rusty said:
Ok…
how about. I’m right and you are wrong. Deal with it?
Cool. What amazing compelling knowledge. Glad your tax cheats have given you insight into professional sports ownership accounting at a level that can't be questioned without hurt feelings.
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Jesus and now Bailey Horn is DFA'd too for this fucking mess.
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21 minutes ago, Rusty said:
We’ll agree to disagree then because…I’m just a small business owner and I guarantee myself and my accountant could easily hit that ratio.
If you want to provide something deeper I will listen, but just "trust me" isn't much of an argument.
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5 minutes ago, Rusty said:
You serious Clark?
With the kind of revenues the Sox are pulling down? Yes.
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Also Ortega for Fletcher is absolutely a full pledged panic move.,
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Getz: Record “frustrating” but rebuilding takes time
in Pale Hose Talk
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If Rebuilding takes time, CALM THE F@#$ DOWN WITH THE WASHED UP GERIATRIC PLAYERS!