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Honestly? I am the furthest thing from a Biden supporter. I believe that Donald Trump is such a danger to this country that I am willing to support Biden despite all of his baggage and things I disagree with. The funny thing, the President himself has said a multitude more of irrational and stupid things, why isn't anyone questions his mental capacity?

I would like to see these happen, as I think this is where the best values will come this winter, probably the best of our lifetimes, but I don't hold a lot of faith that this team will spend a lot of money to take advantage of it.

This is not really accurate, but it won't stop it from getting repeated. He got asked a press question about the topic, and he answered it.

This is also a great unintentional side point. I am sure you noticed the demographics of the people who get to fight the wars. Keeping enough of American poor and without opportunities keeps a ready supply of people who see themselves as having no other options but to take the military route.

This is one of the dumbest tropes to emerge from this election. Biden is a stutterer. Sometimes the guy has to take a second to translate his thoughts into formed words so that they come out without a stutter, because that process takes longer for him than most people. It is an intentional technique designed to reduce stuttering. The fact the President has turned it into an issue should be enough to disqualify him from the highest office in the land.

When the President actively sabatogued the PR recovery, my hope was that there would be a mass migration to places like PA/MI/WI/FL which would swing the election against him. It would be the most fitting way for him to lose.

Its funny that you mention a clubhouse destructing, because bringing a powderkeg like LaRussa who has no problem making his beliefs public and has publicly said he would taken actions against players who contradict his beliefs, would be the top person is baseball to cause the destruction of a clubhouse IMO.

Well at least they are finally endorsing the Russia vote.

I am sure they will set something up.

Sports have ALWAYS involved politics. Go back generations to find people like Jackie Robinson in baseball, Ali in boxing, the Olympics all of the way back to Hitler in '36 and the black power salutes of '68. Social justice is interwoven in the very fabric of sports. Acting like this is a new thing is woefully ignoring history, at best.

Its a nice goalpost move, but he didn't take a decade off of baseball, he took a decade off of managing. He hasn't done the job for 10 years now. "a different perspective" isn't doing the job. The job has changed a TON during that time. While you claim his track record should earn "respect", you ignore everything that doesn't fit that mantra. There is a lot about his record that earns him fear and trepidation. And yes you are pretending to know what it will take to manager the White Sox, by repeatedly excusing all of the problems in his history, and repeatedly pointing to his track record as an absolution that all of those things will be over come by it. This has already gone badly. The White Sox are the laughing stock of baseball with this hire, free agents are already reacting badly, and his own players are being ignored. This isn't a hindsight situation. When there are this many red flags, it is more than acceptable to be critical in the moment.

Yet he hasn't reached out to his own team yet. How many managers would have done (or more accurately NOT DONE) that?

You are opining that the opposite of all of them. Which means you are making arguments despite your opinion that you have no authority to do so. The problem is that every single one of your arguments are contradicted by Tony's own words, or the words of people who have played for him. Also if a person in my field took a decade off of doing my job, they would no longer understand the federal rule set, which is kind of the point of SEC compliance, and proves my point.

Especially when the key to his argument is to compare him to guys who haven't had a decade off from the job they are about to do.

You quite literally are by making every single contra-argument after listing off why you couldn't possibly know. Your thought would have more validity if you hadn't, but you continue to so so.

You go see him throw in a month and see what you see. If he is healthy looking? Absolutely take a shot at him.

This team has about $20 million in raises coming.

Think back to 25 year old you. If someone had come in with all of the titles and accolades in the world, but crapped on you personally and everything you believed in, and didn't spend anytime to act like they cared what you thought, would you respect them? Especially with their entire public history contradicting their most recent public statements, especially if you had been led to believe that the person was originally supposed to be someone who you did have some excitement about having as a leader? People want a level of respect before they give respect. I don't buy that anyone is just going to blindly accept one part of the resume, but not the rest.

Your own list was 1. Never managed a major league baseball game in their lives. 2. Never played major league baseball. 3. Never served as a major league baseball executive You've done none of these things. If you are going to use these as a basis to lecture the anti-TLR crowd, then you have already shot your own argument in the foot. The rest of is just mental gymnastics. I have no problem calling this for what it is, a rash move made without considering an impressive slate of potential candidates which are/were out there that we could have gone to without Tony's considerable baggage. The fact that TLR's "considerable track record" ends a decade ago. Baseball has changed A TON in that decade. TLR has contradicted the statements he made this week, with others made very recently about how he wouldn't incorporate data once a game started. Why are we supposed to only believe the statements that fit your argument, even though he has consistently made the same statements until someone started paying him again? It doesn't strike me as authentic at all. The fact that while he might have said the right things in some people's point of view during his most recent interviews, he has done other recent views which contradict these words mere months ago. His ACTIONS of supporting anti-Black and anti-Latino causes IS going to raise eyebrows. His lack of contacting players ISN'T going to make anyone feel better. Even it is eventually rectified, players are going to wonder why it took so long to reach out to them. While a guy like Maxwell has taken to Tony's defense, there are PLENTY of players who had large problems with him, and NONE have spoken up here. These accusations aren't new. With the steroid era, people keep using the idea that EVERYONE WAS DOING IT as some sort of a defense for this. Tony's team's had major steroid systems in place, and were operating in the open, and were even an open joke in front of the media. He knew what was going on, and did nothing to stop it. AJ Hinch at least sort of tried to put on a show of stopping things. TLR gave it is tacit endorsement by ignoring it completely. He's never been brought to reckoning for it either. There are also the Jack McDowell accusations of an organized sign stealing operation that have never been addressed. At the end of the day, none of us owe Tony Larussa anything. The idea we do owe him something with all of these other things hanging there over him is absurd. I am not afraid to question his hire, and no one else should be either. There is no reason at all where he can't be questioned as well as the process that brought him here.

Give him the hardware.

15 (B)“Beware of false prophets, (C)who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 (D)You will know them by their fruits. (E)Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, (F)every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 (G)Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them. Beats me.

The same people who run on gun rights are the same people making sure as many people as possible can't vote, but greg isn't ready for that conversation.

The fact that he feels the need to post this is not making me feel any better.

Not if he is giving them different instruction.

Again, baseball is different now on pretty much all fronts. In this era, owners aren't doing all of these jobs like they used to in the olden days. They can't. And it doesn't seem to be a coincidence that when you look around pro sports, the teams that have owners trying to do more of those jobs themselves, are the ones that are struggling the most.