southsider2k5

How much of a yes man are you?

If we are putting the band back together, when does Jake Blues get out of prison?

This is where being a lawyer will come in. He is going to say all of the right and politically correct things.

He probably a lot to say. In the end the guy signing the paychecks did what he wanted to do anyway.

The 90's called, they want their steroids back.

Give me either of them over this.

Except for the actual locker room issues at his other stops, sure.

So much for Rick Hahn gets his guy.

Un F@cking Real

Imagine putting in a year to prepare to climb Mt Everest. You train, you work, you spend a month in basecamp to acclimate. You buy tons of expensive equipment. Then we you get past the last camp, mere hundreds of feet from the summit, you tear off your cloths and start making snow angels, suffocate, fall off the mountain and die. Then you get left there as a rotting corpse because it is too dangerous to rescue you after your stupidity. That is our last five years.

On record, f@ck this move and JR for making it happen. This is the absolute worst hire we could have possibly made, and that includes Hinch, Guillen, Ricky, and any other real candidates for the job.

Yep, I have said it before, and will say it again. If a team is willing to be aggressive, this could be a HUGE winter for them.

You have Frank Thomas and Ozzie Guillen at the same place, without even getting into people like Our Chuck and others who have feelers into the business. it isn't hard to see how Lance could have heard something.

Tim Beckham states otherwise.

To me racism isn't normally just an incident, but a pattern. It can manifest itself in one incident, but typically the signs are there. People like Tony tell us who they are through their actions and their words. It isn't just a single incident or story, which makes it easier to question. There is a pattern here that goes back a long ways, and even his most recent public comments on the matter don't seem like he has grown or changed with the times to start to get past that kind of a line of thinking. I mean in my life experience racism isn't a yes/no switch. There is are differences between holding a few racist stererotypes to be true, hating BLM as a terrorist group, burning crosses in people's lawns, ignoring black names on resumes, and lynching black people. Now I don't know how much of a racist TLR is, but from his own words, I can make a 100% clear observation that Tony holds viewpoints which are absolutely held as racist by people of color, and that I would consider as racist as well. This doesn't mean he is holding Sunday crossburnings, but it is also a really big red flag to a situation where he is coming into a group of strong personalities, and a large minority population who 100% will think that of his viewpoints. Maybe he can change their minds, or maybe he causes the clubhouse to go up in flames and anger. I don't know that answer, but I do know that it isn't a chance I would take, nor do I want to see the White Sox taking.

We live in the United States of America. The very idea that there is compulsory actions that must be taken to properly be labeled as "patriotic" is so anti-American that it hurts. If someone has a cause that they want to get recognized, and feel that kneeling during the national anthem is the way to achieve it, more power to them. Even if I don't like the ideals being espoused, people have the right to do it. No one should have the right to take that away from them. Sure you have professional considerations, in place, but those professionals also have the ability to take their talents elsewhere. And you are already seeing indications of that from a professional black athlete. Even if you don't believe in it, they do. Instead of telling people what they should be allowed to do, maybe you should spend more time listening to people like Tim Anderson when they tell you WHY they kneel, and not buy into some artificial construct designed to distract you from the underlying issues by pitting you against them personally. If Tim Anderson wants to kneel to protest racism, more power to him. If Trevor Bauer wants to kneel to protest BLM, more power to him as well. NO where in this country is compulsory patriotism a thing.

^ This. Over and over again, this.

Totally disagree. This is how people of color in general see this issue. We are already seeing this seep out with the reaction of a guy like Marcus Stroman. Trust me when I say he isn't alone.

Much better to ignore what a black player is saying.

This may well be the most effective way to get managements attention.

Even if you don't care, when you walk into a lockerroom full of guys who do exactly what TLR is saying he won't allow them to do, it is a major concern. Look again at the list of players who knelt, and tell me if it is worth screwing things up with those guys. Look at Macrus Stroman's reaction to TLR to get an idea of what players of minority backgrounds think if the guy. I care about what key players on this team and potential free agents think. Destroying the clubhouse before the season even starts seems like the absolute worst thing that you can do to this squad heading into 21.

And this one is real.

At least this like is real.