southsider2k5

Wow the Angels have to be one of the biggest messes out there. They have a TON of long term money, so he can't spend his way out of this. It has to be drafting and development, but that isn't what he does well.

He was peaking out in the high 80's when he got to college.

The situation has 100% changed. The people who are still bitter about the old days are holding on to outdated grudges.

Again, if you leave out all of the good parts, the story is bad. The fact that the Rick Hahn got all of these extensions done, and they were friendly contracts to great players IS a reason we were able to do this rebuild. Guys like Quintana and Sale would not have had the same values if they were years closer to free agency. Hahn did that. It wasn't just a miracle of circumstance or something. it is a key to the rebuild. Finally again, Pittsburgh is a great example of a team that has had some incredible players over their time, but can't seem to do anything to get a rebuild done. Why it is different for the White Sox?

There it is. That is the other piece being completed ignored by original posterm

So what you are saying is if you can reframe the argument to disqualify every thing good and hold in everything bad, the team looks bad. How profound. The question is simple, if it is so easy, why doesn't everyone do it?

Kris Bryant is another one that is a dumpster fire right now.

The idea that the Sox should somehow upset about the performance of their front office today is a joke. Four years ago? Sure. I don't think anyone would have blinked if that happened. In fact if you actually pay attention, the front office team presented ownership this rebuild plan a few times before they finally decided to go this way. If they had decided to go a different direction for the rebuild, no one would have argued, but for the record, the top of this front office was kept in tact, while a TON of changes were made underneath them. New drafting, new international teams, new front office reports, many more analytics hires, etc. But today? Please. The Sox started from the bottom, sold off the key pieces for the highest possible return, and built themselves what peaked as the best farm team in baseball. The main tide of those players has hit the majors, and has the team in first place for the first time since 2012, and in the playoffs for the first time since 2008. They did EXACTLY what they were paid to do these last four years. This is a first place team, in case people haven't noticed, with still a good farm system to add from, and once finances stabilize, they are in a great monetary position to add pieces that the farm system cannot down the road. The even insinuation that someone would be fired for doing the job the Sox have done over the last few years is absurd lowest common denominator meatball fan drivel. All of the attempts to falsely compare them to other teams in other situations and especially to tie them to other professional sports franchises is just embarrassing. Too bad we can't fold fans accountable in the same fashion as they "demand".

Meatballs for everyone!

6 months is a TON of time to get through in a pandemic.

Its too bad you aren't a catcher, because the amount of framing that went into this post was impressive.

You must not have caught many Cooper interviews, because they all go like this.

For the record, nothing except posting style seems to show that.

Its a bad look to say this is a real season, but then pick and choose the spots at which you apply that concept. Should they weight who makes the playoffs over the last two years? Why is the draft different? I know this hurts our Sox at all, but it doesn't make sense to have different standards here.

One thing of note, Don Cooper has always been an ass. He doesn't give friendly interviews, which is why he is rarely talked to. Just because he doesn't want to explain something doesn't mean he doesn't understand, it means he doesn't care if fans do or not. All you have to do is note all of the players that talk about this stuff, how deep the implementation is, and how much it is used in the organization to know it would be impossible for Don Cooper to not being utilizing this stuff.

I know this is probably going to cause a few meltdowns, but does this sound familiar? This team has way out performed what was expected of them, had an insane 40 game streak, and is now cooling off and seemingly fading off. I think the truth for the Sox is that they aren't as good as they were when they were hot streaking, but obviously not as bad as they have been hitting lately.

Why worry so much about everyone else? Don't waste so much time and effort on everyone else's feellings.