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The warm weather and terrible franchise Oakland Athletics have eight runs today.

Can someone message me when all of these geniuses we hired start making a positive difference?

White Sox record vs Boston 2-1 White Sox record vs Everyone else 2-13

He has just looked lost since he got here, despite all of the undue hype.

Re-reading this is such a thrill. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5773947/2024/09/19/white-sox-failure-worst-season-history/

I am not quite ready to proclaim Sheets fixed yet, but it will raise some red flags if San Diego is able to to fix him that quickly.

The 50th best catcher at low A.

Counting your chickens a little quickly there? Didn't we learn this lesson, oh, last year?

Eh, honestly, with the failures of the people in front of him, I think giving the kid a chance, even if he massively fails, isn't a crazy ask. I think the frustration lies with doing things we KNOW don't work. I think the non-tender Vaughn crowd led by about a 90-10 margin this offseason, so it isn't surprising people are coming for Vaughn either. The Sox have a weird obversion to certain young players, despite a raging need for players who do exactly what they do.

Now we are talking

A rebuild isn't complete when you retain large parts of the former problems. The player development staff barely changed.

Maybe he meant "special"?

When the Sox hired Tony, I spent a lot of time talking about him losing the team and players, but even I didn't expect literally everyone of substance to simultaneously forget how to play baseball.

Bye bye Bulls. Pathetic effort.

That would be a huge improvement.

Oh right. Can't keep up with the injuries.

It's literally what I would expect. I don't get the ALL IS WELL crowd.

So Lee is hurt.

Again, these are two different groups. Ex-players see the game one way, and they see the Sox as inferior. Other front office execs see it another way, and they didn't think enough of the Sox as to mention them to the positive side. Neither is saying good things about the White Sox.

That's quite literally the point. No one seems to think enough of the White Sox changes to mention it as a positive. The Ex-players who played here see the organizations they have gone to as superior. Out of 40 front office execs who were interviewed, who have first hand knowledge of what it takes to be a successful major league baseball franchise, Zero of them thought to mentioned the White Sox, while literally the entire rest of the AL Central got votes. How is it too early for them to know, but at the same time, the people whose livelihoods depend on the White Sox are to be trumpeted as knowing better?

That is two different groups of experts who aren't seeing it. They are not one combined group. Neither the Ex-players nor the 40 front office executives have good things to say about the White Sox.

We did all of this "promising changes" stuff under Hahn. The same articles were written, the same hype over prospects were given, the new guys were all hired and anointed. I would like to see some real change.

Then it is also too early so say that all of these change were good and will show results. There can't be brow beating about how things are improving, but not one person with any sense of neutrality or first hand experience doesn't seem to think to also say it out loud. I want to see results myself, but I would be willing to engage in the blind positivity if literally anyone of authority who doesn't have a vested interest in keeping Jerry happy would agree.