southsider2k5

Good lord. Do you even believe this? All of the draft picks they had and listed top prospects and trade acquisitions are disqualified here? Let me guess, they all had bad attitudes, right? Good lord.

All of the failure? Not even remotely. He's the only one who knew what he was doing even though his department was a massive and complete failure? lol-worthy.

And Cub fans enjoy seeing the Sox lose 121 games with no path to respectability.

It's absolutely normal to fire people who massively fail at their jobs, which is why it is so absurd to deal with the idea that in the midst of this dumpster fire that Chris Getz was actually promoted, and now has every excuse on the planet being made for him as to why everyone else was the problem, except him.

When you read what is being said here, it absolutely is, even though the people apparently above and below him are the problems, but somehow he isn't. Getz is just as much of the problem as a Marco Paddy is. If Getz didn't get anywhere because he didn't have enough control, why doesn't that excuse work for Paddy who was working under the same structure? Or the scouts who had their work over ruled above them supposedly? If Chris not being able to fire people before is the problem, why are we assuming that even though we just watched Jerry refuse to fire people until their contracts were pretty much done, that Chris will be able to realize that he needs to fire other people later to fix other problems? The ridiculous amount of weight being put into we have this all figured out and all of those old problems are gone without any actual indication to show that they are ACTUALLY gone now is absurd. You can choose to believe whatever you are fed, but until there are actually results that show differently, I am going to believe this franchise's history, over some selective printing of only the happy things.

I can't just buy that conveniently he was the only one in this organization who knew what he was doing, couldn't do anything to fix it, but now can fix everything without any issue. That's ridiculously pollyanna.

It's the pic for me.

Uh, what? What is this dumpster fire?

It also completely ignores that Getz WAS the leader of that development staff that failed. It's the spiderman meme in real life.

Considering he hasn't played due to a season ending injury, I feel like I would be the same.

If we get a Kris Byrant out of this deal, it was an all time great.

Laptop? Can we get him to throw out the abacus?

Player Development was quite literally Chris Getz's job.

Again, this team has to make up 40 games with Luis Robert on the roster just to get back to .500. They need to gain 45 to 50 games to get back to the playoffs. Is there any logic that sees Jerry swinging the resources necessary to pick up 40 to 50 games in the three years, all while paying Luis Robert too? We already know they are cutting for this year, so forget that one. We are now down to two years left. To me logic dictates working on the most probable path back to decency, thinking this mess can be fixed in three years doesn't seem logical.

Eder as any kind of a usable pitcher would be nice.

I see 121 losses last year with Luis Robert on the roster.

The odds of that are barely above 0.

Well greg is still here so...

Andrew Benintendi was a similar signing, of course he just fell off of a cliff here.

Me too Garrett, me too.

Correct. He can either sign now for whatever teams have left in their 24 allotment, or wait until Jan to get their 25 allotment. He is then under the standard six years of control structure for any typical draftee.

If you don't want your boss in your business, you should probably not suck at your job.

This team was 40 wins from .500. Yes it will take time. I mean, duh.

Really a bunch of C level guys instead of getting the A level guy who makes a real difference

Now that is a plan. Hold strong brother.