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^ This part. I will be honest, if I was in a situation where I thought my very future depended on an organization with as questionable of a track record in development, I would probably seek outside council as well. It's just wild to then see the outside people reflexively blamed (par for the course), in this case, as if the Sox have some crazy track record here where we shouldn't be wondering what the Sox did to break him first. To be fully transparent, in Colson's case specifically, I wonder more about the back injury jacking up his progress than I do any of the the Dev stuff. If he can't swing like he wants to, or he is afraid to swing like he used, or he is being told to swing differently to save his back, those are all really big red flags that could easily derail a guy like this.

Well your "question" is phrased more as a classic deflection to blame someone else, but in the framework of you previously saying how acceptable it was recently to now trying to use it as a blame stick seems like a significant stretch to me.

Weren't you just the one talking about how it wasn't unusual for players to work with outside people in the off-season, and that it wasn't a reason for worry?

Welcome to 2023 buddy. As the New Guy, you get to buy this first round.

Raw, but big time arm.

Also this. Look if we had some examples of oh yeah, these guys all made it, so maybe that means these other guys who failed had their own issues. But when you have to go back almost a decade to find a true success story, that probably isn't the general theme here. They can't ALL be someone else's fault.

Pretty much every player is flawed somehow when drafted. That's why not everyone is a #1 draft pick.

Colson lived his entire life as the great hype. Dude was known statewide in three sports and was being followed in three different sports fanbases, including basketball in Indiana, as a target of IU. Pretty sure the spotlight didn't bug him.

As someone who has been to somewhere around 20 different ballparks over the years (some new parks in the same city over the years, I think only Tampa and Detroit came to mind as less to do around them, but I also haven't been to Detroit in like 15 years, and I do understand that since Ford Field was completed, the game day experience there is WAY better. The original stadium in Detroit was literally the only place I ever refused to go anywhere but the ballpark because of the neighborhood. Bridgeport is a dream compared to the old Tiger Stadium area. Most everyone else seems to have this figured out to maximize the game day experience, both for the fans, and for jobs.

Colson was a raw three sport athlete who could have gotten a D1 offer in three sports, with the expectations he could blow up in any of the three. He set school records as a QB, SG, and SS in a pretty decent school. He was a universally thought of 1st round draft pick in MLB. It is revisionist history to pretend he was an inevitable failure because of his HS batting average.,

It is amazing to see them do almost the EXACT same thing the White Sox did. Just half ass the portion after the rebuild, and completely waste on spending, while not fixing their most obvious problems. How great would Jackson Holliday for Garrett Crochet look right now for the O's for example?

I can't wait to be told they didn't draft him, so it isn't their fault.

A downtown ballpark is infinitely more accessible by ALL transportation lines. This location is dead. Nothing happens here. You options are come and leave. There is no experience. There is no excitement after a game. It is get and your car and leave, because you can't stay here. There is no making a day of it. You speak of employment, but it would be way better for "employment " to have more jobs connected to the Sox, right? So how about a ballpark complex which could add thousands of jobs? We are talking about a few extra train stops (or walking for someone who digs it)for anyone who lives in the area AND they don't have to put up with the negative externalities that you tell me the hate so much. Win-Win! More jobs, less traffic and drunks! So much more walkability yeah! I am impressed you managed to call all of the neutral ballpark reviewers who routinely and consistently rate this park as one of the absolute worst in baseball, racists. I don't think you have been to many other ballparks if that is your first thought. Besides if the residents are that bothered by the fans, there is one really obvious fix. It is reviewed as generic, large scale, and completely lacks and personality on pretty much every list that exists. Because of it, we see near zero baseball tourism like other major markets see, and no attendance boost from the daily experience. Sox fans go when the team is good, and that's it. That's not me, that's it's national reputation. If you are content with that because it keeps tickets cheap, cool. I would like more out of this franchise and fixing the biggest mistakes of this ballpark would be a step in the right direction.

Of course he has been saying that for 5 years now.

ISTG. All of the credit, none of the blame.

Someone tell them it is the first inning, every inning.

Or a milkshake.

I was serious. The video cut out before he said why Elko wasn't here yet. WHY?

They could sure use him.

At this rate C Montgomery Burns will buy the team before CMonty gets above triple A.

But lately people don't know his name for a good reason.

So what was his rationale for him not being here?

Oof.

I'm listening.