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With the pay story, this makes sense.

Wouldn't Venable hit the definition of "passed over" by his own team?

Others who have jobs in baseball can comment, but entry level jobs in baseball are TONS of work, horrible hours and somewhere between low and no pay.

Much as his history has been, Tony ruins everything. https://www.audacy.com/wbbm780/news/local/tony-larussa-speaks-on-recent-report-of-white-sox-for-sale

Yes. Yes he will.

It would take a 40 game improvement for the Sox to be mediocre.

And is a league leader in bunting and IBBs

Can you stop dragging your hurt feelings into every single thread? I know you think you are on some crusade, but it literally ruins every thread you drag this into.

Aw.

How the f*** do you not know this?

The same Barfield that said to take Fletcher over McCarthy.

Sure. Most of us are at the "why believe anything they say, because they have fed us lines of s%*# for decades now. Fool me one decade, shame on you. Fool me two decades, shame on my, fool me 4+ decades..."

Auto-correct has it's own sense of humor sometimes.

Well the Sox have been hiring poop, so it would fit.

If only we had the worst season in baseball history to baseball the anger on, and not some made up fantasy world where we could all pretend not to notice anything bad

You are 100% wrong here. If Jerry had brought in a real GM with a reputation and history worth believing in and let them do their damned jobs, they would have YEARS of good will just for the simple fact that something was actually changing. But when step one of this rebuild is nepo-baby Chris Getz, there is no reason to believe the octogenarian inmates are not still running the asylum.

No it is what their leakers are saying, but we don't know what they are actually doing. We will know if they really did once they actually do some hirings. If they bring in someone like Skip Shumaker, the question is answered, as if they go another route.

He doesn't own the entire team, so he isn't paying the entire tax hit. The historic estimate is 20%.

Ready for work Mr LaRussa!

And we are stupid enough to try it.

They can look at whatever they want, but this manager is going to lose 400 games if they make it 4 years.

You missed the point then. The White Sox are far from the only billionaire handout in the City of Chicago, and far from the wealthiest. Though they are only one of a very few with a dedicated revenue stream which isn't being redirected from other city services.

That's their average daily balance, not their annual budget. This is also a separate taxing body. But this is far from the only billions spent. He'll they are STILL paying Boeing, who is gone.

The city of Chicago has an ADB of almost 2 billion sitting around in TIF dollars. This kind of spending is very normal. https://igchicago.org/information-portal/data-dashboards/chicago-tif-districts-map-fund-balances/