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To me it is like starting off a battle by dropping all your nukes, because you might need them. With knowledge of situations you can respond appropriately instead.

They did it back to back "starts"

But if the starter comes in and doesn't get rocked, you now have inferior pitchers in the highest pressure situations. If the starter gets rocked after Taylor, you have now used him up, and might not be able to use him in a subsequent game because he was wasted in a meaningless game or two. Heck looking backwards, maybe if you run into high leverage and letting Burke start, you now have Taylor for late innings and you don’t go to extras, instead of the BS.

When it comes to using your BEST pitchers in situations that may not require them, it is absolutely a waste. Yes. It also means inferior pitchers get used in the highest pressure situations when they happen. You are also gambling on everyone behind you doing their jobs, where if you are in the 8th or 9th inning, you are either the last, or second to last one to take the ball. You have full knowledge that this IS a high leverage situation instead of hoping you don't need someone inferior in one. You are putting two guys into unfamiliar situations with Taylor starting, but not extending, and the starter not getting the familiar routine of his entire life of starting a game. You want "ifs", but you are creating a whole new list of them here.

This right here. Churn the waiver wire for marginal lefties like the rest of baseball. '

Except you have 6 to 7 innings to figure it out that you don't have with an opener. It's why it's called high leverage. If Taylor goes out and strikes out three in the first inning, but the "starter" comes in and gets bombed, it was a waste. If you reverse Taylor and the starter, you don't use Taylor in that game, and he is more available for the next day, where he might not be in the first scenario. If he is pitching the 8th or 9th inning, the chances of a pitcher blowing it AFTER him is reduced by a very large percentage. The odds of using him in a blow out game are WAY increased in the opener situation. I get the idea OF the opener, but when you basically have two, MAYBE three high leverage relievers, it doesn't make nearly as much sense. Your chances of optimizing Taylors usage are massively increased by the more game that has been played.

I don't know if I see the NBA approving two different brothers owning teams at the same time in the NBA.

I would be curious if you have any examples of someone who has been predicted to go from punch and judy to 30 homer power annually based on these metrics? I am curious what I am missing here.

Keep churning this crappy bullpen until guys are ready. This is the way.

Come on guys. How you can't ask around about this stuff BEFORE you start printing it, is beyond me. Hell ask the dude you wrote a $40 million check for.

There's no time like the present...

That's what I don't get. You have a massive lack of leverage relievers, and now you have one less if you are going waste Taylor as a starter in games that you have no idea if he was a good usage inside of, until the game is over.

Yeah, not sure how you fire the top two people and then leave the coach so that the FNG doesn't get to hire his guy, but at least the top is clean.

The crazy thing is, if he had ACTUALLY invested in this business, he could have literally doubled his final selling price. The reports were in the two billion range for the previous shares. The Padres are rumored to be in the $3.4 BILLION range. The Sox SHOULD be in that area, even with splitting Chicago, there is nothing the San Diego market that should be better than the southside. Its ridiculous, and he SHOULD be called out on this.

Even besides the off the court stuff, Jaden Ivey's leg seems to be toast. I don't know who missed their due diligence there, but once they actually tested him and figured out he couldn't play AFTER getting him, it just goes to show you someone blew it on that deal. Of course they were looking for a post-hype bargain, but maybe when he was available that cheaply in a trade, you should have seen the red flag?

Exactly like Chris Getz did, it isn't that the traded people, it's that they waited until their expiration dates were past on their biggest assets, and didn't get s%*# for them that was the problem.

The f*** it isn't. The vanity projects of an Elon Musk are everywhere for the world to see. Same with Bezos. You might WANT to notice it, but it is there.

https://www.forbes.com/teams/chicago-white-sox/?list=mlb-valuations Sox lost $40 million on paper last year. I will guess that this will be the last year of "losing" as they will have their TV contract in place again for a full season, and have cut pretty much every cost possible, and are one of the cheapest payrolls in all of MLB. The wild thing is that if you add up the six years of losses, that adds up to $212 million, according to Forbes. Note that the team is now up to a debt ratio of 8%? I used to doubt these numbers a lot more, but if the Sox weren't losing money, why would they have an operations debt for a guy like Ishbia to come in and pay off? The other number of note is the $239 million revenue number. Sounds like a lot right? The hapless Miami Marlins, last in MLB team value, had a revenue of $320 million, or essentially the entirety of the Sox payroll MORE than the White Sox. The Sox are last by a LONG SHOT in total revenue. The closest to the White Sox is Tampa, who didn't even play in an MLB stadium last year, but still brought home $290 million or almost 20% more than our Sox. Even the A's brought in $320 million. If you want a mark of how badly the Sox have been destroyed under Jerry Reinsdorf, there it is.

Here's the problem; we have been talked in to the idea that THIS is how you attract companies (not just sports franchises) as a community. Every city of a reasonable size, and every county and state have Economic Development teams whose entire existence is to hand out incentive packages in the form of tax incentives, and other cash prizes, to businesses to "attract" them to move into a community. Companies use this communities against each other to improve these dollar amounts and awards. Even the trillion dollar plus market companies like Amazon engage in these games to get themselves more subsidies. Look the myth of the welfare queen is out in popular culture, but there is no bigger welfare queen in America than the billionaire. Sports team owners are no different than Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, or any of the other CEOs out there getting paid by taxpayers to make their billions somewhere else.

Nope.

That was a great play.

This means he is out at least 10 days

Not even close too, plus pitch was up.

Is it a thread hall monitor holiday too? Thought police get the day off?

So much for the Ant Man.