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The CF is the leader out there. It's his job to take control.

Honestly this is pretty normal rule 5 activity. Most of the guys picked are years away, if ever. If they were close and finished, they wouldn't be available. It's why the idea that the Sox had hacked Rule 5 after last year was so absurd. Smith was a once a decade pick. Really I am interested to see if we might be witnessing his regression to the mean just taking longer than normal.

MLB run differential. White Sox -21 Phillies -14 Giants -11

I am going to guess Giolito would rather be unemployed than to work for Jerry again.

This team has not shown a lot of life when down this year. Plus if the don't homer, they don't score much.

I can almost hear how he sold Jerry on the job. "Jerry, we don't have to limit ourselves to 1 David Eckstein, what if we had a whole roster of them?" Jerry picks up phone screaming "FIRE KENNY AND RICK NOW! WE HAVE OUR NEXT LEADER!!!"

But other than that Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?

Of course they did, he's a switchhitter.

Steve stone needs to retire more than Schiff needs to be replaced. There, I said it.

Honestly, it's why a guy like Hawk with a million stories, or a guy like Jason who knows the right questions to ask, are so good at this.

Too bad Jerry doesn't need a golf coach.

Ah, I was wondering about that. There is definitely a TONE there at times.

Anybody watched the new Peaky "movie" yet? Without spoilers, is it good?

If my math is right, this is the 8th (or potentially 4th biggest) contract the Mariners have ever given out. The M's have given out now at least 9 contracts bigger than the biggest White Sox contract in team history.

It is interesting to watch people trying to quantify risk in baseball. There have been many different iterations of this over the years, including the old abuse factor. To me the biggest red flag has always been previous injury history.

This is a solid breakout. The good ones have a healthy respect for talent, even if it is on the other team. There is nothing wrong with that at all. Again to me (and as someone who does this as a hobby since the early 1990s) it shows that you are being honest with the folks who took time to listen to what you have to say. It shows you have a respect for them, and your opponents, and most of all for the game being played.

That's just it. A good announcer can RTFS (read the friendly scoreboard) and adjust accordingly. It's like the dude who get a tech celebrating a dunk while down 40 with a minute to go for a 2-18 team. Time and place bro.

Dude went through two of the best educational institutions in the country for HS, and still never learned. He may have just punched his ticket out of the NBA. The injury stuff was already starting to push him out. This won't help.

He's in the best possible position. He gets plausible deniability for anything bad, and gets to be a hero if/when he ends them. In my lifetime, the same families have own my favorite teams. JR has owned the Sox and Bulls, Wirtz's have owned the Hawks, and McCaskey's have owned the Bears. For the most part, all three groups have seen their wealth become primarily their team, instead of something independent from their team. The Wirtz's are the only ones who own a real cash based business of the three. I am sure we end up vastly disappointed, but I am sure ready to try something new.

I would be surprised to see him go TBH. Loyalty seems to be the most important trait of a Sox employee.

Here's the thing. I think guys like Hawk were announcers first, and Sox fan's 2nd. Yes, they were going to try to promote things, and show things in a positive light, but they weren't going to insult our intelligence with obvious BS. That's not John, and I think that's why he rubs people the wrong way. He's a promoter first, and an announcer second. On top of it, we have had some of the best of all time sit in that booth, and we realize when this isn't it. You can't force feed people into happiness. The harder you push, the more skeptical it will be. The Us vs Them thing just makes it worse. We aren't fighting Nazis here, we are watching baseball. If it is bad baseball, tell us it is bad baseball. Don't piss on my head and ask me to thank you for the rain.

I thought I reset it in the admin panel, but yeah, follow the previous post if it didn't work. I also tried to figure out how to get back to last post preview instead of first post preview, but I couldn't find it.

It's weird that people are now mad that Soxtalk recognized Colson is way better than advertised at SS.

Yeah that one was just dumb