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Chicago can feel like it is all one race or another because the lingering effects of segregation and redlining still have neighborhoods filled with almost either all white, or all minorities.

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It's like buying a $10,000 hand stitched Italian leather wallet to hold your empty EBT card.

Yeah, the thing being missed in all of the "the only reason we are this bad is because all of these bad things happened!" argument, well besides almost all of those thing happen annually anyway is that this season could have actually gone worse still. It isn't hard to see a scenario where the Crochet as a starter thing is a disaster, Fedde is the same pitcher he has always been in MLB, and Korey Lee doesn't have a breakthrough 1st half. Instead Crochet is Cy Young, Fedde is a #2, and Lee is pushing all star considerations after hitting like Moldy last year. If you asked me if the above or the injuries to Robert/Moncada/Jimenez + awful starts by Benny and Vaughn was more likely I would bet most Sox fans would have felt the latter was more likely. In some ways Chris Getz has actually seen his team have a very lucky 1st half.

I am beginning to understand why your letters are no longer answered.

I see you are new here.

Damn.

"Do I want to pay for a three hour kicking in the nuts? Hmmmmm...." DELETE

I am more interesting in Clevinger moving out of Chicago, but se la vie

Assistant Regional Manager No Assistant TO THE Regional Manager.

The only reason Sosa is here is because of the injury to Moncada. Lee is not starting nearly enough while sharing time with literally the worst player in baseball this year.

Yeah, you are missing the changes in era of pitching. James Baldwin with a 4.65 era was above average for an ERA+ of 108 Chris Flexen with a 5.13 era is 20% below average with an ERA+ of 80. Flexen's ERA of 4.97 for his career is an 83 ERA+, while Baldwins higher 5.01 ERA actually worked out to an ERA+ of 92.

This is absolutely not changing the subject, it is salvaging what you can out of a historically bad season. Besides it isn't like we have done this anyway and continue to run players out there who have no future, nor trade value, out there on a daily basis.

Trying to win today, at the expense of tomorrow, with a 120 loss team? Yeah, I am going to be mocking that for sure. Grinding through worthless players so as to block anyone who has control and needs on the job training, it an absolute mistake. As of today, this is about getting the most out of the players who are going to be here in 5 years, and not winning more games in 2024.

And large portions of this were from when you could unlimited spend in the draft, and you could unlimited spend in the international market, and you could unlimited spend in Japan, and you could unlimited spend on payroll with no negative impacts.

Also this... which would be 2030/2031

One more time just for emphasis, there is a big difference between being 100 losses bad, and 120 losses bad. One has happened once in 125 years. 91 teams have lost 100 or more games just since 1962. https://www.mlb.com/news/best-teams-following-100-loss-season also of note as to how far behind we would be at 100 losses...

Pretty sure your pool is just an amalgamation of all your individual pick draft slots added up. If we pick 10th, we get the 10th slot. I can't see them having pushed someone to the 10th pick, but still giving them the 1st slot money, otherwise it is kind of meaningless to push them down because they can just load up later.

Is a lot of employees? How does it compare to others?

He's probably not selling while he is alive.

Not mention if we are going to try to act like the Vaughn and Benny play is such a big hit to this squad, you have to also look at the fact Garrett Crochet pitching like Cy Young and Fedde pitching like a #2 was even more unexpected to the upside. If we are going to talk about surprises with that team, we have had one of the best 1/2 punches in baseball and still are historically bad. I promise you no one planned for that either.

Been there, done that.

Literally last in baseball defensively. Pretty sure that isn't Eloy's fault.

It's not at all like that. On one hand you have 3 players who in their major league careers have missed 40 to 50% of their teams game played on an annual basis. On the other hand you have a national average of 12 deaths per 100,000 people or something with a 0.012% chance of happening in a given year to any one person.