southsider2k5

Lol, wat?

Yeah, I don't know why this whitewashing of TLR is happening by a couple of people, but I am going to offer my version of community notes here: -I don't know why people are latching on to the "DUI" thing as somehow being a bad thing to have a lack of respect for a person because of. Yes, I am fully OK with thinking less of someone who has all of the privilege and wealth that a man needs and yet somehow twice be caught endangering the lives of other people (and himself) with the full knowledge that he probably did this dozens of times besides being caught twice. The average is thought to be somewhere around 80 times before being caught. All while fully being able to afford a freaking uber/taxi/limo home at worst. Even while caught, the man tried playing the "don't you know who I am" card. -He also has the stigma of being accused of racism by former players, coming in to lead a team full of minorities. It was definitely worth questioning if that history would be a fit with a young and very much non-TLR looking team. -Even besides his less than glowing off of the field record, the man had been outside of a baseball dugout for over a decade, and was rightfully being questioned over how he would be able to handle how much the game had changed since he left. -If you want to look at his interim front office work, since he left the dugout, it centered around two teams that took large steps backwards during his tenure with them. So while a couple seem to feel this was only about his DUIs, that is 100% not true. There were a ton of legitimate reason being given as to why hiring Tony was an awful idea, and nothing that happened during this time here seemed to do anything to disprove that. Tony inherited an ascending playoff team, and it fell backwards pretty significantly during his time here. He also publicly hung his own player out to dry and ignored his own coaches trying to tell him rules updates, before quietly quitting for a reason that still hasn't been fully explained to the general public, among some of the public controversies that surrounded his time here.

We could even talk about subbing in a former and recently graduated guy or two as well.

How do you justify that he alone wasn't the problem?

That JR/ Eddie group was the first Hawks teams I really got into.

I mean I would take the Dodgers top 10 for both.

I think Fedde has made a clear case that whatever changes he has made in Korea have translated to the US, and he is finally living up to his first round grade. if you include his Korean performance as a part of his step forward, that makes two years of this, so you can feel comfortable of being beyond the "fluke" stage. His peripherals show maybe a half run worse than he has been so far, but going from 3.00 to 3.50 era isn't going to be a HUGE difference in the trade market. All things considered, I think the asking price of a solid top 100, plus another decent piece fits the bill.

Everything started going wrong under his watch. He inherited a playoff team, and turned it into a .500 team while he was here. Those trends just continued after he left.

GIVE ME 26 ECKSTEINS OR GIVE ME DEATH! JR, probably.

Even before the 2nd DUI was made public (which had been kept quiet) no one wanted to hire him.

It is amazing how much hard contact a guy like Kopech gives up.

The guy who is getting everything out of Crochet and Fedde? You don't think the problem is Kopech?

So what is the solution?

Well lucky for you that's exact what Getz did. Can't wait to see what we get for Nicky Lopez and Martin Maldonado.

Are we really worried about the service time of guys like Lenyn Sosa, Oscar Colas, DeLoach, Fletcher, etc? I mean I am not. This is the time to be figuring them out.

Except with our luck, the band of little leaguers would be the 2025 White Sox.

Interesting list as the first two guys busted, and the 3rd ended up pitching, as did the 5th.

He's shown he's a basket case for 4.5 years here. If he can change, it isn't happening here.

Kopech is a free agent after next season. His window is slamming shut on his own fingers.

Ok, if you could convince me that with the extra $15 million a season it would be the difference between getting Juan Soto or not, I might listen, but we all know that we aren't going to the top of the FA market anyway, so what exactly are we being threatened with? No more C and D tier free agents? Aw shucks.

So what exactly are the Sox going to be able to do with $35 million on the books next year, that they couldn't do with $50 million on the books?

And honestly they should be looking to do exactly the opposite over the next couple of years. Take on someone's dogwater of a contract to help someone save a few bucks in order to get more prospects added to a deal. We literally have $50 million owed next year for existing contracts. We could pretty easily have a $70/80 million payroll in 2024, which means 10s of millions in profits to ownership.

Especially to cover a $50 million deal has to be at least a top 100 player, if not top 50. Please don't be stupid enough to give up a Colson Montgomery like guy to get rid of that contract when you literally have nothing else on the books for 26 and 27, and basically zero hope of contention anyway.