southsider2k5

Someone finally asked the right question. This team was fine in 2020 and the 1st half of 21. What happened in 22? Do people really expect me to believe that someone just quit yelling at them this year and that's the problem?

They are making the biggest change possible to change the environment on the clubhouse.

With the valuations of those three players at all time lows, and two of the three of them a year away from free agency potentially, they have zero value. We'd be stupid to deal them now. You have to hold on and hope for the 2021 versions of those players and that 22 was the fluke.

This winter you have pretty much two choices how you want to view this team. You can view them in the lens of 2020 and 2021, or you can view them in the lens of 2022. If you believe that the truth is closer to 2022, there is no point to spending on this team this winter. The best you can hope for is to get some bounce backs from a couple of these guys to be able to deal them to start the rebuild. Realistically, you could hope to deal them this winter, but dealing guys at their absolute basement values doesn't make much sense. If you believe the truth is closer to 20-21, you look for the bounce backs and see if you can fill a couple of holes until the team rebounds enough to get the fans exited again. Either way, the players on this squad don't have much value right now, so you can't really do much to alter this team this winter without doing it at bargains for player values.

Totally agree. This is the absolute lamest excuse for not liking an announcer. The ability to observe is no where near related to their physical abilities, or in Jason's case, his disabilities. The man is a more talented at what he does than 99.99% of people who played baseball for a living.

Luis Robert's off season workouts include flexing his wallet. https://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2022/10/07/chicago-white-sox-player-robert-buys-12m-mansion.html?ana=TRUEANTHEMFB_FL&csrc=6398&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A Trending Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR302-jIvuRd74BWXHCa3reWYa4995_sp-gD-ln_LgaSHEIlkr5CP0-0BXE

I can't read these without wondering if we really do have some sort of a schism in the Sox front office.

I will say this one thing. We haven't had a normal set of winter work outs or spring training in three years. I don't know how much of it, if any, is related to this, but it has been the strangest set of circumstances for off-seasons since the era where players still worked in the off season and the winters didn't matter.

Washington is supposed to be an amazing detail oriented person as a coach/manager, but yeah, that is a metric fuckton of baggage. I am very good with no considering him.

To be fair, so did our manager.

Sounds like this is already done behind the scenes.

I like Jason, but he is WAY better in literally every other situation than with Steve Stone.

This is how I understood it. The Sox contract the company, and the company does the hiring and paying.

There is a distinct chance the Sox take care of my interest in next season before the winter meetings.

Of course his numbers trended down. He played hurt.

Apparently Jon Heyman is saying he doesn't expect JR to be involved in the process.

Finished West Wing finally. Solid show, though watching in 2022 is bizarre what they thought was crazy and radical probably would get you drummed out of a major party these days for being too soft. I will say I LOVED the very end. What a perfect wrap up on that show.

The Cubs are laughing at someone ELSE because of the Quintana deal? That is absolutely hysterical.

Why? It isn't that complex. The Bears are married to Fields for at least this season, maybe longer. They have to play him to see if he is real or if the wheels fall off. The Fields question is quite literally the most important one the Bears have to start to answer.

I am almost 50 now, and these have been going on my entire life. New Ballpark and old.

Finally, it is over.

And he probably isn't the worst player in baseball, but just playing hurt.

Literally no one should spend any time caring about today's line up, unless their name could be in it.

Honestly, it makes me wonder if he is really hurt. He didn't look right for a while, and has just been buried for a while. I mean I get him not playing every day anymore, but to go from that to zero doesn't make sense either.