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That's a great way of saying it as well. Looking around MLB, how many teams 3B or 1B situation is worse than Vargas? How many of those teams would be willing to pay up to get him? I can't imagine that list is very populated.

I don't see Vargas having the value to make him worth trading rn, to be honest.

Yeah, I can't see anything else bigger ever being done on that site. If anything they tear down the Bears monstrosity and restore it to it's historic self.

What they have done without these guys is pretty crazy TBH.

It still works.

Can someone investigate him fo r point shaving? Oh wait, he just doesn't play defense.

https://www.mlb.com/amp/news/breaking-down-white-sox-four-big-offseason-decisions.html

Get back to me when he is 35 and looking for a MiLB deal -CG

I was under the impression that was his brother. I do expect there will be more spending for sure, I just don't know that we are looking at a Stearns situation either.

To maximize value of the franchise and still minimize the tax hit at the same time.

We will see when he is the guy writing the checks. It is an easy thing to say now.

I guess I was operating under the assumption that staying in Chicago WAS going to happen.

While I know the story is technically "new", there really isn't anything "new" in there besides Ish reaching out to The Pope. We have known forever that the Sox are working a new stadium, and that they were looking at places which aren't 35th and Shields. We have also have had multiple discussions emphasizing the current lack of decision making power for Ishbia in the sales agreement, and what the time period for the transition looked like. The fact that Isbhia is publicly deferring to Jerry isn't new. I am sure behind the scenes they are working on the bigger picture items, as there is no way that a guy making a 2 billion dollar investment in a MLB franchise is doing it without having some sort of a say so in a franchise altering decision such as where the team will play for the next generation or two. The one insight I take from this article is the definite effort to put Jerry out in front of what was going on now, which definitely jives with the conspiracy theory that Jerry is going to be the guy who goes out and throws punches to try to get deals done on a stadium and baseball labor, while Ishbia quietly sits back and waits for the clouds to clear and his time to walk in and take over is here. I feel like the bad cop/good cop thing is real and happening right in front of our faces.

It's always been garbage because of the size of hte database.

Yes master, I shall only post things approved by the great and wise Cali.

Don't do this.

Most of Soxtalk honestly.

Ah, so we are back to not wanting open-mindedness, just bald name calling and wanting to hear your opinion parroted back at you. Glad to see your rant was entire self-serving and not self-reflective.

Even more than his "defense" is that his baseball IQ seems to be non-existent. He's just a baseball dumb player. I also feel like LF is a better position for guys like that too. If he is going to hang on, he has got to figure a position to stick on, and with the Sox current make up, it almost certainly isn't going to be 2B, and he doesn't look to hit enough to DH.

Yes, as you repeatedly reply to my posts, and throw up your passive aggressive emojis on my posts, you aren't worried about me at all. Your actions speak a whole different story. You want a "new beginning" for real? Look at your post right here. Everything is dredging up the past. Drop the stalking routine and actually talk baseball instead of all of the past times someone dared to disagree with you. You remember your speech yesterday on "openmindedness" right. Does that only apply to everyone else? Take your own advice, quit acting like a kicked puppy and let things get better. No need to keep playing the victim card. Move on. For real this time.

My answer would be that you want to make the most of the talent you have in front of you. The Sox have a ton of IF's and not many OFs. If someone can be made to play a passable LF, do it.

For all of the urge to play position players out of position we have had historically, I don't get why we haven't looked at trying to get Lenyn into somewhere like LF. The bat would play out there, and it isn't like he would be replacing a defensive whiz or a bat first LF anyway.

Bringing this back to full circle, I will note a few things here. -Judging by the fact that the White Sox were willing to trade for fringe of the 40 man roster guys from other teams instead of putting their own internal guys on the 40, I think that tells us a lot about what they ACTUALLY think of some of these guys, despite what gets published about them. -There is nothing wrong with looking to benefit from other teams roster crunches, and looking to marginally improve the roster, especially in areas of known weakness, such as the OF. -FInd someone who loves you like Chris Getz loves a fallen top prospect. -I have no problem with trading a guy like Gomez who is older and struggling to make it, but I am not as big of a fan of trading our younger guys like Ronny Hernandez. Those are the kinds of guys we should be hoarding like a Boomer with bicentennial quarters. -It's probably the PTSD talking, but after reading up about Murphy and how lucky his 2025 was, he is probably our next Wilson. I get we need a LOT of innings filled next year, and they all can't be internal, but hopefully he proves me wrong. I don't mind getting a guy like that in a roster dump for roster dump deal though. Maybe Pitching Coach to be Named Later is really as good as they say he is and can fix him.

Considering you have been cyberstalking me for years now, who knows. One day hopefully you will get over it and move... but I doubt it. Seems to be every Soxtalk interaction you make these days. Pity party indeed.

Os fans are about at the point in the timeline where Jerry forced TLR back into the dugout. They have to be losing their minds.