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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.

Risky, but I bet only Ozzie would be willing to do it.

If we are starting over, Vaughn doesn't fit our window anyway. If all else was equal, I would say that you keep him. But as the one guy with trade value in this logjam of players, he makes more sense as a trade chip right now.

I am sure no one else thought to tell Yoan that he isn't playing well.

I also really want to see if an actual normal winter full of workouts, and a normal spring training, which hasn't happened in three years, might solve some of these types of problems. It might be that Vaughn has never been conditioned in his legs to handle the running around in the OF. It might be that his body just can't handle the extra load. Or he just might never be what we thought he was. I tend to think it is one of the first two, and he will settle into a borderline annual all-star of a hitter.

This is the type of deal I am hoping for.

Why waste time on something that isn't going to happen? Jerry has never thought this way, nor will he start now.

The biggest problem with Ozzie is Ozzie only cares about Ozzie. Everyone and everything else is secondary. All you have to do is look at him testifying for the job TV right now. If it was about the Sox he could have went directly to JR and company in the background. Instead every TV segment becomes about him and the White Sox. It's all about the Ozzie show, and nothing else.