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Ask him, it is his words, not mine.

The TImes of India? Weren't you just s%*# talking Caulfield's sources?

I do think to some extent with as easy as Jerry and the McC's had it last time around with a stadium, they thought they could just pull the slot machine arm and a new stadium would fall out again. It might not be that this time around, so things might have to change for them too.

Especially since we have Chris Getz on record during the Jerry/Kenny/Rick era saying he largely had the freedom to do as he wanted and hire who he wanted.

It isn't often that something is a fucking terrible idea in real time, and then in the long run it still turns out worse than you expected, but here we are. Hopefully the newest hire means Jerry is LESS involved in the day to day, but I feel like he is old man Jaws always lurking to strike and kill Sox fans joy and optimism.

Apparently you too have an eye for developing criminal talent. Case closed.

Sounded more like Kenny was being pushed out already, and was set on retiring soon anyway.

And you can never have enough pitching.

You realize as a long term teacher yourself you have certainly taught numerous criminals, including pedophiles. It's the law of large numbers over time.

To be fair, the biggest moron of all still owns the team and is in charge.

Glad to hear the Sox finally poaching productive organizations for talent! Maybe Jerry is finally staying out of the day to day.

They played half the season without a TV deal, and still took a massive haircut on it going forward.

I thought this was obvious, but I guess not. This franchise is broke AF right now. I figured the chops in payroll showed that.

They hadn't lost money five years in a row and racked up 9 figures of debt when they signed Abreu.

The White Sox.

The financial situations are night and day though.

I still like the idea of showing up for spring training with him in LF and seeing how it goes. Maybe less thinking works for him.

I know the urge is to fall back on stats, but I think in this specific case, his mistakes don't always show up in the stats. Missing throwing to a base, throwing to a wrong base, and forgetting to cover a base aren't really trackables at this time.

Guys who have come through the entire White Sox experience do not seem to rank highly in baseball IQ in general, but Sosa is in a league of his own. You would THINK this could be fixed by coaching, but some guys just never figure it out.

I feel like we always do this free agent dance where it is announced that someone isn't getting the market they expected in the off season, and then everyone gets their hopes up that we will get a particular player on some under-market deal that even Jerry couldn't pass up, and then the dude signs for like 25% above where he was originally thought to be getting.

Like literally zero baseball IQ. Dude has been in the Sox system since July 2016, and still knows NOTHING about how the game is played at a high level.

Who is in that bucket that might be willing to deal one?

While we still have an entire spring to sort out, but I can't imagine him NOT getting picked by the Sox.

Well that is something.

I would be watching it, but I don't have that service right now. I LOVE all things Gilligan. He is incredible at what he does.