Dick Allen

Considering he was a guy who said he was going to go with one year deals to maximize his earnings, I don't care how good he is in 2021, getting $45 million in 2022 would have not be so easy. He did well. Isn't his agent getting paid by the hour and not by percentage?

You don't get those opportunities much when you are looking for a pitcher and claiming to be all about multiple championships. That said, what were the odds even if they showed some interest? I wish they would have at least tried.

This is really the first year I know of where the main guys have reported done deals and been wrong. A lot of there other stuff is wrong. Their sources get fed bad info all of the time.

You showed me.

Should The Athletic fire Rosental for getting Brantley wrong? What they should have given Bob some sort of reprimand for was his stance on Tony's no big deal DUI.

You're just a contrarian who likes to whine but supposedly hates whining. I was just checking your page of posts to see what percentage were actually baseball related, and not general bitching. Not very high.

What changed? Tony LaRussa to plead guilty to lesser charge TaylorStSox replied to southsider2k5's topic in Pale Hose Talk It certainly doesn't feel good to be a White Sox fan right now.

You don't even watch the team, isn't that correct? So how would you know there are no legitimate gripes?

For a guy who complains about bitching, almost every one of your posts is bitching.

I wonder what is next for the people who thought there was a chance the Sox were involved. They probably think Ryan Pace, who when he had the 3rd pick in the draft and 2 fuure HOFers would have been available to chose from, decided to trade up and draft the 2020 version of Rex Grossman. Mike Glennon and Nick Foltz were a couple more. But now that he has a lower pick and no cap space, he will probably make a sound decision.

Lucroy got into 1 game I think last year. I would be surprised if he made the team. But it doesn't hurt to bring him in. You need catchers at spring training.

The Sox payroll is about league average. What more do people want? JR is down to his last billion. What more can you ask for?

They have pictures and tweets from this scumbag. If he had any class he would just resign and try to be a better human.

If by creative you don't mean offensive, no.

As good as this guy looked, he isn't Chris Sale. Chris Sale wasn't clutching his arm after 5 innings.

The Athletic had a 2 part piece where they were asking agents all kinds of questions about front offices, like who is the toughest to negotiate with, who is the nicest, Hahn didn't rank in anything, but Getz got a couple of votes as a future GM. They did ask the Tony LaRussa hire question, and it was split down the middle with about half thinking it was good and half not so good, and it ranged from genius hire to total disaster.

If 2021 Nelson Cruz is the same as 2020 Edwin Encarnacion, Hector will have been right again. It would have been good news. The guy is a hack.

From the sounds of it, a lot of ladies don't like Callaway.

Coop just sent his resume to Anaheim.

probably antifa in disguise.

If Folty is available for a minor league deal, there is a reason for that. He's been pretty bad. Now they say he was at 90-92 during his workout which would be in line with a normal guy who throws 96, considering the time of year. But you know he has been ramping it up. Obviously, it makes sense to sign him if a minor league deal is all it will take, but I wouldn't expect much.

That article was from 2013. I think Andrew Berlin may no longer be a shareholder. He bailed out Ricketts' renovation overruns a few years ago and purchased a share of the Cubs. It will all come down to what Michael Reinsdorf wants to do. When my old co worker was doing business with him, he seemed pretty gung ho to take over some day and wanted to do some things different than his father. But he does run the Bulls very similarly. The other thing is JR has been buying up shares, so that has to cost a decent amount of money. For a guy who says baseball isn't a lucrative business, I wonder where he comes up with the scratch.

He probably lives in FL near where the Braves trained.

Yes he could. They spoke to some of the other shareholders. JR has total control. If everyone wanted to sell but JR, they wouldn't get sold. Also, if JR were to die, his executor gets the same power he has. https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/whitesox/ct-xpm-2013-07-28-ct-spt-0728-white-sox-chicago-sports-20130728-story.html

Jerry can make any decision he wants and there is nothing his investors can do other than try to sell their shares, which he would have to approve. He has total control.. He has made them a ton of money while getting all the perks of owning a MLB team for 40 years. Also, the White Sox BoD keeps shrinking as partners die. They do not get replaced. There was a story in the Tribune 6 or 7 years ago detailing this. My dad, who is a lawyer told me about this back in the early 80s, and he was totally accurate.