Dick Allen

Looks like the next shipment is only half of what was previously promised and the drug company is saying they aren't having issues. So I think logistics is a problem and will be a problem for a while.

Yes, but they didn't play an entire season of no fans. And they aren't playing 82 games.

If the Sox can’t afford 4 years of Hendriks, how are they going to be able to afford that?

So Darvish hasn’t been volatile?

So we don’t want to give Hendrix 4 years because he might not be good 4 years from now when he is 35. But trading minor league and perhaps major league talent for Yu Darvish who is owed $59 million for his age 35,36, and 37 seasons seems like a good option. OK.

A mayor in Kansas resigned because of the treats she was getting for asking people in her town to wear a mask. Where is Greg? Watching riot video?

This board has gone from signing Machado AND Harper, to trying to save Uncle Jer $13 million 4 years from now.

Then maybe the Sox shouldn't leak that Hendriks is their top target then get scared because he wants 4 years.

This is part of the problem. Instead of signing guys like Jay and trading for guys like Alonzo, they should have banked that money and saved it for something like this. They have done it for years. They blew money on Soria, who was pretty good for them, but why pay him what they had to pay him when they aren't going to win? They flipped him for garbage. They should have saved the money and maybe developed a closer from what they had on hand. There was better chance they would have developed one in house on the cheap as there was for them to flip Soria for Glyebbar Torres.

Because, unless you are going to tier 3, you probably will have to give an established closer 3 years in free agency. According to this article the Sox local TV revenue is pretty, pretty, pretty good. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/lets-update-the-estimated-local-tv-revenue-for-mlb-teams/

And what if Yates busts? Then you have to sign a guy for 3 years which would be 5 from today. Sign the best player for once. They can easily afford it.

So you have him for his age 34 and 35 seasons, the 2 seasons you would be looking forward to the least with Hendriks. If you are worried about Hendricks at that age, you should probably be worried about Yates as well. And the contract is not really an albatross if Hendriks doesn't work out or the Sox are not going to be what they claim they will be. Every team that wins all the time has a contract or two they could live without. If $13 million is a big problem, the rebuild will never end. It's what they paid Alonso and Jay combined.

Yates will be 34 on opening day. What's the difference? Take the better guy. JR has tons of money. Boras just called out the owners for their $100 million losses each. He claims, yes they may have lost $100 million, but $100 million in profit.

At the end of the day, if the 4th year 13 million is what is breaking the White Sox, consider this, if that extra year if the guy is done or is a bust is going to have that much of an effect on the roster, the sustained winning, multiple championships they have been selling, didn't go very well. Signing guys for extra years they may not be any good has been going on since JR owned the team. When the Sox signed Carlton Fisk, and of course the money was different then, but it was a $20 million franchise vs. $2 billion, he signed for 5 years $3 million. Roland Hemond told JR he figured Fisk had 3 or 4 productive seasons left. They signed him anyways.

Wow, he had 2 glasses of wine that night.

He seemed like a guy the White Sox were grooming, then suddenly he was gone. I wonder if this shit had anything to do with it.

That's right. Bill Gates is no dummy.

First, there is no way they will require vaccination. It would be almost impossible to monitor and enforce. Testing before you walk into the venue doesn't work either. See White House Superspreader Events. It has to be a personal choice where hopefully most are responsible. You will just have to follow guidelines. I would imagine limited at the beginning with masks still mandatory. When a certain percentage of the local population is vaccinated, then they adjust the rules. But I would imagine they want at least some fans from the get go of the 2021 season and will delay it at least until they can do that.

Good for you. Then you can give it to someone else who can give it to someone else who may die or have a limb amputated. But hey, you got to sit in the stands 3 or 4 months early.

I think that is so great for the Bucks and the NBA.

Yes, but it still will take time. You get 2 shots, one 28 days after the other, and your full effect isn't realized until 7-10 days after the second shot from what I heard.

Supposedly, you will be getting a card or an app or something, that will show when you were inoculated and when you are due for another visit. Obviously not everyone is going to do it. Hopefully enough where if you go to a game you can feel pretty safe no one gave it to you because while this vaccine fights off the virus, they still don't know if vaccinated people can still spread it. I read something about this earlier, basically the same comments. No way they will be back at Spring Training in February. Hoping for a 130 game season with some sort of fan attendance, like season ticketholder only or fewer, in the beginning to hopefully something more normal by the end of the season.

That's a nice hot take.

We won’t even need the vaccine. It’s just going to go away. Disappear, like magic.

The guy did get caught, twice. So how many times did he do it without being caught? How does that make it OK? And he got a slap on the wrist both times. I wonder if he will tell us it will never happen again. Again. if it is no big deal, don’t even bother arresting him or charging him.