Dick Allen

Passan was saying MLB should be spooked by that trade. Some elite pitcher being traded for 17 year olds who haven't played professionally yet. And there was only 1 taker.

If other teams don't know that is BS, they need new management. Maybe now he doesn't have to trim any more payroll, but we all knew it was all about cash when Theo took a walk.

This must of been the deal all of the "insiders" were saying the Sox were making a lot of progress towards the other day.

I do get a kick out of Hoyer saying this trade wasn't motivated by money. Oh really?

Supposedly he was being considered for a job at ESPN 1000. I imagine since the White Sox moved there, JR is not going to let that happen. So JR does have his good qualities.

Yeah, the Sox seem surprised that the top names on the market generally require the most money.

Of the 7 million votes cast in PA, so far there have been 3 cases of voter fraud found. All 3 were Trump supporters.

I think Abreu is a star. Grandal not a star but near the top. What upsets me is we were told when it was time spending wasn’t going to be a problem. We were led to believe at the beginning of the offseason they were in on Springer, in on Hendriks, maybe even Bauer. Lynn is solid. But he is a one year guy. Eaton is OK but he is a reclamation project. We were supposed to be be shopping a level or two higher. The offseason is nowhere near over, but we will see. It seems like the same old stuff. Hope everything works out. It did once. But only once.

Why play down to the competition? Why not deflate them. Blow them away, make them realize they have no shot? They have the opportunity. I thought sustained success and multiple championships was the goal. I guess it was hoping to be a little better than KC and Detroit.

Could you imagine the type of surrender the Sox would be doing if the Dodgers were in their division? JR couldn't have a better set up. There are no big spenders in the division, the only division you can say that, and he still can't dominate it.

Right. If JR should feel bad about anyone, it should be Lamont. He was fired after about 40 games in 1995 after winning the division twice in a row. It was ridiculous. Scheuler paired down the roster, and hired Bevington to take his place. What they did to Lamont was so wrong, it cost them Jim Leyland coming back to manage them. He didn't like how his buddy was treated.

Tony LaRussa getting fired by the White Sox was the greatest thing that ever happened to him in baseball. He was hired immediately by a team that was about to become a juggernaut. If he had remained in Chicago, chances are with 3 years of rebuild after he was canned, and yet another GM, he probably would have been let go before the Sox were good again, therefore never being the A's manager, and never having the success with that roster, not being hired in St. Louis. He would have flamed out being a Jim Riggleman type.

Jerry is going for it with a 76 year old manager, a 34 year old 40 lbs. overweight pitcher on a 1 year contract, and a reclimation project in RF. SD, the NL version of the White Sox signs Machado to a contract the White Sox couldn't afford. They trade for Clevenger at the deadline. Trade for Snell. About to get Darvish and maybe some more. One guy wants to win, one guy wants to die with as much money as possible.

Jason is really funny. I just think he tries too hard sometimes. It's almost as if he still looks over and says to himself, OMG, I am in the booth with Steve Stone. Steve is fine, although he does seem to occasionally have a need to be the smartest baseball person around, and that gets awkward. I read an article about Kasper and it pretty much is in line with what I think. If Harry going from the Sox to the Cubs was a 10, Len going from the Cubs to the Sox was a 2. I must admit I heckle my Cubs fan friends with the fact the guy is willing to take a significant pay cut to do Sox games on radio than Cubs games on TV, but to me he is milquetoast.

That's what is so sad about this. The Sox will still be a lot of fun to watch, but management is more interested in profit than blowing teams out of the water.

The Sox are going to need a lot of starters next year. Not many guys pitched 35 innings in 2020.

They can play zones these days. They usually cover the arc fairly well except with screens. Defense in the paint and transition with the Bulls has been horrible. When Stacey King is calling them out, you know it's bad.

It’s just so sad this guy runs his teams like the Marlins. Even the Bulls, he won’t pay the luxury tax. https://www.forbes.com/profile/jerry-reinsdorf/?sh=24c916e76d28

I will believe they will sign the better players when they actually sign players. We knew they were out on Springer when they signed Eaton. Just business as usual, always trying to get by on the cheap. I wonder if they will tell us like with Machado, their offer was much better, but they can’t afford what he ultimately signed for.

Bauer, Q, McCann and LaStella were the others on the list.

That was like NBA All Star game quality defense. Even Stacy called them out for a lack of effort a couple of times. I don't get why guys in the NBA in their early 20s who haven't played a game that counted in over 9 months, can't bust their asses for 30 minutes.

The Sox are going to need all of these guys, and more. Face it, they only had 3 guys pitch 35 innings, and 4 guys pitch 30 innings and one of them, they traded away. To expect them all to ramp up to normal in 2021 would be shortsided. They need several more pitchers.

So my sister has the Covid. I think she got it from my brother in law whose only symptom was he couldn't taste anything. My sister's symptoms are similar to a mild cold, but she says her teeth hurt, and everything smells like bacon.

Just like with everything else, it will help the fancier restaurants most. Not many business lunches and dinners that need to be written off happen at the local diner.

Exactly. They could afford to give billionaires tax cuts on money they will never spend, they can afford to do enough for the people who need it.