Dick Allen

Why doesn't JR feel like HE has an obligation to do what's best for the other investors, unless running the team into the ground is for the best?

I'd take my chances.

That's boring. He should want to come to the White Sox. Getz is building correctly. This team should get to close to .500 by the time the better players have to be traded because they will soon be free agents.

White Sox are out?

He's got a plan.Not buying what he's selling is boring.

It’s possible but not probable and not many get a chance at more responsibility when they didn’t handle the smaller load. The Sox made minor league staff changes every year Getz was there. What changed for the better? Was Josh Barfield the reason the DBacks got hot and made the playoffs in 2023? Maybe he’s upgrade. Maybe he’s not. It wasn’t too long ago when the thought was everone in the Sox front office was bad at their job except Rick Hahn. I just don’t know why it makes me any less of a Sox fan to think the guy who failed up to his current job and GMd the team with the most losses ever , needs to prove he knows what he’s doing before getting excited about what he says. I wish they would telivise the q and a at Soxfest and see how he reacts yo not so friendly fire.

Yeah, what an exciting time to be a White Sox fan. 222 losses in 2 seasons isn’t boring at all.

He changed it, but all we know is it's different. We don't know if it's right. The Bears swapped out their Ryan's and Matt's a few years ago. It hasn't meant better results. I still think Getz wasn't the right guy for the job. I know it was everyone else's fault he couldn't develop s%*#, but he should have some responsibility, or wlwehe was just a coffee boy, and even less qualified for his current position.

Mine too. The Bears interviewing everybody and anybody shows there is a problem. They should have been able to figure out what they are looking for and pair it down to 4 or 5 people. The fact that they are wasting time interviewing Ron Rivera makes me think in the end we might all be saying WTF?

I am at the point where I need to be shown progress not just get excited by some words during a softball interview. Obviously one is a little more serious than the other, but hearing that things are going to change is like hearing an alcoholic tell you they will now stop drinking , or a drug addict saying they will stay clean after countless times you have heard it before. I will believe it when I see it. Assuming they will f*** it up has been well earned. JR teams don’t usually have a formula for sustained success. It’s usually pissed away fairly quickly. I hope I am so wrong this time. Just remember he called the new hitting director the Brian Bannister of hitting. I guess the White Sox and their fans were just lucky Baltimore fired him.

Was he using any of these can't fail "processes" when he ran the Sox minor league system? Players seemed as unprepared as ever to my eye. I bought into the Pedro Grifol processes when he was hired, and was made a fool. I'm not buying what I hear in a softball interview.

They got Gus Varland. That should ensure a sellout.

First base isn't as offensive as it used to be.

I agree. More efficient, will beat the old way over time, but everyone attempts to play the same way. I used to love the NBA. I like watching Curry hoist up 3s, but it's all everyone does anymore. Baseball, same, although they did bring steals back. Hopefully, they can find more than one or two ways to efficiently win. All players are pretty much evaluated the same as well.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. But they do need more starters, and he does work some innings, even if usually very mediore.

The White Sox have been interested in Martin Perez for a very long time. They tried to get him in the Alex Rios/Leury Garcia trade.

If the White Sox were where we hoped they would be, and where they told us they would be right now, there would probably be a decent chance this guy would be interested. But why, when he could go wherever he wanted for basically the same money, would he choose a team who just set the record for losses in a season, and don't seem to have a roster that can't flirt with breaking that record? The same with Kim. Why would he sign with the White Sox unless they are willing to pay him significantly more, which we know they are not, than other teams who at least try to win?

Also, their schedule next season is going to be brutal.

The Bears are so out of touch with reality, they still believe they will be building a new stadium on the lakefront this year. LMAO.

The caveats being they suck drafting in the second round, and they rarely use all of their bonus money. But this is the first pick in the 2nd round, and they SHOULD use all of their bonus money.

I think everyone knows that, but people are so sick of watching bad baseball, and looking at this team, that's all you can see for the foreseeable future. JR has to sell.

If you look at the White Sox 2nd round picks the last 50 years, it wouldn't be a huge hit.

He could be the position player Rodon. But I just can't see how Yoan stays healthy.

Kim alone isn't going to get them out of the basement and JR isn't going to spend the money needed to make them not embarrassingly bad. At least this seaon they should get a higher pick. I will never understand putting together a team the GM said 110 losses wouldn't have surprised him when the highest you can draft is 10th. I can't wait for the team to be sold and common sense is used to clean house.

Especially when the first at least 2, but probably 3 or 4, years of his content would be all meaningless games.