Dick Allen

It is truly amazing what this family of cons gets away with. He is actually calling someone else a moron.

The giveaway is when they let go of Cooper but kept the other coaches around in case the new guy wanted them. It had to be catering to Tony. Duncan has been with him at every stop and supposedly the reason Tony didn’t take an offer last year was because Duncan wouldn’t come with him. i did see Steve Phillips on TV last night and he said the industry talk is the pitching coach will be filled in house. He does think they will try to get Jose Oquendo from St. Louis, who he said was a top infield instructor. Also look for them to try to get Dave McCay who has been with LaRussa everywhere. Finally, Mark McGwire is a guy to keep an eye on, although that is more of a long shot. I think Nick Capra has probably coached his last game in a White Sox uniform

I don’t think who the manager is affects what JR is willing to spend.

Looks like Hinch to Detroit is just about a done deal.

Joel Sherman had a interesting thought. He said for 34 years firing TL has bothered JR so much, that now he brings him back. But is the 76 year old TL the same manager as the 42 year old version? He is well into the losing brain cells portion of life. Has not managed the last 9 seasons. To think he is the same guy he was when he last made out a line up card might be reached.

Hahn clearly didn’t seem all in when discussing the “consensus” decision to hire this has been.

No one is going to sign for less money just for the chance to play for Tony, and no one isn’t going to not take JRs money if it’s the best offer out there because Tony is in the dugout. Tony isn’t going to be the difference between being good and being bad. He may be the difference between being good and being great. I think you have to question his energy. You would think at the press conference he would be about as fired up as can be, but it seemed like he was going to fall asleep a few times while answering questions the way the White Sox wanted him to answer them. I question what will happen by August. He is old, and it isn’t an easy job. It will be interesting to see the make up of the staff.

Dave Stewart, Carney Lansford, Walt Weiss, Jim Edmonds.

This is probably worst case scenario. I think the Sox are young enough and not established enough for that to happen, but you never know.

He looked like Borat back then. He looks like Colonel Sanders now.

Will the press conference be televised?

Just wait. 1983 team was pretty stacked. Ron Kittle played CF once.

My dad just turned 83 and I can tell you that you like this move more than he does.

Is that why he used Mike Squires at 3B and C? I don’t think we will see Greg’s scenario with TA behind the plate, but you are going to see some weird shit, like maybe Abreu in RF.

Somewhere, Harry Caray and Jimmy Piersall are laughing their asses off.

There is a veterinarian from Chicago that Tony hired in AZ to run their analytics department available.

He is probably paying LaRussa more than he has paid any manager ever, and is still paying RR. Checkbook opened. Checkbook Closed.

That won’t accomplish much. I already renewed anyway. It will still be fun. It may take him 10 minutes to get to the mound to make a pitching change.

Once they decided they would speak to TL, it was his job if he wanted it. Do you really think KW and RH could go back to JR and say we like this guy who is serving a year long suspension a little better than your dream manager. I thought the White Sox had finally been brought up to speed on modern times, now they roll back the clock. I don’t think for a second the difference between someone like Hinch and Tony is 95 wins to 82. But why? There are dynamic guys available who could manage this team until they need to rebuild again. Why some guy who may be week to week?

They got someone to take care of it, but have to wait for Tony to get back from telllimg the kids to get off his lawn.

He is actually quite hated by many who played for him.

Bob Nightengale deserves some apologies. What a lost opportunity. Seriously, how often does a team that should win 90 + games a year for many years have a managerial opening? It has to be one of the most attractive jobs ever, and they hire this relic? If RH is totally against this and the mlb burner guy is legit, I will have more respect for him if he does quit than any other sports executive ever. When will Tony bring Bobby Knight to spring training to observe and tell him how to keep Eloy and TA in line? i am so disgusted. But this is on JR. If it doesn’t work, he deserves every pot shot he gets.

I have been saying this for months. If you are willing to spend some cash this offseason, you can make a bad team good, and a good team great pretty easily.

When Tony was fired by Hawk, it was way before social media and the internet. The general consensus wasn't OMG how can you let this genius go. It was what took so long?

ESPN now remembers the Sox exist and have them #5 on their too early power rankings. They could do better than Tony.