Dick Allen

Baldwin, Amaya, Montgomery, Sosa, Ramos,Vargas, the guy they got for Crochet......this guy may be better than them all, but he's over 30, he isn't going to be flipped for much even in a best case scenario, the team is going to lose 100 games. I'm not pissed off about it, but I don't see the point.

Someday maybe we can argue about trades that actually matter.It's so sad we are arguing about 8th round picks and 31 year old DFA'd guys. But that's all we have.

I wonder how many years of who cares trades and signings we have left.

2012 is the last time they didn’t make the playoffs. How ever you want to slice it, I’d take that front office any day.

Cody Bellinger, Clayton Kershaw….yeah they suck.

How a guy who was an OL doesn't know the key to good teams is in the trenches is beyond me. I guess when youre a GM, you pick up guys like yourself. Getz likes slappy guys who can't play. Poles likes OL who went undrafted.

Exactly. Either for some reason you are so impressed with losing football, you must keep him around for the next 3 or 4 years, unless you hire the second coming of Trestman, or you have to fire him. They are 4-12. He has shown he cannot build a team. Now he's blaming training camp.

I get that. And in a nothing for nothing trade, I'd error on the side of youth and keep the younger player. But we will see what this guy has. He was decent in the majors last year but has been awful in the minors except when he pitched for the Chicago Dogs.

There’s a 99.9% chance this turns into a nothing for nothing trade.

Plus the first one wouldn’t have been one had they played with regular rules. They expanded because of Covid. And of course, no series wins. But it is interesting how many are OK with how that rebuild turned out.

One difference is the Fires owner doesn’t think he’s entitled to a free stadium.

Hopefully they will at least grant them a visit.

This might be the one time they could get something decent trading bonus money.

Oscar Robertson is a legendary basketball player. His last name wasn't misprounced 3 times, Schriff just got it wrong. TW, my job requires me to sometimes co tact people and ask about their clients. I butcher names all the time. Reminds me of grade school where the one redeeming quality of the first day of school was the teacher mispronounced names, and the entire class would laugh about it.

Quit complaining.

The guy is a HoF legend and played at Cincinatti. It really shouldn’t be that hard to get his name right just once. It’s all over the place in that gym. And if he did the work as you say, he would have seen RobETRson on the statue he mentioned. Professional announcers get things right. Hacks have people make excuses for them. As I have written, John seems like a nice guy, but………..if the mouth can’t say what the brain was telling it like you claim, much like someone with eyesight problems being an Uber driver, announcing is probably not the correct line of work. I don’t expect perfection. But these mistakes really upset Cincinatti fans. it’s a pattern with him. He had no idea how many outs there were several times. Called left field right field and right field left field multiple times. ESPN has him doing G league and espn+ games, so they don’t consider him one of their best. Sox fans deserve better.

The guy went 0-10 with a 4.74 ERA and an even higher FIP, and triples his salary. I wish I was younger and a better baseball player.

TBH, that’s too rich for me too. WOW.

Yeah, you were mad anyone would consider it. I didn’t, but those who did were correct.

You were mad at the people who said before the 2024 season started they could set the record for losses. Said is was just as ridiculous as anyone who thought they could get hot and win a WS. Odds are against this level of futility again, but never say never. The funny thing is, if they go 55-107 some will probably be thrilled with the “improvement”. say never.

That worked out well.

And you were one to say the Sox had to trade him because 2022 was a fluke and he is what he was in 2023. They trade him for mediocrity, no one is as down on Thorpe as you, and he finishes 3rd or 4th in the Cy Young. The White Sox can’t afford to sell low on their better players. This already is the Jan Byrne Exchange rebuild. That took 9 years. We were told it would take 2.

It’s worth the injury gamble especially if you are able to come back from it. It happens early in your career before you make it to the majors, you aren’t getting paid anyway. You get hurt before you’re a free agent, you still get paid plus service time, or if you get hurt after you get paid, the checks don’t stop. Most things in baseball,are cyclical. Everything seems to come back. Even bunts and stolen bases. But I don’t know if the 220 inning horse is one of them.

To me, Fegan was as good as it gets. He alone was worth the subscription.