Dick Allen

The problem is, Getz took over a 101 loss team that JR told us would be better. Granted he said he didn't know how much better, but it was 20 games worse, and set a record for losses. It is absolutely disgusting. There are plenty of organizations, the ones where winning and not kissing the ring of the owner takes precedence, where, yes Getz wouldn't have been hired in the first place, but since he was, he would be gone. It shouldn't take long to find out if someone is in over their head. The Bears didn't need 5 years to know Trestman and Emery were junk, and they aren't exactly known as a team where winning is the only focus. If you suck, you suck. Getz sucks. To me, not recognizing it is the same as keeping RH and KW around so long. He has shown you what he is. Unfortunately, that is a hack. He did something no other GM has ever been bad enough to accomplish, and say what you want, he wasn't trying to lose that many games.

It's effective, but it makes for shorter careers. I like the idea of making starters go 5 innings or 100 pitches or if they are getting battered, you could say they have to allow at least 5 run. If they came out before that, they would have to go on the IL, It's a brilliant idea that makes way too much sense so it will never happen. Eventually something has to be done about the offense.

I agree.If you want to kill the sport, this is a move to make. I don't think adding to the roster that much is feasible. The rich teams would only get better. If the goal is to keep pitchers healthy, get out of the max effort every pitch era.

Probably true, but still iffy. Burke's ERA was 3 runs lower in MLB than AAA. That should regress. Thorpe, who even knows if he will be healthy. Martin was not good his last few starts. Could just be fatigue, could be a better scouting report. Cannon was good. But I certainly don't think anyone has him as an ace or a real top 2 starter, especially in 2025. I just hope they are all healthy so they can at least get an accurate reading on each, as obviously none of them are their top prospects.

I think it is. Fedde is already gone. Crochet is next. Some guys looked decent, but I wouldn't bet on anyone yet.

The fact they they let the team get historically bad when they should have been in a middle of a promised contention window, isn’t going to help. It will delay any full on comeback IMO. They have even turned off many who live for White Sox baseball. I still watch, but not fully engaged like I have been for most of my life, and they probably have lost some forever, and won’t get some who would have been fans if things were better, but moved on to something else. It will be interesting to see how people react if this current group actually builds a team that contends. There is more mistrust than ever, so I don’t think the seats would be filled regularly until the playoffs.

41-121 is a tell tale sign the GM is bad.

If he needs players help evaluating his own manager, God help us all.

I don’t think the Sox have the right mix of players to be involved choosing a manager. I do think the team needs to be somewhat successful, and have several players who have been around winning enough to know the difference. Benintendi, may have some insight, but the others ?

Right and bitching about the return after getting nothing would have been just fine for you, and I am not saying you specifically because I don’t know if you were calling for his release, but there were more than a few who were, is disingenuous. Nothing is exactly what the White Sox got for him.

I did mention many, not everyone. Many would be correct.✅

It is disingenuous for many here to complain about the return for Kopech. There were a ton of posts calling for his release. A team with a competent analytics department saw him as free money.

They need to fix the audio on their studio,shows. All of them echo, and it sounds like their mics are poorly positioned.

If they built the park, like the post I was responding to asked, the playing field, the clubhouses, and most of the 100 level would be below the river. So there would be thousands of people hanging out below the river 81 times a year.

They are built on stilts. People don't hang out below the river.

The funniest part of it was no one remembered to tell the Red Stars.

Due to the proximity of the river, I would doubt it.

Just keep saying no to public funding, and they could build a little at a time to try to impress. Say no enough, they finish it off.

Maybe, or maybe he never reached the major leagues and no one ever knew who he was. Apparently he died from cancer, and also injured his leg in a motorcycle accident way back when ending his attempts to revive his career.

I think the Sox need to capitalize on Crochets breakout. Yes, you could sign him to an extension, but the next couple, maybe several years, maybe even more, will be non competitive. With his history, he is still a ticking time bomb IMO, and if you really don’t need his dominance in the next couple of seasons, it behooves you to trade him while the stock probably can’t be any higher. An extension would be a huge gamble. Put where they are in perspective. They can tie the team record for win improvement from one year to the next and still lose 92 games, and will be drafting higher than they will next summer.

And if they thought they had a roster bad enough to lose 110, it shouldn’t be a surprise when they lose 120.

Considering the teams current situation, I’d trade 2 years Crochet for 6 years of him in a heartbeat.

That’s business as usual for the White Sox. Instead of getting one or two great players, split it up and go for mediocrity. Holliday is obviously not on the block. But not wanting him due to some MLB ABs as a 20 year old, he’s younger than Noah Schultz and Hagen Smith, is crazy.

I gave up my season tickets in 2023. I have been getting these emails. If the crossed out name is a female it’s probably the same one that bothered me several times in August and September for a group outing which I have never done. I ignored it for a while just like he did, but after the 5th or 6th one with this same type of being owed a response back email, I gave her one. Told her the team was a laughingstock, I value my money more than to blow it on a product so uninteresting and not entertaining, and I wouldn’t be interested in what she was selling until the team showed it had a clue how to put together a team that was worthy of my time and money. That stopped the emails. They literally were coming every other day.

Ozzie was in the commercial for the new channel, so you have to figure he is coming back.