Dick Allen

You can mail it to the prison. He could probably use a pen pal

A couple of 1990s articles penned by Mike Pence claim the President needs to have more moral character than a typical citizen. Having affairs and lying about it is grounds for impeachment as long as that President has a D after their name. They are all phonies and hypocrites.

It really does, especially when you think Dunn missed 30 games, LaVine missed 60. Laurie should be coming into his own, and Parker, it seems the over is free money . But then you realize, there is no such thing. If they don't go significantly past this number, Hoiball will be over in Chicago.

Vegas over/under for the Bulls win total: 27.5

He should. I read Keith Law last year state the DSL is slightly higher than US HS baseball. This guy is in his 20s.

If the White Sox ever have too many good players, I will do cartwheels around the entire concourse. Attrition will take care of a glut, if there ever is one, it always does.

Leury should probably be playing CF most of the time these days, but he can't stay healthy, and they need him to fill in other spots. Of most of these guys, he's the one who can survive the roster crunch when and if this team gets good.

It's pretty much down to trade Avi, or send one of Palka or Delmonico down. I have no idea if either has options remaining. But if they don't, too bad.

A lot of twitter users are offering the same to the NRA after they claimed they are nearly broke.

Ultimately, it most likely won't matter. Nicky looked like a pretty good hitter last year, has kind of regressed. Palka is pretty much HR or bust, and Davidson is almost exactly what he always was, but he has added some walks. I would rank Nicky #1 on this list, probably Davidson #2 because he is righty, and Palka #3 as I think eventually they will figure out how to pitch to him where he doesn't hit so many HRs. But it's tight, and IMO doesn't really matter, although it will be an interesting decision if no one is traded or injured and it comes to it. I think from a sustainability perspective, Palka is probably lacking.

What kind of responsibility will the WH take when something actually does happen to a journalist as a result of all the Trump/Sarah Sanders BS? I guess I already know, none.

So you think Palka has passed Delmonico? Nicky would probably be the odd man out. Or Davidson. They have to keep Leury. Unless you want to see Engel even more in CF. And dont get me wrong, I am not suggesting losing one of these guys is going to be very painful.

He’s a weird dude. That story about the McDonalds All America game was weird, and he played it with a Tribune reporter until he finally told him he couldn’t run with it because it was BS.

Also a day where Avi and Palka shined. You would have to think he would basically take one of their places.

Meek says flu like symptoms. So he doesn’t have the flu, just something similar. but it does appear they will forego the service time and call him up soon.

Yeah, if you are going to bring Fry in now, why not for Choi? Oh well, he speaks Spanish.

Isn’t 2 WAR average?

Report post Posted 9 minutes ago (edited) No it’s not. I don’t think anyone has said the rebuild is a failure fire them now. I think it is logical to think they shouldn’t be the ones ding the rebuild. It’s also logical to state most other teams if not all, would have changed regimes for such an undertaking.  JR has fired 2 GMs during his White Sox ownership for reasons given, Hahn is just as guilty. Roland Hemond was fired after 1985, a season where the Sox won 85 games, because his minor league system was beyond awful, the Sox had some injuries, and the replacements weren’t major league quality. In honor of Taylor street sox, RH checks that box. He fired Larry Himes, near the end of a rebuild after the Sox won 94 games with the lowest payroll in baseball. Many know that JR didn’t particularly care for Larry on a personal level, but the reason give was can take a team from point A to point B but not to point C. How that was determined I have no idea, but at the deadline that year, Oakland acquired Harold Baines and Willie MCGee, the Sox added Minnie Minoso, who the commissioner then blocked, and Jerry Hairston, as a Pension related favor. Neither move had Himes fingerprints on it. But if you take JR at his word with the A to B to C crap, Hahn has shown when the White Sox were “going for it”, point B wasn’t much of a problem, but point C was nowhere in sight. he is a bright guy and talks a nice game. But the fact is, it’s 2018 and there is no evidence yet any of his genius has to do with baseball.

It’s not the question of what have they done since the beginning of the rebuild. It is what have they done prior to give them a 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 year window before anyone can critique them again? What kind of teams are in a position they have to trade cheaply signed stars! The Marlins? That isn’t exactly high company. As I wrote earlier, I believe at the end of next season, we should see some maturing. If these guys already on the big league roster are still struggling to be average, it may be time to look for some new evaluators. What I don’t get is the GM , a guy who has a far greater effect overall in producing a winning team, gets a far longer rope, and much less criticism than uniformed personnel who can only work with what they are given.

That is not the question. The question is what occurred prior to Dec 2016that would suggest RH and KW are the team that should be in charge of a total rebuild, to build a team with sustainable success.

We won’t know how the rebuild is actually going for a little while. To think it’s going great right now is just as proposterous. You don’t get paid for what you do in AA. As far as Hahn, as I stated, the time to can him was before the rebuild. It isn’t like he had a year and a few Hail Marys to get this team winning. He has been part of the decision making process for well over a decade prior to the rebuild, with great early results, and not much since. I don’t always agree with balta, but I think it is hard to argue any other franchise at the point the White Sox were at when they were going to pull the plug and start over, would have brought someone else in to do the job considering the guy in place is one of the reasons they had to do it, and it wasn’t like he had assembled a team that won, won, won, and just got too old and expensive. Most teams with guys like Sale and Q and Eaton signed cheaply, try to build around them, but the Sox cubbard was so bare, due in large part to the team that is now in place, they couldn’t do it. If this rebuild works, it will all be forgotten. The White Sox rebuild got a Moncada, Kopech, Basabe, Giolito, Dunning, Lopez, Jimenez, Cease headstart on the others. No rebuild is easy. But this one should be easier than most. See it through, yes, to a point. Theo had nothing to do with where the Cubs were at when he came to them. Hahn cannot say the same when he became GM.

I normally would agree, but he does have a point. RH would have been fired by just about every other team given his team’s performance since he became a GM. Maybe not 4 times, but at least once. Considering he was part of the decision making process previous to that, it isn’t like he was put in a position of cleaning up someone else’s mess, or had no idea just how bad the mess was. That said, these prospects are anywhere near as good as they claim, he will totally redeem himself

The time to can him was before the rebuild started. So I am pretty sure, unless something happens to JR, these guys are going to see it through. I just hope that seeing it through doesn’t mean put up with several years more of this. I would think by the end of next season, a determination as to how this is going can be reasonably done. If Yoan Moncada is still an averag player, if Gio and Lopez are still questionable starters for a good team, if Eloy struggles, if Kopech looks lost, if Luis Robert continues to not play, heads should roll. Larry Himes got canned after winning 94 games with the lowest payroll in baseball. Bad performance should trump bad personality. I do think 2019 is put up or shut up time to both KW and RH. I don’t expect playoffs, but I do expect some of the guys we have been marketed to count on start playing like guys who are going to make the White Sox win. And that evaluation should go on every year until the team is where they claim they are headed.

I think at least since 2012, you have to hold them equally responsible. To say he is just KWs lackey, isn’t exactly a glowing endorsement of the man. He had opportunities to go elsewhere, but he stayed. I think he did interview with St. Louis but pulled out. He had other opportunities but declined. That doesn’t sound like a guy with all of his degrees and education, and training being a glorified coffee boy. Rick Hahn’s name is on what has been going on with this team for a long time.

I would think so, but you never know. The free fall Detroit put on last season was impressive. The Sox still have a lot of games left vs teams that have called it a season. It could get NBA bad.