Dick Allen

That is true.Except for maybe a couple of small market teams, most of the teams in a full rebuild don't have the same regime in place that caused them to have to go there. I would call the White Sox a mid market team in reality.

i get that, but if you did a house renovation and weren't happy with the work someone did on an addition to your house, if down the road you were in the market to build a new house, you probably wouldn't consider those people. At some point, the rebuild is going to be back to signing or trading for the correct veterans, something these guys have really struggled with recently.

If Theo had the assets the Sox had to trade, I think most would rather he be the one making the decisions. But most would rather have Theo make the decisions than any other GM. And it isn't like Theo has made some huge mistakes, just not as many as most, and he's run teams that can afford multiple missteps. Let's face it, while many of the Sox moves made perfect sense before the rebuild, most of them were train wrecks. When the Sox youngsters are ready, the same guys who made these mistakes will be supplementing the team. If someone had no confidence in them before, I don't see how they would now. It will be interesting to watch. Frankly, anyone could trade Sale and Eaton and Q and get some nice minor league talent back. I do give them credit for being patient with Q, it seems to have netted them a far better return. They did spend money on Robert, which I loved, but now you have to wonder. While he seems to have all the talent in the world, it remains to be seen if he will be able to stay on the field, and how much this period of very little baseball affects him.

Of course, but they also got lucky. Arietta was much better than they possibly could have imagined. Hendricks was much better than they could have imagined. The Astros passed on Bryant. Hoyer gave Theo Rizzo for Cashner and a job to be named later. Any one of those doesn't happen, the drought is probably still on, and White Sox fans appetite for a full rebuild is probably not as big as it was.

I am not as anti bing as most, but he had Anderson bunt who has been on fire his last several ABs, to get to a carrier .166 hitter, currently sporting a .449 OPS. If it were the other way around, I would have no problem.

I really don’t know how a 95 loss season is all that effective. If Robin were here last year with the same squad, the 95 losses would be a lot more his fault than the lack of talent.

I think the pressure should be on Hahn and KW. They are going to have to have a somewhat competitive team next year, and 2020; they have to contend. A few are gung ho over the rebuild and almost think it just about guarantees multiple championships, but think about it...will they be better than the Yankees, Astros, Red Sox, Braves, Phillies, Cubs, Padres, Dodgers in 3 years, 4 years, or 5 years? Maybe they will, maybe they won’t. Rebuilds are a marathon, but the Sox with Sale, Q, and Eaton, got about a 20 mile head start. Most teams are lucky to have one star with a team friendly contract to trade. They had 3. If this rebuild doesn’t go reasonably smoothly after this season, JR has to suck it up and make a change. i really thought they would win 74 or 75 games this year since they play so many games vs. brutal teams. They would have to play .500 the rest of the way to win 74. i am at least a little concerned at least a couple guys they will be counting on when they should be good, could get contaminated with this losing. I get finishing third doesn’t get them anything but a worse position in the draft, but they way they are losing, the volume of the losses, this can backfire as well. Guys get resigned to losing, it could be a tough habit to break.

You have to love having Anderson bunt to get a RISP for Engel. If doesn't really matter this year but it will eventually. If Renteria wants to hold his players accountable for playing the correct way, which he should, he should be held accounable managing the correct way.

For Avi, I thought the same thing so I googled and saw a quote from Hahn a couple of days ago where it will be a “few” weeks. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/ct-spt-white-sox-joakim-soria-201803-story.html know nothing about Rodon since the last update which seemed encouraging.

Unless he is a premium DH, if a player can’t play hard because he might get hurt, he shouldn’t be in the game. I am am starting to wonder about sports medicine myself. Now guys need all these days off, in basketball can’t play heavy minutes. Can’t be given the ball too much in football. The guys that played the hardest to me were Pete Rose, Walter Payton, and Michael Jordan. They played hard all the time. Except when MJ broke his foot, they hardly ever missed a game, and had a heavy workload, they all would be considered well beyond abused these days.

John McCain must be near the end. They are already planning his funeral and Trump is not welcome.

This really sucks.

Maybe if you thought he could turn it around and he had some control. He is a free agent at the end of the season, so he won’t be flipped for anything, and all you get if you can fix him is the opportunity to pay him this season. Plus, his character is an issue. Easy pass.

My point being, if you want Machado or Harper, you are going to have to live with an opt out. Theirs may be a different case since they are a little younger than the average free agent, but no matter what, some team is going to make each one of them a crazy offer, opt out and all. The White Sox have done a few things the last couple of years they have never done before. But signing perhaps the top free agent on the market and including an opt out....they were ahead of their time. But this is a bit different. I don't think anyone should really count on Machado or Harper being a White Sox, and the red flags are starting to blossom for Donaldson.

So Rudy knows it's a witch hunt better than anybody, but he's new to the process and isn't up to snuff with the facts yet. I wonder if the stable genius realized he contradicted himself within 2 seconds.

Palka reminds me a bit of Dan Pasqua. The White Sox HRs last night were not cheap.

The 3prisomers supposedly being released by N Korea Trump popped off Obama tried to get released but failed....2 of them weren’t detained until Trump was President. More lies.

His bat has been under the radar bad as,well. Hopefully some playing time will fix it because he is looking like rebuild filler.

Palkas walk up song is Cocaine.

Upper deck closed. Maybe 5k in the house. Rain starts as Sox take the field

There will be thousands upon thousands who were not able to get in. Of course, they never made an effort, but that's beside the point.

So while yes, an opt out is great for the player, it doesn't hurt the team too much if you think about it. For them to opt out, they will have had to play well, and then, if you let them walk, you aren't paying for what could and should be declining years and can re-allocate the funds. Trading expensive guys doesn't yield the greatest returns anymore. It worked out well for the White Sox and Albert Belle. It would have worked out fine for the Yankees with ARod had they let him walk. I think with most guys that opt out, the team that lets him walk wind up really happy about it. The fact is now, if you are serious about signing one of these guys, you are going to have to give him one., especially these guys who are going to sign for more than 5 years. If you don't want to, stick with signing Adam LaRoche.

They should take the best player, and not worry about position. I have yet to see a team have too many good players. Who knows what Moncada and Anderson will look like when Madrigal is ready. I certainly hope if they don't draft him that the reason is they think they guy they drafted is a better player, not based on position.

Trump's tweets this morning about the Stormy Daniels payments don't seem like they were written by him.

That is Buerhle at the Sox/Cards game sucking back a Busch tallboy. Fame and fortune did not change him.