Harry Chappas

Election spike trumped Thanksgiving, Christmas and Superbowl........poster ducks and runs away.

As an FYI Greg, your former high school offered the vaccine to all faculty and staff through SXU. They also have done a pretty amazing job with their COVID educational plan. It does seem that basketball is going well and I think football is excited about their 6 game schedule although the #1 back is out with an injury and baseball will be top 5 if not #1 in the state. They have two potential guys that could be talked about rather highly in the 2023 and 2024 drafts.

My heart dropped when I started reading that as he seems incredibly likable. Still alarming on his part.

Unrelated to this but I wanted to put this somewhere and it gets to grreg's post. I have a relative that believes that all organ donations are illegally harvested. She is a complete whacko in my mind. Anti vaxxer, believes masks are killing us etc. The stupidity of functioning members of society is becoming rather alarming to me.

If that is illegal delete it.

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You may think that the Sox are the cheapest organization in the history of professional sports but they have not played the service time game. They brought up Kopech when they had zero reason to. I am not certain how Crochet works with his limited time but if that clock is ticking there is another one. I think they sign him long term once things normalize....then I think they look at Lynn and Gio.

Young players have the ability to get better and the White Sox are counting on that. Your point would be valid if there was no talent to come up. The Padres did not want to rely on youth so they got some veteran pitchers.

Day after Garfein's podcast with him.

The White Sox did this with Kopech when they really should not have. Kopech at this point in time should have zero service time.

Sadly I know too many GOP folks that are not getting the vaccine. The fact politics in this country has come to this is scary. The 54 year far left lady that works for me got vaccinated because she had to walk down the hall and it was free other than that she was going to opt out for no good reason. Insanity

Got my first shot today. There was something eerie about it and I do not mean in a political anti-vaxxer sense but more of the thought of maybe realizing I may have avoided this for all this time and there is an end in site.

So now Tony LaRussa is a career criminal and should be in the same conversation of legal privilege for the wealthy as OJ and not agreeing with this is carrying water for JR.

I think in context you need to look at the hazard pay as a total benefit package. Are they offering their employees a full benefit package with health coverage?

I am in the group that feels like we are cheering loudly for his hiring but I have only come to accept it. I think the staff and team that has been built is built for success. Their hirings around him have been great. Hahn and the staff obviously feel that reliance on development will be the key to this team. You can call it cheap but are the options all that bad? It is not like Jimmy Lambert is being rolled out there as the #4. There are 3 proven starters and 4 potential pretty decent #4 and #5 options. There is a RHH hitter that should fit the DH role perfectly. I believe there is a good amount of this board that now look at JR as Jerry Jones. I think JR has a say and I think if he pushed for Tony previously and did not get his way maybe Hahn and Williams (who was part of the process in the 90s) relented because of it. Hiring LaRussa in 1996 could have changed this organization for the better....maybe doing it now will work. I say all of this because I am not a fan of Hinch and really don't think there were any other candidates out there that didn't have similar risk.

He was still working with the Angels when the White Sox hired him.

I have seen nobody worshipping him. Not everybody his hellbent on telling everyone he is the worst person alive.

So ten years ago is not relative but 33 years ago is? The guy that is a clueless moron moved on from a team the was one of the most successful in White Sox history (1983) and had a hall of fame career winning world series and numerous pennants with two different franchises. Of the White Sox A's and Cardinals only the White Sox have won a world series after he left so while there has beena level of success with both franchises the success was greater with LaRussa. AJ Hinch was a failure in AZ and his replacement in Houston took a team that lost their two aces under Hinch to the ALCS but he was going to come in and lead the White Sox to greatness without a doubt. He may be a epic failure, time will tell but they guy is not a moron. You may also find him despicable but to think he does not know baseball is idiotic.

He won the world series 10 years ago you act like he has not managed a game since 1957 He has a good staff around him and he has a history of success. You can hate him all you want but to act like the guy doesn't know baseball is asinine.

The guy changed the game while managing. He is not a blathering idiot that is spouting off nonsense. If some other manager said this we would all be anxious of what they think. You can hate him for a myriad of reasons but he knows what he is doing. In regard to Hahn walking away......ya that is easy to say. How has it gone for someone like Dan Evans once he left. Hahn has better job security than just about any GM in baseball.

My two cents on this... Why do the White Sox keep him around and not give him an opportunity? The guys they lost because they have kept him around are no great shakes but if you are going to keep him why not play him? I do find it odd.

I really do not get the whole non-masking thing. What is the issue with wearing a mask it is the height of stupidity. I find it insanely baffling.

With a lost year of production any minor league player ranking is worthless.

IMO, viewership of football both college and pro was always greatly higher because of level of gambling. Square pools, strip cards etc. more so for the Super Bowl parties garnered interest but also the neighborhood book let you bet on football. it is simple and easy. Other sports are more complex and easier to thing changes rapidly to hang on every play. Now with online gambling you have options. Advertising is always the key with live sports because you are not necessarily going to tune out but there is so much content out there that it is sapping interest that it makesthe match up more interesting.

I don't mean to sound like a jerk but don't the white Sox draw poorly for spring training 90% of the time? A Kansas City White Sox spring training game on tv always looked to have about 600 people at it.