Harry Chappas

Darvish and Heyward....if you ae giving them prospects add Bryant and remove Heyward.

Exactly they gambled on the neighborhood being an entertainment destination and then poof that was all gone. They will recover as the family will prop it up for a while but Joe Ricketts is not funding Tom's hobby. The cash cow is on hold and the bills are coming due. My guess is they need to cut payroll down to about $120M just for the team. No telling what is happening with the investments around the park.

The trades that won the world series and then to try and keep them afloat killed them with the bad free agent signings.

The Sox will be the laughing stock if they fail to meet expectations but for now I think they are fine, not on this board but in general this news cycle has passed on a larger scale. Stroman wasn't a free agent so his take was BS Who was the coach that wouldn't come here?

Problem with Nagy and the play calling is his scheme sucks. Thus he scraps the whole offense and hires a new OC that installs a system then you have the whole offense similar to our time before him where it continually sucked or if it is good the OC is hired to a new team. Trading pieces gets a ton of 3rd through 6th round picks other than Smith those guys are only getting you volume.

That was my theory. He is not getting much back in return.

Sounds to me that many players thought he was an a-hole but stopped short of calling him a racist.

But Hawk told us the best pitch in baseball is a well placed fastball...while may be true.....I don't think it is the be all end all.

I agree he doesn't provide the things that the modern game looks for and as such may press to show what his talent is. I also do not think the Sox will get the value back in a trade. Nothing jumps off the page so it appears to some that he brings nothing to the team that is not easily replaced.

Why the LOL? I am not defending anyone I was just pointing out the oddness of the timing of the case and the fact that the DA had a rather bad accident and may not have been involved in the filing of the charges.

Something was odd with this case from the get go. Wasn't the DA in intensive care when the charges were filed 9 months after the incident.

The thing that will make this work for me is some humility from LaRussa. Hopefully in early December that happens after the case is settled. I was ok with the hiring not happy about a short term hire but could live with it. The Katz hire puts a positive spin on it. The thing that is still holding me back is that Hahn is still quiet on it. He is the voice of the organization. Hopefully the coaching staff announcements temper things as well. Finally....if Bauer signs and it is because of Katz and LaRussa I can live with it. I still won't be overly excited but it will work. Oddly I think Katz and LaRussa could be the conduit to make the Bauer pitch every 4th day thing happen. I'm glad they went with a 37 year old pitching coach and that gives me hope.

Isn't McEwing the bench coach? Why would LaRussa not keep him on.

Springer to Mets makes too much sense...I only say this after listening to the Gammons/Our Chuck podcast.

I think he lets his guy do their job. Was he undercutting Duncan for 30+ years? He seemed to retain guys that were good at their job.

I'm an old white guy and this situation is the epitome of why this group gets the shrapnel that we do.

Makes defense attorneys wealthy and oddly the police get OT for appearing. As long as the defendant can afford the legal fees they have a good shot at getting off. Things like dissecting a police for the smallest error can get a person off if the attorney is good and in Cook County there are plenty of attorneys that make a living on this. I took a parking ticket to a hearing and won because the address was wrong as it did not have the direction of the street ( N Ashland). I was contesting the ticket because it was street cleaning and was out of town and I argued I should have gotten more than 2 days notice of the no parking ordinance. The hearing officer rejected that claim but then dismissed it on the address.

When Tony took a stand on kneeling, and then his dopy comment about being the judge on sincerity of the protest, he presented himself as holier than thou. That is BS but tolerable. Now he looks like a joke and every stance and position he had taken previously makes him look more foolish because of his disingenuous attitude. This is why he needs to go, he is simply put, a dick. He will be unable to lead the players and will become a shadow puppet. What makes matters worse is that we all know that Hahn is not behind this move and the team has gone silent. Had there have been good sales pitch and some rationale atonement for previous idiotic remarks I and I think the fans would be ok. When Renteria was fired there was a very clear message sent. Since that day the whole message as circled and went down the drain. Go get Bochy or Alomar and repair this thing. This is old white guy stuff at its finest.

The family feel is Brooks Boyer JR has nothing to do with that. The JR regimes both allow good people to leave and retain the wrong people. They never bring in proven winners. Championships are not a fair barometer I will say there should be vastly more playoff appearances especially when you are not competing against the big money teams. Over his 40 years his organization has been lapped by every team in the division.

What spots are open at this point?

I thought the same thing. Aren't they missing a good number of players that are sitting out the season for COVID?

The thing with me is that Tony should just go away. There is nothing to be gained by this and it is making the Sox look like a clown car. Williams is never heard from any more and Hahn is the guy that is going to have to wear it as LaRussa is just a dick that does not care about a fan base and will just tell everyone to fuck off.

How the hell do they not get in front of this at the hiring press conference.

I think the climate will go back to presidential news not being main focus of the news cycle. Trump turned the presidency into reality tv and thus things liek the buster got out of hand. Hopefully life cools down beginning of next year.

What I am hopeful for is that a philosophy is instilled that incorporates a more professional approach to hitting.