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Chicago's Quincy Jones Quincy Jones, Giant of American Music, Dies at 91 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/arts/music/quincy-jones-dead.html?smid=nytcore-android-share What a genius

If that blew your mind wait until you discover the Internet. 😆

I wouldn't mind seeing if they actually could be worse. It's a hell of a challenge. But keep guys in AAA that need the development time and grab some not quite warm bodies from the last chance pile. Bonus if the could play a little banana ball.

Wait a minute. The Sox problems go back years and years? I miss the green font. Somehow Wilder keeps getting his name in the news but with really no new news. It's almost like some media outlets have a random name generator to rehash old stuff.

I'm thinking way back to their first little league coach. I'm certain you've seen in your students kids who have habits that have been honed since middle school. They have had excellent science teachers for many years and excellent foundations. Under stress they will generally outperform equally intelligent students without that background. It would be unfair to give their current teacher all the blame, or all the credit, for their actions. I have players that come to me with no idea how to practice and others with focused practice routines. I do my best to prepare them all for college golf. Obviously one group has an advantage over the other. Other coaches are more baby sisters and can't really do that. Either because they never played, never talked with college coaches, or sadly, don't care. In this example if their high school coach understood not running hard all the way to first on a sure out, and their college coach was equally ambivalent, then they arrived in professional ball they have eight plus years of habits to undo.

Should I drop by and give Getz a summary of what Soxtalk knows he should do?

In addition to that being true I believe we need to look at their prior coaching as well. It's tough for a staff to overcome a decade of poor coaching by the coaches that came before. Habits get ingrained over years.

I love all the discussions about stuff that can't be measured. Y'all relive the good old days. If you can't measure it then it's all eyeball, stuff you see, old school crap. I didn't care if they look to fans (or people on the field for decades) like they have "energy" or "want to win". It's about as important of information as the number of wins for a pitcher. And at least that you can have some data to work with. What it shows me is we hired a guy with a 1970s mentality and apparently he's got a few people here thinking that is somehow important.

It's entertainment and they are selling tickets

Turns him around. "No, those are your players" "Oh I'm fucked. I'm never drinking with Tony again."

I'm sad actually. He was one of the signings I was really excited about. We were working that Cuba connection. It's just a reminder of when we were on top of the world and reasonably expecting multiple championship seasons. Good luck to him.

How he doesn't get labeled a crony hire surprises me.

Just getting this started for the folks that want to vent. I've gone from excited for manager changes all the way up to and including Ricky. To ho hum new guy, same s%*# IDK Grifol. Now I'm negative from the start. My first reactions are all the reasons he's not a good fit. Thank you Jerry.

Actually below ground, way below ground.

It is a big deal here in San Antonio. https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/dustoff-congressional-medal-of-honor-vietnam-19852354.php?utm_content=cta&sid=65cd083b8308d976f701e3ba&ss=P&st_rid=null&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=nons_new&utm_campaign=saen | express briefing 33% chance of getting killed while saving lives. Thank you for your service

I'm happy for you and no doubt a free option is nice but the teams really need to low cost service the rest of the market if they want to be more than a footnote in Chicago. Terrestrial entertainment is a nice outreach but it isn't sustainable as the main source in the 21st Century. I like Manfred's vision that a national streaming package would take priority over local deals, even more so over the antennae people.

They did stuff we would roast our front office for but they got lucky and it worked out.

I was going to make a joke then I realized Mom's and girlfriends wouldn't have to pay.

https://apnews.com/article/teri-garr-dies-be39482a60724c5bb81bbd8f34dfaf2d Teri Garr

That's too small of a sample size. Add in every other hire since Ozzie and then it's not only statistically valid, but a harbinger of doom.

Wasn't Tony the last manager to achieve success at the MLB level after leaving Chicago? That's a long time ago.

I've been a very loyal T Mobile customer in part because of free MLB TV.

I don't see the next manager lasting more than two years. I think the sticking point in negotiations will be length of contract. I can't believe anyone worth having would come for anything less than a four year contract, possibly five. I don't see Uncle Jerry agreeing to that.

And we value bad luck as a franchise. It's the cornerstone of our strategy.

The big money managers aren't coming into this train wreck so financial limitation isn't nearly as limiting than the crap players and a meddling owner and his "special friends". Really pick almost anyone and hope you get lucky.