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I think everyone wants a manager who says these guys are crap and I have no confidence in them. I think the front office would be really excited to here that level of blunt honesty from their manager.

POTY And their your go.

They would have to be hoping to be the Sox manager for a long time. After maybe winning 40-50 games this year and maybe 60 next what other franchise will hire them? They are going to look bad no matter what they do. These players can't execute. Has any Sox manager managed to stay in baseball after getting fired by the Sox?

Seriously, who is going to take the position? Not anyone with an actual track record. Anyone with any potential knows this is a career killer. It will just be another guy who needs on the job training to grow into the position. I'm also going to assume he's playing the guys the front office wants him to play.

Because this team clearly should have five wins instead of three.

Wow, that was short lived.

Wow, a lead

If the Sox lose, and no fan is there to see it, did they really lose? I feel a real streak happening today. A giant reversal of fortune. I believe they will be ahead or tied for at least seven of the innings today. Just not the 9th.

Crazy to think it was too far ahead of the curve.

Tim is just repeating what his teammates said while looking at him the past couple seasons.

While not having the right guys, there was also having some wrong guys. At least he takes the responsibility of multiple families seriously and wanted to lock in that paycheck to pay for them all.

Thank you. This was what I was looking for in the light at the end of the tunnel thread.

Sigh

Where is it? I know we all want to just wallow in the ineptitude, and why not, we're the worst team in baseball. But knowing there are better times ahead would be nice. I can't find any. But I'm looking at the organization and thinking about the next three years and I'm not seeing enough bodies for a competitive team.

Because he was asked. Because being nice to the media aka free advertising is important to the teams finances.

Here's the most likely press conference I can imagine with Pham. "Thank you so for being here, and thank you to the White Sox for allowing me the opportunity to announce today I'm retiring from baseball. When only the ugliest hooker gives me a hey baby, it's time to hang up the cleats."

Getz resume bullet point: April 2024 out negotiated all professional teams in the universe and signed the best available OF bat. Delivering the goods ? good job old sport.

I didn't think a competitive contract would get an established player to come here for the next couple seasons. Given this team and basically any other team, why come here? They would have to offer over competitive deals or get guys with baggage. It's like all the fans of other teams that think all their GM had to do was call the Sox and get Cease. It's easy. Call Getz, make an offer, and get the guy. Anyone can do it. Yet it didn't happen for most teams.

I think he speaks the truth. If it was that easy every team would be great. Everyone believes because if a guy signed for X with a club they would also sign with the Sox for the same deal all we had to do was ask. Proposing deals and trades is easy. How many threads have been written here for two decades proving how easy it is? Now that we've established it's a hard job building a winning team, we now question if anyone in this organization is up to a hard job? I didn't think so.

Thank you, I'm adding them to my summer reading list.

Any of the books you would recommend over the others?

Isn't he exactly a grow with the team hire? He obviously needs to grow. Any already accomplished manager would laugh if the Sox called.

Name any brilliant strategy a manager might try and the talent on this team will cause it to fail.

To me firing him would be a silly PR move to try and convince fans the team is better than they are. We know that's crap. They are a 110 loss talent team. He ain't hurting anyone, they do that in their own.

What would the greatest manager of all time be with this lineup? 49 under? You can't win the Kentucky Derby with a plow horse.