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Agreed. The problem with sausage outside of Chicago is the seasoning isn't correct. Pepperoni is just below pineapple and above anchovy on the topping list.

Everyone should take three years off. Healing is healing. Make certain to come back healthy.

Can they win 60 games?

I went to a bunch of games in '76. I few of my buddies had just gotten their driver's licenses and away we went. It was the good old days when guys would buy beer for 16 year olds lol (if we paid for theirs also) Fun times watching mlb baseball. I really wish I could enjoy a bad team like that again.

Definitely. I was going to toss it out there that probably close to or more than half of this is on him. But, with the mood we're in, anything short of blaming almost everything on the club just doesn't feel good.

@Balta1701 Thank you. I think there are some mistakes by everyone involved plus some unlucky for him world events out of everyone's control.

I meant 1980s and 1990s clubs. The bad ones. Thank you for pointing that out.

https://youtu.be/4Y0R6PKaXx0?si=bnQis9nZ9-qFOZlW

I'm literally laughing out loud.

The huge difference here is the difference between expectations and actual results. The 2022 opening day roster had almost everyone from Vegas to the casual fan expecting an easy division win, and to go at least two or three rounds in the playoffs. Folks that had no emotional bias looked at the roster and said wow. Fans said wow. If that team just meets expectations Hahn is Executive of the Year and Tony gets votes for Manager of the Year. Those 1980 and 1990 clubs we expected to be average and they maybe underperformed a little from expectations. If we expected this team to lose 90 games I could watch. I can't watch a squad that we expected to win 90 play this bad.

We love bold predictions. I'm still on the side of the Lions blowing up in spectacular fashion.

It's that new ballpark and the extra revenue.

CTR-L C CTR-L V Save you some time

That's what would happen in about twenty MLB franchises. We ain't one of those.

The best game threads happen in days without a game

Death isn't an option. The games will be played. TV ? will be earned. It's the Subway* Sub 500 Series. Imagine instead of this game being played teams this bad where sent home and good teams started a second season. It would make beating better teams in September more meaningful than who did a better job of beating on the Sox, Tigers, Royals, A's etc. in the summer. *Featuring the Veggie Delight because there is no meat in these lineups.

The Ranger's have more of a Sox feel.

I'm sensing desperation for one last shot at glory. Legacy slightly over money.

People remember Custer's name. No one outside of Chicago will remember Getz by name, just by the tragedy.

Even the players knew the franchise stopped trying.

I keep seeing parallels in history between Getz and Edward Smith*. *Working the obscure references.

I think there are a couple possibilities at work here. Talented pitchers but bad approach. Good approach but no talent. No talent and bad approach. I think I know what most folks here will pick.

Started the game thread because, unlike this team, we show up for every game. How will they lose today?

I wouldn't have thought it possible a month ago.

I'm not certain how you see trolling. I'm joking that he'll be long gone before this team is any good. Looking forward to him managing a different team (as in not here) and he'll take that competitive team and trash it which is good for us. He'll probably finish this contract (because that's what we've always done) but he won't sign a second contract. I'm looking forward to that day, aren't you?