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All these pitchers leaving and no team wants their favorite catcher?? Damn it

For every S there is a M

Know what is happening in your program. Make everyone aware that hazing is cause for termination. Players, coaches, everyone. Create a culture where players will report hazing. Communication, trust. If you can't do these basic job functions, you won't have a coaching job at the high school, college, or pro ranks moving forward.

Agreed. It's as meaningless as stats about losses. Plenty of reasons to criticize him. But most "insert anything" stats can be attributed to the amount of years he's owned the team.

No owner in Sox history has won more games than JR.

Not too get in the way of your usual rant about JR but how many others had a chance for two losing decades? Charles and JR. The various Comiskey family members combined had a win percentage of just under JR. Veeck, combining his two stints was below .500. John Allyn again, worst than JR. Although after this season that may change. This has been a crappy franchise through and through no matter the owner. Some years are good to great, others just suck ass. https://chicagology.com/baseball/soxowners/

I'm enjoying watching UTSA build beyond what would be expected. Good AD and Head Coach.

What a difficult life she had.

Every comment must start with White Sox Baseball is like the silly web site spin the wheel to see your discount feature, only in this case the wheel lands on a losing space each time.

And this team will come back and be really bad once again. I still think they can put together a twenty game losing streak. Perhaps after the sell off.

@Look at Ray Ray Run I think you are correct that Robert has that chance. I'm wondering in the modern style of player contracts if we'll see anyone stay on the roster to be best ever status. As we move towards earlier and earlier free agency I don't see top players staying with one team for more than four or five seasons. That might not be enough to make them a franchise's GOAT.

If you like watching a player it's pretty easy to catch any game, anywhere. So meh, if I see he's pitching and it looks like a good matchup I'll watch. Modern fandom is changing.

This should be interesting.

Sorry if my post offended you.

Imagine if Tony was still in the dugout. That's another five or six losses.

Fixed. I believe the majority of fans here have worked through the five stages of a typical White Sox season. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and here we are now, at acceptance. Next year will be better. The Hawks have a star and the Bears will be better. That shortens the already too long baseball season to something manageable. Toss in a summer vacation and Sox baseball will be sustainable for the next great build. (Can't call it rebuild, because who wants a rebuild of this disaster?)

I have a much bleaker forecast. I think the world has changed since parity. Too many other things to do, new interests. Nothing lasts forever. Society is more mobile, fandom won't be based on a physical address. I'm not certain if it will be humans playing in fifty years. Humans make too many mistakes. We already want to eliminate umpires. We want managers to make decisions as if they were extensions of a computer, why not just eliminate the human and put in a computer and have the players read their instructions? Next step are AI generated players. Watching from home you won't even know the difference. Optimum performance, optimum strategy, optimum umpiring.

Doesn't everyone need someone yelling at them to do their jobs? Could you image professionals in any other business doing their jobs without a coworker to hold them accountable.

They need his bat in the lineup.

He really needs to move the team. The business on and off the field isn't working in Chicago. Why keep fighting it? Other teams with losing records in smaller markets are not having these declines. A new stadium in a new city getting a MLB team for the first time would crush the attendance numbers. JR is such an idiot businessman for staying in Chicago.

If you always predict that every move the Sox make, draft picks, trades, free agents, managers, etc will fail, you will be right at least 75% of the time, maybe even more. I wonder what the average is for good franchises?

Grifol pledged the Sox would be fundamentally sound, control the strike zone on both sides of the ball and earn the trust of fans. But Sox hitters’ chase rate is the second-worst behind the Tigers, and their walk rate is last. Defense was stressed during spring training, but the Sox are near the bottom of most runs-saved metrics. Fortunately they fired their analytics guy so this stuff isn't important.

Another old boomer talking about how it was his day. Old people need to stfu. /Sarcasm

Most nights forfeiting game two would be better than actually watching it. The Athletic might send a reporter. Maybe JR thinks that's what we mean by "blowing it up". Championship Window Demolition Night would be a great fan organized event.

Coop will fix'em. There was a time kids when the Sox coaching staff could fix pitchers with potential. Way back around the turn of the 21st century. It was a magical time. It almost doesn't seem real anymore. Now we snap defeat from the jaws of victory.