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https://www.espn.com/mlb/attendance White Sox are going to end up bottom 8 in attendance this year if they don't finish April over .500. 1998-99 were their last two attendance years in the 1.3-1.4 million range. We went 1.6 million in 2021 to 2.0 million last year and it's inevitably going to fall at least back to 1.4-1.5 million with how angry and frustrated the fans are with the ownership and front office at this point. http://www.espn.com/nba/attendance Meanwhile the Bulls as the #10 team in the East are leading the NBA in attendance at roughly 20,502 per game (roughly 1.68 million if extrapolated out for 82 games) . Cash cow.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHW/attend.shtml 1987-89 the three worst attendance seasons then the huge jump back up with the memorable 1990 team under Torborg

Coming into this season he was ranked somewhere around 11-13 in the SS/positional rankings... Maybe in terms of hype/national attention/video game covers/batting title/Field of Dreams walkoff, etc. Marketing/recognition Top 30.

Hard Art Kusyner...Man Soo Lee and maybe Joey Cora would have been the three likeliest stealing signs that year. Other problems: Ozzie or Baines? Walker? Or just another case of talking out of both sides of his mouth?

https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/ct-sullivan-big-hit-baseball-spt-0910-20170909-column.html On Joe Nossek and Sox sign-stealing (2017 article) Chicago White Sox (1984–86; 1990–2003). He then became a scout for the Houston Astros. https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/ozzie-guillen-says-the-white-sox-had-the-astros-signs-in-2005-world-series/3114855/ Seems to be more a case of bragging the White Sox didn't need the Astros' later technological advantages (2017) to win with human intelligence back in the 2000's.

https://sports.yahoo.com/minor-league-pitcher-rips-cheater-fernando-tatis-jr-after-giving-up-hr-during-rehab-assignment-174442845.html

Marmol with StL this week...

Joe Nossek says hello...

Colome 0.0 fear the last season plus. Diminishing returns nearly every year over the last 6-7. Look at the overall trend line. https://www.fangraphs.com/players/alex-colome/6661/stats?position=P

https://sports.yahoo.com/ozzie-guillen-says-white-sox-234829736.html

Longest-tenured Sox during Hahn Regime. Return for the disappointing Alex Rios KW Gamble.

Well the only argument there is those players succeeding shows they are undervalued/developed by the Sox. But kinda the opposite of when all the Yankees and Dodgers prospects back in the day got so much press but almost never turned into anything. But were invaluable trade commodities for finishing pieces.

https://soxmachine.com/2022/07/2022-white-sox-draft-recap-its-an-arms-race-for-mike-shirley/ Unfortunately it's going to take 3-5 years for that #28 (in of bonus pool avail) 2022 draft to bear any fruit. That will be too late for the competitive window to be extended...if it hasn't already closed.

How is it even politics when those authoritarian governments don't provide anything more than sham elections and opposition parties are banned lol? The moderating team must absolutely LOVE you...do they still even respond?

And hire a scouting director who understands how to draft pitching...that would be quite helpful.

Boris Johnson or Yeltsin? Boris and Natasha? Becker? Just joking. And Moncada's days are numbered with that contract. A rebuilding organization doesn't have the budget to carry that line item on the payroll.

You also can't win without a Latin American and now Pacific Rim pipeline or at least a negligible presence. LHP Jesus Pena was their lone Dominican product for something like a decade.

in AAA AA A. Btw, Norge Vera still exists...or only in the collective imagination?

And let's not get into the lack of success from the majority of their first round draft picks since TA7. (Rodon ofc had his one standout season, but he left with nothing to show for it.)

Trayce. The circumstances of how all those players got away are the embarrassing part. Sure we can also take credit for TA7, Robert, Abreu, Sale, Q, Alexei Ramirez, too. But what is the winning percentage of this team since 2013? That's the bottom line. Results.

Sale...Rodon, but both were nearly finished products when they arrived on the scene. Chris Bassitt...? Although he was ultimately traded. Hector Santiago?

Twins just walked off Astros in home opener. Only five walk off wins for all of 2022. It's going to be a season long battle with the Guardians.

At least Reynolds is on fantasy team lol.

Like when they alternated WS trophies in 2010/12/14 with disappointments.

Kikuchi of all pitchers was at 95-98 this week. They just don't have the stuff right now...other than Cease and maybe Reynaldo. Really miss leadership of Hendriks.