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Wasn’t Piscotty traded specifically so he could be closer to his family on the West Coast? On December 14, 2017, the Cardinals traded Piscotty to the Oakland Athletics in exchange for Yairo Muñoz and Max Schrock.[40] The trade came at the request of Piscotty who wished to be closer to his mother, Gretchen, who was battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).[41][42] Gretchen would pass away on May 6, 2018. Still think, overall, he’s probably a better fit for the A’s.

Wanting to go with Micah Johnson as a major league starter is indication enough of the talent evaluation problems. Two years ago, it was thinking Jacob "Poor Man's Jerry Owens" May had a big league future. We can't even get the back-up catcher thing right. We're paying Welington Castillo millions to record a -1.1 fWAR this year, while Phegley, Dustin Garneau, Narvaez and Tyler Flowers have been worth +4 fWAR. If anyone on this board projected Johnson to be a long-time starter and Semien to be merely a AAAA player, then would be ridiculed or more likely flambéd.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/sounds-luis-robert-season-over-234206618.html Luis "Roberts" (see the misspelled Dash jersey at his IG) says SEE YOU NEXT YEAR! Seems he deleted it because he was afraid it would seem he was criticizing either an affiliate or someone in the Sox front office, lol...

Apparently you've never read The Catcher in the Rye...or you wouldn't be making the same spelling mistake over and over again.

In light of the controversy over the Johnny Depp Dior/Sauvage advertisement, is it still permissible to use CHIEF? https://www.newstimes.com/entertainment/article/Johnny-Depp-s-Dior-Ad-Co-Star-Tanaya-Beatty-14407752.php

Including one of the five best young pitchers in baseball in Buehler...

See post above about Jimenez (from Fathom, link). It's almost like people refuse to be objective about Sox players on this site...just like the coaching staff refuses to look at ALL the information available to make the best possible decisions in game management. It's just another version of Don Cooper cursing out the fans at a remote promo for The Score for daring to question anything with this organization and especially his work with the pitchers. Instead of responding intelligently and patiently, with evidence/support, just go on the offensive.

I think they're more afraid he might have a Matt Thornton-like transformation with another organization, making them look even dumber...especially if they just cut him. Instead, we can have another offseason of hype after he spends time with tech-ier version of Driveline.

Really mature...so, in your opinion, his season is a success. The board will improve tremendously if we curse at each other, because that really makes a point both emphatic and quantitative/objective. No wonder we've gone 11 seasons without making the playoffs.

Even Jimenez is in the bottom ten out of about 60 qualified hitters under age 26 for OPS, which doesn’t even take his defense into account. I guess the response will be Vladimir Jr. is only about 50 points higher and was more hyped.

Reyes was the most popular player in the Padres’ organization. If anything, he’s too nice. Check out his karaoke/singing clips at YouTube.

If Moncada ends up at 800ish ops and Giolito at 3.75-4.00 ERA, they only have Robert, Madrigal, Collins and Kopech left to promote from a PR standpoint...or the human interest story of whether Burger can make it to the big leagues (although not exactly a huge hurdle in this organization.) Looks like another offseason of MEH.

Who else is there, Fulmer or Covey?

At least Lisle gets to move on. Lifelong Sox fans are stuck with this crap. And then hoping against hope they actually sign someone good in the offseason.

Back to Lisle Talk...”Taking the High Road” https://mobile.twitter.com/CoachLisle/status/1167553848866590720 I will be forever grateful to the Chicago White Sox for giving me my first opportunity in Major League Baseball. This past year has been a life-long dream come true. Looking forward to seeing what God has in store for the next “season” of life. #PhoneLinesAreOpen If you’re looking for a story or controversy, there’s none to be had. I learned so much this year & have the upmost confidence in the vision for player development of Chris Getz & the rest of the org.

The majority of millionaires don’t hold college degrees...

Pursuit of happiness...never a guaranteed outcome. That said, we are reaching a tipping point all around the world in terms of how far unfettered capitalism can improve conditions in second and third world economies and what happens when the Top 0.01% of the world will do anything to hold onto power. We’re seeing it in the Amazon, Brexit, India, Washington or Beijing...whether it’s technoauthoritarianism, nationalism, neoliberalism, globalization, societies around the world are fraying and threatening to come apart.

The biggest change there is the owner stopped interfering with day to day operations, like Snyder in WSH or Jerry Jones.

Even Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland are starting to see significant cracks in their economic models in the last 2-3 years. We have our idealized version from the media and political candidates, but the truth is somewhere in between utopias vs. North Korea/Venezuela.

In the end, $7, $10, $12, not even $15 an hour jobs provide one the ability to pay for an independent, livable lifestyle, let alone allow one to take care of a family. The biggest problem culprit is outsourcing (which comes down to slave labor in third world countries), as the $30-50 manufacturing and labor jobs of the past that used to allow the mother to stay at home and take care of the kids in the 70’s and early 80’s simply don’t exist anymore. With automation, robotics, AI, AR and VR...almost every single job like that will have been replaced or displaced within just two generations of American workers.

Because the entire point of capitalism is maximizing profitability, not the greatest good for the greatest number of people (utilitarianism). But you should read Umair Haque at medium.com, the two of you are like-minded souls.

For all we know, Lisle was working two jobs simultaneously...his side gig of professional consulting as well as getting paid by the White Sox. Thats probably a large part of the reason he keeps moving on quickly from place to place, looking for the bigger better deal. A worker like that who is a self-promoter and overly ambitious will never fit in well with the way the White Sox operate. They will rub too many the wrong way, especially someone like Jim Thome, for example.

Even 16-22 year olds without college degrees? Even if you guarantee them $15/hour or roughly $30k per year, it’s still not an independent, livable wage outside their parents’ house. Of course, what will happen is 1/3rd of the current unskilled/retail/fast food workers will be unemployed and the rest will do 50% more work for that $15, so the operating margins would basically remain the same regardless.

Essentially, we’re arguing about Universal Basic Income at this point. But it has nothing to do with why Lisle is no longer employed by the Sox. We can also argue how the top 0.01% of the Top 10% are benefiting unfairly from the layouts of others...while the reverse argument will hold true as well, that entrepreneurs and risk-takers and visionaries are the ones who create those jobs for the rest of us, and we can either quit, stop complaining or attempt to start our own socially conscious enterprises and run them as we see fit, knowing the majority of our competition will not ever put employees first.

That’s noble enough as an individual, but impossible when you have a wife, children or parents relying on you to take care of them. That’s the world we live in, one comprised of numerous compromises, unless we just remain single our entire lives and cut all family ties.