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What’s next, Jordan4Life coming back to taunt us for being gullible/naive and believing we have the same right as fans of other teams to good things...? Maybe he’s gone radio silent with the LeBron as greatest of all-time momentum finally having peaked.

This whole idea of choosing Hahn as “the good guy in the white hat you’d drink a beer with” and KW as the villain/antagonist and primary one responsible for everything that goes wrong or bad around the Sox, it desperately needs to move on to greener pastures.

At least he “implored.”

https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/ct-spt-white-sox-bryce-harper-manny-machado-20190228-story.html No Harper or Machado, But Lots of Bold Talk in White Sox Camp They’re not quite young enough to revive the 2000 season’s “The Kids Can Play” campaign and not nearly talented enough to replicate the “Winning Ugly” team of 1983. They used “Ricky’s Boys Don’t Quit” last year only to go 3-11 in their last 14 games to finish with 100 losses. So what should the new slogan be? If it were my call, I’d go with Tim Anderson’s motto: “Either ride with us or get run over.” Anderson made the comment after the Sox lost out in the Machado sweepstakes, basically saying the Sox are good enough to win with what’s in their clubhouse. “I feel like I made a bold statement about that,” Anderson said Thursday before homering and driving in two runs in a Cactus League game against the Mariners. “It’s out there, man. I said what I had to say, and we’re going to put that in the past and keep going forward.” ...... The TV cameras are gone. Executive vice president Ken Williams is tooling around in his golf cart looking busy. Manager Rick Renteria is smiling while being evasive about pitching plans. And we’re still waiting for star pitching prospect Dylan Cease to throw in a game somewhere … anywhere.

Vote and discuss...for needed therapy/venting throughout the weekend.

http://www.stevetheump.com/Payrolls.htm 2009 $96 million 2010 $108 million 2011 $129 million 2018 $72 million Going by the 17% change in the value of money (aka inflation), we we would reliably expect of $102 million (I averaged out 2009/10) to have risen ten years later to basically $119.5 million, more or less $120. Eight short years ago, we were at $129 million (the year we signed Dunn to his FA deal).

Well, we wouldn't have had that now infamous back-flip on the stage. The highlight of his entire Sox career, and the only surprising aspect looking back on it all was that he didn't blow out a knee or Achilles' or suffer the Jared Mitchell right then and there before his career could even get started.

He's our version of Colin Powell...minus the exceptional/meritorious service record, lol. You can write that opinion all you want, but we won't have any supporting evidence unless he resigns and writes a tell-all book after he is out of baseball about what really went on behind the scenes. Since that's not in his nature, we'll never really get the whole truth. I mean...can you really imagine Hahn saying to KW and JR, "if you're not serious about signing Manny Machado after I've worked so hard to sell it to the fanbase all offseason, then I'm out of here and you guys can face the music..." No, it's easier to imagine his looking pissed off, then smirking and trying to figure out how he can possibly talk his way out of this one.

We'll see....he has another year, and probably 2, to prove the doubters wrong.

At least you've taken on the Don Quixote-like task for defending Lucas Giolito for all posterity...did you go to Harvard-Westlake in LA? Family in the film industry? Just joshing with you. And we know no matter what happens in baseball, Lucas will basically end up on his feet in terms of his future career plans/endeavors. That's more than we can say for the majority of professional athletes.

And their friends/family won't even pay for tickets, they'll all be comped at will call.

Did you just watch Armageddon, Deep Impact or 2012, lol? They have at least five potential elite talents, STILL. 1) Jimenez 2) Moncada 3) Cease 4) Kopech 5) Robert And Madrigal's going to be the closest thing we've had to Nellie Fox since the 1960's...

Another excellent idea is supporting all of our minor league teams/players/coaches...especially if you live in North/South Carolina or Alabama. They didn't do anything wrong, they're just caught in the crossfire.

Donating seats (at least some of them) to Sox Charities, Boys & Girls Clubs, Jackie Robinson Little League, Bulls/Sox Academy, Reviving Baseball in the Inner City program, there was a Chicago version of that....ACE, maybe? The one that kid who went to Iowa and the Sox drafted participated in...he was a catcher/pitcher out of the Public League before Iowa.

You must have missed the 2-3 month period where the "White Sox were going to eviscerate/spit out every single opponent for a half decade" period of his posting. Balta...when exactly was that, what specifically triggered the positive change, and then turned you back to the "dark side"?

Send him to Idaho, that'll teach 'im. About the closest to exile is Great Falls in the Pioneer League, that managing gig for mid June/July/August.

If I tried to organize it from here in China, I'd probably get caught up in some corrupt foreign powers/influence act...lol...the White Sox would just blame "Communist agitators" for trying to stir up trouble. Maybe I can just collect monies from all the kids wearing Sox hats that don't even have a clue it's an American baseball team (they have many MLB shoppes in the malls here, selling almost all NY Yankees, Dodgers, Red Sox and Cubs stuff, 85-90% NYY...but lots of pirated/fake/knockoff hats.)

Imagines what conceivable track Southsider2k5 is going to take about "blaming Sox fans" after KW's latest PR gaffe. Commenting now is like putting yourself in the eye of the perfect storm, at least half of it "self~induced" by the Sox to use a classic Hawkism. PS Benetti is going to be crucified this year...no matter what approach he takes with the humor.

He was actually the biggest Sox cheerleader in the world heading into 2018.

How about the entire PR and marketing department for not stopping him? By defending JR like a mafia don's henchman, you just lit your own loyal fanbase/customers on fire and asked them to enjoy the privilege of being betrayed yet again. Some organization! As Fathom said, maybe the single worst aspect of the last 10+ days and counting. I wish they could unearth an internal document proving they had no intention of signing either player, that it was just a subterfuge or ploy to hawk season tickets to gullible fans who actually believed in their front office again, despite all the setbacks starting last year with Burger in spring training and culminating in the Kopech TJS.

Sadly, you probably put more work into this post than those 3 Idiots have invested into the Sox pursuit of Harper since January 1st.

It will inevitably be rescued by a community mental health block grant...as a public service to avoid more long-term psychological impacts from being born a White Sox fan. (Except now it feels more like the Patty Hearst kidnapping as a fan.)

Who hacked your account? Russians? Phillies' fans?

Maybe they can just fold the White Sox/Tigers/Royals all together into one franchise that splits the season into 27 home games in each of those three cities. Remember in 2000-01 when MLB was seriously considering pushing the Twins to fold up...well, we're not that far away if this rebuilding effort falls flat.

At least the AL Central isn't getting stronger and stronger...