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We’ve even lost 45 cents over the last decade...”we can’t spend a dollar if we only have 50 cents”. Thanks JR, KW and Hahn for somehow managing run this franchise into the ground when your competition is all small market teams, lol.

The curse of Carlos Quentin’s 2008 ending returns...

True, but now the fanbase is really in prove it mode. Enthusiasm/morale low, low energy at games...they’ll have to win something before most casual Sox fans will ever come back out. Even then the storyline will be...well, the Yankees, Red Sox, Astros and Angels are just going to crush our small market dreams. Or the Rays and A’s can run rings around us in terms of cost effectiveness on the flip side.

If anyone can now manage to double down on Bryce Harper against the wall of skepticism, more power to that poster!!!

But at least a lifetime of memories. The greatest team/s of that generation...over a nearly 15 year period. We got Jordan on Birmingham and Bo Jackson without a hip on the other side of that equation...and yet another great young manager who got away in Francona.

We have already done that with about $45 million spent on 4-5 fWAR of veteran floatsam.

New board name might be a start, lol. Harper-related or no faith left to believe he’s NOT pre-destined for the Phillies?

I didn’t have the heart to resurrect my Tatis, Jr., thread on a day like today...it’s already bad enough without seeing those two together. Thst said, they have a long and winding road to even near the Dodgers’ stranglehold position on the NL West. Just wish the NBC Sports Chicago News could show split screen images of the White Sox and Padres ticket offices about right now. The fans have never been out first since Bill Veeck was owner, even though he was basically bankrupt, he still cared more about the fan experience and the players than modern owners ever will.

But Narvaez is gone...and Jay is getting more time in the OF...and Engel is, never mind. We suck.

One thing’s for certain. Nick Madrigal has always played with a chip on his shoulder. They’re now the underdogs of all underdogs fighting for respectability. Southside Sox Blue Collar. It has never been the White Sox way to have nice shiny things for too long, anyway, and they still only have to wait for the Indians to self-implode in order to make the playoffs. And Machado’s offensive numbers are going to go way down at PetCo. The last time Preller went crazy in FA, 2014-15, he signed a worst group of players than even Rick Hahn is capable of assembling.

BUMPED for venting purposes...

No way. Harper or bust. But they’ll probably overpay a fading Keuchel for 3-4 years at a “value price point” and he'll somehow become another James Shields of Sox lore.

Yep, 29th in ratings for t.v. and radio. Only reason they’re not officially 30th is that they have no reliable scores for Toronto. And another year of Benetti witticisms to withstand. At least Hawk doesn’t have to be the company man and feign enthusiasm for another insufferably long year. Might as well leave James Shields’ locker there encased in glass next to Jay and Alonso. Will there even be any energy remaining to boo Machado? Do we have a series with the Padres this year? Home or away?

The money gets split...in actuality, the Sox will still end up making more money because of all the SD fans subscribing for the first time in a decade. Yay! Profits that can NOT go to 2nd round Bulls’ draft picks.

Hahn’s just going to have a miserable year. The only saving grace for him care that the Padres aren’t in the same league or division. Really feel bad for some posters who believed two whales were actually possible. THIS is what has been the typical feeling for White Sox fans for generations...just not good enough. The Cubs’ fans are already wallowing enough in their own misery, but undoubtedly are about to start feeling pity on us. This will be remembered as the year of toasting Alonso, Jay, Castillo, Nova, Herrera and Colome...for NOT being Manny Machado. About the only way this can get any worse would be injuries to Jimenez, Cease, Robert AND then Omar Narvaez going on to become an All-Star catcher for that ONLY other team to suffer longer than the Padres and Sox waiting for that elusive playoff spot, the freakin’ Mariners.

If Trout and Arenado both come off the board before the season even starts...good luck to FA bidders in 2019 & 20.

You can’t even buy cows anymore thanks to the GND! At any rate, we’ll loan you some of our excess 180+ mph trains (too slow and already outdated) from here in China with a swellopt if Manny signs on Taco Tuesday.

Ummmm...no, at least not Hi’s poopsie daisey pants.

It’s those meddling Red Communists! They’ve Huaweied up my I-Pad in the Great Firewall of China. Fortunately, they can’t stop or even hope to contain Bo Jackson.

Bo Knows How to Boat That Bass (Des Plaines River, 2003, si.com)

You’re tearing me apart, Manny Machado!!! Said in creepy Eastern European accent

Charles the Cat? Michael J. Robertson?

Unleash the Kragle!! (Likes will not be so easily handed out today.) Signed, Buddy the Elf P.S. Forget White Sox Wednesday’s. All big signings are now reserved for Taco Tuesday’s.