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It certainly would be highly successful...compared to any current Sox players. Unless they go with Shane Smith or Braden...who would inevitably cool off immediately after being Bobble-ized.

Chris Young maybe...still feels like Carlos Quentin was the last really youngish hitter power hitter to get really excited about in 2008. But not homegrown. Abreu was a fully formed Intl fa. Avi started out pretty exciting but also acquired externally like Eaton. Alex Call lol?

Montgomery up with bases loaded. Popped up an off speed ball on first pitch...got too overanxious/eager to ambush FB, fooled. 1/3 3-2 Knights...Nastrini third relief outing in a row. Kelenic jumps first pitch first a single. Julks has been player of game so far. Good defensive play as well in left. Kelenic picked off but Nastrini yanked easy throw that Colson couldn't handle at second.

Colson k's on a 90 mph FB. Starter Daniel a soft tosser has retired ten in a row now. Fletcher walks. Greg Jones on the injured list? Thought he was gone now too? Maybe not. Lipcius almost went yard but just came up short. Clevinger likely out after 4, longest outing of year so far. Stranded runner in scoring position three consecutive innings.

Caleb Freeman back to Charlotte. J.Scholtens now up to Charlotte on rehab with Eric Adler promoted to the Knights as well. Workman dfa'ed.

Fwiw Korey Lee seems to be waking up with all the competition around him now. Austin Slater back and already 0/2. Tauchman flies out. Colson back as well...as previously noted. Also, Brandon Drury on the DL apparently. Julks with the big RBI hit so far. Caleb Freeman back to Charlotte. Scholtens up to Charlotte on rehab with Eric Adler. Ex Sox James McCann sighting lol. Don't forget Omar Narvaez too...and Sandy Leon, lots of vets on both squads.

Okay you've convinced me to at least listen...their DH Game 1 the other day put me to sleep lol. Clevinger is pitching and driving everyone crazy with his fidgeting on the mound. Already 3-1. Braves' AAA Craig Kimbrel and Clevinger both famous for dangling their arms down and shaking them out lol. Weird they're both barely hanging on with their likely final professional teams. "Harold Hero" Travis Kelenic led off with a deep fly to warning track. David Fletcher meeting Dominic on the diamond together too. Make that 3-2. Can cheer against Clevinger but for Colson simultaneously. Kelenic 0/2. Bark at the Park/Dog Days every week when at home...I think on Wednesdays? That's different.

Ofc all the articles coming out now on Monfort in Colorado align almost perfectly with what was said about JR over the last year. Speaking of stubborn. Maybe Ishbia got the sense that the Pohlad family in MN was even more divided about what to do with the team going ahead than the Reinsdorfs. They seem to want a valuation ONLY $200-300 million less than the White Sox while simultaneously assuming $425-450 million in additional debt, which is crazy. Plus they have big contracts for Correa Buxton and Lopez on the books, too. Ishbias would much rather push that money (instead) into a new stadium/entertainment complex concept.

Latest espn.com mock...Bulls just missing out on Jacucionis and D.Queen of MD... Scouting report: Egor Demin/BYU is a polarizing prospect, more theoretical in nature than some would hope in terms of the productivity, consistency and bankable skills he can hang his hat on early in his NBA career. He's also exceptionally talented, a 6-foot-9 point guard who can make every pick-and-roll read and pass, often in highlight-reel fashion. The evolution of his shooting will be a major swing skill for his development, but he made promising gains in a few different areas as the season moved on and clearly has significant upside to grow into at 19 years old. -- Givony

This sounds what Guardians fans must now say to each other after Rebuild #4-5 going back to their great 1990s teams with all those consecutive sellouts at Jacobs/Progressive Field. At least they've had a lot more postseason success than the White Sox...albeit no WS title recently.

You're really going to blur the line between general front office spending, minors, scouting and travel budgets, Intl operations, interpreters/translators, Dominican/Venezuelan complexes, equipment/technology...which runs together with analytics, athletic training/nutrition and sports psychology and let's say running one more minor league team than other organizations in either short season or complex ball. Having a cap/ceiling and floors for all that...including bonus/signing pools? Seems it would be ripe for cheating or pushing boundaries of one line item into another.

3/17 not exactly tearing up ACL ball. Feels like they are panicking just a little bit to bring him back to AAA when he seems so lost mentally...but they are even more afraid to shut him down completely and shatter whatever confidence is left remaining.

And then Viciedo as well...double punch to the gut. Those were the two who were supposed to carry the load.

Teel has to be one of the hitting Big 3 with Braden and Bonemer. Colson has already eliminated himself in all likelihood. Was just starting to consider his NIL numbers for Indiana hoops or football. Quero Meidroth Baldwin Vargas Sosa all seem to be heading towards complementary and not star status. We'll just have to wait and see if Quero and Meidroth can pick up their XB numbers. Shane Smith has basically been swapped out for Colson...if we want to spin things the most positively. And Wolkow/Zavala both currently have a LONG ways to go....same with Ramos. Colas is almost completely a lost cause...to go along with Fletcher/Julks/DeLoach, who were all pretty much long shots in the first place. Fwiw Grandal was very solid for two years and then almost completely collapsed...that can't happen with both catchers, can it? As we have said for months now...looks like it will come down to Birmingham's pitchers, and Oppor, maybe T.McDougal makes it as a reliever.

Fortunately they also already had R.Anthony and K.Campbell (2B as well) who could play the OF at the very top of their prospect list, along with Marcelo Mayer at SS...

Dodgers plan to be in the mix for Chicago Cubs outfielder Kyle Tucker, who will become one of the premiere bats on the open market, reports Bob Nightengale of USA Today.

https://www.milb.com/news/gcs-66868822 Homers are seriously suppressed in Birmingham and Mississippi....old Birm stadium was a mausoleum for offense.

Grandal is with Worcester/Red Sox organization AAA Eloy Jimenez .250 2/25 .679 OPS with Rays' AAA team in Durham, NC Tim Anderson's barely above .200 BA with an OPS around .500 with the LA Angels Yoan Moncada's the only one doing well, but he's barely had 50 at-bats with those same Angels Craig Kimbrel sadly returning to where he started with the Braves' AA/AAA teams at age 37, HoF credentials pretty much long gone Liam Hendriks has pitched 9 innings for the Boston Red Sox so far to decent success Lucas Giolito 1-1 with a 4.96 ERA with Boston, having finally returned from TJS recovery/rehab

Whenever I see him now...hard to get his Mr. Robot character out of my head, or Pizza Hut, lol.

Yeah, totally forgot Bernie Mac and Wendt...lots of Chicago comedians, naturally.

Angels on pace for 65-97. Pirates for 54-108. YIKES...things are getting REALLY ugly in Pittsburgh and Colorado these days. Angels' fans are already quite used to this, with Rendon and Trout...and losing Ohtani for nothing in return. In Dave Roberts' view, the Rockies' failures fall more on ownership than on his former mentor.

Watch the Mavs trade Flagg (plus) to the Lakers to get Doncic back, lol...that was the somewhat crazy idea of my Taiwanese by way of MD/Delaware co-worker.

https://www.ranker.com/list/celebrity-white-sox-fans/pedro-cerrano I remember Michael Clarke Duncan was a huge White Sox fan back in the day. John Cusack was really a Cubs' fan, but everyone got confused after Eight Men Out there for awhile...and he was known to frequent a number of bars on the Southside as well back in the 80's and 90's.

Because they already had Sale, Q, then Rodon, Anderson, Avi Garcia/Eaton, Jose Abreu...some from the previous teardown after 2012/13, so they never really bottomed out "successfully enough" and got those 3-4 consecutive high draft picks like the Royals and Astros did. If it comes out at some point in the future that JR dilly-dallied so much that the Ishbias gave up and cashed out...well, he's going to be about as popular in Chicago as the Pohlad's in Minnesota are currently. But divide that level of popularity again by a factor of 2-3X. We're talking the current level of Congressional approval, but lower than that. (It would be ONE thing if the Bulls weren't also stuck in purgatory, but TWO FRANCHISES in the same big market, c'mon!!!?

Keaschall The last player the White Sox made cry over a trade was Fernando Tatis, Jr. “I was so happy,’’ said Tatis, now 6-foot-3, 210 pounds. “I had so many friends. I couldn’t wait to play for the White Sox." He instead found himself sobbing, in utter disbelief. The White Sox called him on June 4, 2016, and told him he was traded. He was going to San Diego. The White Sox, refusing to give up any of their top prospects in the organization, traded an unknown commodity for veteran pitcher James Shields, hoping to make a playoff run. “I couldn’t believe it,’’ Tatis tells USA TODAY Sports. “I was heartbroken. I was so surprised. I’m like, 'What’s going on here? How is this happening?" Tatis, with his dyed-blond dreads, breaks into a huge grin, spreads out his palms, and laughs. It’s not a vicious laugh. Or malicious. More of a snicker, mixed in with a cackle, and just a tinge of reprisal. Really, the more he thinks of it, the White Sox shouldn’t solely blamed. If they were willing to move him in a salary dump for Shields, it means any other team in baseball could have acquire him for little in return. “It doesn’t matter now, does it?’’ Tatis says. “I’m past that. It’s a business. I understand how it works." “Things happen for a reason.This is where I’m supposed to be.’’ https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/story/news/2019/04/16/padres-phenom-fernando-tatis-jr-has-baseball-awestruck-havent-seen-a-talent-like-tha/44307955/ https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/story/news/2019/04/16/padres-phenom-fernando-tatis-jr-has-baseball-awestruck-havent-seen-a-talent-like-tha/44307955/