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This sounds exactly like the Pirates for the last twenty years. Except even they have a $100+ million contract for Reynolds.

Once again...who was responsible for the development of guys like Colas Cespedes Ramos? (I guess we just blame Paddy for everything now. That's mighty convenient though.) And players that are rapidly promoted through the minors but lacking in defensive skill sets and/or fundamentals like Baldwin?

But the very regime Getz was a part of helped put the organization in that desperate negotiating position where they lost another $55-60 million to spend this year (going to CHSN and off Comcast)...and seems by all appearances like the least profitable RSN deal in the entire industry. Why would a 121 loss franchise expect a different result than that?

Just like the Red Sox trading Betts instead of signing/extending him was a great move? The majority of time when you move young Cy Young or MVP caliber position players for prospects, it usually backfires. There are always exceptions...but certainly wouldn't bet on it working out consistently. (Just ask Pirates' fans.) Even when management pushes those future cost-savings moves, as with Bloom...it still gets the GM fired eventually. And the amount of overall talent on the big league roster certainly continues to decrease. Leading to a perpetual cycle or series of rebuilds...

If 104% tariffs actually go into place with China...as promised/threatened, you're not going to recover the losses for quite some time. The false/fake rumor of a time out or cooling off (as suggested by Bill Ackman and others) period was what caused the market to dramatically whip saw back and forth. Uncertainty...uncertainty...uncertainty. And a $41 trillion national debt if the H/S budget bills are miraculously reconciled this week won't exactly boost confidence, either.

The only great drafts were under Larry Himes in the mid to late 80s...combined with the Sosa/Alvarez trade.

Unfortunately, haven't had a kind and benevolent US real estate developer since Jimmy Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life.

It's not helping matters (at all) that our biggest hope for a homegrown superstar (Colson Montgomery) looks like a lost cause at the present moment. And Luis Robert's not even getting the unforgettable Gavin Lux back in trade at the moment.

Great success!!! (not!)

One of the (numerous) with JR's current approach to ownership is the assumption that anywhere from 1/4th to 1/3rd of Chicago will eventually return to the White Sox...some undefined day in the future...no matter what malpractice he does to the team. I think we know enough about teens twenty-somethings/Millennials that we shouldn't just assume they haven't been lost forever to other more "exciting" sports, e-sports/gaming, etc. Those born in 1995 are now 30 and were only ten the last time the White Sox won the WS...how many of those new fans (from back then) are still hanging in there two full decades later (and now 2 full rebuilds) if their entire family/relatives aren't also Sox fans and/or Cub haters (to use a favorite Schiffren term)???

Report: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. agrees to 14-year, $500 million extension with Blue Jays The deal is the third largest in MLB history and the second richest in present-day value behind only Juan Soto's contract https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/report-vladimir-guerrero-jr-agrees-to-14-year-500-million-extension-with-blue-jays-041917271.html

As someone who's watched every single Bond movie at least once...even On Her Majesty's Service (George Lazenby, 1969). 1) Sean Connery (if you don't just the sexist jokes based upon today's standards 2) Daniel Craig 3) Roger Moore 4) Timothy Dalton 5) Pierce Brosnan 6) George Lazenby (underrated film overall, but not exactly well-acted, pretty wooden performance)

Seems like it's 50/50...because none of the other owners or Manfred seem to even acknowledge his very existence any longer.

Making a change will only matter if they do a legitimate search outside the organization and not merely prioritize cronies and sycophants that will essentially run interference for JR.

There's not much evidence to support Hahn either...but he at least had Crochet Rodon Giolito Cease Reynaldo, and Luis Robert through the end of 2023. Free agency success rate was abysmal, though.

The real kick in the pants is this is the freaking "low budget/flyover" AL Central...that we won't even attempt to compete in. Imagine if the White Sox were in the AL/NL East or West. We'd basically be looking at the same fate as the Rockies or Marlins, minus the almost incomprehensible fan support out in Denver (see Chicago Bulls' attendance.)

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/44561616/family-unhappy-pirates-removed-sign-honoring-roberto-clemente

It's going to be interesting to see how much patience they have with Amaya and Baldwin. Meidroth doesn't seem to be one of those players who you play the service time game with...but now that we're already one week plus into the season, and incentive to bring him up to the big leagues before the first week of May is even less. Baldwin was NEVER going to be a plus shortstop defensively, but moving him all over the diamond is worsening his overall defense...at least for the time being. It also takes away from the chemistry in terms of turning double plays when you're constantly shifting players at both 2B and SS on a daily basis.

This is the fourth time for me. 1998-2002 2007-2008 Beginning of Covid As long as you don't need the money in the next 3-5 years, the best advice is not to get caught up in it at all and hold for a brighter day. Definitely, watching CNBC every market opening and close won't help matters. Markets have always returned 8-10% on average since 1929 or whatever, so there's going to be corrections and recessions bordering on depressions (2007-09 is the closest for most). They're inevitable cycles of boom and bust, although we were actually pretty well positioned in terms of interest rates, inflation and unemployment until last Wednesday. It's actually quite interesting now to look back at the trade policies of Hoover and also McKinley...if nothing else, SOMEONE in the administration should have learned something from past history (and this is at a time when America and the UK/Europe were highly manufacturing-based economies compared to now).

Jesus=Getz

As if we needed more reasons for depression...Monday's stock market futures forecast another bloodbath. Dow down 12.39% in less than three days. Only another 27.5% to go to reach Covid non self-induced numbers...

If they don't keep Skenes around...well it will be just like Glasnow Musgrove and Taillon all over again. Or Gregory Polanco and KeBryan Hates...wrong extensions.

Pretty soon you'll have all the AL East and AL West owners arguing the other four Central teams have too much of a competitive advantage being in the same division as the White Sox..

3-22 feels at least possible again.

But 2020-22 when they had Hendriks at least you knew who the closer was...