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TLR "spy" inserted into the mix, lol. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Just more names for Luis Robert not to remember/recognize upon leaving the organization.

Angry they're thinking Sox fans would be equally as excited about coaching staff additions than actually improving the team through real talent via free agency...

That's probably what everyone would have thought about Wonder Boy Getz vis a vis "old/er lions" KW and Hahn...especially with the TLR connections to Kevin so obvious. Or we're more concerned with finding well-paying jobs on our coaching staff than logic ally fitting them all together. How many scouts do we have left standing after the bloodletting this past 18 months? And what exactly does Hostetler do now/still?

Just look at how that stadium in Birmingham has historically suppressed numbers while Charlotte has provided the almost opposite in flat ing counter point...

Braden Montgomery is going to take 2 1/2 years to get to the majors in all likelihood....especially since he missed his first short season assignment due to injury. Starts 2025 in High A if he's fully recovered...then AA/AAA in 2026 and hopefully starting RF in Chicago, somewhere in Year 3.

https://www.mlb.com/news/nathaniel-lowe-trade-nationals-rangers Lowe to Nate for young LHP...frees up more room for Burger and lowers payroll Sean Manaea signs for $75 million/3 years...will the board shift to developing and trading pitching as the White Sox best long term survival strategy???

delete annoying British coworker/NFL fantasy football expert wrote a pro Dodgers message on my computer lol

Just being "more than a casual fan of the White Sox" drove the majority of us to booze/drugs as a coping mechanism, with or without the presence of a Booser in the bullpen. Well, there was Boof Bonser and Carlos Boozer and Cameron/Cayden Boozer, so why not this guy with the cool-sounding name and pretty incredible backstory???

95 83 81 86 83 99 90 72 (2007) 89 79 88 79 85 Not counting the 1950's and 60's, 2000-2012 is going to go down as the longest record of sustained/sustainable success in White Sox history (under KW). Seven "really competitive" (85 wins and above) seasons out of 13, or roughly 1/2th the time. Only one really poor year (2007), unfortunately it followed the biggest year in history for franchise attendance and pretty much destroyed any momentum and 2005/06 teams had generated. Even then, 2010 and 2012 were "fun/competitive" years. Now it seems like a miracle just to get back to 60 wins, let alone .500ish.

Mariners LAD Padres and maybe SF the most logical based on the criteria provided so far by Wolfe.

Charlotte for half your home games...850-925 should be the equivalent of roughly 750-800 at Birmingham.

Yes....leave him there until he hits 900 plus for at least 6-8 weeks.

"The former American baseball player, Chris Getz, married his wife, Nicole Korinek, on January 28, 2012. They together share three kids- two daughters and a son." At least 10-12 years away from the first Sox female GM...Hahn's son won the 2008 coin flip guess and has pursued baseball as a passion, but carrying that last name is going to make things harder on him in reality.

After the AFL and his 4-6 weeks...sending him back to BIRM would be pretty demoralizing and totally unnecessary at this point. Get him on a field as close to MLB specifications and see if he can?hold his own at short or needs to be moved to third or first.

Are you going to cryogenically freeze yourself for the next Sox playoff team?

Unless they have elite stuff and spotty command and/or secondary pitches...worst case you throw them at the bullpen and hope to produce closer internal that you can auction off to the highest bidders.

We also would have had two MVP level talents in Semien and Tatis, but never would have extended them.

Tanner Banks? oops asked/answered.

Still not going to move the meter to anywhere but mired in mediocrity at best. Stars/superstars is the only way out of this...and we're in the process of dumping the two remaining special players in Crochet and Robert for an uncertain future at best. That and thedraft 1-1 draft slot are the only ways out of the quagmire.

And yet you've spent more hours than the entire Bears' season in real time defending a GM...well, now you have Cali on your side too taking a devil's advocate position since arguing the same points unceasingly was getting too monotonous. There has been one notable shift. The Sox fans are no longer getting blamed for this mess...all downward arrows are pointing at ownership's almost deliberate sabotage of the payroll and surrendering media/tv battle almost completely over to Ricketts and the Cubs. Capitulation.

Saw the exact same thing with ND PSU Texas and Ohio State in cfb playoffs...teams that dominate line play, run the ball well and get pressure on the passer usually win. Nothing complicated here, just sheer physical domination. Hopefully next round will be much better games.

But even then they might have to blow up the whole thing with Tua Hill and McDaniel after next season...last year felt a bit like the White Sox 2020 season as they collapsed down the stretch and got run over by PC in the cold...and this year like the Sox 2022 season. Lost too many key pieces on defense and the team salary structure became untenable without Tua on a rookie deal.

Otoh they kept Bieber...still have that bullpen and Manzardo might yet put up better numbers than Naylor. Ofc they also wormed out of the Gimeneto early extension that turned out to be ill advised.

They had the tagline/motto of first consecutive Sox playoff appearances since the 1900's or 1910's or whatever the heck it was...which somehow seemed even more depressing. There's a good reason KW, Hahn and Haber have basically disappeared or haven't found jobs related to MLB months and months later. https://champsorchumps.us/team/mlb/chicago-white-sox Just download this and you'll get a full feeling of the frustration...39 years without a playoff appearance from 1920 to 1959. I guess it was their first back-to-back (barely, as noted, 2020 team was fading badly down the stretch, and based largely on beating up the weaker Central teams) appearances, and just 11 playoff appearances in 124 years, or less than once a decade, on average. Teams: White Sox Fandom Started: 1979 Championships D+ Regular Season Success F- Playoff Success F Suffering Excessive Current Trajectory Freefall Overall F-

Well, there you go. The PTAC response about baseball for the pure enjoyment of the sport, and not the emotional attachment and correlated high's and low's of winning losing. But for die hard White Sox fans, those that give up season tickets, don't renew the Sox tv package/MLB.com, don't give Sox-related gifts at Christmas, don't have the next generation of kids growing up as Sox fans, it will definitely affect the fate of the franchise...unless they can find an owner willing to invest $2 billion plus another $500 million to $1 billion into a new stadium development in Chicago.