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Houston and Texas must be considering lawsuits at this point against Grifol or the Sox/JR.

Edgar Navarro NOW? Your what hurts? DFAd Honeywell after Padres abused his arm...same will happen to Santos at this rate. Then they will eventually end up on the Yankees.

Fire Grifol. Or reward him for securing #3 pick?

Sigh.

31 pitches

Gotta be kidding Sox fans with this...

The crazy thing with KC is that nearly every one of their top prospects and trades (like Cain and Escobar) hit over a 4-5 year period. Perfect bullpen for a couple of years like the 2005 White Sox. Perfect late inning strategies like Dyson and Gore for late innings. But the rotation was not built to be sustainable and then Yordano Ventura died as well. And the prospect pipeline went completely dry. Resigned a fading Alex Gordon (almost lost him to the White Sox!)

Trayce Thompson 4th in current lineup OPS...

Inspired by presence of TLR?

https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/ct-white-sox-draft-haugh-spt-0612-20170611-story.html Now we have Nick Hostetler, Dayton Moore and Buddy Bell tied together lol. https://theathletic.com/40094/2017/02/23/new-rising-star-in-white-sox-front-office-is-a-familiar-face/ “Getzy’s special,” Royals general manager Dayton Moore said. “He has an unbelievable ceiling as an executive in this game.”

Based on his career numbers against the Sox...it will cut down the team ERA by at least 0.3.

Still not buying Hahn ever getting another GM job. He'll land on his feet somewhere, surely. Has those three alumni networks to rely upon and KW's glowing compliments about his intellect...not unlike when he said Robin Ventura could lead the US Army or a Fortune 500 company or words to that effect. All the comments coming out about Jeremy Haber being another version of Jonah Hill in Moneyball just back up the idea of Hahn never having the slightest bit of pure scouting instincts in his bones. Who needs a 190 page binder on Pedro Grifol to realize he's not THE ONE? Even Dayton Moore was an instinctive enough leader to cut Pedro loose from his organization... Guess we next need to ask Luis Robert if he knows who Haber or Getz actually are and what their respective roles are with the team...

If they were still playing in 2019 form…this thread would likely not exist. I honestly wouldn’t be shocked if Ned Yost comes out of recent KC Royals HoF enshrinement to lead the White Sox next. Vaughn traded to open up 1B for Hosmer.

He would STILL probably be third on the 2023 White Sox in homers… But maybe the Cincinnati REDS are the more obvious choice since it will likely be another decade before the Sox are competitive again…

Apparently someone hasn’t read The Catcher in the Rye, lol. Holden CAULFIELD

Fine. I spent all this time hating on Hahn. Over a decade. Longer than that because my high school friend’s sister was his Harvard Law classmate, which goes back to 1993-95. Her instincts were not wrong about him at all. He was clearly a BS artist back then as well. If it’s Moore and Getz, that will really be the end. “At one point, a reporter dared to mention that some people might not think Hahn is the right person to putting the White Sox through yet another rebuild, or words of that sort. That led to yet another great Rick Hahn humblebrag. To get to the part about how he’s not as stupid as people think he is now, he (very, very, humbly of course) allowed as how maybe he wasn’t as smart as he was being credited for when he was named Sporting News Baseball Executive of the Year. See how he got that in? That was 2020, of course, when COVID helped end the seven years in the wilderness and the Sox finally had a winning record, thanks in large part to only playing 60 games, and only teams in the horrendous Central divisions — and a specious award like Executive of the Year often goes to turnarounds. Of course, other than players, the major credit for the turnaround should have gone to Ricky Renteria, who came in second in AL Manager of the Year voting, a much more prestigious achievement, an achievement gained despite being stuck with neanderthal Don Cooper as his pitching coach, the very Ricky Renteria whom Hahn then fired, leading to the Hall-of-Famer Baseball Person fiasco. It’s not like this was a one-off. Hahn has made reference to his little trophy before when questioned about something incompetent he’d just done. Only this time he even added a second award about being Chicago Sportsman of the Year or some such thing, which is apparently a title every TV or radio station or publication in the city throws out there for some reason, each (year) maybe getting more desperate each time to find a new recipient. Have you ever had a boss call you in on something negative, and you respond, “Well, yeah, I was incompetent to lose the McDonald’s account, but I was brilliant back in ought-eight when I reeled in the Fred’s Drive-Thru Empanadas, remember?” The whole scene was so pathetic you have to wonder about Hahn at home: Hahn: Hi, hon, I’m home. Mrs. Hahn: Did you remember to bring the milk? Hahn: Oh. I forgot. Mrs. Hahn: That was dumb, I need that milk for this recipe I’m making for dinner. Hahn: Well, maybe I wasn’t as smart as I was given credit for when I won that Sporting News Baseball Executive of the Year award, and maybe I’m not as dumb as you think I am now. Or maybe: Hahn Son: Dad, did you ... Well, you get the point. Pitiful. Just pitiful.” https://www.southsidesox.com/2023/8/11/23827619/attila-the-hahn-chicago-white-sox-general-manager-rick-hahn-once-won-executive-of-the-year-remember

https://www.instagram.com/p/CDkQ5Z5FiWE/ nickmadrigal3 “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding” .. be back soon ??

Can Jesus Christ hit (or throw) a curveball? A look at Dayton Moore's influence on the Royals draft and the resulting trend. Moncada is doomed lol…overt Christianity is in, and social media/influencing and partying/socializing is out, haha. Hostetler, otoh, might be saved literally and figuratively because he’s the main tie between the Braves, Moore and White Sox. So is Tim Anderson unless he “repents.” Here is what I found: https://preview.redd.it/yu8kxdm1doo91.png?width=657&format=png&auto=webp&s=bfc512395fad037e0ec39c90933ddaa0a3d89880 AL teams drafted 156 players in the first 10 rounds of the 2022 draft. 91% (142 of 156) of draft picks had a social media account (Twitter or Instagram). 26% (37 of 142) of draft picks with social media accounts had profiles containing expressions of Christianity. Things I found of note: It was no shock to see the Royals leading the way, 71% of the players they drafted that have social media had some expression of public Christianity in it. The Royals had the second fewest number of draftees with social media profiles (7) and the highest # of draftees with public expressions of their religion in their social media profiles (5). I tried to keep this fair. The Royals #1 draft pick, Gavin Cross, did not have a social media profile so he isn't factored into the Royals 71% figure, even though he played on a Christian-based traveling baseball team his father started, his Christianity is publicized. 71% is a statistical outlier. The Angels being the only team with 0 players expressing Christianity is peak irony. There are still many flaws in my post so I'll let you determine if this means anything or not. Flaws include the nuanced decision about what causes a person to include something religious in their social media profile or not. Below are some of my personal thoughts, so stop here if you don't want to read about some random internet person's thoughts on this: There is a difference between someone being Christian and someone being publicly Christian. Baseball should be about winning on the field, having other motivations are fine so long as they do not interfere with winning on the field. The further down in rounds I went the less polished the social media profiles were, most of the top guys had polished, thought-out social media profiles, meaning everything in there was put there on purpose.

Better start reading “Moore/More than a Season…” biography. In More Than a Season, Moore shares how his faith and leadership principles guided his rebooting of the Royals. The general manager describes how he built one of baseball's best farm systems and international scouting departments of out nothing. Can’t we just bypass Moore and go directly to the Braves or someone like John Schuerholz who taught him basically everything he knows?

Why did we acquire two new catchers to sit them behind one of the worst current catching contracts in the game? Didn't they learn a thing watching Grandal the last two (painful) years?

Dave Stewart, come on down…

“In 1876, John Harvey Kellogg became the superintendent of the Battle Creek Sanitarium (originally the Western Health Reform Institute founded by Ellen White) and his brother, W. K. Kellogg, worked as the bookkeeper. This is where corn flakes were created and led to the eventual formation of the Kellogg Company.” This is where all Sox fans are eventually headed…the Asylum of Loons. We’ve become part of the Beauty & the Beast storyline, minus the villagers storming JR’s exec suite with pitchforks candlesticks knives and armoires.

One of the main reasons Madrigal was traded was because of his overt clubhouse Christianity…they want to bring all that back under Moore?

His instinct will be to assist Michigan businesses lol.

https://motorcitybengals.com/2022/08/25/detroit-tigers-5-dream-candidates-to-be-the-teams-next-gm/ Eric Neander Rays Brandon Gomes Dodgers Will Rhymes Dodgers Matt Arnold Brewers Theo Epstein Mike Chernoff