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Warren Buffett...maybe

Torborg one of the best managers and to the Mets but over thirty years ago now. Crazy. Francona not recognized for the sake of Bevington. Jim Leyland run off in the 80s. Meanwhile we get the Wally Backman's Omar Vizquels and yet another villain whose name escapes me. Wes Helms and Wallace Johnson.

We know it wasn't Hahn...

https://www.mlb.com/news/mike-gellinger-joins-white-sox-coaching-staff He would be the most likely internal candidate outside of Sizemore…with the longest history connected to org. Health problems in recent years, where he had to take a step away for a while.

The following year Guidry was to have been dealt to Toronto for Bill Singer in a transaction that was approved by the Yankees but was vetoed by Blue Jays president Peter Bavasi.[6] Went on to make four All Star teams from 1979 to mid 80s.

Probably the Twins...

Only Dodgers' non HoF player with a number retired...

SS?

Boeing received $60 million over 20 years. The White Sox are asking for roughly $1 billion...or more. And that's just the beginning, not even considering maintenance and upkeep.

Boeing received $60 million over 20 years. The White Sox are asking for roughly $1 billion...or more. And that's just the beginning, not even considering maintenance and upkeep.

Blum game sound familiar? Ozuna was a candidate to pitch...or Buehrle in relief.

Monty Williams is available...

78 at least looks like something futuristic. Staying at the present location...just like using antennas for tv, simply feels like the past and out of touch. There's simply no intriguing vision there left to sell. Sox have done enough making up for mistakes of the past...which inevitable makes things even worse.

Or better yet, the GOATest...Barry Sanders. And Scott Mitchell wasn't that bad.

Poor Detroit...at that time. At least they had 2006 after 2003.

For baseball, we’re closest to the Mariners (playoff ineptitude) or Twins (family ownership group, similarity in tight fisted spending)

Menu ESPNCompare and contrast Sox with the worst teams/franchises in other sports.... 1) Iconic black white and silver logos 2) Unstable franchises...have occupied major market/s but second team to 49ers/Cubs...never found home in LA or St Pete or Nashville 3) Terrible at drafting and signing FA's 4) Al Davis and JR iconic owners who aged out of relevance 5) Bowers/Crosby=Crochet/Robert Davante Adams=Benintendi 6) Proud histories/historic franchises...only major difference the two stadiums and 70s 80s early 90s winning tradition of the Raiders. "The biggest problem is the same one that has faced this organization for years. I wrote about it repeatedly at the end of the Jon Gruden era in 2021, then again when it traded for Adams in 2022. After nearly a decade of poor drafts and short-sighted decision-making, the Raiders are missing virtually an entire roster's worth of homegrown players. Across an eight-year window from 2016 to 2023, they essentially would have done better drafting out of a magazine with 10 minutes of prep like your friend who forgot about his fantasy draft: Earlier versions of the Raiders tried to make up for the absences by getting very aggressive in free agency. The 2024 team is fielding the league's fifth-youngest roster, which is at least a testament to change. They're playing a young group of receivers after the injuries, paced by rookie tight end Brock Bowers, who has been fantastic. The offensive line has three starters on rookie deals, while the same is true for five of the six regulars in the secondary. Young, cheap talent doesn't necessarily equal breakout players, but the Raiders were often too confident that signing veteran free agents would solve their problems. I'm not sure they're any more likely to whiff by giving the same chances to young players." https://www.espn.com/nfl/insider/story/_/id/41911328/nfl-worst-teams-2024-which-need-rebuild-roster-depth-chart-salary-cap

Or a VPN...

Just hope they don't recycle Joe McEwing or Jose Oquendo from the ex-Cardinals list. Can someone actually conceive of a White Sox identity and not simply adhere to the Cardinals' Way because you need your own organizational vision, something that's original and not derivative.

90's Braves...but only one World Series title in that era, right? mid to late 90's Yankees...that's the closest you're going to get in MLB in the "modern" era then the current Braves run since wherever you want to backdate it to, with just one more title? Dodgers from 2013 through today, but only one World Series victory and that was the Covid year So we're basically left with the Chiefs and Patriots in the NFL...almost an impossible bar or standard

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/41916472/new-york-mets-run-2024-mlb-playoffs-world-series-future Passan on Mets' future looking up, organizational changes under Stearns/Cohen

Or Rock Chalk Jayhawk and beers with Ozzie…

Well, except Edman is the quintessential Eckstein clone...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Comcast/comments/swep5o/comcast_is_evil/?rdt=34382

When the Dodgers got Edman in a three-way, trade-deadline deal with the Cardinals and White Sox that also brought them reliever Michael Kopech, the former Cardinal hadn’t played a game this year and was still rehabbing from offseason ankle surgery. Fast-forward to the postseason, and Edman showed exactly why L.A. wanted him. When he took over for the injured Miguel Rojas in Game 3 of the NLDS, no one knew how big a role he’d play over the next 10 days. But in addition to starting at shortstop in every game, the versatile Edman crushed Mets pitching in the NLCS, slashing .407/.393/.630 with a homer and 11 RBI, tying him with Corey Seager for the franchise record in a postseason series. While filling in as the team’s cleanup hitter in Game 6, Edman hit a two-run double and a two-run homer in the pennant-clinching victory. ..... Ohtani disagreed. “Tommy, I think, clearly is the MVP,” he said. “He does things — not just this postseason but during the regular season — contributing in places where it doesn't really reflect on the stat line. https://sports.yahoo.com/mets-vs-dodgers-la-showcases-its-resolve-star-power-and-depth-beyond-shohei-ohtani-and-mookie-betts-to-reach-world-series-060154431.html