caulfield12

I think turning his back on the Royals' Grifol and 2014/15 legacy constitutes a breach in the Getz/KC Success Backstory which is at least 1/4th or 1/3rd of the reason he now finds himself as White Sox GM. Tossing Grifol out would undercut some of the validity of the KC Success Translates to Sox World Series team lol. If they were so tightly connected in KC...why would Getz blame Grifol and not KW or Hahn instead for 2023? Conversely, it would look bad to not support him now as manager when he clearly could have voiced his concerns a year ago...that Grifol was not well suited for the Sox manager's job.

Hostetler and Dayton Moore are very tight dating back to their Braves' days

Did he provide one more specific answer the entire day relating to analytics or scouting/talent evaluation or identification? Just generalities about inculcating a winning culture like the Royals??

Hostetler is going to be more intimately evolved now with the centers of power shifting. Katz is irrelevant unless he wants a pitcher demanding four or more years. Cease and Kopech are as good as gone eventually....probably at their lowest possible values even compared to this past trade deadline.

Eaton Q Sale Abreu Tatis Semien >>> Robert and Cease and Montgomery

Translation: the Cubs are at risk of taking over the entire city and driving remaining Sox fans forever underground into hiding Also does this mean he talked to Ken Harrelson again...or just TLR and Dayton Moore?

Has to be someone like Buddy Bell. (Moore is not leaving the Rangers. He belongs in much more conservative Texas.) Bell can be the curmudgeonly Father/Grandfather figure.

PornHub running the White Sox would at least least to better promotions and cheerleaders since we're already going backwards as is. Just not so sure about Family Sundays.

We would be better off with TLR than JR and Getz arguably...because he's obviously blaming Hahn and KW more for the current state of Sox minors than his boy Getzie.

Not shocking that nary an example of this was provided...maybe he was watching the Sox opponents in AZ or at a minor league game and confused the two? Hilarious that's supposedly one of the primary factors in Getz getting named GM and it was at least a 50% likelihood that it was a case of mistaken identity in terms of players with well-executed fundamentals.

We've not only moved on from five year deals for pitchers but now we've abandoned four years and are capped at three. What they were planning to do with Tanaka or Wheeler had they actually won the bidding for those two...not sure. But we save lots of time and resources eliminating Tier A/B free agent pitchers now at least...so we can fully concentrate on Tiers C & D. Brilliant. New form of Moneyball right there.

He just depressed a newly-vibrant Ohtani market. Tampering. Collusion. If we forfeit a draft pick...even more money can be saved, right? Or do they still have the same amount to allocate over the remaining picks?

We're moving the team to Beijing now, Ron (Trump jokes inappropriately directed at McConnell's wife)...

Our new goal is not an 800 or 700 OPS, but 610ish will do just fine. You know Brian Anderson's going to end up with the Sox here soon...

No rebuild.

Maybe the Royals? They at least have their fans distracted temporarily with the new park possibilities and attached entertainment district plan. If only they could have announced the $5.2 million savings from Clevinger deal are going directly into the revamped analytics department. Alas no takers on that guy probably. PR hit too distracting to a playoff contending clubhouse.

Flavor Flav in the house!

Getz is going to get sued by the University of Michigan for devaluing a degree from Ann Arbor...did they have Nicky Getz there to pose with him ala Ivanka? At this point I think Ashlyn Burger could/would do a better job running the White Sox.

Boyer Reifert or Merkin not running things a bit shocking...a going away "gift" to Benetti who's arguably much more likeable and at least identifiable compared to those three to the general public of Sox fans.

He had his second public brain freeze moment where an assistant had to rescue him from a media interview...just this week. About whether he would be running for Senate again in 2024 or 26 or whenever his term's up again.

This is where Hahn's intellectual foundation allowed him to skate through on autopilot. You'd get pretty much the exact same answers from a McKinsey consultant. He's probably dusting off that ol law degree right about now on the North Shore or wherever he lives. Gold Coast?

TIF TIF TIF and REIT's for all. No more capital gains taxes at least. Back to the Balanced Budget Amendment because he would never intentionally run the team at a loss for more than one year in a row.

At least not Feinstein...so he's just slightly more lucid. Would honestly rather let Munger and Buffett try their had at this at 93 and 98.

That sounds more like it would be directed at Hahn!

JR couldn't figure out which one to fire until he was left with no choice but to s%*# can both of them.