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Jared and Ivanka vibes...

Dyson and Gore. Ride or die.

Because Haber was even less well prepared and respected...

Chris Getz in Ray Bans playing Candy Crush on his phone while the latest Tatis or Elly de la Cruz is flashing right by, outside of his field of vision...

Cows at least have the sense to cross to the other side of the road. At least usually.

Existing knowledge of the #30 system in baseball will magically lead to better results somehow. He's learned somehow what NOT to do to be awful...and will now do the opposite. And what, no mention of his time with the Royals that laid the groundwork for this oncoming fiasco?

Why not Carl Everett? He still denies the existence of dinosaurs.

For 1/4th the salary! More money/savings for JR and the BoD.

They definitely have to print off at least 100,000 of those and give them away to every fan who dares to enter GRF the rest of the season. My generation had MJ flying in from the free throw line with tongue out plastered on the walls...this generation will have Gen GetZ It!!! posters decorating bedrooms across Chicagoland.

Something of a David Caruso vibe going here as well...now that we dumped Crockett and Tubbs/Hahn & KW.

We did an exhaustive search of the two worst teams in one the worst divisions in MLB history lol! "Being so regularly incompetent at the big league level has blessed the Royals with the ability to consistently pick highly in the draft, and they have responded by pissing away their recent chances. They selected Asa Lacy fourth overall; his career ERA in the pros is 7.09 and he hasn’t pitched a single inning this year. They selected Frank Mozzicato seventh overall; he currently owns an 8.13 ERA in High-A and his fastball now barely clips 90 MPH. They selected Gavin Cross ninth overall; Cross has struggled all year at High-A and hasn’t played in weeks. They drafted Blake Mitchell eighth overall in a ridiculously risky draft move and, lo, he’s hitting .147 in short season ball while most college hitters ahead of him in pre-draft rankings are crushing High-A."

Looks like a promo for the next Kevin Costner series...or is he supposed to emit a Tom Cruise Risky Business/Top Gun "cool guy" vibe?

Why does the Chicago skyline in the Getz tweet look like the result of one of my students just being hired to create an Inception-esque vibe? Well...things are definitely going to be turned upside down. Just not sure if that's a bad or good thing here.

Not his firing?

Retire #17 immediately. Also Beckham's number.

There's no way in hell anyone in the fanbase is even relatively pacified at this point. Doubtless that many might be even angrier than before the Hahn and KW firings.

Go to whitesoxr/whitesox15 hr. agoby maicunni Join Chris Getz Boycott "If the Sox name Chris Getz the new VP or GM, I am going to boycott the White Sox as hard as possible. I am not going to any more home or away games. I am not watching them on TV. I am going to unfollow and unsubscribe from every White Sox podcast and social media feed. The last 10 years have been a complete joke. The entire time we were told they knew what they were doing when it was obvious they did not. I am tired of being told tier 3 free agents who sign for $75m or less are a big deal. I am tired of being told it’s a culture thing. I am tired of being told young guys who have never proven anything are stars. Stars do things like hit 40 plus bombs, win 20 games, drive in 100 runs, win gold gloves, bat over 300. The Sox cannot compete in the worst division in baseball where no other franchise is trying to win. My expectations are not that high. They need to bring in a proven baseball mind from a winning organization and let him or her clean house. Rant over."

See article above. He has been around the Sox and Royals...basically the two teams in baseball mired in the worst possible situations that don't even know who to blame or how to fire someone from their staffs due to misguided notions of loyalty and the good 'ol boys club...looking out for each other. I swear they're going to end up bringing Buddy Bell or Dayton Moore into the fold as Getz's mentor even though he theoretically has to be prepared to hit the ground running...with little else to learn from managing the very worst farm system in the game up until two months ago.

This sounds incredibly familiar... "But you cannot look me in the eye and tell me that the front office, as currently constructed, is the best version of the Royals front office. If it was frustrating to watch the Moore baseball ops administration fail to change with the times, it was equally frustrating to watch, in a golden opportunity, the Royals decline to bring on new talent into key positions in the front office. Instead, the Royals have elected to promote from within and maintain the same group of individuals who presided over the awful situation the club occupies. The result is this list of names of the vice presidents and/or assistant general managers on the baseball operations side of the department and, importantly, when they first joined the front office: Jin Wong, VP & AGM: 2000 JJ Picollo, EVP & GM: 2006 Scott Sharp, SVP & AGM: 2006 Gene Watson, VP & AGM: 2006 Rene Francisco, SVP & AGM: 2006 Lonnie Goldberg, VP: 2011 Daniel Mack, VP & AGM: 2013 All this losing, and yet you can see that the core leaders in the front office are entirely unchanged from the Moore administration. Indeed, four of them—Picollo, Sharp, Watson, and Francisco—were some of Moore’s very first hires. Goldberg was an old college buddy of Moore and Picollo. This is not to say that every member of that list deserves to have been fired yesterday. Rather, it’s a snapshot of an organization whose core decision-makers have stayed consistent even after the team’s performance has cratered following a collection of poor baseball decisions made, at least partially, by this group of leaders. See, it’s not enough to modernize operations and incorporate analytics into a decision-making process. To credit Picollo, he has done just that—the Royals are in a better spot than they were before. Unfortunately, this is a zero sum game: every other team in baseball is trying to do the same. For the Royals to succeed, they need to change processes and improve organizationally faster than other organizations. Let’s say that Picollo has the correct, optimal vision for the team, which itself is not a given. How are the Royals supposed to be better than other teams with the same people that got them into this mess in the first place? Without any new blood? This is a results-oriented business. The results suck. They suck up and down the organization, objectively, in the kind of way that makes it depressing to look at the next three to five years. And you’re telling me that every member of the baseball operations team right now is doing great at their job? That no other outside talent might do a better job or, God forbid, have a clearer and more objective view of the team?" https://www.royalsreview.com/2023/8/29/23849863/after-a-season-this-bad-the-front-office-still-needs-shaking-up

Magic answer to everything: emulate the 2014-15 Royals, including Sal Perez and letting Grifol have another year to prove he wasn't a terrible choice.

Davidson? Vaughn is as good as gone.

Boyer? Merkin? Reifert? No way JR could be bothered.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/wander-franco-reportedly-facing-third-accuser-in-dominican-republic-223040582.html

Grifol and LaRussa...both Hispanic origin.

Exciting new partnership with Bud Light coming right up...