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What did he actually do or specialize in that would differentiate him from Hahn "assistant/disciple"?

Can anyone articulate ONE thing Haber is rumored to be good at...except for graduating from Stanford I guess? Getz is still WAY too inexperienced to be a GM with this imposing mountain of obstacles rising in front of him. The biggest disadvantage is that a KC and Grifol connection works more against than for him at this point.

Seems to be a done deal. Native of that area as well. Much higher salary offered...surely.

"If I can’t learn from this year, moving forward, in the face of adversity and failure, then what are we kind of doing?” Bummer told me during a recent interview. “I’m excited for being able to work through things and keep going. “We are going to right this ship eventually. It’s just a matter of when." Aaron Bummer to Scott Merkin

We're probably going to lose Stone and Benetti as well. It won't take long for the Gordon Beckham "Future Jeter of Chicago" act to wear thin.

Ventura never wanted to be the manager in the first place. Everyone knows he was just there to deflect PR hits on ownership and the front office...taking one for the team, being a loyal foot soldier, etc. After the 2012 collapse down the stretch...Ventura never recaptured the team again as a clubhouse leader.

Except for Friday and Saturday night games....9 pm starting times would be unworkable for the majority of families out there.

Yeah, well the White Sox already can't afford their own group of Pacific Rim scouts as it is. The team would be in Taipei, not in the mainland, where there's about the same amount of interest as there currently is in India. Heck, field hockey would be a better investment.

You have the Shoeless Joe Jackson connection, lol...Greenville?

How many (more) shares would Mellody Hobson have to acquire? Or it wouldn't matter because the Board articles state JR always is going to be in charge regardless of his ownership percentage (being a minority shareholder won't matter)...

Current RS/RA Detroit TIgers -99 Chicago White Sox -121 KC Royals -167 Colorado Rockies -169 Oakland A's -302

More excited to tune in to KC/Oak battling for "the worst/#1 draft pick." HR for I'm Not (Named) Bob Gelof. Ned Yost going into KC Royals HoF soon, lol...no word about Pedro Grifol's fate.

That was just to shield the front office from criticism (especially after Dunn and then Ozzie/Buehrle left) since nobody really wanted to blame Ventura for "taking the hit for JR" when he was a favorite or co-favorite of many Sox fans in the 80's and 90's.

UGLY UGLY UGLY

Korey Lee?

Bulls/Sox Academy and NW grad through and through... That's a job with a lot more security than coaching Northwestern baseball, and then there's the whole recruiting thing along with NIL...although not like NU is competing with ACC, SEC, California schools, etc. Academically sure, but the value to conferences isn't even there for Stanford and Cal Berkeley, let alone the Wildcats.

It's hard not to feel a little bit like an Oakland A's fan the way these last two seasons have gone...and now "playing for wins" instead of prioritizing the development of guys like Sosa, Colas, whatever resources they can throw at catcher (Lee and Perez), etc. From a practical standpoint, maybe Pedro "trying to win" will mean even worse results...which means at least ending up with the 3rd position in the draft. Seems too much of a reach to fall back to the Royals and A's with the scant amount of games remaining on the schedule.

They even gave Ke'Bryan Hayes and Bryan Reynolds ($106.75) extensions recently...which blows away the Grandal/Benintendi contracts. One of the most beautiful stadiums in baseball. ONeil Cruz can still be a star. They also have all the attendant excitement about Skenes as well.

All that without the hottest hitter in baseball to deal with...

Why are we even bothering to play Sheets...? Pedro promised Larry to give him opportunities down the stretch?

Well, Andrus is on the verge of catching Benintendi by the end of the season in OPS at this clip...

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/mariners-vs-white-sox/2023/08/21/716905/preview

No Rodriguez tonight...at least not in the starting lineup. Madrigal with a 703 ops at the moment would be ranked third in Sox lineup. Make that fourth with Eloy back yet again. Seattle going with Sunday lineup along with a tough customer in Luis Castillo.

Can't be in a much worse position than where the Sox are right now...what would that even look like? The A's actually moving their franchise? Good number of non Chicagoan fans might even be open to that at this point if it meant a new stadium and keeping the franchise name/logo intact. At least if that meant getting rid of Reinsdorf.

Don't even like the pizza in particular. Back in the day, it was the garlic cheese toast and/or toasted ravioli.