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They're definitely rebuilding. A team that loses 100 games is going through a rebuild. There's gonna be a ton of roster and personnel turnover in the next couple years. Getz is either as delusional as Jerry is, or he's walking a very thin line.

Most of what Getz has been saying indicates they don't expect to compete next year.

Lots of walks, too. Our kinda guy!

Been addressing it all year with no change. I don't buy it was all on Kenny and Rick - even if it was, they're gone now. Do more than talk.

Well, at least we know it isn't JUST Sox coaching causing their players to be broken... spreading the plague around the league!

This team is unwatchable

Either the Sox offense has given up for the season, or they have the literal worst scouting and preparation in the league.

Ragans has a good arm but is a little wild. Sox can't hit and swing at everything. Probably gonna get shut out.

Hard to get less production with an OPS+ of 38 and solid but not good defense.

Bummer stinks

This offense is so bad. Good lord.

5 walks in 1 2/3 inning against a bad team. I think Kopech’s days as a starter are done. Either bullpen or gone next year unless they decide to tank again and see if they can get lucky.

Clevinger apparently has nothing tonight. Yeesh. Can't get the third out.

Yuck.

When I heard this I couldn’t believe they weren’t already holding players accountable in the off-season.

Back to laying an egg in the first two games of the series I see.

Somehow Touki only threw 21 pitches in that inning

Same. .500 is gonna be rough unless they spend WAY more money than they ever would.

Their podcast from the other night is even MORE meatball than the one with Pods and Ozzie. I couldn't get through it.

My stage of copium right now is to hope that Getz was so vague and seemingly unprepared because he didn't want to tip off all of the people he's going to can or speak ill of them in public to prevent their finding roles in other orgs. He's then going to absolutely clean house in the offseason and find good people to surround himself with. He'll also drop players who suck or don't fit with what they're trying to do, while also making some smart trades and free agent signings to get this team back to around .500 to "compete" while he continues to rebuild their scouting, analytics and player development. Of course, what will probably happen is they'll sign a bunch of former Royals players and staff and bring Dayton Moore in to "help" Getz. They'll be mediocre at best next year and until Getz gets fired or Jerry dies. There's still a whole offseason to go, though, so I'll hold onto my vain hope while I watch other teams play good baseball and only catch White Sox highlights.

Lynn got hammered by Atlanta tonight

Without Ohtani I don't know what's out there. They basically need an entire starting rotation and half a bullpen, and RF and 2B are still unknowns. Colas has a way to go and Sosa as well.

One of Reinsdorf's favorite players semi-recently? David Eckstein. Expect more players like him.

I would like to be charitable and assume we're going to clean up how poorly this team plays and rarely unlocks all their talent, but it was probably all meaningless platitudes that Jerry likes hearing.

Caught up a little - I would be EMBARRASSED to talk to clients or my company's board like Getz spoke to reporters. No preparation. You need to strategize on what people will likely ask you and be ready for that. It's not like any of these questions were out of left field so far - this is stuff that's been all over the internet.