Chicago White Sox

100% agree. And the worst part is they’ve done absolutely nothing to try and fix anything. Watching them hit a bunch of singles every night and still keep Frank as hitting coach makes my blood boil. Nearly everything about this product is boring and unlikable.

Yeah, not going to choose another team. This isn’t me jumping ship forever. But this season is beyond fucking cooked and I won’t be wasting my limited free time supporting this shit show. It is legit painful to watch these guys right now.

They’re not even trying anymore. Honestly, I hope they lose 1-0 today. I’ve tried my best to maintain optimism, but falling below .500 against the DBacks was the nail in the coffin for me. Fuck this organization and everyone who’s a part of it.

Bump

What a lineup tonight!

Can someone get Yoan a god damn Yoga coach

100% agree. I really hope we see the media do their job and create some level of accountability for this shit show. Usually Fegan is the only guy willing to ask the tough questions, but seeing a Sun Times columnist literally say “fire everyone” is a big step forward.

But realistically, this should be the end of the road for this group. This season is the biggest single failure in my 38 years as a White Sox fan. Everyone needs to go from KW on down and the roster also needs a major shakeup. Go give Mike Chernoff a President of Baseball Ops title and let him burn this shit to the seems.

You know things have gone really bad when the Chicago media is saying “fire everyone”… https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2022/8/26/23323627/trying-and-failing-to-imagine-jerry-reinsdorf-holding-white-sox-employees-accountable-tony-la-russa

Bump…can’t let this one slip past page 1

Honestly, my guess is our 5 man analytics department will figure out the ball isn’t juiced anymore and this offensive approach simply doesn’t work. They’ll just be 12 months too late and it will have cost us a season.

Unfortunately this is likely true

I have never seen the actual video, but fire this clown right now. And then blow up the rest of this shit-show of an organization.

When is the last time we hit a HR?

On his way to Birmingham this time

I think we see a Romy bomb today.

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Seems like it’s been a cold few days…hopefully that changes today.

I will fully acknowledge that La Russa is an abomination of a manger and has probably cost us a good 10 games this year. That being said, the bigger threat to the long-term success of this organization is clearly Rick Hahn. Here is a GM who is bad at scouting and doesn’t have the analytical muscle in his front office that the other Ivy League GMs have. What does he bring to the table? Locking up our young talent? Even that well has dried up as of late. Every year it becomes more & more clear just how incapable this guy is at building a serious World Series contender. To have a $190M payroll in the AL Central and not be railroading the division is an absolute joke. I’m still in utter disbelief that this dude failed to address any of our major needs this off-season with impact talent and still spent what he did. Giving Leury 3/$15M should get Hahn blacklisted from baseball. And then to do nothing at the deadline? He actually fucks around thinking he can somehow get Ohtani and instead lets affordable LH bats like Naquin & Gallo go elsewhere. And it’s not like Rick doesn’t get our issues. The dude actually had the nerve to say “ball goes far, team goes far” but does absolutely nothing to address the lack of power. Keep the hitting coach who not only said “fuck the HR” but who has an insane track record of groundball heavy offenses. I don’t give a fuck that Hahn has somehow built a farm system incapable of landing us a rental OF who can hit HRs, but at a very minimum bring in a different hitting coach or change out some players within the organization. There is no excuse for sticking with the same old bullshit and hoping for a different result. At the end of the day, we can change managers and change hitting coaches, but we will have to get super lucky to ever win a Word Series with Hahn as GM. Jerry needs to wake the fuck up and go get a successful small market GM and make him the President of Babeball Ops. That is our only hope for baseball salvation on the south side of Chicago.

Everything is fine…everything is fine

I didn’t watch the game last night, but have read about another 1-2 intentional walk. But what was the deal with Tony moving Grandal from DH to C? When did it happen and were there any potential implications from losing the DH spot?

And you’re missing the point. If we had a competent analytics department, we probably have at least one solid utility type player sitting in AAA. Alternatively, we had Danny Mendick on a pre-arb salary even if Yogurt, Romy, Sosa, & Popeye weren’t quite ready yet.

Any replacement level player would have been better than giving Leury a 3/$15M contract Rick Hahn.

How many heads could you add to the analytics department if you simply didn’t give Leury $5M per year and instead went with a pre-arb option?