Chicago White Sox

The plan would be to sign Springer and go with an OF of Eloy-Robert-George in 2021. Hopefully we also sign Colas with him entering the OF mix come 2022 / 2023 and allowing Eloy to eventually be our DH once Jose is gone.

Again, this isn’t a White Sox issue, this is a Jerry Reinsdorf issue. He’s the only person excusing this behavior and he also happens to be the one person who is friends with La Russa. If he hasn’t helped him by now, despite a drinking problem for ages, nothing is going to change that.

Where are you going with this?

Lol...hopefully that doesn’t happen, but I will the say the weather here is fantastic right now!

I don’t know when you became Balta, but the transformation truly is fascinating. La Russa working for the White Sox does not have any impact whatsoever on his chances of killing a person. You guys keep trying to argue this and it’s absolutely ridiculous. You are not saving lives by demanding his removal and the team isn’t aiding in the potential murder of an innocent person by employing him. Tony La Russa will continue to drink & drive regardless if he’s a member of the White Sox or not. And who is ignoring “innocent victims of DUI” here exactly? I want La Russa gone as much as anyone for his actions and I have emailed the White Sox stating just that. Jerry keeping him employed minimizes the dangers of what he did and is offensive to those who have lost loved ones to drunk drivers. But I’m also aware that trying to force their hand by hurting their bottom line may not be effective in driving a change and may have ancillary impacts. Again, you aren’t saving any lives by threatening their sponsors, so it comes down to satisfying your moral compass over the potential ramifications to others. I’m not even saying what you’re doing is wrong, just that I hope you’re thinking about the broader implications and the likelihood of success. You may not like the word “cancel culture” but it’s a real thing and it can oftentimes have very ugly consequences.

So you’re ok with innocent Sox employees potentially losing their jobs as long as La Russa loses his? And the reality is if your efforts to get sponsorship pulled, the former is what will likely happen and not the latter. This is the problem with cancel culture, you have one goal in mind and don’t care how it impacts anyone else.

No offense, but he’s right to some extent. We all want La Russa gone, but some people are going to a level that could impact innocent parties.

So he’s lying? And if so, how would you know?

Springer is 100% happening.

Marshall is under team control for several more years.

Hopefully one more at least ?

Because I just moved him to 1B coach and got rid of an accused rapist

Does Boston want to make this trade?

Hire Sam Fuld as bench coach and let him manage the clubhouse. We’re stuck with La Russa as our in-game decision maker for better or worse, but let’s limit his interactions with the actual players and perhaps his risk is reduced.

Fuck yes!! Hopefully Katz will tolerate curveballs unlike his predecessor!!

The problem is he’s only got one year of control left and I can’t imagine he’ll come that cheap.

If you can’t get Bauer then I fully agree. Go with the best possible lineup and add two B & C tier starters in free agency. Springer + Kluber + Quintana for example would be fine by me.

This is just stupid.

Again, this is all Reinsdorf. The team doesn’t agree with him and has been dealt an impossible hand. They can’t come out and say “look this is a shitty hire but what can you do when he’s the bosses’ guy?”. The front office is praying that with time that this dies down or that La Russa decides to step down from all the hostility (very unlikely). Not saying this is a good strategy, but it’s really hard for a PR team to justify an irrational decision.

At least we know Jerry’s handle now

Because they hope adding George Springer will temper emotions

There’s the final confirmation that we are stuck with him. If I was a member of the White Sox ownership group I’d be livid right now, but I guess that’s what they deserve for giving Jerry unilateral power to do whatever he wants.

Technically pitching, 3rd base, & assistant hitting coach, but none of the other guys have been confirmed back yet.

Oh he came out and said that once “they” deemed La Russa was a strong possibility they deviated greatly from his original managerial search plan.

Rick Hahn literally informed the media of what he was looking for in a manager at our end of season press conference and implied there would be an extensive interview process. A few hours later, Reinsdorf then went to Bob Nightengale and told him La Russa was a favorite for the job despite not exhibiting many of the qualities Rick was looking for. I’m sure almost everyone was blindsided by this as it appears Jerry orchestrated this all on his own, at least initially.