Chicago White Sox

And so was La Russa for the first 56 years of his life ?

If alcoholism is the problem, then why is Ozzie an option?

Money is always the great equalizer and Jerry better be willing to spend to overcome this mess. Unfortunately knowing our luck, we’ll trade any young talent not yet part of the core to fill holes cause Jerry is a cheap fuck and we’ll end up greatly shortening our window.

That definitely could be an option.

Why would he lose his job or be disciplined because of a crime the organization knew about before hiring him? Reinsdorf doesn’t give a fuck about us and is going to put an end of his biggest “mistake” even if it destroys any goodwill they built from this rebuild. I’ve put up with a lot of Jerry Reinsdorf over the years and have tried not to be a pure hater, but undermining his GM to hire his old buddy coming fresh off a DUI arrest is absolutely appalling and shows how truly selfish the guy is.

I know it won’t do anything, but I just emailed Reifert the following which made me feel better SUBJECT: La Russa ”What a displaceable coaching hire and you guys should be absolutely embarrassed right now. You literally had an opportunity to win back the city & develop a new lifeline of Sox fans, but instead you undid all the goodwill you created in one fair swoop. For better or worse, I’m stuck with this team regardless of the frequent frustration it brings to my life, but I’m done trying to get my sons invested in an organization that knowingly hired a 76 year old arrested for his second DUI to be their manager. They deserve much better than an organization who puts the owner’s personal needs over the well-being of their own players and fanbase.”

It’s not even the organization, it’s literally one dude we should be mad at. Unfortunately for us, Jerry Reinsdorf doesn’t give a fuck about his fanbase and put his need to make up for his biggest “mistake” ever at the expense of his front office, players, & fanbase. People need to direct their anger at him and him alone.

Great post. In Balta’s warped mind, if Rick Hahn doesn’t resign he’s basically an accomplice for whatever La Russa does behind the wheel.

Thank you! I get the anger over this, but demanded Rick Hahn resign from a dream job in his hometown of Chicago is just laughable.

Yup, as long as he doesn’t work for the Sox he can’t find a bar & a car! It’s now up to Rick Hahn & KW to save lives by resigning from their front office positions!

Good god man you are something.

Stop with this bullshit dude. Tony La Russa can drive drunk whether he’s a member of the Sox or not, so stop trying to assign blame for his shitty actions to people who have nothing to do with his off the field behavior.

I guarantee you Reinsdorf knew about this in February and simply doesn’t care.

No offense, but this is pretty ridiculous. If Rick Hahn was going to resign, it would be over the fact he was undermined by Jerry, not because a douchebag with a drinking problem got a DUI.

Meaning?

But they aren’t the only two options Jerry

I think Jerry doesn’t care, this is his ride off into the sunset moment and he’s going to ride or die with Tony. This won’t change anything IMO.

La Russa just trying to take the spotlight and pressure off the team!

Never try to understand Reinsdorf morals

FIFY

Did whoever created that fake Nightengale account think he was creating a Bruce Levine account?

Yeah, was trying to squeeze Kluber or Quintana, but the dollars were too big given the $150M cap I set which is very ambitious to begin with.

It could be, but I think two top 50 prospects is in the realm of possibility.

I assumed your comparison to Quintana was more around stuff. My point is Marquez has much better than Quintana ever did.

Let's just get crazy for a second and say you have $150M payroll to work with this offseason. If you aggregate all of these rumors, you could be looking at something like the below for 2021. Yes it would suck to lose to Kopech & Madrigal, but that team could be the AL favorite next year.