Chicago White Sox

I don’t mean this in a positive way. I’m just saying these are the caliber of stars we can look forward to...guys on the wrong side 30 and/or with huge red flags. Also, I find it fascinating we need all this money to lock up this great young core that doesn’t even exist, but even if god allows Moncada or Jimenez to develop into a legit star our chances of retaining them are slim to none based on what we were willing to pay for Machado.

Here’s what will happen. If the young guys continue to struggle, the front office will finally fire a member of the coaching and lay blame all on them. If the young guys struggle in 2020, Renteria probably becomes the scapegoat. We basically have to be dogshit bad two or three years from now for there to be any chance of a change up top. These clowns might as well be Supreme Court justices because they have jobs for life as long as they can put together a regular 2nd or 3rd place team.

I’ll put $500 towards it if someone sets up a GoFundMe.

I guarantee we sign Goldschmidt & Bumgarner. Those will be our prizes.

I know you’re kidding but our internal cap on free agents is probably about half of what Trout will ultimately agree to.

The fact we even have to list out the teams worse than us is telling.

I’ll watch games because I’m an addict, but I will not attend a single game this year out of protest. Moving to Nashville helps in that regard, but I don’t plan on giving this organization a dime of my money until next year’s SoxFest so I can simply repeat Hahn’s win loss record as GM (currently 419-553) ten times in a row before security escorts me out.

We just may be the most incompetent organization in all of sports. May god have mercy on all our souls.

We’re totally getting Harper now, the tables have definitely turned!

She’s one of those types that has to let everyone know she’s in a relationship and having lots of sex. Like we get it, but stop making corny sexual innuendos all the time. I really preferred her when she was the somewhat nerdy, weirdo who was into horses.

100% agree. I really used to liked Cara, but I find her to be both annoying and pathetic now. Stop acting like you’re pro women everything when you’re out there breaking up relationships to boost your low self-esteem. Also, pretty sure her and Paulie aren’t together based on that “Clones” show they constantly advertise for on MTV.

I’d normally agree, but zero chance Wes & Bananas were both going to last more than half a season. One of them had to be knocked out. That being said, the Paulie / Kyle beef is pretyy entertaining and overall I’m really digging the quality of the competition this season. There really aren’t any layups, especially on the girl side.

You’re right but we have zero chance at the Trout’s, Bett’s, & Lindor’s of the world. So either you go after that next tier of guys like Machado or Harper or you accept older guys, rebound types, and/or B tier free agents. I’d be willing to wager large sums of money we end up with one of Goldschmidt or Martinez next year. We’ll get one for big dollars on 4 or 5 year deal and Hahn will brag & boast about how awesome they are but will ignore the fact these guys will likely start to regress and are far more risky than the deals Machado & Harper got.

Is this new? Can you provide the actual link? I can’t even imagine what will happen if Hansen & Dunning both go down with season ending injuries. Also, why do I have this bad feeling the Sox are saving the Dunning news for Friday in hopes that a night of drinking softens the blow.

Those guys haven’t reached free agency though! And please don’t down-play the fact the big spenders are sitting on the sidelines. When those guys are finally looking to add, their involvement will push prices out to $350 to $400M easily. This offseason was our best opportunity to land a under stud 30 stud and we’re already seeing with that Arenado contract how much of a steal that Machado deal is. I applaud your optimism, but I don’t think it’s set within reality unfortunately.

Unless he starts cleating people and making dumb comments about not hustling, we have no chance at him. And even if he develops serious off the field baggage we’ll miss by $50M or blow it because we won’t incluce competitive opt-outs. You need to focus on a different tier of players. Older / semi-questionable guys like Goldschmit, Martinez, & Bumgarner are our only hope. It’s dangerous game to play, but it’s the sad reality when you’re afraid to sign 26 year old future HOFs to below market contracts.

Dude, you just need to stop! Outside of likely Baez & Stanton, those guys will be getting $300M+ deals. We don’t pay that much bro. Also, the next 3 years is a pretty big window. Three offseasons from now Rodon will be a free agent and we’ll only have two years left of Moncada, Lopez, etc. We can’t wait that long to add impact talent.

Bogaerts is awesome and probably a guy we should prioritize unless Timmy has a breakout 2019 season. Just not likely to happen with these clowns in charge unfortunately.

It’s really infuriating. They spent multiple years planning for this free agent class, proceed to hype it up all offseason, and then come up $50M short on Machado (to the fucking Padres) and bow out on Harper (at least it appears that way) without most (if not all depending on LAD) of the big spenders in play. You know happens when I fuck up in life? I apologize, say I will learn from the mistake, and STFU until I can prove that I did. Coming in a distance second place for an elite free agent with an absolutely bizarre offer is not cool and these guys to accept responsibility for that. Just sucks there appears to be no plan in place and these clowns will likely just gun-sling a team together with the few prospects that will be ready to start the 2020 and a bunch of B tier 30+ year old free agents.

Can Hahn just STFU for once? He has made zero moves over the past two seasons that will likely result in a key long-term member of the White Sox. This was his chance to do so and he blew it in spectacular fashion. Instead he’s put all his chips into the prospect pool we already have and that group is dropping like flies due to injuries. This rebuild is being setup for failure due to a complete lack of vision from our leadership and one of the cheapest / old-school ownership groups in baseballs. If they’re going to be this incompetent, please do so quiet in a fashion because I’m sick and tired of all the lawyer speak and bullshit promises. At this point, only their actions have any merit and the set of moves they made this offseason look like a fucking joke.

Zero chance we outbid the big spenders for Cole or even convince Jerry to go the amount of years it will take. At this point we should focus older / more questionable guys because that who we’ll probably be willing to pony up for. My guess is we sign Goldschmidt (or JD Martinez) & Bumgarner next offseason.

A cheapass who has allowed KW & Hahn to run afoul with no accountability.

Guys, can you move this shit to the buster? This shit has nothing to do with baseball...

I have never been a true Jerry hater, but this offseason (along with the disaster that is the Bulls) has really turned me that way. Knowing our luck dude will live to 100 and then somehow leave the team to his son who just may be worse.

It’s going to be really frustrating if he only gets like 10/$330M.