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That was fucking awesome!

Ok calling it now: White Sox trade Bummer & Walker/Adolfo for Dylan Carlson from the Cardinals once they extend Ozuna. There’s your opening day RF. Or they go for Pache but I think it’ll be Carlson.

Martinez in a heartbeat. That bat man

Have they tried punching Yolmer in the face every time he hits a fly ball? Maybe that would discourage him. It’s one of the hardest things for me to watch

Mercy

Saying it was a failure is incorrect, but I think saying that it was completely unimpressive and cheap is arguable. A team with top 3 resources loses on purpose for years, kris Bryant falls into their lap, then they outlay almost half a billion dollars in one year to buy a World Series in a down year competitively in baseball, everyone on the pitching staff has a career year, the Indians are missing their best players, and they barely squeak one out with prospects. Then they spend another half billion to sustain playoff appearances, dwarfing all other teams in spending, draft like complete crap outside of Bryant, and now find themselves in a mess. Yawn. If your strategy is simply to outspend everybody else, it’s not that cool.

I don’t demand punishment and accountability. It’s baseball. I’m glad the arrow is pointing up- we should be good for quite a while. Excitement is the only emotion I have when I think of White Sox baseball right now.

Imagine if the Brewers GM had an extra $125 million to spend on payroll. Holy moly. That’s how much better that front office is than Theo’s. Running circles around them.

I feel like our minors are going to explode with depth next year. All the down years are going to turn into gold. Hansen, Adolfo & Burger with monster comebacks. Rutherford gets a little better, Walker looks better. Maybe Stiever gets really interesting. Im pumped.

Yea. Just too premium of a talent at a premium position to trade for an outfielder. To me, 2 years of Conforto isn’t enough for Madrigal. I’m sure the Mets see it the other way so everybody tells everybody to go fuck themselves cuz the deal sucks.

Weird creepy sexual tension there between Stone and Benetto showing off the Hawk keychain or whatever it was. That was super creepy- anybody else see that?

Keenum has no chance against our rush. I don’t think anybody would have stood a chance behind that Oline against our guys FWIW

Spot on.

Carlos Lee & Mags probably putnup some silly numbers as a double play duo

I think they didn’t like the early 10’s with the pitchers dominating. Man that was cool to me though. I have a theory that this is probably a joint effort between MLB and the Players aassociation to extend careers back closer to 40. Hitting 33-35 years old and losing your job isn’t cool so I definitely think this was an effort to extend the careers of the modern baseball player back to what they were. Is that crazy?

Is there room in his lap for Gio’s lat injury?

Fuck. Not the injury, that doesn’t bother me, I’m sure he’ll be fine. Not looking forward to all the opinions about it and how it’s somebody’s fault in the organization. Or wait the whole organization, top to bottom Jerry needs to go or hire a competent...blah blah blah

Correct. And I think he was directed to “compete” his first few years but of course there wasn’t enough money to supplement 3 core players

Ehh. Contreras and Baez were Hendry’s guys. Bryant was a layup pick at #2- even I couldn’t mess that up. Schwarber & Russell are pretty one dimensional or platoon fringey busts. They got super lucky it was a down year in the league, the super teams were a year away, almost every pitcher on their roster had a career year, and Cleveland was decimated by injuries.

He outspent every other team to big a World Series. They laid out almost half a billion in total contracts to win the first one and have gone over 3/4 billion to try to sustain it. Think about how much a half billion is. That’s the amount of money they promised to win that World Series. There’s no skill in that

Forget fine-tuning the skills yourself- you just need a good enough knowledge to sell it. Find the people who spent all the time learning, getting certified etc. and subcontract them to complete the work. You want independence right, so you need to spend your time finding the jobs for the guys to complete. You’re too valuable to be in the field doing the work. You need to be driving around all day finding work for the IT guys, flooring crew, painters etc. whatever you decide to get into. All it costs is $300 bucks depending on the state Get your insurance AFTER you sell the first job- no reason to start your annual clock before you need it. Id do painting to get your feet wet in business. Everybody needs it and plenty of local crews doing it. Sell an exterior paint job for 5k to somebody and get it done for less. Then do the IT stuff or whatever it is that sounds like it takes a bit more overhead once you have painting cash flowing for you. Now get off your ass and go the secretary of states office tmrw so you can thank me in a month.

Dude. Pay your $300 to the Secretary of State and incorporate. File your S-Corp paperwork right away and pay somebody a couple hundred to make a logo. Go get a bank account and sell one of those services. You don’t need employees or equipment or an office. Go sell a job, however long it takes and then go get the insurance. Subcontract with companies that provide materials. You can do all this from a home office with basically zero overhead. Just gotta hustle.

If gaining your independence trumps everything then you have to be able to offer the world something. It’s always funny when somebody says, “I don’t want to be in sales!” While we all know they mean they don’t want to be a salesman, the truth is we’re all in sales. You have to be able to offer a good or a service to live, so why not be the one collecting the dough. It doesn’t have to be proprietary either. You can copy the guy next door- there’s plenty of room for everybody in the self-employed sector. It’s just a change in mindset as Hawk would say.

This may be the best way to describe it. Thank you.

Woulda been cool if this was Hansen’s first year in the bigs. Sure looked like an incredible pick for a while.