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The White Sox are Bryan Shaw's booty call and this is amusing to me.

Balta, Ray Ray and SS2k5 are agreeing on the merits of a stadium development project. That alone should be JR's sales pitch.

Who knew the consequences of firing Ricky Renteria would be so severe

Days later, this is still incredibly hilarious.

People really think Sniper Legolas is pulling this off.

Wanting a new manager after the 2020 playoffs has become the ultimate monkeys paw.

Yet, somehow, I'm not exactly pleased with this development.

At least you could make a game out of Rick Hahn's word salad. This is just fucking stupid. Getz: "I don't think we can find space for you in camp, we're rebuilding, need to find time for playing young guys and have enough mentors." Moustaksas' agent: "But he really wants to prove that he's still good at baseball." Getz: "I do remember Moose being good at baseball when we were together in KC a decade ago. Well, if you say so!" Jeremy Haber's computer, barely hanging onto life in the background, with Fangraphs open: "D̴̪͌ọ̶͘n̷͇̈'̴̼̀t̵̞̋ ̶͔͊d̸̝̀o̴̟̔ ̵̯͘i̸̱͒t̴͂͜!̴̘͒"

It was both.

Trick question. Tony gets a discount on his AARP membership if gets more people to sign up.

Grifol is all about not holding vets accountable, but going in on young guys. Poor Colson/Ramos/Fletcher/Colas/Sosa/Popeye are basically going to have massive targets on their backs in the clubhouse if the team fails.

Whit Merrifield is seeing the band get back together and wondering what he did wrong.

And I try to be an eternal optimist. But after JR and Getz have been going on about doing things the "right way," Maldonado is just sign that — unless he's going to the Bonds School of Career Resurgence — we're going to continue to commit money (that cumulatively adds up) to s%*# players that they'll continue to sell us as difference makers for one reason or another.

Wait, what else are supposed to look at? Swaggermetrics? Considering I wasn't able to watch a bunch of Astros games, I'll go off of what their fans - and the numbers - conclude: He's garbage at pitch framing and defense. If defense and pitch framing is important, Seby blows him out of the water like a nuclear submarine.

I rag on the bad ones, so I should applaud the good ones. These are good ones.

Anyone excited for Maldonado should not look up his stats.

Interesting bit on Colson: Gonzalez: Fletcher:

Top 20 + snippets from a few write-ups is fine. We just don't want people dumping an entire article.

But have you considered that I, someone who loves oddities, very much wants Jac. Just kidding (not about loving oddities like Jac), Griffin looks like he could be a monster.

It hasn't even been one offseason, but if his vision for the team is "all defense, no offense," then we are in for a rough Getz tenure. Kenny was all about catching lightning in a bottle, getting his guy, and using the farm to supplement the MLB roster. Honestly, if they had expanded playoffs during Kenny's tenure, this might have worked. Rick was all about trying to build a star offensive-focused core with power pitchers in the rotation, locking them up to team friendly deals, and supplement them with an expensive bullpen (where he could conceivably outbid teams) and other players he traded for (but he got starstruck by prospect rankings / could not develop). Getz, well, we know his hands are tied with the budget. But the Mena deal feels like a KW "use the farm to supplement the MLB roster" move where they sacrifice youth for an immediate fix. He talks about trying to make the team attractive for pitchers— with his 1-year signings of mediocre vets who are good defensively, but are aging. There's also a part of me that feels insane because JR waxed poetic about Getz "teaching" players in the minors to field baseballs. But for some reason that hasn't been the case at all during Getz's tenure, so if he's going to be like KW and Rick Hahn where he relies on going outside of the system — like Mena for Fletcher — to build his vision, then that's a problem. I've also been extreme blunt that I'm judging Getz on a curve because his hiring process was a joke.

Signing Tall DeLong is All DeWrong

Paul DeLong

You don't want to sign Paul "please pray to Jobu" Dejong to a long term deal?

I regret not watching the Nickelodeon-cast

They could have gone with marquee offseason signing Chris Flexen