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Yeah, that's the point. But it means that if the Sox were a professional organization and not cheap, they would have an upper hand. This is just indicative of the White Sox underlying issues. Mainly: Cheap and unprofessional Getz and Grifol weren't hired because they were the best people for their jobs, it's because they were cheap yes men. The manager interview process after 2020 was a joke. We all know how cheap Jerry is. We can go on and on, but Jason's departure is just another symptom of Jerry being the underlying disease.

Living in Brooklyn: Mostly cause I don't feel like paying for cable to watch the Mets and they're blacked out on TV here. Otherwise, man, my loyalties would definitely be shifting from the current 90-10 White Sox-Mets to a more 50-50.

Hawk Harrelson going scorched earth on Brooks Boyer is probably the best thing for Jerry. He loves him a scapegoat.

Jason gained a stupid amount of national fans during the Bill Walton game. Then he kept them because he's one of the few national announcers people enjoy listening to and don't actively hate, especially across multiple sports. The only one I can think of off the top of my head in that company is Kevin Harlan, and unless I missed something, Harlan is just doing two sports.

"OH NO!"

Because the Sox are just great at this, I was too young to really get how badly they botched letting Rooney walk after 2005. But it seems to be a recurring theme for this team to let good announcers walk.

Also, I need to add a note before someone - let me phrase this as Hawk would - spills their can of corn in disgust over this ducksnort of a statement - I loved listening to Hawk until he got to his grumpy phase.

Man if only the Sox could have had a guy like that with national prominence! Maybe he could have started a tradition like singing the 7th inning stretch? My favorite critique of Jason is people calling him corny, as if Hawk Harrelson wasn't the corniest fucking soundboard in the entire game. He had an amazing home run call and before he declined, he could balance the cornball. Unfortunately, he had zero chemistry with Stone and the broadcast became "Hawkisms and the same stories about Yaz and Catfish while Steve Stone wallows in misery."

But this just keeps speaking to how horrendous this org is. Benetti is growing in national prominence and his childhood dream was to be the White Sox announcer. Plenty of teams let their announcers split national duties with local broadcasts. Do you think the Knicks get upset about Mike Breen? Jon Miller did national work for a long time. But this dumpster fire organization probably tried to shortchange Benetti again, because we know that he said the contract negotiation was painful.

Just curious, what brand of blood pressure medication do you use?

Chris Getz about to get his BFF Beckham as the play-by-play

MLB doesn't realize that this is a subtle endorsement of the player's union and big, fat contracts.

Sometimes people are able to write statements that convey a more poised messages when they're addressing the end of their time at a workplace after nine years, especially compared to tweets which are usually off the cuff brain droppings. Why is this a hard to grasp concept for people?

DeMar and AC have ice in their veins. I've been a big Zach guy, but he needs to catch up to them Edit: I regret words that I typed

Oh my God that Caruso layup

Don't let Pedro see this.

While I joked with the Shaq meme, Rick Hahn once said we were mired in mediocrity and needed to hit home runs. Getz has to produce results or this is just fluff. And he has to do it on an accelerated timeline, because he was gifted a GM job on the premise that he doesn't need time to turn things around.

So Gio and ReyLo are going to the Mets.

I look forward to Colson Montgomery being chewed out for an error. For all the s%*# they got, it feels like Robin and Ricky were the only two managers in recent memory that were chill with rookies. The big, big exceptions for Ozzie being Jenks and Beckham.

Look at everything through the lens of "Pedro hates rookies"

Oh, for sure. The Jerry MO, that I expect Getz to continue until shown otherwise, is to catch lightning in a bottle.

Montgomery was the "if they're truly gonna do something" signing that I felt I might as well add. You could also do plenty of those deals (sans Montgomery) as 1 year deals, just bump the pay up. Part of it is my low confidence in prospects hitting with this organization + the fact that tanking won't make a lot of sense since they very likely won't be able to draft in the top 10 in 2025.

Yeah, I can't stress how much I expect a "we're waiting for Colson, Ramos and company to lead us to our next contention window" message, so I pretty much built Stop Gap: The Team Did you miss the part where I wrote "wild card at best"

Please God, I've never wanted anything more.