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Isn't this Getz's oversight?

Ultimate flex by a new GM would be signing Keynan Middleton.

A Silver Slugger nonetheless! He probably would have been an All-Star in 2020.

Every time you say this, it makes me think your source is either fucking with you or is a complete moron. The "for whatever reason" is cause s%*# like this happened. He still hit the f*** out of the ball and the Cubs could have traded the Quintana package for something much more. The Cubs got clowned for that trade, continued getting clowned for that trade, and their "revenge" for Eloy and Dylan Cease is Madrigal and Heuer. And according to Kaplan, Ed Howard was "revenge" for the Quintana trade. Take that with a grain of salt though, cause it was probably Kaplan running on copium. If the Cubs were ridiculing Hahn for trading the #7 prospect in baseball (I believe that was his mid-season rank, he became #4 afterwards) and Dylan Cease for Jose Quintana (and I love Quintana), then the Cubs were ahead of the curve on marijuana legalization in the state of Illinois.

Second team status. Which the A's have for a little while longer.

My wife's scouting report from Dash vs. Cyclones: "Why doesn't he just pitch better?" She pretty much doesn't care about sports outside of Alex Caruso + watching games with me, so you know he's bad.

wait we're counting McDougal as a bust now?

It's less that he's Christian and more He expressed the opinion that a child molester should be given a chance to earn millions in baseball, when said child molester's family was warning everyone to stay the hell away from him That again That again That again That again He imposes his religion on everyone else in the org His tenure with the Royals has two lucky seasons and that's it

The rookie manager fucking hates rookies

Who supposedly didn't even make the trade. After all, per her own words, she called up Kenny and got the deal done. The big takeaway: She got a good player from a dumpster fire front office.

It's like the people on this board that rage against Merkin for writing puff pieces on the Sox. Like, sure, go talk s%*# about your boss and see how long you stay employed.

I mean, what do you want the current manager and a player to say about a fellow org member and current acting GM? That he sucks ass?

Hiding behind sunglasses.

I switched when Vinnie Duber left because he was the voice of reason on that podcast because he takes his reporter role seriously. They don't get the same level of guests on CHGO - but I can always listen to the NBCSN one when they have a guest. Otherwise, you have a clearly still bitter Ozzie, Chuck who has long since lost his shine, Guff who is OK, and Pods who is fun to listen to but is just a personality.

Also, building on this, Chuck emphatically declared that even he could build a major league roster — based on TWTW — because of his time spent in clubhouses as a reporter. Chuck is fun to listen to, but until this season he carried enough water to fill the Grand Canyon.

Hell, they were still having fun as a team in 2020 (Moncada aside).

Giants.

When Ozzie said he was GM, you could tell he was joking in a "just kidding...but Jerry if you wanna talk...??" manner

The CHGO and White Sox Talk podcasts had two real different tones on this. White Sox Talk basically made everything sound like it was doomed from the start and everything was fool's gold. CHGO took a stance that the team clearly had talent and could have done something if not for organizational dysfunction, but Jerry opened the floodgates with TLR. I'm kinda taking CHGO because other White Sox Talk has just been full of s%*# the past few years, unless I'm just imagining Chuck's "WE JUST GOT EDWIN FREAKING ENCARNACION!" podcast.

This one. Then see if he can convince Espada to come on as manager.

Turns out his bias all these years was that the org is terrible

So was Bob's source KW? I know there was speculation that that was the case. All aboard Mr. Bone's Wild Ride.

https://www.mlb.com/prospects/stats/affiliates?teamId=145&date=08/24/2023 https://www.milb.com/scores/all/all/whitesox 3-2 across the org yesterday, so I'll keep the threads going for now. Cannon going for the Barons. Wolkow is in Kannapolis - maybe we get a sneak peek of the baby giant?

If you had to ask me the post pained fanbase, I'd really struggle. The White Sox seem to have the most dramatic and "what the absolute f***" situations happen to them. The Mets just keep lolmets-ing and are the ultimate little brothers. Not even Steve Cohen's infinite war chest could overcome that. The A's. Man, John Fisher just straight Major League'd them. The Angels. Two all-time GOATS. One who had a shot at being the GOAT and another re-writing history books every game. An owner willing to spend on other generational talents (Pujols) and stars (Rendon). Less healthy than the Thibs-era Bulls. The Pirates. Nutting is cheap as hell. Most noteworthy highlight of the past few years is Javy Baez clowning them.