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I'm just gonna keep repeating a number of things: I've become convinced that Tony is only a Hall of Famer because of steroids and STL having Pujols/Molina I finally understand why Rick Ankiel's career went sideways.

I mean, considering the team Tony was gifted and the first half of the GarPax tenure, hard disagree. TLR was given a supposed-World Series contender. Pax built the Baby Bulls and GarPax gave us the Rose-Noah-Thibs era and the Jimmy/Rose/Pau team that should have taken out the Cavs. The collapse started with the Three Alphas. Then it absolutely cratered.

Leury will be involved.

Yeah, I can't blame him for the bottom of the ninth, but I can blame him for many other things.

But it's a part of the game!

According to the initial hiring announcement, we did!

The original list with Ramos and Co., should have made it clearer.

I'm guessing Sosa, Vera, Colas and Montgomery are safe unless a big fish can be had. 1) The FO clearly likes Sosa unlike TLR 2) Vera just got here 3) I think people are buying into a manufactured Instagram controversy way to much with Colas relative to his performance. 4) Montgomery is self explanatory. I will add Kath to that list.

Ramos, Thompson, Dalquist, and probably Yolbert all look like likely trade chips.

Good things happen when Eloy, Robert and AV hit bombs

I like home runs.

Are we phoning it in on defense?

If anyone has unironically typed "Tony's boys don't quit" this season, do you repent?

TA's f-bomb got clearly picked up by the mic. Aaaaand we're gone.

Neon Moncada makes better contact that Yoan.

This is where I'm at. It's hard to justify putting the back half of the Top 30 over a guy raking, even if he is literally a man amongst boys.

I had to make sure I opened the right game thread.

Re-sign Abreu. Cold April. Ron makes thread about Abreu's age / performance as Father Time is undefeated. Abreu begins to warm up in May. Someone bumps Ron's thread. Abreu gets red hot in June. All of us: "Yeah, we have a log jam, but like, we need this bat." Repeat the cycle until Abreu gets a number retirement ceremony, statue, etc. Begin cycle anew with Andrew Vaughn and the next White Sox first baseman.

Can we add Super Joe and Daryl Boston to the thread title.

You can tell this team feeds off energy, just like they did under Ricky. When they get a couple runs - boom, floodgates. Especially homers. But when they can't get those going, it feels insurmountable.

Cease, Kopech, Rodon, Lynn all thrived. I'm not panicking over Giolito's return from injury and COVID, especially after his last two starts and two seasons where he got Cy Young votes. We've been over Keuchel falling apart with the sticky stuff ban. With the training staff being a dumpster fire, I'm not holding the rotating door of the bullpen against him, but Lopez's reinvention is amazing. And getting sub-4 ERAs out of Lambert and Banks is impressive.

Outside of Katz I want a clearing house so badly.

This team is completely dead inside and it all starts with TLR.

At least we occasionally like Leury and he's long tenured. Kelly is a great dude and meme, but on other teams.