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Everyone here sleeping on Jimmy Lambert and Tanner Banks ?

Ptatc, I was joking. I read the whole sequence.

Gonna give you the benefit of the doubt and assume it was a TLR quote.

I know I went with it for a small bit, because you can compare things like that for funsies, but Jack is taking it to places unknown, so let me have some fun: Let me explain how the White Sox are actually like the Huns. They don't focus a lot on sustainable infrastructure (the minors), they have firey leaders who say that everyone will hate them, and are a few catastrophic injuries (I figure one death of Attila the Hun = multiple season ending injuries) from losing it all. Sure, they may be on top of the world now, but what about tomorrow?

No no no no. 2011 Bulls = 2021 White Sox, good (in Bulls case, great) team that makes the playoff. Gets stomped by conference/league champ. IN THE OFFSEASON HAS A GLARING WEAKNESS (SG/RF). Bulls addressed, White Sox do not. 2012 Bulls were the best team in the league by a shit ton of conventional and advanced metrics. Then Rose and Noah get hurt, of course they didn't get out of the first without their two best players. The Bulls were primed for an ECF rematch that year. BACK TO THE WHITE SOX Obviously the botched this offseason, but they'll (most likely barring catastrophe) get to the playoffs. Last season we were all banking on Keuchel being the #2 and figured Rodon would be a swingman at best. Weird shit happens. This is still an incredibly talented team that can make big noise this year and would not finish remotely near last place in the AL East.

Yup.

Keith Bogans will be the RF. Also, this sucks cause if anything, last year's team should have been the 2011 Bulls. RF should have been Rip Hamilton. The 2012 Bulls were the #1 team in the NBA that season and could have won it all.

I dug myself a hole with saying right field. Bellinger for Kimbrel (Dodgers willing), a Meadows trade, Conforto on much less than 100/5 (because at this rate he's clearly not getting that) are all something I'd be more interested in entertaining. Have Vaughn rotate DH/1B/LF.

I mean, this was obvious listening to the White Sox Talk podcast where Merkin says the Sox have in house options with Micker, Sheets, and Engel and then Chuck interviews Micker and Sheets. But then also, this lineup needs a fucking left handed hitter that is a natural right fielder, Tony.

Don't say I never did nothin' Jack.

We don't need dueling Andrew Vaughn is hurt threads. Here is the new one:

You meant to switch Eloy and Adolfo here, right??? Even TLR isn't that insane.

Hahn's two strengths as a GM, and what made the current team possible, are contracts negotiated in-house and getting good returns for All-Star level talent, it's what makes him a good Reinsdorf GM. It sucks cause his weaknesses are the inverse and are what the team needed badly this offseason.

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Bro it's spring training not spring games that matter. A shortened one at that.

We have a celebrated history of left handed NL sluggers!

That was one of the worst threads in SoxTalk history.

When Adolfo turns into the right field version of Teen Wolf, you'll regret this bmags. Also, like I said before, it is scientifically impossible to root against Jake Burger.

It also hilariously lists the Blue Jays.

They followed Andy the Clown. If you're gonna follow Andy, and you're in a city with Benny the Bull, you have to be a GOAT tier mascot. Like a goddamn wolf.

It won't happen unless they kill Southpaw. #DownWithSouthpaw #UnlessTheyGetOneForTheRotation

5 year old me is wounded in ways that can never be undone.

For those of you that were cool enough to be a part of the Silver and Black Pack, you know Soxdom has been cheated out of a GOAT tier mascot in Waldo. Alliteration Wolves = Intimidating creatures, but also approachable in mascot form Can be portrayed in the White Sox colors (ignore all portrayals that show otherwise, it can be reworked) Athletic creatures Wears pants, unlike Clark the Cub Unlike Southpaw, has actual paws. Meanwhile, Southpaw is an abomination that looks like a Batman villain that emerged from a toxic Soxtalk meltdown after Kimbrel blows a game. It is unacceptable that the superior mascot was never given physical form. WHEN WILL RICK HAHN KENNY WILLIAMS TONY LA RUSSA JERRY REINSDORF ANSWER FOR THESE CRIMES?

I will take this opportunity to shout out @MackowiakYakYak for being the constant self-esteem boost I need.