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Last season I started watching the farm system. It's a lot more fun.

I'd be afraid to give him more not knowing how he will play in the AL. The Sox seem to have bad luck in that regard.

I wouldn't cheer for the Cubs but I'm envious of their organization. They are superior to the Sox. Two young studs in our organization were former Cub products.

People who say they got lucky in 2005 needs to be punched in the nuts.

So far Soxtalk has not broken the internet.

It's been that way for a long time when it comes to player development. You try to get the best executives/instructors from other winning organizations. The buddy system doesn't work.

I'm starting to think this organization is cursed.

Sometimes those contracts start to look bad around year 7 and does a franchise really get their money's worth? It's not the end of the world.

Too big of a risk for a guy who has not played in the AL.

My MiLB is going to be renewed and I can't wait for the minors to start. No tanking there.

I'm remember Kenny W. use to be into drafting athletes. They didn't turn out to be baseball players. Not a bright move by the A's. If he becomes an NFL bust I guess he can go back to baseball.

How would they do that? I think there is a big difference in the talent from the pro level than the other sports.

Turning their heads on steroid usage worked. Maybe it's lack of talent. I feel that way with the NFL. I think also baseball has become all about the home run and situational hitting is dead. There are no Rod Carew's, Wade Boggs. Maybe it's gotten so far away from traditional baseball. No one wants a Jaun Pierre or Mickey Rivers. What's even worse is the decline of catchers that use to be household names.

TV sucks and more people are ditching cable TV because cable packages have become expensive. Most kids are into gaming. Outside of organized sports baseball isn't convenient for kids. How many open fields are there compared to a playground with a hoop? We use to play by our schools and now schools are fenced off. Many house do not have a decent size lot. In my home town they have shortened the LL season. When I was a kid it started in June and ended at the beginning of August. Now it's like May and June, done. Plus Lip brought this up about scheduling. Now it's starting in March and it makes no sense for Midwest teams to play each other.

I remember hearing him on the SCORE in the post season and he was far more baseball intelligent than in the booth. One of my favorite things about Hawk was when he was warned by the league about criticizing umpires and told not to and he said he might not be able to do that.

"Penalizing teams for earnestly failing two or three years in a row might be the answer. Maybe that involves losing draft position or having to pay a loser tax. But something needs to be done." Uh what? That doesn't solve anything. Bad drafts are possible. Even free agency is not a cure.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/chicago-white-sox-mlb-tanking-rebuilding-manny-machado-bryce-harper-scott-boras/ Never really agree with anything by Morrisey and still don't. Sports are a personnel preference. I couldn't sit through an NBA game. College basketball use to be great until teamwork went out the window. The NFL media is loaded with experts under the guise as former players. Yawn. Maybe younger kids are less interested in sports since there is more distractions for them. Baseball may have had it's rise during the steroid era but please don't go back to that. Maybe it's a generation thing. How many of you born after the 80's like baseball? When I was a kid WGN had Ray Rainer in the morning, Bozo during lunch, and the Cubs after school. That exposed kids to baseball. I do think there is a point with the overkill of relief pitchers. Starters are now treated like they have glass arms and fans call for "shutting them down" because games are meaningless. I call it the Strasburg Effect. Somehow there is this belief you can around injury. Tanking is not unusual in sports. In the NFL or NBA, getting that first pick right makes all of the difference in a couple seasons. In baseball many go through a development process. Professional sporting events are expensive anyway so it's just not the economic factor. Of course baseball is boring if you never played it. For me golf is boring but if you ever noticed the sponsors are pricey product? As for collusion it's a reality in life. See the music industry. You can be bad at professional sports and still be a millionaire. Expensive contracts are a major risk. I've seen enough NFL players not perform as well once they got paid.

Bill Veeck discover Harold Baines when he was a little kid.

I feel better that the Sox were not the only team that passed on him. At one time there were fans saying, "Imagine how things would be different if they drafted Frank Thomas......

I had an appreciation for him when we had to endure ESPN in the 2005 post season. Berman<<<<<<<<<<<Hawk.

It's not like this team has a shortage of future outfielders.

That was a team with players having standout years and often that's how teams win it. You don't see back to back champions anymore. In 2006 that was a tough division and 90 games didn't get you a post season bid.

If you ever had a chance to go to the old Comiskey, the neighborhood was so much different than it is today. The neighborhood really cleaned up with the new Sox stadium.

Too many brittle players.

We should do this by decade.