Donny Lucy's Avocado Farm

Palka looks awful. I hope he gets enough looks before the season starts or its gonna be a rough April for him.

Without reading through the 257 pages here... all I can think of to myself is Boras saying "The owner told me 'I have made enough money in my life, just tell me how much we need to get the player'" I can't imagine JR saying something so... careless.... to Scott Boras.

I just want to emotionally survive this season before I subject myself to another "Jerry's too cheap" offseason again in 9 months.

I'm guessing that L is now in reference to the game's likely outcome with Leury getting 4 ABs

Sounds like he needs to get one of those Mike Trout oven mitts to wear when baserunning

Pretty sure the 3-inning / 5-inning thing is the penalty for not running out a grounder. Ricky makes the player stare into the sun for 3 straight innings. This is especially bad considering today is a Giolito start, we all know how long his innings can last. edit: words

Brooks Boyer right now....

This, unfortunately is a big part of the problem. Regardless of whether or not the fans like or dislike what they franchise does (or in this offseason's case, DOES NOT) do... it's largely irrelevant to their bottom line. They will still have the same TV deal, same Merch royalties, same MLB Advanced Media payout, etc, etc, etc....... JR very well likely stands to have the same profit margin from having a cellardwelling team fighting for a top-5 draft pick every year, as he would if he invested heavily in the roster talent via free agency. If he drops 300m on a 26 year-old on a hall of fame trajectory, it changes the culture of the franchise for fans, but does it bring him the same return on investment as the rest of the roster? Aside from the obvious "winning for the sake of winning" what does he have to gain? The fans' adoration? As if..... I'm sure I'll get called out here for gross ignorance, etc.... but I make these decisions every day, working on software dev (most common case being "buy vs build"), obviously on a much smaller scale than ol Uncle Jerry. But think about it... if you were asked to either invest $100 to make a $100 - or invest $10 to make $25 - you stand to make the most by putting up the least. This has ALWAYS been the case with JR and the White Sox and it's never going to change.

Having not watched a Bulls game in probably 20-something years, I've learned an awful lot about the Bulls in this thread.

On the positive side for the Bulls, at least they don't draft and give quality playing time to their FO/coaches' kids

Bmags needs to stay out of white sox business.

you mean Jesse Crain? LUL

I just realized I had the stream paused, so I completely missed what you were all talking about #RIP Fulmer

I thought Fulmer looked really good #shrug

Fulmer looks.... gooooood. That slider is nasty. Man, that'd be nice if he can hit his ceiling.

Looked like a cutter or a flat slider... he stayed with it and took what the pitcher gave him

Abreu 2 Ks on 6 pitches. Lefties giving him fits again, or he's just not seeing it well yet.

Did you see Cordell's AB? He looked terrible. He "gutted" out an excuse-me swing for a single. TWTW! Body type wise.... he reminds me a lot of Alex Rios, except without all that talent the Sox turned over into Leury Garcia.

Soler is so bad.... Engel's been on today though

and then promptly got picked off Sammy Sosa style

Madrigal is a manlet

TWTW is a priceless attribute. Can't put a $$ value on it. Fans just don't understand it. Seriously though, I watched the Dodgers/Angels game yesterday and Kevan Smith was catching. As soon as I turned on the game... passed ball. McCann is a really good defensive catcher and a "field general" type guy.

Jimmy Lambert looks like Adam Engel's twin brother

Looked like an "oops" down the line, but was still hit hard. Soler took his sweet ass time getting the ball back in.

Spring Training broadcasts are great... There's about 17 people at the game Jesse Crain thinks everybody on the white sox is either exciting to watch or a grinder HAHAHA... Machado's married to Alonso's sister.... HAHAHA James McCann rocking the Podsedniks