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As sad as it sounds, those trades/signings make the team a lot better.

"would have been" The saddest truth about the saddest team in all the lands. The Sox are a team of "would have beens"

are you paying to use SoxTalk? Someone is, and it isn't you. Chill.

I texted a friend of mine earlier today, half-kidding of course, that Machado will lead the league in 400 foot singles this season... A) that park is huge ... and B) he ain't running out 400 foot balls in the gap.

What's Jeff Keppinger up to?

I think I've come to the realization today that this team will always be the "also ran" and never a serious, annual contender. Its like that middling NASCAR team that just throws a slow car on the track to get the sponsor money. Nobody roots for that fucking guy. No one buys that guy's tshirt.

I just don't get it... RickyGM and Co were "surprised" and "blindsided".. I mean, how?? How were you blindsided that the best possible scenario for a player to be a free agent, in terms of talent and youth, etc... didn't want some bullshit incentive laden contract? I mean, come on you guys. What the actual fuck. I can't wait for the Mike Trout thread in a few years.... 1 dollar for every online all star fan vote you get! $50 million incentive bonus in 20 years when you make the Hall of Fame, but ONLY if you go in as a Sox player....

The optimist in me says 4 players are better than one... the realist in me says ... Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Even the SoxTalk forum software is pissed!

Not mentioned in the tweet were the details of the incentives, such as $5,000 for each sac bunt, $7,500 for every ground ball Ricky thought he "ran his ass off down the line" and $10,000 for every time he cut off the shortstop on a routine ground ball he felt was his because "this is my infield"

Come on guys, let's not go at each other. We're all disappointed and rightfully so, but let's not take it out on each other.

This is likely not to ever change. Aside from Albert Belle, when has the JR owned Sox team ever gone out on the market and "bought" a big ticket player? Abreu at 60-something million? LUL. The Sears-suit wearing, Ford Focus driving, snake oil salesman. I'm not buying it anymore.

This isn't a video game where you can edit player attributes to produce the desired results. None of that is going to happen.

Let's face it. Jerry is running this particular sports team as a business. he clearly doesn't give a damn if they win. Profitability is all that matters.

You could watch Padres games and see Manny + Tatis for the next 6+ years.

I wonder how many fringe Sox mlb players Manny unfollowed on Instagram today?

"We can't afford top tier talent" a group led by Reinsdorf bought the White Sox for $19M in 1981. Forbes magazine valued the club at $1.5 billion in April, 2018.

Agreed. The Sox dated the ugly chick to get to her hot friend. Its bullshit tactics. It didn't work, and now they're stuck here.

I agree with you. I'm just trying to find a reason not to blow my stack right now.

....this is exactly what I thought when I saw that KW quote

Its also entirely possible he just didn't want to play here.

most perfect summary of Rick Hahn, ever.

Machado wanted to play along side Tatis Jr for the next 5 years + But what did I expect? It's just business as usual for the White Sox. I'm just glad its over so I can go back to hitting F5 on MiLB box scores and continue to ignore the MLB team. So now WTF do we do with the collection of replacement-level Machado homeboys we've collected?

am I the only one alarmed by the chisox.com article about Moncada playing third base? https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/news/is-yoan-moncadas-future-as-a-third-baseman/c-304130784 Is this the start of the PR storm after missing on Machado, or maybe posturing with Lozano? #eeeek

yea, I'll go ahead and admit myself straight away to the Soxtalk jail cell