Bananarchy

The Shields trade was awful in retrospect but Tatis didn't become the guy he is now until later. That's as charitable as you can be.

The injuries and fielding problems are hugely problematic. That Cubs rebuild team that won the World Series had a plethora of fielders. White Sox bet on arms and they busted. No fielding, injuries and bad pitching

Lacks adequate context

According to the scratch marks on the bathroom wall at the Moody Center in Austin, TX @caulfield12 is going to be the next White Sox gm

Pedro is going to be the next guy’s option to fire. You better believe he’s effectively a lame duck

The new boss will for the coach. There still have to field a team

I'm fairly convinced the Sox won't go anywhere. Jerry is so old he likely doesn't live to survive a decade long move. Also, I think being in a large market is a better selling point if he were to sell.

That was 20 years ago

I can't imagine Atlanta ownership being like "yeah, go ahead and move to Nashville"

Nah, they're going to move to Darien: "A Nice Place to Live Play"

I don't know how true this is. The Cubs are more nationally popular but the White Sox are much more popular in the Cook County working class. If anything, the White Sox are more culturally significant to their part of the city than the Cubs are to any one part of Chicago.

Neither really touches Chicago if the team is winning. That's the thing. We all give Cubs and their fans crap, but in 05 the vast majority of the third largest city in the country had eyes on the White Sox.

As far as I’m concerned if the White Sox go to Nashville, they’re dead and buried. MLB would probably be dead to me

I get the impression the offer just wasn't there. The only way Hahn gets an F is dumping a guy like Cease for a bad haul. C for me.

Sorry Lucas, but you were never going to be on the Sox for life. At some point that big contract was going to come up and only a couple of teams would be willing to pay it.

I held out hope for Hahn longer than others but last year broke me. Now I'm just done.

I make one game a year and this was the one. Screw this team

That dude should have been fired in 2013

Agreed. I'm solidly in "why bother?" mode.

Agreed 100%. I moved to Texas 12 years ago and I honestly can't root for anyone else. Baseball is done for me when the White Sox are out.

It seems reasonably likely the White Sox are sold post-Jerry

This makes sense to me, however Jerry is in his 80s, not his 60s, and the White Sox are his play thing, not the family business. If the family has no interest in the White Sox, don't expect anything to happen while the old man is in charge.

The White Sox and the Bulls hold a pretty special place for me, as both fandoms are cultural. It would really take a Blackhawk size scandal for me to drop either of them (As I did the Blackhawks after the Kyle Beach disaster).

Hahn's probably a decent guy and he's great at negotiating contracts, but this isn't working and we need a culture change. Won't happen under Jerry. We give Hahn a lot of crap, but let's not forget Kenny Williams has been a waste of space just as long. Glad he won a World Series but we have been paying for it with his incompetence for the last 18 years.

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