Flash Tizzle

”He was signed for roster depth and an insurance policy” Yeah, ok. He’ll be misused and overused like every other player of his caliber who find themselves on the White Sox. Why are we concerning ourselves with these ass backwards moves when more important positions are left to be filled? And yeah yeah…i know the followup counterpoint….”it does not prevent us from still filling 2B/OF/additional rotation spot.” However, these bums will always be available up through the start of the season. Worry about the other positions now and then filling in with interchangeable AAAA players later.

Well Grifol has already proven himself loyal to JR by keeping his mouth shut. Was there any publication, tweet, blurb or even whisper that hinted he interviewed for the position? We knew everything about Guillen, which probably says more about him and his camp leaking information than anything else. Personally, I’m glad to have some open to analytics and outside the organization. Maybe it won’t work out, but of all the issues surrounding the Sox they’ve addressed one so far.

Reinsdorf strikes me as the type to purposely pass information (true or false) to a limited amount of people, just to see if makes it out to the public. Hahn and KW have been around for a long time, and knowing what we know about loyalty with the White Sox org, I really doubt Hahn (or KW) would leak information as some roundabout way of influencing a decision. Unless….the tweet was given the thumbs up by Reinsdorf and purposely leaked to push forward the decision. Which I’d be more willing to doubt, because it didnt achieve anything… My belief is, whenever an important personnel decision is made and leaked to a twitter account, it’s done by someone who knows enough people have the same information that the source cannot be identified. Hahn, KW and company understand losing JR’s trust is a quicker route to being fired than anything that happens on the diamond

I haven’t watched much of Davis Martin, but he looked great last night. He was seemingly able to throw the slider out of the zone and in the zone at will. Also, he had a good fastball and (when thrown) changeup. If nothing else, he has earned the right to battle for a rotation spot next year. Especially if Cueto leaves

It must be difficult to summarize the problems of the White Sox in only ten minutes. I was atleast expecting some reference to the two, 1-2 count IBB from TLR, but yeah, overall an accurate take on the White Sox

Right down the middle

I like the idea of playing more teams outside the division. I honestly don’t have any sympathy for how often they'll be traveling. And for the few fans that follow the team to KC, Detroit, Minnesota or Cleveland, you’ll only have six less games per divisional opponent to watch them outside Chicago.

More deflection from Hahn. “We weren’t able to improve to club.” No buddy, YOU weren’t able to

Probably, It will just take 30 minutes to say it

I expect a “Tony expressed confidence in the current roster and didn’t feel a move was necessary” comment from Hahn

I agree with standing pat as well, but I’m sure it’s not by design. Hahn’s low bid offers weren’t accepted. However, let’s not act like the winter will be any different than past years.

Probably nothing. Playing .500 ball through the the next week and a half, they’d (likely) only lose a few games in the standings. But they’ll be close enough not to justify any significant coaching changes.

Right, and I’m not sure what it’ll take to remove the current group.

Something about dangling the carrot, right? And so many White Sox fans are right there alongside Reinsdorf, as if its their money on the line. “Rodon isn’t worth the QO risk or a Two year deal.”

B….b…but they have spent the money! Foolishly. Next offseason we’ll go through the same motions again

Dallas would probably agree it wasn’t his fault.

I honestly believe the players feel exactly the same as the fans during a Dallas start. His release wouldn’t be done to “shake up the team,” as much as removing waste and eliminating the feeling of an automatic loss before the 1st pitch. I don’t care who the body is replacing him, as long as it’s not another pitcher with a terrible attitude and an inability to locate a 89 mph fastball

By next Sun the weather should be heating up, and we can finally be rid of the cold weather excuse that only affected the White Sox….and not their opponents.

I know we’re always going on about loyalty within the White Sox organization, but if we lose the next three to Kansas City I don’t see how he finishes out the week. Fortunately for TLR and JR, I’m sure we won't be swept by the Royals at home

Cmon even Sano won’t chase a slider a foot off the plate. Waste of a pitch

Terrible

He literally hurt himself running in a straight line. God forbid he has to move laterally using whatever fast twitch muscles are left in his legs. This was all probably due to the criticism he received yesterday for not running out the grounder. I’ll show them!

We all know deep down he’ll never be injured for a significant amount of time. Meanwhile Robert injures himself running in a straight line and Eloy is injured fouling a ball off his foot.

Now I’m in a position where I’m cheering for the team, but rooting against Garcia. What’s better for the success of this ballclub? God forbid he plays well today in the 3 spot and it validates TLR’s lineup.

I don’t think he would’ve pulled his starters and forfeited the game in the third inning. The more reasonable complaint is the ridiculousness of the game 2 lineup with the amounr of off days they’ve had recently. And his reluctance to sub in regulars into late inning matchups.