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Could you add something hotter - possibly a blue flame emoji for Jack Parkman's gamethread takes?

I'm elated that your Padres are getting beaten down, @caulfield12. There is no other team I want to lose more than the Padres after they lied about Shields' health. Fuck them.

Definitely a possibility. He's shown how great he can be in the bullpen. Not sure if they'll want to keep jerking him between starter and reliever.

They stretch him out at a low level in the minors. He has very few innings under his belt. The most he threw in college is 65 innings. I would guess he needs at least 2 years in the minors to stretch out and fine tune his repertoire.

Not sure what that has to do with a potential White Sox vs Padres world series next year, but I agree. Padres are toast. This dodgers team is too good.

Padres vs White Sox is definitely a possibility next season.

He could definitely be worse than Eloy. Imagine putting Paulie out there. Not saying Vaughn is that slow, but let's me real. Assuming 1st basemen would field better than Eloy is a huge stretch. Eloy flashes decent range at times.

This Dodgers team is just historically great. I wouldn't be surprised if they only lose 1 postseason game like the 2015 White Sox and 99 yankees. Their offense and bullpen are arguably the best in the league. Top 3 at minimum. Starting staff has some great weapons. Defense is worse than I would have expected according to fangraphs. The metrics reallyyy don't like their infield defense.

Adding Crochet into the starting rotation when there is clearly absolutely 0 chance of that happening. ejm3 had the same idea as you! Very surprising!

Getting Nimmo would be so damn nice. He put up some great numbers this year. His wRC+ of 148 would be 2nd best on the Sox. I feel they'll keep him around given the new owner, unfortunately. They may be buyers.

Ozzie even commented how wimpy the media was after the series loss against the A's. All softball questions to Renteria. Bernstein has said the same about media now a days. It might be a case of "it was/we were tougher back in my day!!" from both of them, but still.

It's too late. He already packed his bags and left because people were too harsh on his big brain ideas.

Is that even possible? Lol. It's tough to butcher a lineup that good. TA Bryce Harper Abreu Eloy Yoan Vaughn Grandal Robert Madrigal Assuming Yoan bounces back. Honestly, it's hard to make a bad lineup with that group.

No offense, but uses batting average and total homeruns as to why you think McCann is better than Grandal, and you end most of your posts with "lol". You're also lobbying for Crochet to be the 5th starter next year which is obviously not a serious solution. People will just think you are trolling.

Imagine this lineup with Bryce Harper and Andrew Vaughn in it... Good lord that would be insane.

Not a huge fan of "The Cuban Ohtani" designation. I know he can throw 95 mph, but I haven't seen much indication that he will pitch outside of that. I hope we sign him regardless. You have to think the White Sox are frontrunners for whichever Cuban prospects they decide to go for.

Will we be banning people for referring to the 1918 pandemic as the Spanish Flu?

Stone, Frank, Ozzie and Chuck have all ripped Ricky fairly publicly. That wouldn't be happening if Ricky was staying for the foreseeable future like some here think. He's definitely on the hot seat after the boneheaded decisions this year. Rick Hahn isn't blind. This rebuild will be his legacy. He won't let that ship sink with Ricky freaking Renteria continuing to manage is things aren't going well.

Do you mean the contending window, as in the next 4-6 years? You think they resign him after next season?

Was he actually leaving or just taking a trip in the motorcade to wave at his supporters? lol.

In Blackmon's 2019 season (using the last full season), he had a 1.174 OPS in Coors Field and a .731 OPS away from Coors. Given his age, contract and below average defense that will only get worse, no thanks to him as well.

Spiegel said he would be surprised if Ricky was let go after this largely successful season in a strange year. He asked Stone what his opinion was and if he had any inside info into the situation. Stone basically said he has no idea whether the sox will retain Ricky or will go a different direction.

Just got uploaded here. I'm listening to it now. https://www.radio.com/podcasts/hit-run-with-matt-spiegel-59/spiegel-steve-stone-interview-white-sox-season-in-review-hour-1-347196664

Regarding your first point. What do you want the tax rates raised to and how much do you expect it to generate for bailout money? Second point, military spending. Do you honestly expect military spending to be cut? Who is going to do that? Never happens.