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You forgot sad, pathetic, and desperate.

None of which bothers him, unless it's that dastardly private equity. Then its the most abominable evil known to mankind.

I still believe that an outside hire, working within the same restraints and limitations as Getz, would have this org in a better spot. Modernizing the operation is something that should have happened anyway, so Getz gets no extra credit from me. An outside hire with any idea of how a modern front office should be run would have done the same. And probably do a better job. Yes, Getz inherited a catastrophic mess, (that he helped create), yet managed to take a 101 loss team and make it 20 games worse. It is mind boggling how bad his roster management was the first year on the job. There is tanking, and then there is constructing the worst team in modern baseball history. No GM should be allowed to survive that. But worst of all, he is inept at talent evaluation. The Crochet trade suggests that he might have learned something from past mistakes, but that doesn't erase giving away other trade assests for vitually nothing. Or the continued org penchant for overpaying washed up veterans that offer little value towards building the future roster. Nothing changes until JR is gone, and there will always be limits to how this org operates until then, but that doesn't excuse the s%*# job Getz has done to this point.

Bob Nightengale writing about the White Sox, the truth of which is always a question.

Hooray?

The Rockies' reminds me of early/mid 90s Phoenix Suns. These are all horrible either way, which leads me to believe they are real sadly.

A third of the Chicago market is larger than the entire Nasville metro area. The moment JR is no longer the controlling partner the entire fanbase will be instantly invigorated. There is no greater untapped market than right here. Ishba has to see the goldmine he'd be acquiring. As jaded as the Sox fan base is, if the Sox suddnely start operating like a modern large market team under new ownership, it won't take long for the fans to buy in. I honestly believe that.

MLB giving NYY juiced balls their opening series? Inconceivable! /green

NYY's homer barrage in their opening series might have had more to do with bad Milwaukee pitching than the torpedo bats. If the trend continued against AZ we might be able to gleen some data to suggest the new bats give hitters an advantage, but so far that isn't the case. Five games is far too small of a sample size to draw any conclusions obviously, but I don't think the Yankess have broken the hitting code or anything with a new bat design.

Schriffen's job is calling baseball games, yet he shuns one of the best and most knoweldgeable sources of pitching info publically available. It speaks to a lack of intellectual curiosity IMO. On top of being bad at his job, he acts like he's better for remaining ignorant. It's a bad combo. The more he opens his mouth (and puts his foot in it), he proves he's just a meathead who wants to appeal to other meatheads. It works for Slamball or other hype-based broadcasts, but not for baseball. A healthy org would have quietly let him go after last season, yet here we are discussing yet another on-air f*** up that reflects the incompetence of the org as a whole. Maybe someday the White Sox won't be a source of daily embarrassment, but that day is not today.

Meh. Niether of these dudes are any good, and hardly worth getting upset about. Only difference is that a bad GM was dumb enough to guarantee $6M instead of letting both go.

This deal is why it was wise to trade him at peak value. Jerry would never ok that number for a player, let alone a pitcher with Crochet’s injury history. Maybe someday Sox fans will be able to have nice things, but that day is not today or anytime soon.

Rain, yes, but I don't think anyone expected it to be that crazy that quickly. The tarp snafu could have happened anywhere, it just happened to be the most incompetent org in the Majors. But the org incompetence isn't why it happened, it's just a lazy, yet easy conflation to make across social media.

The shadow of incompetence after a historically bad season is going to plague this organization for a while. If this were any other ballpark it wouldn't go viral, or as viral, and wouldn't be more meme fodder. Bossard's crew is well known for being one of the best. Yesterday's storm really came out of nowhere, and hit hard and fast, and could have happened at any open air ballbark in a colder climate. In reality this was just a freak occurrence that happened to happen to the Sox.

Notice how I said he'd likely out produce guys here? Getz should have claimed the dude already, and should be giving as many guys like Canario a shot over the 30 something crowd that have no future here. But he's incompetent, so he won't. I have zero expectations for Getz to make smart moves like this. But I'm not going to lament passing on a fringe guy that would likely be burried here just the same.

He's the random castoff flavor of the week. Getz will stick to his beloved washed up vets, and Canario will go somewhere else and have little impact, yet still out-produce anyone he would have replaced here. Much to the consternation of few.

Yeah, bad luck is such a minute factor here that it's almost irrelevant. If new hires that look great on paper aren't impacting or preventing the continual string of bad decisions, what exactly has changed other than the names in those positions?

There is no if about it.

Because these are the White Sox and incompetence reigns? But also, holy s%*# are they bad at this.

M's OF is pretty full. Unless Colas can magically play 3B, I'm gonna call bullshit. Just like all of this dude's phoney leaks. If multiple teams had interest, Colas wouldn't have just been DFA'd at the end of spring.

Classic. OD rosters dont have to be announced until Thursday morning, so the entire OP is moot.

Oh Happy Day!!

Getz walked into a bad situation, yes, but he was also involved in its making. He then proceeded to dig the hole even deeper, putting out the worst team in baseball history while burning limited trade capital for poor returns. He also failed miserably in adding short term flippable assests while burying youth that needed to be evaluated at the big league level. His one good trade is mostly responsible for a higher farm rating in my view, and a farm system rating based on amassing talent other orgs traded to you is not impressive to me. Getz, the former director of player development, can't exactly point to many developemental wins under his watch. Position player developemet has been a long term failure for this org, of which he was a part of and in charge of. It is too soon to know if his org changes will have a tangible impact on player developement - an area he has already been responsible for and has failed miserably. I'll believe it when I see it. His hires look good so far, but it is too soon judge the impact. While it appears he is overhauling the org, we haven't exactly seen him display a magic touch in other areas, so the skepticism there is fair. Dragging the org into the 20th century is great, but he gets no credit from me until its proven that the org is functioning at the same modern era standards the best orgs in baseball are. If Getz were an outside hire walking in with zero previous ties I might have more grace for the job he has done so far. But that is not the case. The few positives we can point to aren't very tangible yet, and simply don't offset his tangible failures so far. He gets nothing but an F from me.