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They have a history of being gigantic f*** ups so we are all expecting the worst. But you are right that they haven't done anything wrong yet. Yet because many of the good candidates are off the board now we fans get antsy as out legit concerns start creeping in again. It is hard to give them the benefit of the doubt when they have fucked up before, and fucked up really bad for that matter.

Damnit, McBain screaming "Mendoza" was the gif I wanted but couldn't find. ?

Presuming of course its not just some grand ruse to appear as though they did a thorough and legitimate search... ?

Could the Ozzie chatter be a deliberate attempt to soften the blow of hiring a total unknown? Not that Mendoza is a total unknown, but definitely less known around these parts. Yankees bench coach is good enough for me if the alternatives are Ozzie, Washington, Grifol, or Getz.

Oh no, being concerned about connecting to half the player population, oh mercy me.

How does one dress like a dumpster fire? Or a flaming bag of poo?

Out of town baseball is great, if I could only quit the team that plays down the street from me...

Make that at least two. Ozzie is all about Ozzie. Nothing has changed in 15 years or so.

JR still feeling nostalgic in his advanced age and doubling down?

YES! That is an important detail too. Dude still had a year left on his deal, and was begging for an extension while simultaneously negotiating a deal with another club. Seriously, Ozzie can f*** forever.

Exactly.

If Ozzie Guillen had any contrition for his past behaviour, if he truly wanted to rehab his image and work his way back into a manager’s role he would swallow his stupid pride and take a coaching gig somewhere. Yet he has been doing TV work, actively seeking someone else’s job. No org wants anything to do with him as manager because he is so radioactive, except possibly our White Sox. His ego is too big to allow him to catch on somewhere to work his way back. He thinks he is entitled to manage the White Sox without having earned any of it. The man quit on us and still believes the job should be his. How anyone can think he will magically be anything but the walking dumpster fire he was from 2009 onward is delusional.

He was negotiating with another team to be their manager while still under contract and during the season. Him not quitting until after game 160 doesn’t change the fact that he was actively negotiating with another team long before that. His only loyalty is to himself. “Nitpicking” doesn’t change any of his disloyal selfish behaviour, which shows no signs of changing or evolving in the past decade.

Stockholm syndrome and or battered wife syndrome? Not to make light of these real world conditions, but we collectively as a fan base have taken so much stupidity from the org and still stick around. Most of us don’t know any other ownership group. The org treats fans like dog s%*# yet we still can’t quit them. I wish I could, but here I am still wishing they would change. Like, WTF?

TLR actually had success in his other stops after being with the Sox, while Ozzie crashed & burned so bad he was basically radioactive. Granted TLR had the benefit of a few hall of famers and rampant ped use in the clubhouse. Ozzie quite possibly would be as bad if not worse in game, in the locker room, and with the press. Hiring a toxic former right after your previous toxic former failed catastrophically and went out in a dumpster of flaming wreckage seems worse to me. Few moves could be as dumb as following TLR with Ozzie.

I can’t conceive of an Ozzie that is anything but a substantially worse version of the one that quit on his team a decade ago. He hasn’t changed along with the game at all. TLR again but even worse.

I don't think he'll come cheap. But I also don't think the Sox would pay him $100M, which is what I implied in my post.

Really hoping finally having a normal winter & spring training will alleviate many of these soft tissue injuries, not just with the Sox but league wide.

At least make the tweet believable guys??. Nimmo should be a target, but if that contract approaches $100M it’s pretty safe to assume he’s not coming here.

Don’t know which was the dumber part of that post.

You know what I hate? Seeing all of Eloy’s offensive potential go to waste sitting on the IL. Sorry Eloy, but DH is your future if you want a long and healthy playing career.

It would be such a JR move to give Ozzie an undeserving 2nd chance on the anniversary of the 2005 World Series win???.

High speed train crashing into an oncoming train full of nuclear waste.

Long makes a lot of sense, doesn’t have the stick of Astros cheating, and isn’t direct in line to take over his current dugout. Question remains whether JR let’s Hahn make the choice or if he or KW f*** it up again.