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This comment from a friend and a long time Sox fan summed things up pretty well: "It’s sickening. And it’s also a lie, because while a GM has to walk a line (sell tickets!) Getz absolutely did not feel anything near this way in spring. He 100% thought he’d improved the team, even if by a game and I’m guessing he thought sheer luck would cap him at 90 losses. So beyond the absolute offense we take at his casual words now, he’s also lying. This isn’t about 2000 or 2010, where memories fade, this is six friggin months ago. I am not so much of a diehard that they still can’t kill my fandom. I’ll always carry it with me but it is a flickering ember at this point. And seemingly we are not yet at bottom."

The stiff also over ran a pop up today.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2024/09/09/trading-crochet-still-likely-offseason-scenario-for-white-sox

Sure...rush a guy who has had injury issues and this year needed an eight game hitting streak to up his average to .217. Rush a kid up into this toxic environment. Right...😆

From Scott Merkin , Getz met the media today before the game apparently: "If you would have told me we were going to end up flirting with the record, I would have been a little surprised. Now if you would have told me prior to the year that we would have ended up with over 100 losses, 105, 110, I wouldn't have been as surprised." ---Chris Getz

Again it must be so refreshing and mentally encouraging for any player to get out of this incompetent organization. Losing begats losing and given the state of the franchise you can understand why unconsciously guys just don't do well in this environment.

it's possible assuming he still is in control of the franchise.

Corner outfield spots are power positions, unless he can hit 25-30 home runs and drive in 90-100 runs he can't be the everyday right fielder. Maybe after Robert is traded he can move to center.

Third baseman Bryan Ramos was called up Thursday from Triple-A Charlotte but hadn’t seen action until he pinch-ran for Andrew Vaughn and scored in the ninth. ‘‘It’s tough,’’ Sizemore said. ‘‘Try to maybe work him and [Miguel Vargas] together at third and maybe get some DH days for him, as well. These last 20 games or so, try to get some of the younger guys as many looks as I can and get some of the veteran guys days off. But it’s going to be tough trying to find spots for everybody.’’ 🤡

‘‘Every day, it’s something new,’’ a former baseball executive told the Sun-Times over the weekend. ‘‘They’re inventing ways to lose games. You could not have scripted something this bad in the history of baseball.’’ https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2024/09/08/as-white-sox-historically-bad-season-nears-end-you-have-to-see-big-picture-assistant-gm-says

From Sox Machine: *Gonzalez both chased out of the zone and swung-and-missed inside the zone too much to be the X-factor the White Sox relentlessly sold him to be. But his 3-for-4 night with two runs scored reminds he’s substantially improved both in Boston to become a 109 wRC+ hitter while manning six different positions for the Red Sox, after being designated for assignment in January to clear 40-man roster room for John Brebbia. He also stole three bases. Who knew?!

As long as the political climate remains the same and in the Sox case unless JR is willing to put up significant money neither team is getting squat and they can partner with everyone and it won't change a thing. Politicians in Springfield aren't going to risk their careers supporting this with the blowback from citizens and citizen groups.

if they were to add another round of playoffs and more teams a la the NBA and NHL, I'm guessing at some point fairly soon, you'd get a team actually qualifying with a .500 record or a losing one. That almost happen in 1994. At the time of the labor standoff the Rangers were in first place in their division with a record 10 games under .500. They would have played the Sox in the first round.

It doesn't matter who they put out there usually the opponent scores to break the game open or if it's late in the game, win it.

https://www.southsidesox.com/2012/11/9/3619970/south-loop-sox

More info from a source who commented on the four scouts fired (which I posted in their thread): "I was a little worried Marco would be let go. A scout from another team thinks he’ll get a job quickly. Latin American talent is volatile. Marco connected on a few but had some big swings and misses lately, which hurt him. I know Doug Laumann liked working for him."

More info on this situation from a source who knows the scouting/ development baseball world very, very well: "All pro scouts. Scherrer definitely didn’t travel. He was their top pro scout. Siers based in Florida, responsible for Jose Quintana. Also didn’t travel. Benedict was a pro scout. Not sure if his travel was curbed. Daracka had severed ties earlier this summer. Was a KW guy. Heard some bitching about his work ethic." Also had comments about the job being done by Gene Watson. Another team's scout had this to say about him: "Never watches game. Should be director of entertainment. Don’t know when Getz will stop going along with him.”

Well soon they'll be holding the record for the worst season in modern MLB history. That's pretty elite!

Not as long as JR is owner, he has stated that he doesn't think a manager or a head coach makes that much difference (as a side note that means to doesn't have to pay top dollar for top people in that position)

I suspect as long as Pritzker remains governor JR's plan to fleece the taxpayers yet again is D.O.A. much like his franchise that he's destroyed.

I think it was Jay Cuda who posted that the Sox scouting and analytics departments were one of the smallest in baseball. And I don't know if this involved the guys who were fired today but I posted what I was told by a source a few weeks ago that the Sox had been paying scouts to stay home the last three months.

“The White Sox playing shorthanded started in 2007 when Jermaine Dye got hurt and Kenny Williams refused to call up Brian Anderson or Ryan Sweeney. Maybe they were cheap, maybe they wanted to protect Herm’s record of keeping guys off the DL.” (Author’s Note: Herm Schneider was the Sox longtime head trainer and for years the Sox were among the league leaders in keeping players healthy.) This is what a source told me on this tendency for my November 2022 story.

DVS paragraph on the firing: BALTIMORE — Marco Paddy, the longtime head of White Sox international operations, is leaving the organization as general manager Chris Getz looks to shake up a pipeline that hasn’t produced much in recent years. Paddy, the 2022 International Scout of the Year, was in his 12th season as special assistant to the general manager, international operations. He directed the Sox’ Latin American efforts with an emphasis on international signings. “We’ve decided to go a different direction with a restructuring of our international department,” said Chris Getz, the Sox’ former farm director who just completed his first full year as general manager. “We thank Marco for his work and wish him well in the future.” During Paddy’s tenure, the Sox signed more than 150 international free agents, including outfielder Luis Robert Jr., Jose Abreu and Fernando Tatis — who was traded away before he became a star. But recent international signing classes have not been as fruitful. Infielder Eduardo Herrera, who became the highest rated non-Cuban international signee in franchise history in January, struggled in the Dominican Summer League. And expensive signees Oscar Colas, Yoelqui Cespedes, Micker Adolfo, Norge Vera and Yolbert Sánchez have been slow to develop. The Sox are looking to improve their operation in the Dominican Republic.

Loved those uniforms.