TheFutureIsNear

Has Cuban even been in the mix since the Cubs? Doesn’t seem like he’s in the stuffy boys club enough for the rest of the MLB ownership. I can see the Harris/Blitzer duo being the next owners if there is a sale. I believe they got close to a 2B offer for the Mets and already own the Sixers and Devils. Don’t know enough about hockey to know why the Devils suck, but they have been spending well above the luxury tax and seemingly going for a championship with the Sixers.

That’s insane…what exactly does our front office do for this team?

There’s exceptions to everything…doesn’t change the fact that the guy is literally at the average life expectancy of someone who lives in this country. Whether we like the job he’s done or not, being a manager of a professional sports team isn’t easy. Never mind the constant travel and non-stop schedule, but the stress involved (especially when underachieving) is real. We’ve all seen head coaches have to step away due to health concerns at MUCH younger ages.

Yeah I really don’t think conspiracy theories are needed when a soon to be 78 year old can’t travel and/or work almost every day. Seems pretty straight forward that it would negatively impact his health. The fact that he was doing it is weirded than not being able to do it in my opinion, 77 is really f’ing old and it’s not like he’s in tip top shape by any means

He’s been mediocre to downright bad except this month of August really…which is being fueled by a .400+ BABIP. Not going to get carried away by a hot streak, we all should have learned that lesson by now. Not sure if the glove justifies it, but I think if Gavin can stick as a lefty pinch hitter off the bench it would be a success.

Ridiculous. Literally not a single person on earth thought that going into this season. A coach 1000% can drag a team down. Don’t get me wrong, the players deserve blame too, but to say the White Sox even have bottom 10 talent is just factually wrong. The entire team suddenly not being able to hit HR’s can’t be a coincidence. The coaching absolutely fucked this team up

Edit: how on earth do you get a gif to work on this site?

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Not bunting to get a run is idiotic…you would think bunting is the 1 thing our dinosaur of a manager would know about

Yeah Robert probably shouldn’t be playing if he can’t swing a bat normally. Some really bad/weird swings last night too

And Kelly most likely coming in next? This game is over.

Who didn’t see that coming?

Wait til he comes in for the 9th…is Hendricks available? Forget how many pitches he threw but there were some fairly high stress pitches

Not sure I’ve ever seen a major leaguer swing with only the top hand

Wow..that’s 1 way to make up for not being able to hit a baseball

25 games at 2B last year too…curious if it’s a real possibility or just a way to get his bat in the lineup

What is Ramos’ defense like? Does he gave a legit shot at sticking at 2B?

He’s 26 and in his first 30 career starts has a 3.6 ERA and you’re writing him off as a career reliever? How?

Not even close. Pollack sure, but Eloy (when healthy) and Vaughn we weren’t getting better bats. Harrison has actually been solid the past few months, you weren’t finding a LH 2B to replace him. So yeah, you could have improved the OF defense…but the team is already a bottom 10 offense, it would have been a net neutral most likely. What realistic trade target would you have acquired that would have turned this team around?

The season was already lost. Trading prospects to try and save a sinking ship is dumb

To each their own, but it’s been painfully obvious to me all year that this team has shown 0 heart or fight to think they could even come close to competing for a championship. And whatever 2 mediocre left handed bats were available to the Sox weren’t going to change that….not even sure where you’re fitting 2 bats into the lineup and improving it anyway

At the VERY minimum Menechino should have been fired a long time ago. Obviously LaRussa should have been fired too. The coaching/decision making is bad enough, but imo there’s too much smoke for there not to be some truth to the Sox having a bad clubhouse. It’s obvious that the demeanor of pretty much the entire team sucks. The apathy towards underachieving is hard to watch. I have no problem with not trading whatever few prospects we have for help at the trade deadline tho. It was far too late to think that any minor improvement was really going to turn this team around. 1 of the very few correct decisions by Hahn

As poorly as this organization is run I think people are a little naive with some of these comments. There’s no way the White Sox are run with a giant piggy bank with all of the $ coming out of the same place. There has to be separate budgets for separate things, that’s how any/every business is ran. The player payroll isn’t stopping this organization from hiring analytic people to sit in an office for 100K a year. Now, why the budget for analytics is so low is a good question. Do Hahn/KW not value it and that’s why? Or is that all of the budget they are given? Something we’ll probably never know

The fat lady is singing loud and clear…this season is over

Ya we definitely have a lot more a Grandal problem than a Vaughn problem. Don’t know how much $ and/or prospects we’d have to include to get out of the last year of his deal, but that route should be explored before trading Vaughn. I think a LF/DH platoon of Vaughn and Eloy is more than sufficient if they are both hitting.