Timmy U

I honest to God can not remember ever being this discouraged as a Sox fan — and my Dad had season tickets to the 1976 Sox when I was a kid. If they hire La Russa, I have no idea what I’ll do. Probably just step back from following the team and posting here for awhile. Might switch to following a different team or something. The whole thing just sucks. So glad I stuck by the team through the rebuild so it can be turned over to that divisive, egotistical jerk. Well, I guess thank God they traded Tatis Jr. because no way would Tony have approved of him.

I believe he has said as much due to estate taxes.

If JR voted that way cuz he thinks the guy’s a crook, I applaud him. So little weight is given to moral character in our society, and it leads to a lot of bad outcomes.

The Sox weren’t juicing. Lots of players and lots of teams weren’t. The A’s were at the bleeding edge of cheating along with the Rangers. Also, Astros weren’t the only ones electronically stealing signs. That’s why Manfred sent the memo. The Red Sox were certainly doing it, and people had strong suspicions about the Yankees. I believe Chris Sale had some fairly strong suspicions about the Tigers as well. I am no fan of the Astros, I’m just saying, if we’re gonna be anti-cheaters, those A’s teams were among the worst I have seen.

It just occurred to me that anyone who’s upset about Hinch and cheating might want to look at LaRussa’s tenure with the A’s. That whole team was roiding. I remember McGwire was out for like a year and a half with a foot thing. He came off the DL and after 18 months off he was way better hitter. Suddenly he could get to the high fastball. Everyone knew they were juicing, but baseball didn’t care.

Maybe the Dodgers will can Roberts so they can beat Reinsdorf to LaRussa?

We should have a barf reaction. I don’t doubt this is good info, it would just ruin my fandom. Giving this exciting young team to that sour curmudgeon would depress the hell out of me. I might have to do the unthinkable: start watching the Mets.

Giolito credited Renteria and Cooper for standing by him; the actual changes were suggested by Adam Katz. For the record, I stood by Giolito during that time as well. Not sure if it helped.

I wonder if the change in pitching coach is going to have an effect on this calculus. In recent years, Cooper's record of helping top prospects transition into MLB starters was abysmal. Lopez regressed, and this year when they wanted to fix him they sent him to Zaleski. Cease looks considerably worse than he did in AA. Sure, his ERA was better this year but his peripherals collapsed from 2019 to 2020. I guess you can cite Giolito, but there's no evidence Cooper was involved in that at all. Long term, if they don't get that fixed, it's not going to matter if they sign Bauer or trade for somebody. No organization is gonna thrive if they can't develop their players.

I'm old enough to remember this. There were definitely hard feelings. The Sox reporting of the agent was unusual at the time. I believe Hinch didn't sign the paper allowing them to redraft him out of Stanford. That's why I was surprised he seemed to be the leading candidate. Then I read the report that Hahn worked for his agent at the time, Jeff Moorad. Apparently, this is long-forgotten by both sides now, but at the time it was quite heated.

So? La Russa is very close to Vance Law and would try to get him to come to Chicago.

Good lord. How does he still have a job???

Fair enough, but here's the headline: Opinion: Believe it or not, Hall of Famer Tony La Russa could be the next White Sox manager

It's an opinion piece he's yanking from, let's say, the late '90s.

Here's the twitter.

Regarding Scioscia, I think if the Sox are saying the game has passed Coop by and Hahn name checks Rocco Baldelli, the chances that they're going to hire Scioscia or Showalter or someone like that are negligible. But, I've been wrong before.

Just read an interview with Francona on Cleveland.com. He's coming back to Cleveland. Only reason he wouldn't is if his health worsens. He had blood clots, multiple surgeries and still needs a hip replacement but is delaying it because of the blood clots. With what Hahn said about this manager committing to the entirety of the window, even if he were available, it would not be Francona. I'm expecting someone much younger/healthier.

He had strep before the season began. Apparently, he has had frequent struggles with it in the past.

The record is still intact. Remember technically this was "mutual."

Really sounded like it.

Reading between the lines, the answers all pointed to Hinch as the leading candidate for the job: Recent October experience, doesn't necessarily speak Spanish, outside the organization, wouldn't answer cheater question.

Woo! Best presser ever!

Woo! Cooper had to go!

I posted in another thread that Sox had a bad relationship with Hinch like 100 years ago. Did that ever get patched up?

Aside from the cheating, there was bad blood between Hinch/his family and the Sox from when they drafted him as an amateur. Generally, JR holds a grudge. I'd be surprised if it was Hinch.