Tony

My guess is you’ve already taken a ban hammer here once or twice....

And in the most predictable way possible, #CancelDisneyPlus was trending last night in response to their decision. Because logically, if you are so against cancel culture, the only appropriate action to take is to cancel something else

I’m making this somewhat political so I apologize but I just can’t stand this argument I’m seeing by one side of “Why does Disney get to be the moral arbiter or what is right and what is wrong?” Because they write the checks and she takes their money. You represent the company and they have every right to say “We don’t agree with these views and have decided to part ways in our relationship.” It just bothers me to no end this idea of having zero consequences for our actions. It’s fantasy land to believe otherwise

Bye bye Gina

They’ve really been playing scrappy, glad to see them having some success. And if Lankinen is the real deal, they could be in better shape than previously thought.

I’m a pretty large Bears hater and they most likely would have found a way to make Brady look awful hahah, but I still think it would have been interesting

I think Gronk comes with him wherever he goes. I know he wasn’t even a huge weapon for him. Robinson and Evans may be a wash and Godwin actually put up semi disappointing numbers this year. The Bears made the playoffs with Mitch....I don’t think it’s crazy to think Brady could have won them a few playoff games..

How big of a hot take is it to say it Brady had picked the Bears over the Bucs....it’s Chicago in the Super Bowl right now?

Gotcha, thanks Balta

Two things. 1. Zack Wheeler signed for 5/118 with the Phillies. But let’s say that offer never came in from the Phillies. So the Sox offered 125, and the next best offer is from the Yankees at 100 million. Where do you think he ends up? 2. Again, Wheeler signed for 5/118. We don’t know how much the Sox offered, but let’s say it was 125. What if the offer was 140? 150? Does he still tell the Sox no, or does the extra 20-30 million get him to Chicago? What we are saying basically comes down to semantics....but my point is I think in both cases, money DOES become the deciding factor and is the No. 1 decision...but when the difference between the two final offers were so small, the secondary stuff starts to weigh-in more. I don’t believe playing on the East Coast becomes that big of a talking point if the difference in offers was 20+ Million, and the Sox could have made that happen if they wanted.

So help me out guys. I followed everything, but not a huge XMen guy. Does the Quicksilver character have a totally different backstory than the Quicksilver in Ultron? I assume so, I just didn’t know how they handled that...

I don’t think this word means what you think it means.

I mean, it would have been an insult to fans. Trevor Bauer is getting 45 million in 2022. I’m fairly confident we’ll never see a player make that much in a season for the White Sox...ever.

Fixable....by the Bears?!?!?

Really awesome write up by Fegan and sounds like a really nice addition. Fan of the staff Tony has put together thus far.

Without being in the room, it felt like Cooper had a business card with 6-7 of his core pitching philosophies printed on them, and would just hand them out to the staff and say “Good luck.”

Don’t worry, based on who Cease follows on Twitter...he is the EXACT opposite. (Which I don’t really care about, FYI..)

So to be clear, Bauer being 30 is a concern for you, but you’re also concerned that if the Sox signed Bauer, they would be unable to re-sign a then 35 year old Lance Lynn?

I was actually somewhat ok with that but I just felt like I’ve seen this movie before. It did nothing new and the performances weren’t anything special. It was just very “meh”

To be clear, it isn’t the only reason. You’ve proven time and time again to be an irritating, whining, miserable know it all and people are sick of your act. Believe me. We’ve gotten plenty of messages. So when you come over the top and “chime in” with your absolutes (even though they are simply your opinions) people absolutely have a reason to tell you to shut the fuck up, and it doesn’t have to relate at all to whatever dead horse you’re trying to beat this time...people just don’t want to hear from you. You should listen to Kyle, he’s a smart guy.

It was very paint by numbers and just didn’t move the needle for me at all.

Ethan Katz is set up to be the biggest failure in White Sox history. I honestly feel bad about the level of hype he has received from the fan base, there is next to no chance he lives up to the hype that has been created around the legend of Ethan Katz.

I think that’s part of your problems, poppy. You aren’t going to agree with it or not going to understand it if you think it’s used for one thing...when it’s really used for another. Here is what my advice would be, and this isn’t just about WAR. Use as much information as possible, including your eyes. I’ve beaten this point into the ground and I will continue to: No front office just uses one stat to evaluate a player. Neither should you. We have SO much information available to us in 2021. Why would you use one stat to try and tell you about a player when you have hundreds to look at? I don’t look at just K/9 when looking at a relief pitcher. It’s one of the stats I like to look at, but it doesn’t tell the whole story. I love OBP, but I can’t just use OBP to evaluate a hitter. And why would I? I can look at so many other stats to help me paint a better picture of a player. WAR tries to evaluate overall performance and there is some value there for sure. But only using WAR would be a mistake. You should use it! Just don’t use it alone.

You basically have to trade an entire franchise for Watson at this point...