Sambuca

Yep, he’s an arrogant prick. This behavior also seeps into the booth and has made me like him less as an announcer as well. His opinion is not the end all be all, and is not more important than reality. Sometimes he just needs to shut his mouth, especially when it comes to trashing his own players and insulting his own fans.

The White Sox somehow have me feeling apathetic right before a season with arguably the most talented team of my lifetime. It didn’t hit me until this Giolito situation. Despite my frustration with this offseason, I was ready to roll with our current roster. Thank you ownership for stealing all of the positive attention away from your own product and turning it into negative attention towards yourselves. No seriously though, fuck you.

I don’t think the people have any excitement left in the tank.

I did, but it’s completely gone. I feel delusional thinking otherwise right now.

I’m just not seeing any scenario where waiting is the best option. If there is a scenario where waiting is the best option, it only proves the Sox did not have a plan, or at best executing a plan very poorly. It screams incompetence with zero understanding of the current market. This is how you end up with an off-season of missed opportunities, and arguably no positive value added.

And also yep.

Yep.

So you think saving a few millions dollars with the risk of missing out on Conforto completely should even be considered in a conversation? That’s an absurd risk to take.

So would that mean they have no intention of using any of that money on the 2022 roster, at least until the trade deadline? If so, f that. Dragging this on just to save a few million really makes picking up his option look silly. If they were making any other moves right now that involved taking on money, I’d feel differently.

How long does it take them to make a decision? They should have all of these options completely weighed out at this point. The longer they wait, the less chance they have of all of these deals still being on the table. Not to mention, any corresponding moves as players are flying off the board left and right. No one is waiting for them. Is this just incompetence or what?

I gave it a whirl.

Is this going to be blacked out on YouTube TV because it’s also on the Marquee Network?

I’m holding onto that too.

You think Sheets/Vaughn is really the plan for RF?

What happened to the source someone had saying the Sox were on “fire” or something right after the Kelly and Harrison signings? Has there been any contact with that source since? I can’t remember what poster said this.

Ignore my question as I asked this same thing before I saw CWS’s post.

What Twitter accounts are we talking about?

I’ve tried staying “rational” and patient, as there were still plenty of players left on the table, but I think we are getting to that point. Nothing major is happening. Yay.

This is kind of intriguing, but I honestly have no idea what his value is. Very hard player to gauge.

Take a hike, bro.

Who are you trading for Ketel Marte?

I was randomly just talking about this movie the other day. Bobby!!

Merkin would be tweeting and writing articles as part of his job for MLB. In that instance, MLB would be directly paying Merkin for writing words trashing them. I get Rosenthal was employed by MLB in some capacity, but all of his words and reporting do not belong to MLB. Rosenthal wrote these articles about the lockout/Manfred for the Athletic. There was also nothing inappropriate written about Manfred. It was normal reporting for a guy another company is paying to report. It’s not like he was on MLB Tonight calling Manfred a b****, as much as I really wish that happened.

Rosenthal is probably the most professional and well respected person in baseball media. This should go over well with fans and the rest of the media, especially with literally no other MLB news to discuss except for the current f’ing lockout. The current lockout with MLB/owners and Manfred being almost fully responsible.

Thank you. Posted this in the Work Stoppage thread a bit ago, but I did not have a chance to read anything so I did not include links/details.