Sambuca

I’ve made it this far in life without listening to anyone on the Score talk for more than 15 seconds at a time. I plan to keep this streak going for the rest of my life. Honestly looks and sounds like a method of torture.

Thanks, man. Appreciate it. We took a roadtrip to Charlotte this past summer knowing there’s an opportunity for more interaction with the players before and after games. He was in awe personally handing Oscar Colas and Victor Reyes a ball to sign, getting a baseball thrown to him from a random reliever after a game, and getting some promotional stuff from their staff. You’re 100% right that’s the kind of stuff that helps turn kids into real fans. It’s definitely not just watching entire 9 inning games, especially during years when the team blows. I had to lie and tell him the Cubs were horrible this past season too lol. Glad you’ll be back in action as well!

Yes, my son has been waiting to go for the last two years. Potentially meeting a player/getting an autograph, getting a souvenir/game ball are some of his favorite parts of going to a game. He couldn’t believe there’s an actual event where you have that opportunity to meet almost every player and get their autograph. After the last two years have been cancelled, he’s probably starting to think I’m making it all up. I’m just pumped to finally take him next year. I doubt I’ll do much yelling at his favorite team in front of him lol.

His entire Twitter timeline posted and taking 20 minutes to scroll through on my phone is obnoxious.

The fact that there were multiple “just getting started” posts highlighting failure leads me to believe this was intentional. No idea what the motive would be, but there’s no way someone working for an MLB team didn’t understand those stats were poor and weak groundouts to 2B are not good. Even if the person was just an intern.

So if this is almost universally considered a good thing, it’s not happening. We don’t get nice things, we don’t get to be happy.

He was shut down the last few weeks of the season due to “elbow inflammation.” Everyone is assuming he is going to tear his UCL as soon as he starts pitching again this season. It’s a valid concern/expectation, especially considering we just saw the same story happen with Davis Martin the previous year.

Lol.

Definitely not a salary dump. New pitching Senior Advisor has every intention of unlocking him as a starter this season. Might be a lost cause, but a better option than salary dumping 3mil in a lost season.

This isn’t a horrible signing.

If Reinsdorf opens up the checkbook for a player, I’d rather it not be Bellinger. Maybe Getz will be a little more efficient with Reinsdorf’s money compared to Hahn with Grandal, Keuchel, Bennintendi and everyone in between. Either way, there is zero chance Jer is considering any contract for that type of money right now, or ever.

I’ve been trying to find it too, but it wasn’t a direct statement about quitting like Yermin. It was an Instagram post showing frustration with a current situation while simultaneously removing all things White Sox from his account. I probably should have chosen my words more carefully bringing the story up in this thread, but he appeared to be insinuating he was “done” with the White Sox or baseball all together.

Chris Getz wetz the bed.

You are describing Blake Snell who the Yankees just offered a 150mil contract, and will eventually land close to 200mil. And acting like Cease can’t handle non-AL Central offenses is quite ignorant. If you’ve never really watched him pitch, just say it. But his stuff plays against any MLB offense.

Party’s over, everyone. Time to go home. Alone.

Soto was traded with 2.5 years and 1 year.

I am hoping all of this detailed information coming from the media the last few days means something is very close to happening.

Colas basically threatened to quit because he was still in the minors in 2022. He was then handed the starting RF job out of ST and he was beyond horrible. I honestly did not expect him to be as bad as he was, and his performance makes me question if he’s a major league player in any capacity. I would not doubt if 2023 was enough of a mixture of bad/immature behavior and abysmal performance for many in the organization to sour on him almost completely. I don’t disagree that he needs to work his way back into a starting major league role on this team. As much as I want to disagree with every front office decision they make right now. Whether it’s the White Sox fault he was so bad and immature in 2023 due to lack of player development is another story. Regardless, this is where we are at right now.

Yeah, I was joking/being sarcastic.

He’s trying.

Agreed and unfortunately I presented that information without an actual solution because of current ownership. But as I sit here right now, knowing what we know and experienced, I would enjoy White Sox baseball more getting to watch one of the best players in the league for the next four years and seeing Getz fail at “going for it” for all of those years. I know “going for it” has no chance, but it still sounds light years more enjoyable than what has transpired over the last four years. A complete train wreck trying execute a rebuild after trading all of our best players and acquiring some of the best young talent in baseball. The last two years exposed the ineptitude of current ownership more than any fan should ever have to experience. I wish I had better words, but basically if that is how Reinsdorf and co. will handle another rebuild, then just let me enjoy Robert, please. Getz can attempt best KW ‘05 every year and we can finish in 3rd place with a bunch white “grinders.” It’s all very sad. Lol?

If you are realistic about the state of the franchise and who the owner is, you also know we’ve been down this road before. Having the best trade commodities in MLB only brought us to this point right now.

You guys make the trade with those guys from Baltimore yet?

Isn’t that why they drafted him?

Unfortunately, DH is the only serious option to get Burger into the lineup on the reg. Hopefully Eloy’s kidney doesn’t fall out of his body in RF.