FloydBannister1983

Even if the desire to sign guys like this changes once Reinsdorf is gone that still won't change the perception from players around the league that the White Sox are a less than desirable place to sign. There will be a White Sox Premium that other teams don't pay.

They’re 22 in the league post all star break and will most likely drop to 26 before the weekend. The post all star break record is not a hill to die on.

It’s virtually impossible for them to win 63 games.

Yes I remember that poster here on Soxtalk. I felt so sorry for him. Maybe the team will in fact end up moving to Nashville and the laugh will be on the rest of us.

Yeah … I haven’t seen any posts deleted for positivity. Granted, I’m not privy to that but I think there would have been an outcry against it.

Oh here we go … “you’ll be on the bandwagon …” These are so tiresome. Is there some sort of prize awarded to fans by sports teams for unwaveringly supporting them during trying times? What do they get out of it? I saw the Blackhawks empty for plenty of years, just diehards showing up. When they were winning 10-15 years ago guess who were at the finals games. A bunch of corporate types that have never seen a hockey game in their lives. Congratulations on supporting them in the down times. Your fan rating must be through the roof.

Also is it really just Getz's second year? The stated intent was to make it a seamless transition, ergo no GM search. So it's clear the past failures can also be attributed to Getz to some degree.

What?

No, nobody has come to the conclusion that Getz isn't a moron. It's mostly indifference at this point.

What kind of a premium do the Sox pay to land someone? We know from experience it is greater than zero. 10%?

We do have evidence that players are willing to take less money than the White Sox offer. They have to pay a significant premium.

And they are on pace for 103 after catching fire in July to be one game below .500. They will revert to the mean and most likely be between 105-110.

What they are likely to reach this season.

It’s weird that he’s berating people for not understanding his horribly constructed sentences.

I got what you wrote but it would have helped had you not tortured the English language in that post. I can see why people were lost based on that sentence.

Greg, Roberts on paper has an OPS+ less than 90 each of the last two seasons and he isn’t getting younger.

It’s a weird flex made by some posters here. Getz keeping a guy that’s been a bum for two years and injured every year but one over his entire career shows what courage he has? Giving this guy $20 million is a step in the right direction?

90+ losses is better than 105+ losses. It still doesn’t mean you’re close to competing.

On a per game average the Sox outdrew the Cubs in 1994. The Cubs, while finishing in fourth in 1993, had a fine season six games above .500 in 1993. https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/1994-misc.shtml Also nobody said that the pre-1994 botches were not problematic, where did you get that? The only thing that was said was that Reinsdorf nearly single-handedly ending the 1994 season was the driving force behind the White Sox never ever recovering.

The numbers we drawn from baseball reference.

Not sure what that proves. They played more than 2/3 of the season and the Sox significantly outdrew the Cubs in 1994 before Reinsdorf shut down the season.

The Cubs did outdraw in 1993 by a small amount. The Sox outdrew again in 1994

Certainly 91-92. I wouldn’t credit 93-94 with the new stadium.

There is 100% probability they lose 100 this year. No way they go 31-34 the rest of the season.

The Sox were outdrawing the Cubs 1991-1994. It wasn’t 1984 that broke them, it was Reinsdorf’s role in the lockout. They never recovered from the lockout.