FloydBannister1983

So Dylan Cease would bring back more than Chris Sale?

I used to get pleasure out of the Cubs misery. Once they finally won I gave up rooting for or against anybody.

Yeah, these are professionals who were supposed to be World Series contenders just one year ago and we are praising them for coming back before ultimately falling apart?

Sounds like Oglivie from The Bad News Bears: “And we did hit 17 foul balls!”

This is where I am. You can’t get mad when it’s expected. You just have to laugh.

Also 2020 was a fake year and the Sox were in the “playoffs” because of two extra playoff spots for that particular year. Silly to take pride in that.

If there is he would drop to the number 2 pick.

But not surprising. I know Jack thought Kopech was Verlander. What good times those were.

I agree the tank was a mistake as long as the kids that drove the car into the ditch were the ones driving the tow truck. It was doomed to failure the minute they kept these people in their jobs. I disagree if you think they could have found a second baseman. They have had two years and still haven’t found a replacement level second baseman.

Difference being the Astros were the only show in town. The Sox have the big evil empire on the North Side. Five seasons of tanking and you might as well burn the stadium and fumigate the place. You’ll have lost a generation of kids who will never pick up Sox fandom.

Don’t worry people will forget. I was never on board with this back in 2017 when they let the people who sank the Titanic captain the rescue boats. I was ripped, everyone on WSI thought Hahn was the Sox Theo. Ignore minor league injury history I was told. Ignore the absolute historical incompetence of this organization I was told. Hahnsight is 2020 one doofus had as his banner. Everyone will be on board with the next rebuild. Once the talking points go out (LaRussa’s fault, bad luck with injuries) all will be forgotten.

Maybe not the first injury but everyone should be predicting Jimenez and Robert and Moncada and Anderson to get hurt at some point every season. I also suspect Kopech will get hurt this year. And I am surprised Burger hasn’t been hurt recently.

I’ll bite … if he can’t be blamed for that what has he done that he can take credit for that is so impressive?

They were in the NLCS 2015-2017.

One during a fake season that shouldn’t even count.

The Ron Schueler era would be just fine at this point.

Who said that was the true litmus test? It’s not. (Also the Dodgers have two since 1988 inclusive.)

I’m not advocating for keeping Hahn around. Not at all. I’m just saying if anybody can make it worse it’s this organization.

I wonder in the back of my head if there is something worse waiting in the wings after Hahn is gone. There’s no guarantee it gets better. It would be hard to get worse but not impossible.

Of course there was losing their best hitter and second best pitcher and closer that might add to last year’s team being better than this year’s team.

I’m not sure the home field advantage accounts for the nine postseason appearances since 2000. Maybe it does.

Ofc the topic was organizational trust and not who will finish ahead of who in this particular year.

Nobody’s fawning, just saying one organization is better run than the other.

I mean in the Reinsdorf era the Twins have won two Workd Series and been to the postseason twice as many times, the last two years not withstanding. I’d say the zero trust has been earned.

The Twins also appear to have their toughest part of their schedule in April.