Just now, The Grinder said:

Another new low for this organization, when do we bottom out?

When KW retires and Rick gets promoted to President of Baseball Ops

11 minutes ago, The Grinder said:

Another new low for this organization, when do we bottom out?

Will never understand these types of takes. Sox should be adding all the milb depth they can find right now. There is quite literally zero downside to this move. 

Rick has one of the most expensive bullpens in baseball and they all suck so he has to dumpster dive for trash relievers. One of the many reasons he should not have a job.

If we start 12-22 or something like that, Hahn has to go. Like, enough is enough with this s%*#.

wrong thread- but the point still stands 

Edited April 7, 20233 yr by flavum

Maybe it will help, but it's basically desperation stuff. 
The surprise would have been if 36 year old Diekman (fresh off of 2 negative WAR seasons)  wasn't terrible this season.  These lazy FO clowns had him penciled in to the pen.

Edited April 7, 20233 yr by GreenSox

Sign Giles and Britton too. f*** it.

34 minutes ago, Bob Sacamano said:

Sign Giles and Britton too. f*** it.

How many gas cans can one bullpen have?  I don’t know but Rick Hahn sure aims to find out. 

1 hour ago, flavum said:

If we start 12-22 or something like that, Hahn has to go. Like, enough is enough with this s%*#.

wrong thread- but the point still stands 

As long as JR owns the club and is making money nobody gets fired regardless of how bad they are on the field.

11 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:

As long as JR owns the club and is making money nobody gets fired regardless of how bad they are on the field.

Yes, Lip. We know all your responses.

3 minutes ago, flavum said:

Yes, Lip. We know all your responses.

So tell me how I'm wrong? I'll wait.

Just now, Lip Man 1 said:

So tell me how I'm wrong? I'll wait.

Nah

8 hours ago, Lip Man 1 said:

More flotsam and jetsam. That's part of the White Sox Way!

Reclamation projects and washed up players off the scrap heap.  Go Sox

Question for all of the people who know more about baseball farm systems than me (which is everyone here). Where are guys like Colby Smelley, Bryce Bush, Tanner McDougal, Andrew Dalquist, etc. right now? They are all labeled as being in the White Sox organization, but they are not on any of the affiliate rosters. Are they training elsewhere? Is there a full list of White Sox minor league players anywhere? Thanks in advance!

3 hours ago, ChiSox59 said:

Will never understand these types of takes. Sox should be adding all the milb depth they can find right now. There is quite literally zero downside to this move. 

agreed. anyone can post a 5.74 in colorado. he'll be in the bigs in 2 weeks.

1 hour ago, soxrwhite said:

Reclamation projects and washed up players off the scrap heap.  Go Sox

Anything is better than Diekman and Joe Kelly

9 hours ago, wegner said:

I will be wearing my Charlotte Knights Cap until Alex is returned to his rightful place in the White Sox bullpen or until the next White Sox loss, whatever comes 1st.....It's your move, Palehose. 

Is it the sweet new blue/silver hats? I got one and its badass. 

Colome 0.0 fear the last season plus.

Diminishing returns nearly every year over the last 6-7.  Look at the overall trend line.

https://www.fangraphs.com/players/alex-colome/6661/stats?position=P

6 hours ago, caulfield12 said:

Colome 0.0 fear the last season plus.

Diminishing returns nearly every year over the last 6-7.  Look at the overall trend line.

https://www.fangraphs.com/players/alex-colome/6661/stats?position=P

He's not gonna be the old AC that's for sure. But even a lesser AC is better than what we've got now.

7 hours ago, Donny Lucy's Avocado Farm said:

Is it the sweet new blue/silver hats? I got one and its badass. 

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It’s absolutely ridiculous that they don’t have one decent arm at Charlotte to bring up.  I live in Upstate NY and get to see a lot of Yankee games, and whenever they need an arm they call up a reliever who is usually effective….and the Yankee draft position is a lot worse than the Sox.

14 hours ago, flavum said:

If we start 12-22 or something like that, Hahn has to go. Like, enough is enough with this s%*#.

wrong thread- but the point still stands 

https://www.espn.com/mlb/attendance

White Sox are going to end up bottom 8 in attendance this year if they don't finish April over .500.

1998-99 were their last two attendance years in the 1.3-1.4 million range.  We went 1.6 million in 2021 to 2.0 million last year and it's inevitably going to fall at least back to 1.4-1.5 million with how angry and frustrated the fans are with the ownership and front office at this point.

 

http://www.espn.com/nba/attendance

Meanwhile the Bulls as the #10 team in the East are leading the NBA in attendance at roughly 20,502 per game (roughly 1.68 million if extrapolated out for 82 games) .

Cash cow.

 

Edited April 8, 20233 yr by caulfield12

1 hour ago, Tomtom said:

It’s absolutely ridiculous that they don’t have one decent arm at Charlotte to bring up.  I live in Upstate NY and get to see a lot of Yankee games, and whenever they need an arm they call up a reliever who is usually effective….and the Yankee draft position is a lot worse than the Sox.

It's not only ridiculous, but it's sickening and it exists for a few good reasons:

1. The Yankee owners care about winning and our POS owner could give a s%*#.

2. Their GM Brain Cashman is a proven successful GM who knows how to build a winning organization. Their organization knows how to draft players, make solid effective trades and spend the right money on free agents. Our GM is an incompetent executive who has failed miserably in building a club that can efficiently scout, draft and develop players. Furthermore, Hahn has been horrible in trades and free agent signings, which obviously the Yankees usually do very well at. 

3. Yes the Yankees always pick behind us, but obviously they have a track record of knowing how to scout, draft and develop winning major league pitchers.

Until our POS owner Jerry Reinsdorf is no longer the owner of the White Sox, and the new owner fires the loser Rick Hahn, this team will always swim in the baseball hell of mediocrity.