44 minutes ago, Nardiwashere said:

Gotta love Soxtalk. A post about two minor leaguers colliding in the outfield is seen as some dramatic grand big picture indictment of the organization and somehow related to the Detroit Pistons and Charlotte Hornets.

Because the same exact arguments get us where?

The Bulls are miles ahead of the Sox in both winning percentage AND couldn't be any more opposite in attendance and revenue generation...

Only commonality is the same ownership group.

The Sox should figure out a way to compete or Reinsdorf should get out. It's actually quite simple. He's doing more damage to the franchise value in his fixation on avoiding roughly $200 million in capital gains taxes. The Padres have doubled their value in the same time frame the White Sox have said backwards.

WestEddy argued over and over and over in the last couple offseasonss that SD was destroying the game itself with all those $100+ million contracts on the books. It's like he was more upset an ownership group determined to compete for a championship and forged a legit rivalry with the Dodgers. Instead of following the opposite White Sox path of never even offering $80 million. He'll probably be opposed to a Roch Cholowsky extension before December as well, arguing it's unreasonable/too risky.

Fwiw TB CLE MIL have figured out how to put an entertaining/exciting product out there.

Recently, so have the Pirates even, the poster child for coasting along on revenue sharing $$$.

Maybe the Sox should also study how/why Rockies' fans blindly support such a terribly run franchise without holding the Monforts accountable...

Edited 6 hours ago6 hr by caulfield12

7 minutes ago, Baron said:

Exactly. It would be nice if you didn't HAVE to be one thing or another.

6 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

Exactly. It would be nice if you didn't HAVE to be one thing or another.

God it must be miserable. So sorry your being forced to read such filth.

8 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

Exactly. It would be nice if you didn't HAVE to be one thing or another.

Maybe the POSITIVES can collectively materialize their very own privately-financed website, charge for subscriptions and call it WSI II?

52 minutes ago, Baron said:

God it must be miserable. So sorry your being forced to read such filth.

Less miserable than beating people down for not being happy enough, but I digress.

3 hours ago, vilehoopster said:

It kills me how completely the unaware the White Sox Buzzkill Army is of their own comments and feelings when they project those feelings on those of us who dare to be optimistic and question their continual complaining.

Really?? We optimistic fans looking for hope are laughable when you’re still complaining about the promised multiple championship parades? We’re the ones who are laughable?

That's not what's laughable. Be opitmistic all you want, but understand why some aren't.

I hope Ant learns the basics in the outfield like shouting "I got it" to avoid collisions and hitting the cut-off man, two lessons that seem to have eluded Acuna. There is more to playing OF though, and some of the skills like quickly gauging the appx distance and trajectory of fly balls and getting an early jump might be more innate - some can do it, others cannot.

This season might just turn around if one or more of Noah Schultz, Hagen Smith or Tanner MacDougal come up to the majors AND a few guys like Fedde, Kay, Grant Taylor, Jordan Leisure, and Seranthony have good seasons.

Offensively, I look forward to the best from Colson , Murakami, Sosa, Vargas, Teel, Chase and Periera. These players are going to hit home runs, and that alone should result in a fun year at the ballpark.

Weird that people who are angry about a baseball team show their anger by taking a victory lap and gloating over the incompetence of a player collision. And then those of us whose reaction is "Hmm, that wouldn't have been my first reaction" are the real villains because we're not gloating, also. I'm just curious at what point is the organization is supposed to teach outfield fundamentals to a second baseman? And should the player retire for a year or two to take classes on all of the "fundamentals" before they step back on the field? The people laughing and high-fiving each other over a serious injury seem to know the answers to this question, but they're not telling us.

2 hours ago, Nardiwashere said:

Gotta love Soxtalk. A post about two minor leaguers colliding in the outfield is seen as some dramatic grand big picture indictment of the organization and somehow related to the Detroit Pistons and Charlotte Hornets.

Brains are so broken, they think Reinsdorf is a God-like presence, guiding each and every individual player into constant failure. And really, Nardi, the vomiting of invective is all your fault, because you "accept losing", whatever that means. I'm not sure, but I think urinating oneself laughing over a possible career ending injury is how one doesn't "accept losing", and is the more noble path of action.

32 minutes ago, Dick Allen said:

That's not what's laughable. Be opitmistic all you want, but understand why some aren't.

Yeah, exactly. Not everyone has to have the same levels of optimism/pessimism. We all want the same thing in the end.

The only thing that bugs me is the completely unreasonable, hyperbolic posts. It’s just frustratingly immature and ruins any chance at actual discussion.

13 minutes ago, WestEddy said:

AWeird that people who are angry about a baseball team show their anger by taking a victory lap and gloating over the incompetence of a player collision. And then those of us whose reaction is "Hmm, that wouldn't have been my first reaction" are the real villains because we're not gloating, also. I'm just curious at what point is the organization is supposed to teach outfield fundamentals to a second baseman? And should the player retire for a year or two to take classes on all of the "fundamentals" before they step back on the field? The people laughing and high-fiving each other over a serious injury seem to know the answers to this question, but they're not telling us.

Weird that people are so thrilled need to spend so much time telling everyone else they have to be happy too. Broken brains indeed.

This thread went in an interesting direction…

Anyway, the person who made the tweet in the OP should be put in jail. Wait a few mins, way too dramatic of a post for what ultimately ended being a bruise

40 minutes ago, TheFutureIsNear said:

This thread went in an interesting direction…

You misspelled "predictable."

1 hour ago, WestEddy said:

Brains are so broken, they think Reinsdorf is a God-like presence, guiding each and every individual player into constant failure. And really, Nardi, the vomiting of invective is all your fault, because you "accept losing", whatever that means. I'm not sure, but I think urinating oneself laughing over a possible career ending injury is how one doesn't "accept losing", and is the more noble path of action.

JR did hire Getz, a genius move that led to more miraculous hires. He must be pretty good.

And Cali's ridiculous comment that if Ishbia saw Sox fans upset because the team sucked, he might back out of his agreement. That would be good, because if he expects White Sox fans to accept being bad, who wants him? We already have that.

Edited 2 hours ago2 hr by Dick Allen

You know how the longer a discussion goes on, the probability increases that it will inevitably turn into a discussion about Hitler? Soxtalk is kinda like that except Getz is Hitler and it doesn’t take very long.

7 hours ago, Look at Ray Ray Run said:

Heard Ishbia was about to cancel the buy right after reading soxtalk but thankfully a white knight rode in and saved the day!

4 minutes ago, nrockway said:

You know how the longer a discussion goes on, the probability increases that it will inevitably turn into a discussion about Hitler? Soxtalk is kinda like that except Getz is Hitler and it doesn’t take very long.

21 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

This thread is already fucked. Your work here is done.

Sox need to develop players to collide into each other less often

Who was actually happy or gloating that Antonacci or Bergolla was hurt????

Also how do we know that shifting Baldwin around the diamond didn't contribute to his very unusual elbow injury?

Of course, odds are quite high that it was going to blow up eventually making high stress throws from RF OR the left side of the in field...

Personally, Robert predictably playing like a superstar in NYC while Acuna struggles is much more annoying than inevitable collisions on the field.

Speaking of injuries, much more component fields Meadows and Greene are quite fortunate BOTH guys aren't out for extended periods of time.

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