I thought Renteria did a decent job for the Cubs. Nothing spectacular and nothing real bad.

I think he deserves another opportunity to manage again and IMO he would be an upgrade over Ventura.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

My dog would be an upgrade over Ventura.

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Even if your dog was named Terry Bevington?

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Farvio... did I say he was bad?

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

I wouldnt exactly call this a ringing endorsement, Darko.

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If he's not a bad manager, what do you find so funny? You obviously implied it.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Why are Cubs fans so angry?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Melky, Robertson, Shields, etc all can be traded in August. No one picking those guys off waivers.

Boston and Dodgers will be ringing Hahn non-stop again in November after they flame out with their garbage pitching staffs.

You'd think so. But Kenny will probably do something stupid like put in a waiver claim on ARod.

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2016

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This endorsement is ringing, baby! RINGING!
I can't wait to see him managing the Sox. Gonna be great.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

He speaks spanish! He can communicate with the Latins. CRITICALLY IMPORTANT!

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

....and Darko has the audacity to criticize the coherency in my posts.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

You mad?

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Nah, man.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

SPANISH! Obviously he will be manager of the year. I mean, he can talk to the best hitler in on the team without an interpreter.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Melky would be claimed.

JORR must be buyin drinks for the house....ALL IN 2017!!!

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Well I was told for years that you can rebuild and compete at the same time.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Looks like Puig is a goner. Make the Dodgers include Gav and it's a done deal.

Sorry Sox fans... not sure when you're gonna get out of this hell.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

What hell? A baseball expert I know who hasn't been wrong on anything baseball related since Brett Jackson has repeatedly assured me the Sox are contenders for the wild card this year.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Perennially having possible Wild Card contention as the best case scenario is a type of hell.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

So is having only one sport active for a third of the year, and that sport is baseball.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Baseball is not just a sport but a superior way of life. Being a diehard baseball fan is a higher plane of existence.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Lately, being a Sox fan is a higher plain of existence.

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Its one thing to not get the right deal for Quintana and Sale. Though I'm certain the Sox got a good offer for Sale and just refused to budge because they cant stop congratulating the genius of his extension, there's at least a decent argument in waiting until the offseason to ship him out. But we all know that wont happen because...

The only other player the Sox traded was Zach f'in Duke. Robertson and Melky are inexplicably still on the roster despite the fact the Sox could've gotten out from underneath their contracts and probably also gotten some decent prospects in exchange. They didn't move James Shields because they weren't certain he would decline his option and become a FA and wanted to keep him in the event he stuck around. Gonzalez was kept for similar reasons. The truth is they want Melky, Robertson, Gonzalez, Shields for 2017 because despite repeated failures Kenny and JR are certain they have a winning roster. The Sox are going to go for it again in 2017, then 2018, then 2020 all the way until Sale, Quintana and Eaton are long gone and the Sox are left with nothing to show for their time in a Sox uniform except losing season after losing season.

I'm done with it. I'm not going to watch them try to salvage this ship again this offseason with more desperate trades trying to plug a mounting number of leaks. They'll make the equivalent of a Samardzija or Frazier trade again this offseason and some promising young talent will leave (Semien would be 2nd on this Sox team in WAR, Trayce Thompson would be 5th). And for the 3rd year running the complete lack of organizational pitching depth will manifest itself in a horrendous bullpen that torpedoes any shot at success, and players like Tyler Danish and Carson Fulmer (it'll be Alec Hansen, Zack Burdi, Spencer Adams this time next year) will be called up an actual calendar year early only to be permanently ruined by the sting of big league failure. But those are the only options the Sox will have because HALF the top 30 has been traded in the last 2 offseasons and no amount of drafting can replace that kind of loss.

The White Sox are done. By the time Jerry dies and the new owner fires Hahn/KW it'll be too late to turn the franchise around and keep them in Chicago. It's over.

More like a plateau.

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From Chet Coppock:

mired in mediocrity.,..asleep at the trade deadline... the white sox are a 24 karat gold hunk of boredom. axe williams, hahn, ventura. if any club in chicago needs an injection of life its the sox.
‪#‎Deadzone‬

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

The White Sox turned down Benintendi and a 20-year old starter/reliever with a fastball sitting 95-97 and a devastating breaking ball + in exchange for Quintana. This was likely the "King's Ransom" trade package. That's...close. Not quite "there", but close.