It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

Hansen had forearm problems last year and after that he just had pitching problems.

Both will have Tommy John surgery.

This is the 3rd player in 2 years. My question is, what is going on with their handling of the pitchers?

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

Fuck. Annoyed all over again.

https://theloopsports.com/2019/03/05/wh ... ssion=true

Laurence Holmes is a fucking weirdo, a nerd in denial, and a wannabe. Not a very good radio host either.

It doesn't even matter if fans revolt and don't show up because they have such low costs thanks to their stadium deal. It's a cash machine with some side baseball entertainment on the side.

GLENDALE, Ariz. — White Sox outfield prospect Luis Robert jammed his left thumb making a head first slide during an intrasquad game Saturday. Manager Rick Renteria called it minor and said Robert is expected back Thursday.

It’s the same thumb Robert injured more seriously last spring, making a feet-first slide at second base.

Robert ran on his own, “a lapse on his judgement,” Renteria said.

“Fortunately for us, it was jammed a little and he’s doing good. We’re just going to be a little cautious.”

Robert will swing in the batting cages on Wednesday’s off day and be back “promptly,” Renteria said.

Training staff has equipped Robert with an insert to protect the thumb when he’s fielding. And Renteria said Robert has been talked to about not sliding head first.

In his most recent Cactus League game Friday against the Rangers in Surprise, Robert tripled off the wall in center field and hit a go-ahead home run to left.

Robert, the White Sox’ No. 4 prospect per Baseball America and MLB Pipeline, has been slowed by injuries since the Sox signed him to a $26 million bonus in 2017.

A sprained ligament in his left thumb limited Robert to 50 games in 2018 between the Arizona League and both levels of Class A. He opened the 2018 season on the disabled list with a sprained ligament in his left thumb, appeared in 13 games when he came off and reinjured the thumb July 3.

Because of missed time, Robert played in the Arizona Fall League in November, where he batted .324 with two homers and two doubles, 10 RBI and 19 runs scored. But Robert was limited there, too, by a tight hamstring.

Robert was plagued by knee (left meniscus) and ankle problems in 2017.

Robert joins right-hander Dane Dunning (forearm soreness) and outfielder Luis Basebe (broken hamate bone) among top Sox prospects stalled by injuries this spring.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

I don't have the strength to read it.

Highlight my causes for further irritation

The last two weeks have been a real gut punch for us. It’s been the culmination of two years of rhetoric that we were told would be the signaling of a contention window opening. While that may still happen, we were ultimately sold a bill of goods that ended up plain and simply being a lie.

In the end, we enter the 2019 season in the same position as we were when the 2018 season ended. Reliant on internal improvement that may or may not come, and unproven prospects. Ultimately, we know with a high level of certainty it will end with a seventh consecutive losing season and an eleventh season without meaningful baseball at 35th and Shields.

We were also assured that when the time was right, this organization would allocate financial resources to the free agent market that had never been done before. For over two years, we heard Rick Hahn and Kenny Williams repeat the line that “when the time is right, money will not stand in the way of the White Sox acquiring premium talent.”

There will never be a better opportunity for the Sox to break through. And they blew it! They blew it because at the end of the day, the White Sox, as has been the problem for most of their history, have an owner that wants to win at his desired profit margin. For all the talk about Jerry Reinsdorf’s loyalty and good nature, he sure doesn’t have any loyalty to the small group of people that truly give a damn about this team.

The fact is the Sox offer was not more attractive than the Padres. The Padres were willing to commit $300 million with an opt-out while the Sox were only willing to go to $250 million guaranteed and two vesting options that carried the value over $320 million. The fact of the matter is, that offer simply is not better than what San Diego presented. As someone who works in a profession where a great deal of my income is based on performance incentives, I can tell you that when looking for employment, 9 times out of 10 people in my profession will take the higher guarantee. Baseball players are no different and shouldn’t be looked at or expected to think differently. That’s why it is so insulting to hear people defending this offer.

In the last few days, we’ve heard Kenny Williams go out on the “offensive” in the media saying that he believes it’s sad that the White Sox are “perceived” as being cheap. Hey Kenny, it’s not perception when it’s the truth. When you are in the third largest market in the country and have never given out a contract larger than $68 million, you are cheap. When your owner refused for years to spend in the draft causing you to have a bottom tier farm system, you are cheap. When you have an owner that refused to spend money internationally to boost your prospect pipeline, you are cheap. When your owner refuses to take on larger contracts in trade discussions because you don’t have a prospect pipeline to get a deal done, you are cheap. So what’s really sad is people trying to defend this organization, and more specifically, the guy at the top who is, yes, very cheap.

Hahn through his diplomatic and articulate messaging was able to be the lone member of this “brain trust” that seemingly had public support. Well, that is all gone now. Because Hahn was either in on the lie, or conned himself. I’m not sure which is actually worse in this instance.

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

I think Reinsdorf needs to recommission that survey from about 20 years ago that conclusively determined that he was not the problem with the organization

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

The quote “when the time is right, money will not stand in the way of the White Sox acquiring premium talent.” is fake.

That, unfortunately, is the absolute truth of it all.

I was wrong.

Hahn certainly assured us.

You girls still crying about this? Time to move on.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

The "more attractive offer" or "better offer" is no longer an academic debate. There was only one person who was the arbiter of attractive and he decided that the Sox, in fact, did not have a more attractive offer.