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Auctions are a tangible good for money. I sure hope that is not what this organization has in mind. Unless it is the total organization up for auction.
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The point is that the team continues to have a high payroll despite struggling to get fans into the park. They don't owe us ****. The players aren't living up their end of the bargain. It's that simple.
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The Sox owe us nothing, and we owe them nothing. As much as I love the White Sox, and will never cheer for another team, they are a product that I can choose to enjoy or ignore. Like an expensive car that is a disaster and breaks down all the time, the price they spend means nothing to the fan base. They may as well have a 30 million payroll if this is the results they get. They pay executives a lot of money to find talent and put out a competitive team. Kenny Williams did his job a couple times over his GM tenure and got promoted. Rick Hahn was highly touted, but yet to prove he can find young talent (will take a few years to see the results of this).
For almost 6 years now the White Sox have given us a product that has the talent of a .500 ball club and they hope everything goes right and we sneak into the playoffs. Until they figure it out, Fans will just continue to ignore them. If Sony kept putting out TV's that were the 10th most expensive in a market of 100 options, and the picture just sucked, year after year, people would stop buying them until Sony proved they could make a good TV. Sony would then have 2 options, sell the ****ty TV for less money, or make a better TV. The White Sox choose to sell us a ****ty tv for less money this year. Maybe in the future they will figure it out.
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Or one could point to the fact we spend money poorly, and our executives, starting with Kenny, are not really that great at their job.
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So they have a high payroll , so what? Did it ever occur to you pretty much every player on the team is overpaid and KW and company have done a poor job and deserve criticism.
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The good news is the Sox are worse than the Cubs. We will get a higher draft choice than they will.
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He got Billy Pierce, Nellie Fox, Minnie Minoso and Sherm Lollar for very little in return. This helped jump start the go go era. It would be great if Hahn could channel his inner Frank Lane.
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I think the point is there's a difference between a team that's just not trying and a team that tries and fails horribly. The White Sox front office/ownership was trying to be good (maybe not trying hard enough, but they were trying). They aren't the Marlins. You can criticize the way things turned out all you want, but it's silly to want them to explain themselves - what happened is fairly obvious to anybody who's been watching and knows anything about baseball. |
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"I'm sorry that you don't like our manager," Williams says he told him. "I'm sorry that you don't like our 3-4-5 hitters. Or our closer. "I'm sorry that you don't like our third baseman and our shortstop. Or our left fielder and our right fielder. "I'm sorry people feel this way about our club. But I also want you to know something about that: "We don't care." -Kenny Williams before start of 2005 season |
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Any "explanation" would be awkward since it would involve Hahn highlighting the mistakes his boss made- ****ed up, barren farm system, overpriced veteran contracts for Dunn, Danks, etc., weak talent assessment or development (Viciedo, Flowers) and hiring a manager with zero experience at any level.
Like if Hoyer and Epstein were reporting to Hendry.
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