A new Collective Barganing Agreement in place, the Winter Meetings opening this weekend, and scores of Chris Sale rumors circulating have eliminated any conceivable obstacle to the beginning of the teardown. They might as well. Beyond strangely and cryptically half-committing to a rebuild already, the White Sox offseason has been listless and inactive, unless it’s interpreted […]
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White Sox May Need To Buy In Order to Sell
I have made myself clear on what I think the White Sox should be doing to the point where people are probably sick of hearing it. Briefly, my opinion is that they don’t have that many holes, but rather, the holes they have are just really, really bad ones. Therefore, it should be easy to […]
A small concession in the Chris Sale trade market for the sake of optics
Given middle of the road franchise ambitions, middle of the road talent, and middle of the road results, it’s understandable that the White Sox fan base has recently found an appeal to extremism. They now crave the most extreme rebuild possible, and holding out for the biggest trade return possible for their impressive crop of […]
Chris Sale and the Identity of an Afflicted Fan Base
Being a White Sox fan for the last eight or nine seasons has been quite a trying task. Year after year, Sox fans have had their hopes raised with childlike wonder and naivete in December, only to have them dashed by June. At least through parts of the least seven seasons, Chris Sale has been able […]
Why would Chris Sale’s value be going up?
Why would this be the case? Hearing Chris Sale price tag still high. “Maybe even higher” than in july. Still, there’s hope for a winter meeting auction — Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) November 25, 2016 Well, posturing. Posturing is a really good explanation. The next leaked rumor of the White Sox shopping someone that isn’t married […]
What I am thankful for
Now is the time to live moment to moment. There is room for a longview, but an extreme longview, one that sees over the clearing where we sit in the present, beyond the treetops of our immediate future to the larger arc of progress of existence itself drifting, at times, aimlessly in the sky. Take […]
Rebuild rumors: Jose Quintana forever?
As a student of 20th century history, I have read first-hand accounts of some of the most horrifying atrocities imaginable. Brutal slaughter, permanent displacement, human cruelty once thought impossible. And yet there is always still room for a new level of shock and disgust: “One GM said [Jose] Quintana was ‘conspicuous by his absence in […]
South Side Friday 5 – Everyone should trade for Chris Sale
1. Rare is it that two teams engineer a trade with one another that seems to prepare both for the coming war, but it helps that the Astros are gunning to make Sports Illustrated’s prediction look prescient and the Yankees are building a prospect army. The Astros continued a buy-in for 2017 by trading for […]
What is this going to look like?
This feels realer than the countless other times. The long-pondered White Sox rebuild rumors have more meat to them because the franchise-altering move to trade Chris Sale is being put at the forefront of reports, and the long-pondered Sale trade has more meat to it because it’s staked into these rebuild talks rather than some […]
Finding fair value for Sale is long, difficult, massively important process
The Chicago White Sox appear to be headed toward a rebuild. Buster Olney just reaffirmed this the other day, and summed up the central thesis of this post while he was at it. White Sox currently focused on a rebuild, but it’s unclear whether they’ll find offers acceptable to them for Chris Sale, Jose Abreu, […]