soft tossing lefty

Trying to hype myself up for the future of the White Sox, so I bought some tickets to watch Roch Cholowsky.

My Top 100 MLB Prospects..

Sounds like Leury Garcia.

Jones, Buehrle, Manny Ramirez, Chris Sale...
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and a distant (and undeserving but voters continually vote for him) last place, Omar Vizquel.

If Ozzie Guillen was a better manager, there's a very good chance Andruw Jones would have reached the playoffs with the White Sox.

If you're a "Big Hall" type of person, Jones would have been one of FIVE HOFers on that hypothetical 2010 Sox playoff roster.

Plenty of players drafted in that era still around.

But outside of the draft, Benintendi was signed by Hahn, and Korey Lee, Edgar Quero, and Jordan Leasure were trade acquisitions by Hahn. All of whom should feature on the 2026 roster.

I hope Lenyn Sosa is traded to a team that loves and appreciates him (and gives him 150 starts).

In soccer, they always say not to fall in love with loan players. In baseball, the saying should be not to fall in love with utility infielders during rebuilds.

Plus, with comparatively tiny budgets and revenues, the majority of collegiate baseball programs don't have the same institutional power to relax grading, course load, etc. that football and basketball programs are often extended.

It seems like a pretty reasonable to assumption, especially given the current levels of education across the league. A "meaningless" degree requires significantly more work and classes than no degree, and 2 years of college requires significantly more than a high school diploma.

Fair. Although, as MLB continues to outsource player development to colleges, I imagine the overall education level of the Americans will increase dramatically over the next decade.

Also the sports in which a large number of athletes are legally restricted from voting due to their citizenship status, many of whom were deprived of a proper education!

I have the chance to do the dumbest, saddest, White Sox trip of all time in a few months.

Using only mileage and paying nothing out of pocket, I can fly to Sacramento in the morning, watch the Sox play at a fake stadium, and then fly back home after the game...

Should I do it?

Hell yeah!

You should extend the trip and come up to Seattle to watch them play earlier in the week as well!

So the FA is going to seize all the American owned clubs in the Prem this week, right?

Good on Anthony Rendon, truly.

It's a shame he didn't continue his superstar path, but taking $250m from shitbird Arte Moreno is beautiful work. Original devious lick.

Finally got around to framing this jersey today.

Winning this kit signed by the entire squad at a Brentford event in Chicago was one of my favorite moments of 2024.

As a perk of a gig I was working, I now have an abundance of mulled wine. 10 liters...

Knowing there's no way I could (or would want to) consume 10 liters of wine before it goes off, what else could it be used for in bulk?

I know I can poach pears and use it for baking, but I need more uses...

It's wild that Philip Rivers hates being around his 24 children so much he'd rather go get a brain injury than spend more time at home.

This is one of the dumbest looking cards I've ever seen.

This card looks like it was designed by the dudes who used make labels for HGC.

Lmfao what a headline

One guy I would have liked to see drafted in the Rule 5 is Ian Mejia.

Is he a good prospect? No.
Is he a great pitcher? Not particularly.
Does he have great stuff? Nah.

But I love pitchers with absolutely no velo that still get results.

He absolutely could eat a bunch of innings for the Sox.

100% agree.

For example, I think it's a stain on the HOF and committee voters, et. al that Minnie Miñoso was elected posthumously, when it was his dream to be inducted during his lifetime.

Absolutely, but I also think the definition of what a HOF player is evolved as the game grew and as the Hall grew. Subsequently, it became more exclusive, specifically during the BBWAA voting

Fair. My knowledge of the pre-war era isn't very strong, so I tend to just shrug off most of the ostensibly weaker selections from that period!

I personally don't have an issue with a "large Hall," but if lines are being drawn, there are statistical thresholds that many committee guys don't cross.

Please don't fuck this up

It's interesting that the focus is on Baines when so many of the committee selections have been well below the statistical standards of other HOF players.

Off the top of my head, Mazeroski, Jack Morris, Jim Kaat, Dave Parker, Red Schoendienst are all guys that fall short of their contemporaries

The Nationals did very well to acquire Harry Ford.

It's clear that Keibert Ruiz is never going to develop. Harry Ford has a shot at becoming a decent enough starter to offset that awful Ruiz extension.

The club can also maximize value and gain a draft pick with a strong ROY finish by Ford

I think it's really fucked up that a person was able to acquire a mummy that was undoubtedly looted and stolen from Egypt, and it has now been cut up to make a trading card.

Breaking: Chuck Grassley, somehow, still a Senator.

I tried to take a step back from Spotify this year and instead did a lot of listening on Radio Garden (highly recommend for random world radio stations).

That said, I'm undoubtedly sucker for Southside rap, sapphic alt-country, Bakersfield sound, and communist jazz from Guinea.