TWINS WIN: Twins 4 @ White Sox 0 – September 17, 2023

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1. #TWINS: WIN

   #SOX: LOSE

   #POSTS: 3

   #ED:DIE

   #SUNNY: SUNDAY

   #TRANS: RIGHTS

   #MAGIL NVMBER: 6

   #WERE: GOMQ

   #LEAGUE: FUCKED

2. Uh, I’ve been a die-hard Chicago White Sox fan for nearly 40 years. I say that with the very express intent of sharing my deep and dying love for this team. And my call is rooted in heartbreak, not anger. Don’t, don’t get me wrong, I’m angry, but it is a byproduct of a dysfunctional abusive relationship with the front office and the ownership of the Chicago White Sox. I also want to say, I have defended this rebuild, I liked what the team did with the trades, I defended Yasmani and Dallas, I didn’t understand the La Russa hire but I gave them the benefit of the doubt, I forgave the free agents they let go, I was BEFUDDLED by the Benintendi and Clevinger signings but you know what, I said, I’m gonna give them one last shot. And when they canceled Sox Fest like the cowards they are, I knew something was up. But now we know. Obviously the experiment is over. The vast majority of the prospects have been busts. The product on the field is pathetic. We have exactly 2 players of excellence on this roster – Dylan Cease and Tim Anderson. EVERYONE else is nowhere NEAR the kind of player they need to be to make this a winning team. YOU’D THINK that would be enough to wake the organization up but yesterday Kenny Williams has the gall to say he’s not in a good place right now and that accountability is not an issue. You’re right, he’s not in a good place, he’s not in a job he should have. Think about all the promises that Rick Hahn made, mired in mediocrity, that he bragged about Romy Gonzalez in spring training and “I’ll trade him if I get the right price:. Think about the things Grifol said, “come to the park, we’re gonna kick everyone’s butts”, they must of been talking about the fans, not the other teams! THE ENTIRE LINEUP IS BATTING UNDER .220. The best hitter on the team is JAKE BURGER! We’re a triple-A team! Our right fielders are hitting .180, with a weighted runs created plus of 28. I don’t even need to tell you about the pitching staff, Katz has gotta go. Moncada, TA, Eloy, Yas, Joe Kelly, it’s week 4, they’ve all already been hurt! Tens of millions of dollars on replacement level players while stars go elsewhere, we’re 11 games under .500, the Bears needed 6 months to get 11 games under .500, we needed 3 weeks. In the 15 years of Rick Hahn, we have been a constant experiment that has never panned out. In the 25 YEARS of Kenny Williams we had exactly ONE SEASON of excellence with a perfect storm of players that has not once come even close to being the same. I don’t wanna hear about the strength of schedule in April, with the money we’ve spent, with the players we have, playing .500 ball should be underachieving, NOT 11 GAMES UNDER .500! We keep going after players that Rick Hahn liked 5 years ago. Lance Lynn, over the hill. Yas, over the hill. Benintendi, he wanted him in the draft 6 years ago, he’s got a 0.1 WAR. Clevinger isn’t just a clubhouse cancer and a disgusting human being, he’s a HORRENDOUS PITCHER! Joe Kelly has been USELESS. We’ve signed Vince Velasquez! Give me a break. JON JAY, YONDER ALONSO, between them that’s $200 million on a bunch of black holes and an ERA of 240! The entire organization is poison. The entire way that they go about their business is a failure. Firing Rick isn’t enough, firing Kenny isn’t enough, if Chris Getz gets promoted and we have to sit through another 15 year retool rebuild, you’re just gonna hear from me again in 2038! I don’t care if we go on a torrid winning streak in May and June and somehow get back to .500 ball, and then we scootch our way into the postseason in the wild card only to get bounced right away by a team that’s actually good. We have no depth in our organization, one injury and we are DONE. This process isn’t working, our farm system has been in the bottom 10 for FORTY-FIVE YEARS aside for the one frame of time when they traded all our talent away and graduated them all right up, and then we were the worst again! We, there is one solution, in his final years, Jerry Reinsdorf who by the way wouldn’t even have the reputation he has if he hadn’t have lucked upon Michael Jordan at three in 1984, has the courage to get rid of the yes men around him and fire everyone, he bought into the Chicago Bulls and the White Sox for $20 million dollars, he’s worth $2 BILLION now. He needs to use a fraction of that money he made on the backs of Chicago’s blue collar baseball fans, and pay for a front office to come and rebuild everything. Rick Hahn and Kenny Williams cannot be trusted to rebuild this team again, they need to retire and go off into the sunset and play golf with the millions of dollars they made on their cushy paychecks for a job that they had a longer leash for than any executive in the history of the modern era of baseball. Let someone qualified come in and run this team, at this point we would need a HISTORIC turnaround to even be mildly relevant. Everyone says the AL Central is weak, and it might be in comparison to others, but the Sox aren’t better than the Guardians or the Twins, we’re not even better than the Royals! And the fact that we’re only incrementally better than the Tigers is exactly the kind of indictment on this organization that we need. The build of, the lack of success that this roster has is a referendum on what we’ve already seen in 2006, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2016, and the EXECTRUATING last seven years that only led to this. I mean Stoney is more worried about Lance Lynn eating a SALAD than the entire organization not knowing how to teach MAJOR LEAGUE PROSPECTS HOW TO HIT A BASEBALL!!!

3. #6

4. TWINS WIN!
   Good luck papa Rocco edition

   https://streamable.com/dzfwix

5. I like the Twins

6. Twins outscored the Sox **30-9** that series, lol

   Fuck the White Sox, Guardians, and apparently the Rangers

   **Roll twins**

7. To misquote Meat Loaf, 3 out of 4 ain’t bad.

8. Gray’s HR/9 this season drops to an MLB-leading ***0.36*** after today’s outing.

   That is, as you might expect, a ridiculous number. The next closest qualified pitcher is Justin Steele of the Cubs with 0.70.

9. Cy Sonny.

10. Good series, on to Cincinnati

11. lol imagine if your team was named after a color of socks lmao

12. So Gray is So Good.

13. Bounced back and forth on Sonny all season as to where he might end up if we get to the playoffs, but he’s making one heck of a case to be the Game 1 starter right now. Only gone less than six innings once since July 22, and that was in a start against a playoff team. He’s now gone at least 6 innings in 18 starts, that’s pretty impressive in this day and age.

14. Can’t argue with taking 3 of 4 in any series, but taking care of business against the White Sox is particularly nice.

15. That was a weird GDT to jump into the middle of.

    My thoughts: 3 posts/day. Great. NBD.

    Update pinned posts: sure. Centralize info dumps.

    Highlight/Milestone/Reasons to Celebreate should still be their own threads.

    The rules don’t bother me. I’m not offended. I just want the best quality content. I think we can fine tune and find the best balance so like u/pjokinen said, we can continue to encourage people to find this sub on the main page and not feel like there’s too many mini threads of nuanced updates not everyone cares about.

    Like I said earlier, I don’t want this to encourage shit posters from asking 3x/day “is Byron Buxton the worst Twins player of all time” or “$170m reason why we should trade Correa for Jackson Holliday this offseason”

16. Should have been a sweep. But I’ll take 3 of 4

17. Twins win.
    Lynx win.
    Packers lose.
    Lions lose.
    Yankees lose.

    Damn fine Sunday afternoon

18. Top 5 ERA Sonny Gray once again. Let’s go get the Reds tomorrow!!

19. Glad to see Sonny went 7 solid innings, was able to get out of some trouble without that killer inning, and we managed to take the series.