The 21st Century Black Sox

The 21st Century Black Sox

welcome to baseball season everybody a day at the Ballpark is always a special one you just have to figure out the right time to go the good news is the resale Market makes it happen no matter the occasion and for me the only option is SE the sponsor of this video whenever I want to go see the magesty of PNC Park all I do is open up the app and scour every Ticket available for the taking to find the best value their tools are translatable to the major league level sorting tickets from red to green on a 1 to 10 scale A View from where you’ll be sitting tickets for every verified for authenticity there’s only one thing that makes this better and that’s using the Cod tree to save 20 bucks off your first purchase seek is an upper crust app that only offers the best of the sporting World unlike a certain team in Chicago I’m going to save you at least a minute of me rambling as an intro the white socks are terrible good God I have never seen a team suddenly forget how to play the [ __ ] game of baseball an absolute abomination in every facet of the franchise from the terrible Player Development to the poor scouting to the lack adical management to the shattered hopes and dreams of what was supposed to be a new era the only Revolution happening is how abysmal things have truly become you thought last year for Southside was bad 2024 setting records for it give me the scalpel we need to hack this team to death and Salvage whatever organs we can for the black market it wasn’t always like this think back to co year I know no one wants to but this tee was a few years removed from a deep tank prospects starting to emerge through the ranks a young and hungry team with ambitions of something greater the winning was beginning again if only you could stop time there just end the story and move on wouldn’t have the sour taste in our mouths what has this franchise even been good for No One remembers 2005 it’s the John Tyler of World Series Championships somehow happened and is routinely forgotten unless looked up on baseball reference that is the white socks as a whole we wish they were forgotten but keep popping up like herpes and like herpes southside’s baseball team is unwanted by mother some and an embarrassing subject to talk about at least the disease can be managed the socks cannot I would gladly challenge this franchise to a duel their rules and stipulations do not matter risky absolutely not everyone knows they can’t hit anything see them attempt to fling a bat at a baseball is as fruitless as teaching a fly English the only result is failure whiffing soft contact terrible approaches the whole nine yards they can’t score runs if their lives dependent on it they’re are men’s league teams that hit better than they do random smattering of Average Joe’s on the street might stand a chance at being the same hitting under 220 with an Ops just over 600 as a team when your best batter on the year is 36-year-old Tommy fam guy who wasn’t even on that damn team in spring training what the hell are you doing your answer to the voy to catcher is Martin maldanado do you see how ruffy looked at the end of last year is it supposed to be surprising that he isn’t hitting isn’t even good defensively anymore the pitching staff went from incredible promise to the best rotation arms being Eric fetty and Garrick crochet a signing from Korea and a bullpen convert the rest of it are failed prospects random veterans and Fringe players team leadership has been hyping this team up as one that thrives on defense and pitching you mean the one with the worst FIP in baseball the one serving chocolate chip cookies the most on a given day as mentioned before they also can’t hit so what do you get a team that might end up losing to a few AAA squads so you may be asking where all the talent is they had great players in their system remember all the names from 2021 and wonder where they went off to well they got hurt or [ __ ] off most anyone with Talent did Yan mana’s always hurt Eloy Jimenez is always hurt Luis Roberts hurt yet again copc feels like he’s injured all the time yet is somehow less injured than the previous three josea Bru’s gone yet that’s some somehow might be for the best Tim Anderson’s production turned into him against Jose Ramirez punched in the mouth Andrew vaugh has in panned out Lucas gelo by Dylan cease that beautiful mustache is in San Diego grandall felt his [ __ ] Liam Hendrick undone by cancer and Tommy John and the list keeps going potential core was never stabilized properly the blame falls on one man alone meet Jerry reinsdorf he’s grown content in his old age he already has his championships looking into a generational basketball talent and a miracle run of Miracle runs I can’t figure out what’s the reason it’s either Mala or fancying the idea that he can do it again without change it’s a problem with both the Bulls and the socks desire for Comfort over results place where it’s about how well you get along with the owner the equivalent of a m and Pop Shop double standards a high the secret is that the socks have never been serious about winning and the proof is in their spendings in the free agent Market have you ever noticed that they talk a big game yet always seem to come up with second and third options for free agents it’s been like this for years most other teams will have big signings and extensions to announce to their fans foolish or not this is not a luxury of Southside but they get her some items picked up at a flea market snoody brother to the north gets Elite pictures you get M cleer the only seismic movement he has is off the field North Side extends the likes of Cody Bellinger to Rich sums after Revival Seasons what is the largest Splurge the socks get Andrew Benning tendy Ken Williams was apparently dead set on him too turn him back into a dead player for them lovely days it gets even Lovelier when you realize something this franchise has never signed anyone to a 9 figure contract one of only two to never eclipse this Mark Pittsburgh has spent nine figures on a player the Pirates this is an unserious organization from their lack of spending on every single aspect of the team to players falling asleep in the [ __ ] Bullpen you expect coaching to correct this what are you logical I can’t even find the damn first base coaches he’s probably taking a [ __ ] rinor probably uses the same logic in hiring Personnel Reno was a decent manager but wasn’t going to take the white socks to the next level firing him in 2020 was the right move to replace him with the novelty Nostalgia act in Tony larusa a high instantly panned by anyone with a modicum of understanding the game of baseball bringing in a manager who’s nearly 80 and hasn’t managed to team in a decade truly the mark of a genius unsurprisingly it did not work out results were one flame out in the postseason to a Houston machine and a [ __ ] show of a year in 2022 Tony wasn’t as overmatched and sty as we were all thinking him to be but was he any good calling intentional walks in the middle of that bats good maybe a shocking Discovery a man nearing his 80s in a high stress position doesn’t tend to mesh well for health he had to pull out before the end of his second season but he shouldn’t have been there to begin with so explain this to me how do you go from what was possibly the worst managerial hire in an age to someone that’s even worse you want an upand cominging manager but don’t want to spend any money the answer is apparently Pedro grial a bench coach for the Royals under Mike maeni is this a joke oh but he won a World Series jury might say he was the [ __ ] catching instructor the dude is completely overmatched in this role I can’t tell if this is simply the Peter principal in action or he’s just trying to get himself fired with the locker room seemingly incomplete disarray calling out his [ __ ] and absolute lack of motivation everywhere you look and the talent being shipped off for prospects that will probably be ruined Ken Williams and Rick H were here for this long for what reason the ability to drink Scotch and smoke cigars with Tony and Jerry these dudes should have been canned 6 years earlier than they you were allowed to run a rebuild into the ground talk to you after the parade Rick what parade one featuring your severed head on a pike oh no Kenny Williams isn’t in a good place What a Sad feeling it took grindin dorf literal ages to can both of them and he’s still had to be pred away at the very end so how do you fix an organization that’s fallen into complete disarray by not interviewing anyone outside the organization Chris gets is a loyal soldier who deserves to be promoted because uh um continuity I guess seriously though why honestly Rin dorf’s afraid he’s fearful of stepping away from his comfort zone and his desire to not be challenged will keep forcing his franchises to fail Jerry Speaks of the fact that listening to the fans will have you sitting next to them buddy the average fan could run this team better than you do no one in their right mind would hire Tony larusa in the 2020s under his leadership it’s become a [ __ ] pile for both them and the bull s nobody’s doing anything nobody cares nobody’s being held accountable simply collecting a paycheck going through the motions most hilarious part to me was that get said that this team was going to be competitive before the year I know all about that word is a pirates fan when they say competitive they mean lifeless dog [ __ ] they mean 100 lost Seasons no reason to watch this franchise there’s nothing here this is Colorado Rocky levels of death I can’t even say this is the Nader since they’ll dig even lower than this Chris gets even said so himself 2023 was supposed to be Rock Bottom compared to this that year was a boom you’re shocked nobody showing up to the ballpark why the hell would anyone pay money to see this team’s awful in the atmosphere of fake kamsky is as Bleak as the product perhaps the stadium organ can take it bats it might make a better sound than the dying cat that’s in it hurry down or else they’ll cancel socks Fest again because they’re spineless cowards or sell the Dem and relocate that sounds like the final [ __ ] you rhin storf will give this franchise and it might be for the best the white socks are hell strangling all the joy and hope the game of baseball brings introducing your kid to this franchise is child abuse if you hate your son you make him a white sock ban you’re telling him he’s inferior in every way and there will be no good in his life no matter what he does he will be held back by apathetic people above him it’s one thing to blatantly tank for a brighter future it’s another entirely to completely bot it to the point where you have to do it again and What Makes Us think that it’ll work this time with reinsdorf at the helm for all we know the STS will be getting yet another iteration of gar packs instead of comparing griol to Jim band they’ll actually hire the real one to manage the team I forgot to mention even though Southside is the worst record by a country mile they can’t pick higher than 10th in 2025 due to draft lottery rules these [ __ ] can’t even tank right just like this is one long episode of Impractical Joker’s without any of the likable characters wake me up in 2038 I’m expecting another angry ran on Chicago sports radio that takes a lot out of it Altuve hammers one to left that might be the exclamation point of the series first home run of the set for Altuve that one felt a little deeper

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AKA: Beating a Long Dead Horse Into the Ground. The Chicago White Sox are an unserious franchise. That word might be a compliment. This video digs into the problems that beset this apathetic and chaotic team. All you have to do is go just below the surface. The problems are more than apparent (i.e. everything).
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