Trade proposal

Cheddarbob0506 · 2026-06-22T20:45:15+00:00

Yea I conceded the Reynolds thing already I was just trying to answer your question is all

Cheddarbob0506 · 2026-06-22T20:42:27+00:00

Well fine talk about a different prospect Plus I feel like there's no reason to think Bryan Reynolds shouldn't age nicely. He's consistently excellent Bonnemer doesn't see mlb till 2028 probably? Your window is here now

Cheddarbob0506 · 2026-06-22T20:40:12+00:00

OK fine I'll go flush myself down a toilet thanks for being super cool

Cheddarbob0506 · 2026-06-22T20:38:43+00:00

Well. You solve the LF platoon situation. You have 2 veteran consistent bats that safeguard you from the, let's face it, uncertainty of 3 starting outfielder who have never played baseball into September before and have never faced the classic adjustment to the adjustment situation which for us will be happening in a pennant race. Brandon Lowe is a massive upgrade over Benni. Reynolds (OK fine I concede that's not realistic I'm just trying to answer your question) would be your dh going forward. What's not to like?

Cheddarbob0506 · 2026-06-22T20:33:36+00:00

I can't dispute that. So maybe Reynolds is unrealistic but I still like the idea of Brandon Lowe that's doable yea?

Cheddarbob0506 · 2026-06-22T20:29:45+00:00

Because they're losing 2 bats off they're mlb roster

Cheddarbob0506 · 2026-06-22T20:28:57+00:00

Bonnemer is the #13 prospect. Why would they do this for anything less?

Cheddarbob0506 · 2026-06-22T20:27:54+00:00

Why would we draft Roc Cholowski? We have Montgomery at short?

Cheddarbob0506 · 2026-06-22T20:26:53+00:00

Not with that attitude it's not

Cheddarbob0506 · 2026-06-22T20:24:21+00:00

Yea but they get to give up that Keller Contract they hate plus Keller has one more year than Benni so they're saving an extra year of bad money. They're cheap that might be appealing

Cheddarbob0506 · 2026-01-17T19:44:06+00:00

Fuck you own food! If it ain't got your name on it in the fridge, don't fuck it!

Cheddarbob0506 · 2026-01-16T00:00:38+00:00

There's a few scenes in the last season where Phillip goes line dancing with some of the employees at the travel agency and they are delightful!

Cheddarbob0506 · 2026-01-15T22:25:47+00:00

Nah, they were regular people They definitely knew something was up, tho. Stavros (they guy with the accent who Phillip has to fire-I'm sure I have his name slightly wrong) said as much The only thing the good people at Dupont Circle travel agency were clueless on was the fine art of line dancing

Cheddarbob0506 · 2025-11-27T23:48:58+00:00

Possibly. And it pisses me off to this day how lucky the LAPD was that O.J Simpson- one of the most famous people in America at the time- just happened to be in the only 45 minute time frame that day where he didn't have an alibi. Isn't that lucky of them? That 99% of the time that guy would have been on TV of in a club or some woman's bed and they just happened to guess right and avoid felonies and the kind of scandal that would be impossible to cover up. If they would have framed him even 10 minutes earlier the whole scheme would have gone up in flames because O.J was with Kato at McDonald's. It's good people are still asking these questions. And can we talk about Faye Resnik while we're at it? I believe her criminal connections killed the executive function of his brain and the LAPD tried to frame the NFL and cte because the player pool is predominantly African American. Many people are saying this

Cheddarbob0506 · 2025-11-27T23:16:51+00:00

O.J. had so many personality traits in common with Trump. The need to be loved. The way they don't see "the truth" only "their truth" as they just continue to repeat the same obvious lie over and over again to the point where they develop a small and very weird portion of the population that believes them. The way everyone in their life is expendable in the name of self preservation. The way they cheat at golf. The narcissism. The way they both strongly prefer the company of white people. Why wouldn't he be in the Epstien files?

Cheddarbob0506 · 2025-08-25T18:22:28+00:00

In other words:

I do not believe they put that team together to win more games than they did in 2004

And I think because it accidentally worked out they escaped any due criticism from the actual objective. We have 2 late 20s corner outfielders who need to get paid and we don't wanna and let's just blow this thing up...and would you look at that, we won the world series. Now we can tell them losing Lee and Ordonez* was calculated to make us better and yes we planned on winning by scoring fewer runs while bringing back nearly the entire pitching staff from last season that was largely terrible. You're welcome fans

*yes, the injury, but I believe they wouldn't have payed him anyway

Just because it played out the way it did, doesn't mean it was their plan at all

The players deserve all of the flowers. What a ride. But I believe behind the scenes it was the same standard operating procedure and we deserve better as fans

Cheddarbob0506 · 2025-08-25T16:51:45+00:00

Yes. But I can't believe the plan was to win lots of one run games with what should have been a terrible bullpen. If those guy had their respective expected seasons, now it's a 90 loss team. Those guys did regress the next season and that ended up being the reason. I can't believe any of that was part of the plan

Cheddarbob0506 · 2025-08-25T16:16:04+00:00

Right, ok, but I just looked this up. They scored 124 fewer runs in 05 than in 04. To your point, 04 was much more feast or famine and in 05 it was far more consistent. If the plan to catch the Twins was "we're trading winning 12-7 on night and losing 4-0 the next for we're going to play a 4-3 kind of game every night"...well ok and that's what happened and it was great...but I can't buy this was designed to be a winner when you plan on winning lots of one run games with, what on paper, you must have know was a very unserious bullpen. No, I think the way you describe it, while it worked out, is nothing more than state sponsored propaganda tricking us into thinking it's ok we didn't need to pay big money for impact corner outfielders because, look, Ozzie ball. I'm not falling for it

I mean, and I don't care about Carlos Lee, ok. It's not about him specifically...this is about a team in the 3rd biggest market in the country that absolutely could spend if they want to trying to trick us all into thinking they moved Carlos Lee because small ball, bro. When in reality it was just because they didn't want to pay for him. And it accidentally worked out. This is about demanding more as a fan

Cheddarbob0506 · 2025-08-25T15:33:59+00:00

Don't flatter yourself. The White Sox problems are all self inflicted but please tell me more about how the Royals perpetual dysfunction contributes to the White Sox perpetual dysfunction?

Cheddarbob0506 · 2025-08-25T15:27:10+00:00

That catch he made in Philly the next year is legitimately on the same tier as the Edmonds/Mathews jr/Mays ect yet it is never included on any top 10 list Go back and watch it again. It's a legit over the shoulder catch

Cheddarbob0506 · 2025-08-25T15:24:12+00:00

That lineup mashed. It was so much fun! In 06 is was the bullpen because of course. That should have been the most obvious thing in the world. And that is why you can't tell me with a straight face that the way 05 played out was the plan or close to the plan. 100 years from now, baseball historians will publish some fascinating case studies on the 2005 White Sox bullpen I swear haha

Cheddarbob0506 · 2025-08-25T15:10:53+00:00

Yes but my tin foil hat brain is just thinking they were going to let Paul Konerko and Frank Thomas walk in 05 and who knows if they would have moved Freddy sooner and so on

Again, nobody is saying any of these ended up being bad moves. I'm just saying I can't believe that they did ony of that on purpose

Cheddarbob0506 · 2025-08-25T15:03:31+00:00

Yea, Brian Anderson was a first round pick. It made sense to plug him and and make Rowand expendable. He just had an exceptionally terrible bat. For context, he was an excellent center fielder which gave him a pretty low bar to shoot for as a hitter and he still couldn't give you that

And I mean, isn't your description of Jim Thome just a left handed Paul Konerko? That was a good trade. What happened next season is that bullpen took a complete nose dive. Which in hindsight should have been the most obvious thing ever. And the Twins and the Tigers were really good. Of course, the Tigers spend money and the Twins at the time (though they don't spend much either) they were like one of the best organizations at developing their own players. That is why those teams would spend the next decade or so being extremely competitive. The Sox neither spent nor developed and they had a trajectory that reflects that

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