Podcast: 2025 New Year’s Resolutions for Chicago White Sox
Rundown
- [Intro] 2024 was a very eventful year at Sox Machine
- [2:57] James Fegan’s favorite moments covering the White Sox include a story about Garrett Crochet’s walk-up music
- [16:25] 2025 New Year’s Resolutions for the Chicago White Sox from fans
- [26:54] James resolution for the White Sox: Play better defense
- [31:20] Jim’s resolution for the White Sox: Show more empathy towards fans
- [36:38] Josh’s resolutions for the White Sox: Win more division games, score more than 615 runs, and someone hit 25 home runs
Personal Resolutions for 2025
- James wants to cut down on his french fry intake
- Jim wants to finish reading Powerbroker
- Josh wants to get his weight under 215 pounds by November
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Great podcast. Thank you. Great suggestions for the White Sox. I think Jim’s is in the money (maybe even literally). Those defensive metrics…wow. The irony that Getz made it a high priority at the start of the season.
Good luck with the kayaking Josh.
Happy new year to everyone.
And… James, you’re too funny. So glad you joined the SM.
So do we feel that a big part of the intended losing last year was do to Getz trying to convince JR that a major overhaul of the org was necessary? I can buy in to this narrative but then where does that leave us now? What value is there in taking another beating like last year? Are we tanking for better odds at the 1st pick that wouldn’t even come into play until 2028 at the earliest? If they continue down this path will anybody be left to watch the team by then?
Josh, I agree about the need for a team president. Maybe you could get away without one if your owner was the frontman or your GM was a longtime respected baseball man, but an absentee owner and a noobe GM with zero PR skills leaves you with no interface to a fanbase that is leaving you in droves. This could go horrendously bad even if they hit on the rebuild.
To answer your initial question, yes. Reinsdorf will do the right thing only after first exhausting all other possibilities.
My guess is that his approach started with not caring to prop up a manager and coaches he wasn’t yet allowed to replace, and as it snowballed, he saw some other areas where devastation could be beneficial.
I can see that, Getz certainly seemed to be chomping at the bit to fire Grifol by May and I think would’ve done it in November if he could. It still doesn’t explain now though as this is all on him now. I would hope he’s not standing pat with what he has now, there’s still deal he could make.
Getz really doesn’t seem like a 4D chess guy to me.
He tried to improve the Sox, under the payroll limitations from above, and built the worst team in history. Then repeatedly blamed the prior administration for the failure that was ’24.
Yeah, agreed. Usually the most obvious explanation is the correct one, and the most obvious explanation to Getz’s performance so far is that he’s just bad at his job and should never have gotten it in the first place. There’s never any real point to being as terrible as they were in 2024. You couldn’t even really call it a rebuilding year with the limitations on where they were going to draft and their not having added any significant offensive talent to the pipeline.
The time and organization are wasted in different senses.
What’s the record for most losses over consecutive seasons?
For the MLB, it always starts with the Mets who in 1962-63 lost 231 during their inaugural first 2 seasons and 340 losses during the 3 season stretch of 1962-64.
In the AL you have the 2002-03 Tigers who lost 225 game
and a tie during 3 seasons with 324 losses by the 2011-13 Astros and the 1917-19 A’s.
The Sox would need to lose 111 games in 2025 to best the 1962-63 Mets with 232 losses and 119 losses to beat the 1962-64 Mets in a 3 season loss total.
111 losses by the Sox would crush the AL leaders with 232 and 333 losses.
On the flip side, The Cardinals and the Dodgers have to go all the way back to 1908 for the last time either team lost 100 games. Btw, the Dodgers weren’t the Dodgers back then but were the Superbas so I guess you could say they’ve never lost 100 games as the Dodgers.
So the Sox could set the all-time 2 season loss record and still have people saying they are headed in the right direction, due to a 10 win improvement.
You are correct.
Optimism has the tenacity of Jerry Reinsdorf and perhaps the same track record of success.
Happy New Year White Sox fans! Sadly same old tightass owner, until MLB steps in and forces him to sell nothing will ever change. It is the same every year under Reinsdorf, never in the mix for top free agents. Chicago is not Oakland or Pittsburgh. Getz has to dumpster dive for players. Even an all time record loss season doesn’t matter to JR. Keep cashing the revenue sharing checks you jerk. Reinsdorf SELL the team! White Sox fans deserve better than you!