Carol Slezak has the answer to the Cubs problems...

[JonnyRed]

...be more like the Sox.

 

I know, I know, the Sox do have a World Series title, but please winning one title in 92 years doesn't make me want to emulate their franchise. Her main reasoning:

 

1. Sox management only want championships and I guess having your manager and GM talk about it, makes it happen.

 

2. The Sox have a better farm system in place because they drafted Beckham and had the talent to trade for Peavy. Are you kidding me? The savior to the Sox has played less than half a season and he's the poster child for how great the Sox farm system is? I guess she forgot that the reigning ROY is a Cub. Or that Zambrano, Marmol, Theriot, Wells, and Marshall all came up through the Cubs system. Or better yet, Hendry turns Cubs prospects into A-Ram and Lee. Meanwhile, name me one good prospect in the last 10 years who has contributed to the Sox besides their rookie 3B. They hyped Fields, Borchard, McCarthy, Rauch and many others over the years who have all busted.

 

What a joke....

 

The franchise I truly want to emulate is the RedSox...big market team who not only spends $ but does it wisely and drafts incredibly well to boot.

 

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/slezak/1732686,CST-SPT-carol25.article

[Transmogrified Tiger]

I'm struggling to come up with anything the White Sox front office does better than the Cubs.

[SouthSideRyan]

I'm struggling to come up with anything the White Sox front office does better than the Cubs.

 

Acquiring non-failed prospects that other teams have given up on.

[jersey cubs fan]

I'm struggling to come up with anything the White Sox front office does better than the Cubs.

 

Manage expectations.

[champaignchris]

If I were to have my baseball team emulate any current baseball organizations, it'd be the Red Sox and (ugh!) Cardinals.

 

If I could double the payroll, I'd be all in favor of emulating the Yankees.

[Halman]

If I were to have my baseball team emulate any current baseball organizations, it'd be the Red Sox and (ugh!) Cardinals.

 

 

So, you want the cubs to take loads of HGH because I'm 95% sure that's the cardinals "pixie dust".

[chuckywang]

I'm struggling to come up with anything the White Sox front office does better than the Cubs.

 

Kenny Williams does have a knack for trading away his prospects for good talent in return.

 

Let's see .. Chris Young for Vasquez and then flipping Vasquez two years later for Tyler Flowers, Chris Carter for Quentin, Poreda/Richard for Peavy, Roward for a very cheap Thome.

 

Sure Hendry did the ARam and Lee deals, but that was over 5 years ago. The only thing that you can say Hendry has done recently was the Harden deal.

 

Oh, and the Sox also has a much better Cuban connection than the Cubs.

[JonnyRed]

I'm struggling to come up with anything the White Sox front office does better than the Cubs.

 

Manage expectations.

 

That's an important point. For some reason, everyone seems to believe that the Sox are in a re-building year so it's kinda expected that they are around a .500 team. Considering that they are coming off a division winning season and have two of their best bats about to become FAs--not to mention the $100M they just invested, that there is no reason they should be winning now, especially considering the division they are in.

[dew1679666265]

I'm struggling to come up with anything the White Sox front office does better than the Cubs.

 

Kenny Williams does have a knack for trading away his prospects for good talent in return.

 

Let's see .. Chris Young for Vasquez and then flipping Vasquez two years later for Tyler Flowers, Chris Carter for Quentin, Poreda/Richard for Peavy, Roward for a very cheap Thome.

 

Sure Hendry did the ARam and Lee deals, but that was over 5 years ago. The only thing that you can say Hendry has done recently was the Harden deal.

 

The Vazquez trade was 4 years ago, as was the Thome deal. If you're going to ignore the Lee and ARam trades, why do you count a pair of trades that happened a little longer ago?

 

Also, Orlando Hernandez was included in that Vazquez deal and he wasn't much worse than Vazquez in 2006. There's also the train of thought that the Peavy deal was not a good one for the White Sox.

 

Oh, and the Sox also has a much better Cuban connection than the Cubs.

 

The Cubs absolutely dominate the Korean market.

[Z38Cubs]

Carol Slezak is a raging moron and I have no clue how the hell she still has a job spewing all the dumb crap she's been spewing over the years.

[daske17]

Carol Slezak is a raging moron and I have no clue how the hell she still has a job spewing all the dumb crap she's been spewing over the years.

 

She works for the Sun-Times, that's how.

[GhostRunner]

Nothing personal, but I can't see her name without thinking of ...

 

 

http://entertheoctopus.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/sleestaks.jpg

 

[Wilson A2000]

I'm struggling to come up with anything the White Sox front office does better than the Cubs.

 

Help win a championship? Yeah, they did that.

[Geech]

So, you want the cubs to take loads of HGH because I'm 95% sure that's the cardinals "pixie dust".

 

HGH doesn't actually help with athletic performance.

[LeftCoastCubFan]

What would happen if she and Paul Sullivan had a baby?

[Transmogrified Tiger]

What would happen if she and Paul Sullivan had a baby?

 

You leave Phil Rogers out of this.