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As spring blossoms Leonys Martin Jersey , does fan confidence? Or are we still trapped in the depths of winter?"February results2018 ended in resoundingly unhappy fashion, with the D-backs having traded away the face of the franchise in December. That led to fan confidence dropping to its lowest level since September 2016, barely above three. With another month to get through the five stages of grief, and the signing of Wilmer Flores, would the results from the beginning of February be any better? 229 of you took up your mice and clicked to tell us what you thought. 22% - 1 (not confident in the slightest)15% - 219% - 314% - 412% - 514% - 63% - 70% - 8 [technically, 0.4%!] 2% - 9 (very, very, VERY confident)The worst might be over. After the number of 1’s all but tripled from December to January, they took a step back out of the abyss of despair in February, dropping by a quarter, from 30% back to 22%. They haven’t exactly become brimming with optimism, however, much of those having gone next door into the #2-4 block. Overall, 69.4% have confidence at a four or lower, which is slightly improved from 75.8% figure at the start of the year. At the other end, we find the hardcore optimists: between five and seven percent have voted seven or better, each of the last three months. I’ll have what they’re drinking. 
Below, you can see the breakdown of voting for the past year. Time progresses from the top down, beginning with the March 2018 poll.The overall average is still not good. However, at 3.45 http://www.tigersfanproshop.com/authentic-joe-jimenez-jersey , that’s up slightly more than one-third of a point compared to the first poll of the year. It still, however, remains lower than at any point since the end of the 2016 campaign. That start of year uptick does seem to be a trend. It feels that confidence generally declines once the season is over, until the turning of the calendar. Then, as spring approaches, optimism rises, at least somewhat. I guess, if you can’t be optimistic before the season begins, when can you be? Here’s the chart with all the poll averages - which probably makes a little more sense now we have two values for 2019!March pollSpring training is under way, and the D-backs have begun quite well, winning four of the first five games. Activity elsewhere perhaps plays into confidence, with Manny Machado signing a long-term deal with the Padres, but Bryce Harper not signing with the Dodgers or Giants, two of his final suitors, instead staying in the NL East with the Phillies. Do either of those factor into your opinion?Here’s the poll: as usual, explanations are welcome in the comments... You don’t want to call nobody else"WhiteFanposts FanpostsFanshotsSections AnalysisGame RecapsGamethreadsMinorsOffbeatFull ArchiveExclusives South Side Sox Hall of FameCard of the MonthDeep DiveDigitsFlashbackFranchise FactsKnow Your EnemyMost Essential White SoxRace to the BottomSix Pack of StatsSouth Side SnapSouth Side StumperSSS Literary SupplementSuper Stats PackThe Game I’ll Never ForgetTwitterpatingUnder the RadarView From the Other SideWhite Sox on SB Nation HomeStoriesScheduleRosterStatsWhite Sox on Yahoo! HomeDepth ChartTransactionsMasthead MastheadMeet the Players!Links White Sox Web LinksSouth Side Sox standardsCommunity GuidelinesOdds Shop StubHub 鉁昍icky, don’t lose that numberNew,25commentsYou don’t want to call nobody elseByBrett Ballantini@BrettBallantiniNov7, 2018, 12:35pm CSTShareTweetShareShareRicky http://www.tigersfanproshop.com/authentic-joe-jimenez-jersey , don’t lose that numberSend it Off: In a letter to yourself.You may wonder which Ricky is being addressed here: Chicago White Sox general manager Rick Hahn, or manager Ricky Renteria.Does it matter?With a second straight field manager, the White Sox seem indelibly linked. As flawed as their interview procedure is to fill their manager’s position, the White Sox’s requirements to retain or extend their manager are even worse.Neither the hiring process nor the retention decisions seem to follow any logic.Now, when you’re the New York Yankees, you have the money to pave over any potholes created by rash hires and thus may not owe anyone explanations. If you’re the Tampa Bay Rays, with a track record of somewhat successful against-the-grain thinking, your inscrutable nature may be charming.The White Sox don’t enjoy any such luxuries. It now has been 10 season since they saw the postseason, by the hair of their chinny-chin-chins. Since opening the century with six straight .500 or better seasons, they’ve had three in the last 12. The same personnel and largely the same personnel structure has overseen both those great six years (including the 2005 World Series champs and two other 90-win clubs) and the dirty dozen that followed.Thus from a success standpoint, the White Sox owe us information, answers, rationales.The team is also, as we are perpetually reminded by local Chicago media, nationwide baseball coverage, and the standings themselves, running a distant second in a two-team town.And from a PR standpoint, the White Sox should practice some transparency, and be confident enough in their processes to freely discuss them.Instead, the secret handshakes and as-you-go performance reviews make the team a further laughingstock. Even when Renteria was hired Jeimer Candelario Jersey , without a (publicly declared, at least) interview process, an apologist might point to his role for a full season as White Sox bench coach, and his experience managing the crosstown Chicago Cubs just two years before that, as reasons why a full interviewing and vetting process was unnecessary.Before then, the lack of interview process (beyond, apparently, asking Paul Konerko if he wanted to be player-manager) in hiring Robin Ventura to manage the White Sox in 2011 was a bit curious, but still able to be explained. Ventura was a White Sox legend, with great plaudits from teammates and peers (including GM Ken Williams) regarding his future ability to manage. Ventura was a roving instructor for the White Sox, so the club had a sense of his analytical mind and ability to connect to players. And, after the tumult of Ozzie Guillen, picking the most vanilla candidate possible made some sense from both a PR and blood-pressure-in-the-executive-suite standpoint.But extending Ventura, giving a manager who peaked about a half-season into his managerial career the chance to pilot the club for a full five seasons and intimating he fired himself defies explanation. And even Ventura’s extension was public, debated, defended.Now, we’ve digressed to the point where Hahn doesn’t even feel a need to update fans and media on Renteria’s future, much less present the news of a concrete decision (like an extension) in a public forum.Oh yeah, burying the lede: You may have heard, at some point between his hire in 2016 and yesterday http://www.tigersfanproshop.com/authentic-joe-jimenez-jersey , the White Sox extended Renteria’s contract to ... some point in the future. You can imagine the exchanges via voice, text, email, among Hahn and the beats:Q: When did you extend? Hahn: Don’t remember, doesn’t matter.Q: Why did you extend? Hahn: Don’t remember, doesn’t matter.Q: How long did you extend? Hahn: Don’t remember, doesn’t matter.Q: What’d you have for lunch? Hahn: Don’t remember, doesn’t matter.It’s like the GM is embodying Father Guido Sarducci doing the SNL forecast (“it’ll be hot or cold, depending on the weather”): “Hey, Ricky’s our guy, till he’s not. I think we’re done here.”Hahn — who I’ll make clear here I like a lot, and personally is a fabulous guy — went to such lengths as to ask, regarding the decision to stealth-extend Renteria: “Is it really that relevant?”(Q: Brooks, why are season ticket numbers down? Boyer: Is it really that relevant?Q: Yo谩n, what’s you plan in cutting down those 217 Ks? Moncada: Is it really that relevant?)Tone deafness is part and parcel when it comes to owning or running a sports team. A club shouldn’t, couldn’t respond to every whim and demand of its media or fan base. But the lengths to which the White Sox ask us to stretch our faith has passed any plausible limit. It’s not shocking that two decades of the current White Sox power structure has bred a sense of unaccountability. That the club is actively stretching the bounds of unaccountability is.Here’s hoping that once the wins start to pile up — presuming they do — that practice reverses.
Below, you can see the breakdown of voting for the past year. Time progresses from the top down, beginning with the March 2018 poll.The overall average is still not good. However, at 3.45 http://www.tigersfanproshop.com/authentic-joe-jimenez-jersey , that’s up slightly more than one-third of a point compared to the first poll of the year. It still, however, remains lower than at any point since the end of the 2016 campaign. That start of year uptick does seem to be a trend. It feels that confidence generally declines once the season is over, until the turning of the calendar. Then, as spring approaches, optimism rises, at least somewhat. I guess, if you can’t be optimistic before the season begins, when can you be? Here’s the chart with all the poll averages - which probably makes a little more sense now we have two values for 2019!March pollSpring training is under way, and the D-backs have begun quite well, winning four of the first five games. Activity elsewhere perhaps plays into confidence, with Manny Machado signing a long-term deal with the Padres, but Bryce Harper not signing with the Dodgers or Giants, two of his final suitors, instead staying in the NL East with the Phillies. Do either of those factor into your opinion?Here’s the poll: as usual, explanations are welcome in the comments... You don’t want to call nobody else"WhiteFanposts FanpostsFanshotsSections AnalysisGame RecapsGamethreadsMinorsOffbeatFull ArchiveExclusives South Side Sox Hall of FameCard of the MonthDeep DiveDigitsFlashbackFranchise FactsKnow Your EnemyMost Essential White SoxRace to the BottomSix Pack of StatsSouth Side SnapSouth Side StumperSSS Literary SupplementSuper Stats PackThe Game I’ll Never ForgetTwitterpatingUnder the RadarView From the Other SideWhite Sox on SB Nation HomeStoriesScheduleRosterStatsWhite Sox on Yahoo! HomeDepth ChartTransactionsMasthead MastheadMeet the Players!Links White Sox Web LinksSouth Side Sox standardsCommunity GuidelinesOdds Shop StubHub 鉁昍icky, don’t lose that numberNew,25commentsYou don’t want to call nobody elseByBrett Ballantini@BrettBallantiniNov7, 2018, 12:35pm CSTShareTweetShareShareRicky http://www.tigersfanproshop.com/authentic-joe-jimenez-jersey , don’t lose that numberSend it Off: In a letter to yourself.You may wonder which Ricky is being addressed here: Chicago White Sox general manager Rick Hahn, or manager Ricky Renteria.Does it matter?With a second straight field manager, the White Sox seem indelibly linked. As flawed as their interview procedure is to fill their manager’s position, the White Sox’s requirements to retain or extend their manager are even worse.Neither the hiring process nor the retention decisions seem to follow any logic.Now, when you’re the New York Yankees, you have the money to pave over any potholes created by rash hires and thus may not owe anyone explanations. If you’re the Tampa Bay Rays, with a track record of somewhat successful against-the-grain thinking, your inscrutable nature may be charming.The White Sox don’t enjoy any such luxuries. It now has been 10 season since they saw the postseason, by the hair of their chinny-chin-chins. Since opening the century with six straight .500 or better seasons, they’ve had three in the last 12. The same personnel and largely the same personnel structure has overseen both those great six years (including the 2005 World Series champs and two other 90-win clubs) and the dirty dozen that followed.Thus from a success standpoint, the White Sox owe us information, answers, rationales.The team is also, as we are perpetually reminded by local Chicago media, nationwide baseball coverage, and the standings themselves, running a distant second in a two-team town.And from a PR standpoint, the White Sox should practice some transparency, and be confident enough in their processes to freely discuss them.Instead, the secret handshakes and as-you-go performance reviews make the team a further laughingstock. Even when Renteria was hired Jeimer Candelario Jersey , without a (publicly declared, at least) interview process, an apologist might point to his role for a full season as White Sox bench coach, and his experience managing the crosstown Chicago Cubs just two years before that, as reasons why a full interviewing and vetting process was unnecessary.Before then, the lack of interview process (beyond, apparently, asking Paul Konerko if he wanted to be player-manager) in hiring Robin Ventura to manage the White Sox in 2011 was a bit curious, but still able to be explained. Ventura was a White Sox legend, with great plaudits from teammates and peers (including GM Ken Williams) regarding his future ability to manage. Ventura was a roving instructor for the White Sox, so the club had a sense of his analytical mind and ability to connect to players. And, after the tumult of Ozzie Guillen, picking the most vanilla candidate possible made some sense from both a PR and blood-pressure-in-the-executive-suite standpoint.But extending Ventura, giving a manager who peaked about a half-season into his managerial career the chance to pilot the club for a full five seasons and intimating he fired himself defies explanation. And even Ventura’s extension was public, debated, defended.Now, we’ve digressed to the point where Hahn doesn’t even feel a need to update fans and media on Renteria’s future, much less present the news of a concrete decision (like an extension) in a public forum.Oh yeah, burying the lede: You may have heard, at some point between his hire in 2016 and yesterday http://www.tigersfanproshop.com/authentic-joe-jimenez-jersey , the White Sox extended Renteria’s contract to ... some point in the future. You can imagine the exchanges via voice, text, email, among Hahn and the beats:Q: When did you extend? Hahn: Don’t remember, doesn’t matter.Q: Why did you extend? Hahn: Don’t remember, doesn’t matter.Q: How long did you extend? Hahn: Don’t remember, doesn’t matter.Q: What’d you have for lunch? Hahn: Don’t remember, doesn’t matter.It’s like the GM is embodying Father Guido Sarducci doing the SNL forecast (“it’ll be hot or cold, depending on the weather”): “Hey, Ricky’s our guy, till he’s not. I think we’re done here.”Hahn — who I’ll make clear here I like a lot, and personally is a fabulous guy — went to such lengths as to ask, regarding the decision to stealth-extend Renteria: “Is it really that relevant?”(Q: Brooks, why are season ticket numbers down? Boyer: Is it really that relevant?Q: Yo谩n, what’s you plan in cutting down those 217 Ks? Moncada: Is it really that relevant?)Tone deafness is part and parcel when it comes to owning or running a sports team. A club shouldn’t, couldn’t respond to every whim and demand of its media or fan base. But the lengths to which the White Sox ask us to stretch our faith has passed any plausible limit. It’s not shocking that two decades of the current White Sox power structure has bred a sense of unaccountability. That the club is actively stretching the bounds of unaccountability is.Here’s hoping that once the wins start to pile up — presuming they do — that practice reverses.Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.