Jim Thome

And, and Jamie Navarro was a, an okay pitcher who had a, a really good year, and then coming off that really good year, the White Sox signed him to a big contract, and he immediately goes back to being really, really pedestrian and really bad.

And so, you know, i- if, if you're going to spend the money, all right, Jerry will have no regrets, I don't think, about spending money on a player that he thinks is worth the investment, right? He, he had no problem paying Jim Thome a lot of money.

He had no problem, you know, signing Murakami to a big deal, like you said, because-

He, he signed, he signed Elber Bell to a huge deal in the '90s.

He might go down as the greatest player in this franchise's history.

When you consider Bob Feller and Jim Thome and Manny Ramírez and all these other guys, uh, that José Ramírez could be the greatest player in franchise history.

But there is some angst, uh, at the Dolans for not spending historically, but they did for José.

You know, the trade several years ago, Francisco Lindor to the Mets, was a frustration that maybe doesn't happen if you had better economics in baseball.

I think the one thing that's been said that I keep continuing to bring up is, like, as the team clinched, uh, a few weeks ago in Kansas City and they knew they won the division, Sandy Alomar was like, "This team reminds me of the 1997 team." He was like, "We couldn't find our way for most of the year.

You know, we were out in Anaheim and we pulled up our socks for Jim Thome's, you know, birthday, and we became a different team." And he just feels like it's taken a long time because of the youth that this team has had, uh, the, the trade deadline that they had.

Um, you've had to wait for some players to figure it out.

Some players realize they're not, uh, about this.

I think the one thing that's been said that I keep continuing to bring up is, like, as a team clinched, uh, a few weeks ago in Kansas City and they knew they won the division, Sandy Alomar was like, "This team reminds me of the 1997 team." He was like, "We couldn't find our way for most of the year.

You know, we were out in Anaheim and we pulled up our socks for Jim Thome's, you know, birthday, and we became a different team." And he just feels like it's taken a long time because of the youth that this team has had, uh, the, the trade deadline that they had.

Um, you've had to wait for some players to figure it out.

Some players realize they're not, uh, about this.

Uh, 1995 game five of the ALCS, uh, the Indians versus the Mariners, uh, right here at Progressive Field.

And Jim Thome hit one to the moon, and he watched it, and it was a defiant bat flip.

I, I think that's-

Oh, yeah

Yeah, yeah.

And it was, uh, uh, it was, it was a good one.

So yeah, I think, uh, Jim Thome had some pretty good bat flips in his day.

Uh, but, uh, but Petey Halpin-

Mm-hmm.

Jim Thome had-

There as well, right.

Yeah