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He puts his fingers down, apparently Pedro never heard of pitch-com

"Moncada, Jimenez and Robert going down at the same time was a statistical anomaly" Not really it was inevitable since Eloy and Robert have injury histories going all the way back to the minor leagues. Moncada's minor league career was healthy but his injuries began to mount once he hit the majors and he has had a succession of back, oblique, quad, hamstring, and foot injuries to go with the latest abductor which is similar to Roberts injury. I blame both the players off-season training routine and the Sox training staff. I still have yet to see another team strap a harness around their players during pre-game warmups and make them drag the trainer around the grass like I use to witness when my seats were in the outfield along the 3rd base line.

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Good choice, he can certainly deliver a good postgame flush in case the AL loses.

What's not to understand, JR's the owner. Enough said.

Not happening until his contract runs out.

You need something stronger than a beer to watch the White Sox

s%*# in s%*# out but still better than having Bummer. Nickey Lopez +0.1 2004 WAR to date Aaron Bummer - 0.1 2004 WAR to date That's a win!

I still grade the trade an A, getting anything more than a bag of balls for Aaron Bummer is a win.

Only the sox, guy hits his first extra base hit of the year against the Sox and it's a triple. Jeez-help us please.

Gotta love our #2 situational hitter.

This is his most interesting quote IMO...."I mean, I'm still the same person. I'm learning a lot more now," he said. "I'm sharpening up tools a lot more. Is he alluding to the Sox not being able to develop or instruct him how to field and become a complete ballplayer. Time will tell how much he sharpened his tools by his error count at the end of the year. Tim isn't the sharpest tool in the shed so I'm skeptical about how much he learned at Miami.

Aaron Bummer (Aaron Bummer), his last name says it all.

Well he definitely redeemed himself in 2005 with that hit that landed at the base of the left field wall if I remember correctly. He kept the dream of the Sox winning a World Series alive, if not for that hit I'm afraid we would have never given our pitching staff a chance to dominate the Astros in the 4 game sweep to win it all.. One clutch hit by a Sox player in a big game moment should make him eligible for the Hall of Fame, because sadly I don't see the Sox playing a meaningful game in September anytime soon.

Choke Crede? You mean the same Joe Crede who drove in the go ahead run against the Angels to win the must win game 2 of the ALCS (AJ dropped 3rd strike game). After losing the first game of the series had they gone down 0-2 heading to Anaheim for game 3 the series might have turned out differently and we'd still be searching for a WS championship. Granted AJ saved the day, but it was Joe Crede, Mr Clutch who drove in the winning run and sent everyone home on a high note. It was the most fun I've had ever at a Sox game leaving the park with the crowd chanting "LET'S GO WHITE SOX" as we winded our way down the stairs and out the gate. Choke Crede........I think NOT!, more like Clutch Crede!

Who thinks batting Eloy second last night was a good move by Grifool? I mean he's not hitting a lick .095 to be exact, chases balls outside the strike zone, doesn't know how to move runners over and he has no baseball IQ when it comes to running the bases. Eloy is a pinch hitter at this point until he proves otherwise.

We're still paying him, and actually he could do no worse than what's out there now.

I’m not doing that. I’m keeping my catcher in there. He puts the right fingers down. He knows what he’s doing back there.

JR's going run his new Stadium Sorts network into the ground before it even gets off the ground. I'm not paying to watch the Bulls and Sox. Why the Hawks would partner with this miser is puzzling.

I agree with you....holy cow!

I agree about Eloy being an accident waiting to hurt himself or others. I was just throwing it out there to show how the Sox value Eloy as some kind of hitting machine and that he needs to be in the lineup everyday. I disagree with that thought process. Who's sitting when Pham comes, if we are only going to play him when we give Vaughn a rest, and move Sheets to 1B, keeping Eloy as DH what's the point of signing him. My point is Eloy has really done nothing to make him a player that needs to be in the lineup everyday. Let Eloy pinch hit and play a couple of games a week at DH until he proves otherwise.

Not sure I like Sheets in the outfield but he has to play. I do find it interesting that the Sox claim Eloy's healthy so why isn't he playing his natural position in the outfield instead of taking Sheets spot as a DH?

I'm semi sure Reinsdorf runs the Sox in a way he thinks is best to keep them in Chicago and prevent them from leaving the city like his beloved Brooklyn Dodgers did. I liked your analysis, except I disagree with the statement I bolded above. I think JR wants to run the Sox out of town just like his beloved Brooklyn Dodgers left him angry. He wants to take it out on all of us because we don't show up for games when the product on the field is so inept. Sox fans don't flock to the game the way Cub fans do and JR resents that and always will. His dislike for all things Cub is evident in things he has said over the years. The year after the Sox won the World Series in 2006 attendance came 40,000 short of 3 mil. Sox fans want to see results and if the team would have performed better in the years that followed, we would have supported them in droves. Sox fans don't show up to pretend they're in a bar like Wrigley, they show up when a winner is on the field. If we had a winning organization similar to the smaller market St Louis Cardinals we would come close to 3 mil in attendance every year. But remember JR gets a sweet deal on his stadium rent if attendance doesn't reach a certain amount so it's in his best interest to field a team that comes close to winning but doesn't draw too many fans. I know it makes no sense but that's JR for ya. Remember his other quote when he said “Sports is a business of failure. Only one team is going to win every year. But the fact that you finished second or third or fourth, it doesn’t mean you had a bad year. I think the important thing for fans is, while they want you to win championships, they want to know that when you get to the last month of the season, you still have a shot. You’re still playing meaningful games. If you can do that consistently, you’ll make your fans happy.” On top of his recent visit to Nashville JR also held us up threatening to move to Tampa Bay so the history is there.Now if my childhood team left for LA like his beloved Brooklyn dodgers I would be upset and never want that to happen to anyone else. Not JR, he's tried once with Tampa and now he's going to do it again if he doesn't get the state to build a new stadium for him. Even after they built the current park, JR had it remodeled and then he thought the seats looked too much like Cub blue so he had the state or us to pay for the color change to the current green, was that really necessary. JR could give a sh** about fans or a winning team, all he cares about is having the state pay for his stadium so he can string the fans along with 2nd, 3rd, or 4th place talent just so he can keep attendance down and have the state kick in more money.

I meant tailed into the bottom inside corner, but it wasn't a strike.