greg775

36th round draft pick who hit 8 homers in almost 500 at bats last season. 3B position will have no power this season. Sounds like our new Nicky. Good defense though which helps the push to 50 wins. Sox allegedly have beefed up the bullpen with a lot of bodies to choose from. Great defense to go with this staff should assure 49-51 wins despite the total lack of hitting on the team.

This is familiar. Offseason stockpiling of the latest crop of relievers. Law of averages gonna give the Sox a good bullpen for once? A good bullpen makes the over 49 bet look better. My tip: Pay attention gamblers. You mite wanna bet the house on over 49.

So Vargas got 14 hits in 135 at bats for the Sox last season. He did draw 17 walks. But his 14 for 135 has to be one of the worst 135 at bat stretches of any player in Sox history. Why would anybody think this guy is an everyday player? Then Fletcher... 46 hits in 223 at bats. Oh boy that's awful. And those two guys could be 2/9s of our order on a given day? Let's say Beni reverts back to the 2023 Beni and Robert and Vaughn hit the same as they did last year. And Fletcher and that other guy split duty in right field. I'm not trying to be an alarmist but even with some promising young arms you have to score some runs to win ballgames. I see no signs of 2025 White Sox being as good as the 2024 team. Who the hell is our shortstop? At least last. year we knew it was DeBong who was not a complete embarrasment. I see no punch in this lineup and very few HRs if Beni reverts back to 2023 and Vaughn remains Vaughn. Should be interesting to see if Sox can win a zillion 2-1 games somehow. No bats.

What a dummy. You always got the feeling Hawk/Stoney while making regular contact with players didn't try to bond with the boys in the locker room. Even though he's young, Schiff is not prime 'become one of us' material with the players. Leave 'em alone; ask 'em something while flying by once in a while. Do an interview when u are supposed to. Don't force things

All those calls are embarrassing. When you have a 42-win team, cmon, as much as you want to get excited, the team has prevented that. Any attempt at being 'overly' positive is ridiculous. You have to treat each game as its own but the big picture of team suckiness can never be ignored. South Side Stand Up is so bad. The haters and losers thing is counterproductive. And the final two are not worth commenting on they are so bad.

Holy cow. The couple of games I watched they move the ball and shoot it pretty well.

Thing is they haven't added anything (beni)ficial to the everyday lineup that would improve the final W/L total. At least one facet of the game figures to continue to cost the Sox almost every night. Starting pitching, hitting, bullpen are all conceivably worse than this past season. Defense? I truthfully have no idea how this ragtag bunch will field the ball. Mabe that's a strength if our up the middle defense is actually good. At this point do we even have anybody better than DeBong to play SS? Is Monte ready?

Yeah, say what you want about Beni and Robert, they actually are our two best hitters. They actually belong on a roster of an MLB team. It's be kind of funny/interesting to see how the Sox fare without those two. Usually a team has at least one all star candidate. That would leave the Sox with no proven MLB talent. Yikes. I could see us dumping both though since Jerry likes money.

It's funny that those of us who would say over 50 is because it's so hard to win under 50 much less two years in a row. I'd say currently the roster screams about 43 wins again. I see the lineup as historically weak and the pitching full of more no names than ever. I wouldn't count on many of them developing quickly. But I have no idea. I wanna see the final roster.

I definitely lost the love for the game but still love stadiums and being in them. The NFL is boring (to me). Too many short passes. At least the games are three hours, no longer unless OT. Once in a while it's worth watching the fourth quarter. Hockey is nonexistent to me. College sports have too many time outs. Volleyball had a chance til they went time out crazy. College football and bball have too many replays and time outs.

Here are some Soxtalk legends: Fathom: (I envision him as a nice guy in real life; knows his stuff, used to get mad when we lost to Cubs, I think he played baseball longer than most on here). Caulfield: Same as Fathom. Seems like he'd be a nice guy in real life. Used to make interesting posts about China. He and Fathom seem like kind souls. Harry Chappas: Not only has ties to Brother Rice but has reasonable posts and also never gets mad on here. Seems like a nice guy as well and a proud southsider me thinks. WhiteSox2023 also has Br. Rice ties and seems to have his head on straight. He hasn't been around as long. Milkman Delivers: On the list of most likely to punch greg in the face if we met. I just don't think he likes me much. I could be wrong. Ron883: I think he is ok with greg. He's posted a long time, seems reasonable. I think we've disagreed on some players' value in the past. Texsox: Seems like a nice guy. I think we would agree on political stuff in real life. Mabe not. Those few come to mind right now. Peace on earth to all over the holiday season.

My view is different. In fact, I'm upset the Sox didn't sign him to a minor league deal. The chances of Eloy making it are the same as say, Robert, who also has proven nothing. In another throwaway season coming up, why didn't we reacquire Eloy. He still looks good in a uniform so to speak and if he's gonna save his career with a breakout year, why not with the Sox. Risk/reward. We should have picked him up. Cmon. He'd be as good as anybody we currently have for the outfield. Beni, Robert and Eloy on paper "again" would be potentially a winning threesome. Potentially.

I always watched pitchers who go deep into games (Buehrle, Fergie Jenkins, Jim Kaat, whoever) and considered their work an art form. It wasn't just rearing back and striking guys out throwing 105 for as long as you can go, combined with some cutters. It was a beautiful work of art. Yes, starting pitchers who could throw shutouts or 9 inning masterpieces of 1, 2 runs, could hum a fastball in there when necessary. But they mixed things up, inside, out, fastball, curve, change, slider some (even though sliders stressed the arm) and they painted their masterpiece. Also if you faced a hitter a certain way one at bat you might change it up his next at bat or two. ... Baseball to me is getting boring partly because of the pitchers going with the heater and cutter (resulting in Ks after an excessive mount of boring foul balls) and of course the failure of hitters to even try to beat the shift or bunt to beat the shift and of course every hitter has to try to lift and pull it. Sure a few homers result from lift and pull, also a lot of balls hit right into the shift. Baseball is a horrible product right now but like Lip, greg can't quite divorce himself from his favorite sport as a youth. Give me Fergie/Holtzman/Gary Peters, Joe Horlen, LaMarr Hoyt, Jim Kaat, Dennis Leonard, Larry Gura, Jim Palmer, Dave McNally baby! They'll pain u some corners and a masterpiece without needing Tommy John.

Is Cam any good or will he drive us to booze?

Yes I forgot Semien who shoulda been a White Sox as long as Ray Durham was a White Sox.

Our tank job was disgusting. If we'd have kept Sale with Abreu and run an organization like most other ones (prospects, spending a little bit of cash) we wouldn't have needed no stinkin' rebuild/tank job. The way the Sox run rebuilds ... you have ZERO good players on your team while you languish. Crochet is gone so we allegedly have one good player left on our roster (Robert; Beni is at least worthy of a big league uniform).

Many of us were positive for decades. Yes decades. Now many of us have finally given up. That's what a 120-loss season will do to you and a ridiculous tank job that insulted the intelligence of tons of fans. Sox earned the negativity. Again many of us hung on forever even through that awful tank job. I was against it but gave it a chance. Now? No way. Not til I see some real ballplayers getting acquired/developed and not a roster full of last place baseball players.

Sox are the worst run franchise in sports. Too easy to defend that statement. Jerry's legacy is ruined. Yes he has six Bulls titles and one Sox title yet he's a top 10 worst owner in sports history. Hard to do with that many titles.

Watch an interview today compared to 10 years ago. Hosts of shows interrupt their guests, scream at their guests if they don't agree with the popular narrative. My take is Soros got to 'em. Just my take.

Anybody who thinks the NFL is fixed is wrong. Why would they let Mahomes and the Chiefs win it every year if it were fixed? Is Andy Reid the greatest coach of all time? In a day and age of parity the Chiefs win it every single year.

I don't think we have a candidate. Maybe Robert will blossom finally. I wonder if he's working out hard this winter or loafing. I'll say Robert. I don't think we have any good everyday players to be honest. Maybe a pitcher like the new overweight guy we just signed. We usually have one great pitcher and the rest mediocrities.

Even though Jerry is unbelievably cheap you'd think even he would be thoroughly embarrassed and actually ashamed of himself to put such a horrible product on the field. I guess his legacy with the Bulls six titles is so great he thinks his legacy is assured to be positive and he continues to let his baseball team be the laughingstock of all of sports. He fooled people in 05 thinking he wanted to win.

I always wondered if u could develop a plan when carjacked. I really don't want to give up my vehicle. Cause one gets stolen, you go through all the hassle of getting a new one and boom it happens again. You've got to have a plan in my mind and sometimes I was thinking if you say you are a cop they might run.

I always wondered if you got held up on the street or carjacked in your driveway, could you impersonate an officer and say: "Police ... freeze ... I've been waiting for a moment like this to arrest one of you!" Or is that illegal.

Ugh. I forgot we also had a bad broadcast team. I won't be getting mlb.com again this year. No need since we project to lose almost every series again in 2025.