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Quick hits ... -- Crochet being a two-inning 'opener' for a contending team is stupid IMO. Say what you want, pitching him two innings is not smart or productive. There's a lot of ballgame left after six batters. -- Shame on a contender if they move him to late relief down the stretch or in the playoffs/series. Just when he gets used to being a starter he doesn't need that stress of late innings late in a season in which his injuries are limited. And I'm saying this as a guy who despises the baby-ing of pitchers in the sabes era. Moral of story: Keep him in Chicago, keep him as a starter and have him be, you know, a fan favorite for a decade. Oh I forgot we can't keep stars in Chicago, too cheap. Such a big city with such a terrible front office/owner. Sell the team, JR.

I give credit where it's due. Nice job there, Mr. Getz. It does help a lot ease the sting.

What a pathetic loss. Four hits? Bad pitching? Our Sox are no good.

I thought a 10-game losing streak deserved its own thread. Heck our boys may end that streak in their next game. However it deserves a comment and question. My comment is: Even though our club really stinks overall, it has little chance on a given night, any night, on the road. Why? Well generally our bats die. We had what four hits tonight? To show how bad we are on the road, the Rangers were struggling a bit as our Sox arrived 3 games ago. Now for however long, maybe not long at all, they've been rejuvenated right after the all star break by our boys dropping three more. My question to you is ... as a fan would you like the streak to keep going? Do you want the streak to pass the 14-gamer in May? My ANSWER: Yes. The man who doesn't ever wanna take does want us to have a 15-game streak to go with the 14-gamer. Why? Just to again embarrass Jerry. He has to be moderately embarrassed to what has become of his team. Or is he still living off 2005 as well as the Bulls titles?? Peace baby.

His pitches scream "hit me." Another pitcher Fathom could get a hit off of.

Hard to believe Sox have lost 9 in a row considering they've had what, two other long losing streaks? It's hard to string together that many losses. Hard but not impossible cause as we know Sox are deficient in 3 areas that can cost u games on a given night: horrid lineup of hitters; horrid bullpen and bad defense. I thought Sheets in RF got a late jump on that key hit out there. Also the mixup on the steal of second and ultimate steal of home. Another loss conducive to keeping a losing streak alive cause Crochet pitched. They beat him so they could win another tomorrow and make it 10 in a row as our Sox again make teams healthy. Rangers have a blah record. A sweep of Sox in theory could rejuvenate them like we've done other teams.

I hear you. That's why I want the commish to reprimand the Sox or contract the Sox. If you are in it, you are in it to win it. Especially in this pathetic division which the Sox refuse to contend.

I think the people who think like us are not crazy. We don't want stupid trades that 'may' pay off 3-5 years from now. I think any reasonable person would see the Sox have a pretty good rotation already built for the future. Since the Sox can't build an effective bullpen, we could try some of the lesser names in our system out of the pen. And maybe Jerry would agree to spend a little cash trying once again to find 2 decent bullpen pieces. But Thorpe and Crochet are pretty amazing and I won't go thru the other names. Sox have part of the rebuild complete!! The pitching staff (if Jerry agrees to spend a few bucks on the pen).

Moncada is not very durable. Makes a good buck though.

Seven in a row and we're on the road ... hmmm. Rangers not a great team tho.

Your story was great. That reminded me of the time my grandfather fell as we were going to the car after a lightly attended night game and was bleeding and the Sox people helped us get an ambulance. That was gracious of everybody. Sox security was great. He was OK. Other memories: Being on the field on banner day between games of a doubleheader. If you had a banner you could go on the field for a parade. Fun. My friend made us a banner. Only bad part was you had to go to the left field lower concourse in the sixth or seventh inning, way too early. We were into the game. ... All the memories are from old Comiskey, quite a ballpark. Haven't been to many in GRate, but a few. Always will be fond memories of Sox park food. ... And of course the exploding scoreboard after home runs mesmerized me as a kid. Other memories. Sad the Sox are such a woebegone organization now. Really a pathetic excuse for an organization.

What is an open convention? I don't follow this close enuf. Tell me what's going on and who will win the nommy. Thanx.

Hi mitey. ... Also not getting political, here are my odds of candidate (caveat is I assume Michelle and Oprah don't want it): Kamala 1-1 (off Joe's endorsement); Newsom 3-1; Hilary 7-1; Kennedy 15-1; the field 100-1. Peace.

Three hits for the Sox ... LOL. Game took 2:05 ... LOL Royals sweep lifeless Sox. Absolutely no pride in losing season series what, 9 to 1? For all the tradeniks, at least Pham had two good games. Rumor Royals want him. He's actually hit well enuf to show he's a major leaguer and could help a contender at least as a pinch hitter or twice a week guy. Expect him to get dealt soon for cash considerations and maybe one player from A ball.

That's a great subliminal post. Fans of lousy franchises can't root for their own players very much. They root for what they can get for them in trades cause of their cheap owners.

What a choke by the Royals if they allow one run per game in a series and only take two of three. I think they ran their Sunday lineup today rather than getting greedy and taking all 3.

Their owner is kind of a doofus though IMO. I can't root for Pitt cause of the owner and his family business dealings.

Sox not competing very well since the All Star break. Or as the Royals announcer said, "It seems like every one of the White Sox are hitting .230." Ah gotta love the traditional stats announcers still use.

Exactly, ptatc! Messing with this guy's routine is a recipe for disaster for them. GMs should wait til offseason to acquire this guy. One thing the Sox appear to be doing is helping him stay healthy this season. If he cruises in with the runaway winner down the stretch then hits it hard in the postseason for LAD, good luck.

I truly respect your long post. That said it's ridiculous IMO. Do you know how many games the Sox have led by two runs this year? Tons! The first two innings are yawnsville, baby. I do love your post though. thanx for the post trying to educate me a bit.

Try explaining that to a fan base that wants to win now. Remember most teams are not like the White Sox in a constant state of tank/rebuild. Two innings at the beginning of the game are meaningless to contenders by the way. And you don't want to make him a reliever and possibly screw up his current routine/current arm. This is hilarious if true. Dodgers in late July worrying about next year and the year after. Only in baseball. Every move the Dodgers make should be about winning it all now. That's be insidious of them if Crochet becomes a late inning guy in the postseason. They prolly won't be able to help themselves from pitching him in late game situations in the playoffs/Series.

Serious question: Why would a contender want to acquire a guy who is going to be completely shut down before meaningful baseball is to be played? Seems stupid to worry about next year when this year is here for teams like the Dodgers. I'm against trading him of course but if Sox do trade him they need the Dodgers' top 3-4 prospects on their prospect list whoever they are.

It's cause the Sox always had a couple stars even in their darkest days (prior to last few years here; the previous dark days) worth paying attending to/enjoying (Melton, Pete Ward, Peters/Horlen, Walt Williams, Zisk, Fisk, Aparicio, Wood, Hoyt et. all). True the Sox have two stars in Robert and Crochet but they don't really count cause they are soon to depart.

Proud of you for doing something more productive with the kids than watching this crud. People don't believe us, but this has an effect on the future. You've got lifers like me and a few of my Chicago friends who tell me they also long ago stopped following the team (I just started not paying for mlb this season; it's my first) and you've got little kids not being subjected to all this losing. Chances are they will not be fans going forward. Add to that the ruination of baseball by analytics and things are quite depressing for some of us. Those who don't mind tanking, and those who actually enjoy tanking and the unknown prospects that will be coming aboard, however, are in nirvana.

Boy that was a pathetic outing. Had we fired Pedro at the break, maybe the Sox had a 'chance' to get fired up and win a few games for 10 days or so. Instead we get boatraced and if the Royals are smart they'll go ahead and sweep the Sox to stay in the WC race. I think we're 1-8 vs KC maybe. Not meaning to rip, but is Baldwin any good? I see he was like a 12th round pick or so which doesn't signal greatness to me. Congrats to him for getting a hit.