greg775

Well Boston is 31-31. You'd think they'd want to beat us up and get their season going. Losses to the Sox would not be good for their team. Sox might be due for a win.

Is this DeLoach guy any good? I see he's young. Is he a top prospect? How'd we acquire him?

Stoney is a treasure. I'm pretty sure he's cut his social media tweeting (X'ing) quite a bit. Hasn't he pretty much stopped posting on X? That should tell us something right there. He can't post anything about this team without getting hammered by the responses. I mean the team is completely irrelevant and no post would make any sense unless it's extremely negative. He can't do that and keep his job. Like after last night he could post how bad Kopech is, but didn't. Or getting on a guy like Maldy for his inept at bats. Or bury Vaughn. He can't do that. So I believe he's stopped tweeting for the most part.

The Royals brought up Witt early on when the team reeked. It's worked out. I wish the Sox had MLB caliber players to play every day. Since they don't it's really criminal to charge MLB prices for stuff. At least cut all prices IN HALF right now if you are going to play these horrible players, old and young. Who cares if Colas goes 0-for-70? Play him every day. It's not going to hurt him. We're losing anyway. There's no reason to give at bats and playing time to guys like Maldy. I wouldn't worry about rushing players. It's not like their ineptitude if they stink will hurt the club. Remember Ventura was 0-for-30 or something then he got good.

I wonder how many teams in baseball approach roster construction and paying players the same way as the Sox. I find it absolutely amazing that the Sox have been unable to compete in the Central not only historically but specifically since tank became a popular four-letter word in MLB. Sox can't even compete with fellow paupers KC, Detroit, Cleveland and Minnie. Certainly their plan is better than our plan. I know KC has had some horrendous records but not Minnie for the most part. What do they got that we ain't got??

Should they switch Kopech to a starter? It seems to me he's about as bad a one-inning reliever as I've seen in a Sox jersey. I mean of those expected to be decent. You can't count some of the hacks we've had that are just bodies to complete a roster. That implosion last night was so quick. Just laughable how bad he is. Make him a starter. We're already very used to starters stinking. Can't be any worse than some of them we've seen during the tank years.

I was thinking about this tonight. Pedro has led the team to a 15-47 record. This is not hyperbole but a good portion of the fanbase (that can read and write lineup cards) if promoted to manager of the White Sox could probably have as good or better record than Pedro. Now if a fan had the job and had to meet with the GM every day and got help from the pitching and hitting coaches during games, that person probably could go at least 15-47. That's scary when you think about it. I mean maybe if one of our fans managed the team we'd be 5-57 but I dunno. I think some fans could have as good or better record than Pedro and that's scary. It's not hard to go 15-47.

Exactly. The Sox give so many teams life. It's absurd. I'm telling you ... the Royals gained a lot of early confidence by winning 6 of 7 vs Chicago or whatever it was. We woke up Minnesota at the time for sure. This was a wake up for the Cubs. And there are other teams the Sox awakened as well. Did the Sox stink against Cleveland too and boost their spirits early on? I forget.

Another sign that Sox are irrelevant. I used to get so mad at us losing to the Cubs and/or Royals. Now ... I sheepishly confess in the car I was 'rooting' for us to lose. I mean we're 15 games behind the team ahead of us in our division I think. What the hell does one win matter if we can lose 14, 15, 16 in a row? That'd be kind of neat. (For the greg haters ... I realize I've always wanted us to win every game especially against tanking. But I'm human and very upset with the Sox. In general I do want to win games, but guys, when you've won 15 all year, I get a year mulligan on that kind of thinking. I'm just thinking of how the Sox have lost a generation of older fans to go with indifference of any younger fans. What a mess. Please, MLB, either discipline the Sox for putting this product out there or please contract the team.

Are there any Kopech fans still on this board? My gosh his fastball must be so flat. Cause it gets HIT. I listened while driving in the car to the 8th and 9th. Boom. HR. Game over. Cubs announcers quite happy. Of course like all the teams that get well in playing the Sox they didn't mention we've lost 13 in a row and suck. All they did was mention how great the Cubs are in coming back from a bad few weeks and how they are a very good team blah blah. Their fans actually had to really enjoy that 2-game sweep despite the Sox record. I mean a pair of 7-6 wins. First one a comeback from 5-0; this one a ridiculous walk off. I repeat BOOM. -- By the way our top of the ninth was ridiculous. Those were allegedly our best hitters and our only hope of scoring was if that pinch runner somehow stole third after stealing second and the ball was thrown past 3B to score the run. Pretty weak that I thought Vaughn might hit a HR. How dumb of me.

If the Sox have to trade all their good players cause they'll never be able to sign them then why have a team? Just contract the team or get an owner with deep pockets who wants to win. You know this Central Division isn't that hard to rim. Remember it's usually the Sox responsible for these teams actually having good seasons cause they boatrace the Sox so often. We singlehandedly gave the Royals confidence early on, ditto Minnesota which was in the tank til it played the Sox. Sickening we can't sign anybody and apparently will have to win with 22 to 25 year olds and retreads which will never happen. Geez, sell the damn team.

The elephant in the room regarding Oz is how he would approach starting pitching. During Ozzie's managerial days pitchers went very deep into games. With this crap bullpen and below average starting rotation I don't think Ozzie could avoid similar carnage in the W/L department. Team would still lose every series and almost every game.

Plus Reinsdorf has a thing for the Royals way. Ever since he fell in love with Kauffman Stadium and made GRate field a cheap imitation with no waterfalls. He should have picked another team to fall in love with.

It seems like every winter a lot of our diehard fans think the front office has put together a good to great bullpen and the bullpen always blows.

Was Chet Lemon our last great centerfielder? Man that guy could cover ground and get good wood on the ball. Love me some Chester Lemon. One of the great baseball 'names' as well.

Can you imagine the clubhouse after that one? Arguably the worst loss of the year.

Jack Brickhouse used to say baseball's the best sport because every day you see something you've never seen before. Ha! One big LOL. A pinch runner who steals second in the 9th getting picked off when there's no reason to stray off the bag. A base hit scores you. And folks I give you Pedro Grifol. Sox blow what, a 5-0 lead? History.

To the tank people out there compared to the traditional fan (me): Hmmm Cease and Crochet would be 2/5 of a pretty dandy rotation for years to come. We had both on the South Side. After the Crochet trade we'll have zero of them. You can start to build a team around 2 fantastic starters and one superstar candidate in Robert. My point is at some point if we ever win we're gonna need 4 good starters. We had two but soon will have none. I get so frustrated by all this tanking ...

With the Sox luck we trail 3-2 after 5 1/2 inns and they call the game cause of lightning.

Oops one of our few decent players is hurt. Ten days is a long time in baseball.

Robert is a fine player so far. Hope he can stay healthy. If Sox win tonight he'll prolly be the reason.

The Cubs should try to lift and pull everything and put us away early with Flexon fixin' to offer up some meatballs,

Do the Cubs still sell out every game? If they do (Sox do not) it provides some proof it's a Cubs town. Maybe a Cubs country 'cause I realize out of towners want to include a Cub game on spring/summer visits to Chicago. They do not venture to Sox Park, not only cause we stink, but the stadium is blah and true or not the neighborhood does not have the greatest reputation.

It truly did. Lipman could give us a good history lesson but back in the pre interleague day the Sox and Cubs played a charity game midseason or so alternating between the ballparks each year. It sold out with the proceeds going to charity. And it was amazing. Sox and Cub fights throughout the city. It was special seeing the Sox uniform go against the Cubbie uniform. The teams would give their starters 2 at bats before putting in the stiffs. The only thing weird was the teams usually started their best minor league prospect then put in some pitchers who needed work. All in all it was special. Interleague has ruined it of course. Just another series. Unlike the Brewer series where I knew we'd get swept I think the Sox 'might' take one or even both games. Wrigley might awaken the bats. At this point you almost hope the Sox drop 16, 17 in a row just for the continued embarrassment factor. How can Jerry show his face in town? Maybe he just tells his friends it's all part of the latest tank plan. Peace out and remember when u go to the betting booth, "Sox might win a game or two vs. the Cubs."

Cubs could really embarrass Sox by winning two and getting the losing streak up to 13. You'd think 13 in a row would be an all time franchise record for ineptness. Cubs are not doing well. I don't think I'd bet this series cause Sox are due to win one and DeBong and some other guys might finally elevate a few HRs. Are we last in baseball in HRs and RBIs?