South Side Fireworks Man

Nobody on the White Sox hits the ball as hard as Jake Burger.

Roland Hemond was great. Sox could use a guy like him now.

I'd be ecstatic if they would just get rid of Daryl Boston.

Carl Everett was one of my favorites.

Thanks Lip. I was confusing this incident with the Ligue/Gamboa incident. Thanks for clearing that up!

That's how I remember it. But when I was searching the internet to find confirmation of that fact last night I couldn't come up with anything. Every result I found referenced Gamboa being assaulted by "fans" or White Sox fans." No mention of the Ligues drinking at Wrigle Field during a day game that same afternoon although that's what I remember.

Waller said the police department initially requested that the game be halted after the shooting was discovered. The White Sox said Saturday that they were not aware at first that a woman injured during the game was shot, and that the Chicago Police Department would have stopped play if officers thought it was unsafe to continue. Hmmmmm.....

It can happen anywhere, but your point is well taken.

There was no indication there was "someone firing bullets into the park from the outside." What happened appeared to be an isolated incident, one stray bullet from the outside. They found one bullet and no one else noticed anything going on. I'm sure security was alerted and they were probably monitoring the area for any sign of an active shooter situation but all was calm. You nor I really don't know what they were doing behind the scenes Will you ever take your two sons to Guaranteed Rate Field again? Because if it happened once it could happen again. And it could happen anywhere, even in the best of areas. It sucks, but living is a risk.

I was at a pro wrestling show back in 1975 at the Amphitheatre when someone from the upper balcony pulled a gun and started firing at the ring. He missed the wrestlers and referee but hit a few people sitting at ringside. I heard a few "pops" but had no idea they were gunshots. We didn't know anything about it until we were walking home late that night after stopping for a pizza at a place near our own neighborhood after the show. The police pulled up to us because we were underage and it was long past curfew. They asked what we were doing and we told them we were walking home from the pizza place. They asked why so late and we told them we were previously at the wrestling matches. One of the policemen asked, "What happened there?" and I started telling him the results of the matches. He said, "No, I mean what happened with the shooting?" We said, "What shooting?" We were right there and we didn't even know about it and first found out when the policeman told us what had happened. There was no panic, no announcements and most people there had no idea there was an active shooter in the crowd and that several people had been hit.

I agree with your statement. Nobody dislikes Reinsdorf and his organization more than I do. However, in this case I'm not going to pile on. Maybe it was better that they didn't start a panic and have everyone rushing for the exits all at once causing a stampede in which more people may have been hurt. And if the shot really came from outside the park, it's probably good they didn't send people outside the park until they knew exactly what was going on. As it was nobody was seriously injured and even people sitting nearby had no idea anything was amiss. It was a relatively minor incident. Unfortunately these things can happen anywhere, but it's especially not surprising that it would happen in Chicago.

I agree with this. And also acquire good baseball players, coaches, scouts, managers, etc.

Kenny Williams, Jerry Manuel, Ozzie Guillen, Rick Renteria, Pedro Grifol, all say "Hi."

Everything Reinsdorf does is a sham. Race has nothing to do with it.

So AJ sees it exactly the way I do.

That's JR's MO. He always hires people for positions that nobody else would hire them for. That's how he gets their loyalty, because they know without JR they would never be in an equivalent position.

And a couple of people laughed when I said it could wind up worse than if JR did nothing.

I was at that game. Bought a $1.00 Bleacher ticket like I did for every game Harry would broadcast from the CF bleachers. Sat there right behind Harry for most of the game but then went and snuck into seats in the upper deck just between 3B and Home Plate. That's when Dick hit that Home Run into the CF bleachers where I had previously been sitting. I miss the days when White Sox baseball was fun and full of likable characters.

So LaRussa knew Hahn and KW had to be overruled by JR to get rehired as manager. Then he becomes a FO consultant. JR conducts "internal interviews" (gee, I wonder with whom?) and it's decided that Hahn and KW need to be fired. Then the rumors begin that the replacement is someone TLR thinks highly of.

I always liked KW more than Hahn but if this is true KW was even worse than Hahn. Edit: But why would dealing Burger keep them from dealing Anderson? Unless some team demanded Burger as a condition for taking Anderson's contract.

Why the negativity?

Did anyone think JR was going to change? This organization was horseshit from the day they bought the team.

I liked the way Stu Holcomb and Roland Hemond approached things when they took over after the 56-106 1970 season.

Get well soon!

All he had to do was look in the mirror.