Dick Allen

If there was a guy out there that made bad hitters good hitters, he wouldn't be available to the White Sox. It just amazes me how, since Hriniak left, the organization as a whole, despite seeing how their best performers operated, haven't emphasized working counts. You look at the better hitter from the JR era, they almost all took their walks. And weren't constantly down in the count. It's pretty simple. Make the pitcher throw you strikes.

I believe it was Chris Getz wo said about a year ago, I don't like our team.

He is the same as we have seen since the strike of 1994. He is not independent. He is a JR and most likely now, TLR schill. I don’t hate him as a person. I’m sure he is a pleasant guy. I do hate that he is GM of the White Sox. A position you even acknowledge he probably doesn’t deserve. What the White Sox need is a guy with a vision and some autonomy. Sure , they would have to work within a budget. Everyone does. But they shouldn’t have to bow to opinions that are long past their shelf life. The last time the White Sox had little JR influence on their drafts and trades was Larry Himes, who, while probably an asshole, knew JR wasn’t a professional baseball evaluator. That was the time the Sox had the best success doing what they are trying to do now.

I agree with this and he also has some chip on his shoulder that he can’t let rest. He sees some 18 year old kid get 7 figures and bust, and it enrages him on the inside. The cost of high draft picks has rise. significantly since JR was an owner. But even back near the beginning, JR wasn’t a minor league guy. In fact, perhaps the biggest reason Hawk became GM was because the Sox lack of depth in 1985. He relented a bit when Himes took over and kept him out of most of the scouting, evaluating and developing business. And JR hated that.

I remember at the beginning of the year, Robert was giving the hitting exercises the team had him go through. I can’t remember if it was look at a quadrant or what, but The Big Hurt was in the studio and said that approach was wrong.

Of course Crochet is open to an extension. Just not the type of extension JR would be interested in. The other issue is the Sox are going to be beyond bad for a while, and bad for a while after that, if a lot goes right. Their offense is putrid, and not much help on the horizon. Pitchers get hurt. There is really very little to cling to here. Everything is bad.

And would have lost on Tuesday.

Why was Schriffen praising Chucky Robinson and his 3 OPS+?

A ball off the wall and 3 walks. Zero runs. The Sox will win tonight.

Everyone knew they would suck. But to suck more than any team ever should be surprising, even if it seemed obvious after reflection.

That team was great until the second half. They were over .500 but barely. It seems to me, once Tony started really getting his footing, everything started to crumble. Horrible trades...they became an average at best team almost overnight. Were very mediocre the next year, but got some pulse back when Cairo took over. that went away after a bad loss to Cleveland,and they basically gave up.

If 1. happens, 2. follows really fast.

I think having Tony "retire" would help at least a little bit. It certainly wouldn't hurt. It all started going wrong once he started getting comfortable.

The Blackhawks pre and post seems the same. The Bulls is the same except minus Wil Perdue. Supposedly they will guest that spot occassionally. Ozzie was on the commercial so I figure he'll be back. Our Chuck was a little negative, so who knows how that will play with JR.

The Spiders had all their good players transfer to another team because their owner owned both, including Cy Young, and they played liked 75% road games. I want this record for Jerry. He's earned it. He ignored all the warning signs.

The Sox announcer called the Padres the Dodgers when they were in SD.

Schriffen may have outdid himself last night when fans were chanting sell the team and clearly wanting to see history, cheering for Angels runs and booing after the Sox won by thanking the fans for coming out last night and showing the love.

Yeah he seemed so proud of the signings he made last winter. 36-120.

Even if they lose tonight, if they lose tomorrow, they will set a new record.

The only positive about attending is you don't have to listen to Schriffen make the Sox out to be the 1927 Yankees.

We got the these guys are playing for the careers this year. Next year will be they are really playing for their careers.

If this was any other business but professional sports, running it this incompetently would not only cost you money, you would be out of business.

I read somewhere where youtube TV and Comcast are going to be a tough get.

Like Chris Getz said, you just have to embrace it. Embrace being the worst of all time.

To borrow one of JR's lines, I wish Harry Caray and Jimmy Piersall were alive to see this.