kitekrazy

I remember hearing him on the SCORE in the post season and he was far more baseball intelligent than in the booth. One of my favorite things about Hawk was when he was warned by the league about criticizing umpires and told not to and he said he might not be able to do that.

"Penalizing teams for earnestly failing two or three years in a row might be the answer. Maybe that involves losing draft position or having to pay a loser tax. But something needs to be done." Uh what? That doesn't solve anything. Bad drafts are possible. Even free agency is not a cure.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/chicago-white-sox-mlb-tanking-rebuilding-manny-machado-bryce-harper-scott-boras/ Never really agree with anything by Morrisey and still don't. Sports are a personnel preference. I couldn't sit through an NBA game. College basketball use to be great until teamwork went out the window. The NFL media is loaded with experts under the guise as former players. Yawn. Maybe younger kids are less interested in sports since there is more distractions for them. Baseball may have had it's rise during the steroid era but please don't go back to that. Maybe it's a generation thing. How many of you born after the 80's like baseball? When I was a kid WGN had Ray Rainer in the morning, Bozo during lunch, and the Cubs after school. That exposed kids to baseball. I do think there is a point with the overkill of relief pitchers. Starters are now treated like they have glass arms and fans call for "shutting them down" because games are meaningless. I call it the Strasburg Effect. Somehow there is this belief you can around injury. Tanking is not unusual in sports. In the NFL or NBA, getting that first pick right makes all of the difference in a couple seasons. In baseball many go through a development process. Professional sporting events are expensive anyway so it's just not the economic factor. Of course baseball is boring if you never played it. For me golf is boring but if you ever noticed the sponsors are pricey product? As for collusion it's a reality in life. See the music industry. You can be bad at professional sports and still be a millionaire. Expensive contracts are a major risk. I've seen enough NFL players not perform as well once they got paid.

Bill Veeck discover Harold Baines when he was a little kid.

I feel better that the Sox were not the only team that passed on him. At one time there were fans saying, "Imagine how things would be different if they drafted Frank Thomas......

I had an appreciation for him when we had to endure ESPN in the 2005 post season. Berman<<<<<<<<<<<Hawk.

It's not like this team has a shortage of future outfielders.

That was a team with players having standout years and often that's how teams win it. You don't see back to back champions anymore. In 2006 that was a tough division and 90 games didn't get you a post season bid.

If you ever had a chance to go to the old Comiskey, the neighborhood was so much different than it is today. The neighborhood really cleaned up with the new Sox stadium.

Too many brittle players.

We should do this by decade.

Yes it was.

The rich know that stadiums are a bad investment. They hold cities hostage by saying "pay up or we'll leave". Maybe their bluff needs to be called. There's always the bribe that other events would help pay for a stadium. That rarely happens.

So does this mean instead of a 100 losses it will be 98?

Most people looking for a job often go for the bigger payout. Rings come in handy when you are broke and need to sell them.

BTW read the tweets they are funny. "That’s a funny way to spell Bryce Harper"

Jr probably said, "Could you represent someone else or retire? I don't like you."

I liked watching the Dash. They seemed to be better at situational hitting. It was a very clutch team until the postseason.

It supports my theory the Sox have bad luck with NL veteran talent.

If I'm his agent you go for the extra $50 million. Ya never know when you might need that extra $50M.

I got a good laugh at this. Too bad baseball has become all about the homerun.

GMs see this as well.

File this one under Overkill.

I thought the title was totally lame and not worth the time to read.

Veteran NL talent hasn't worked for the Sox this decade.