Thad Bosley

There is some serious beard-age going on at the DH slot tonight between Gattis and LaRoche.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 10, 2015 -> 08:51 PM) Avi needs to learn how to slide. He's going to break his ankle if he keeps sliding as hard as he does. I am really worried about that. His legs are all kinds of awkward sliding into bases.

Stone coyly bringing the conversation current by changing the topic from Yaz to Abreu.

Geez, Adam - second time in the past couple of days. Hold onto that thang!!

This 20 year-old is a pleasure to watch. What a talent!

QUOTE (daggins @ Jun 9, 2015 -> 10:02 PM) How is it possible that no one on this team besides Avi and Jose can hit a fastball? There was a ton of tardiness in those three K's.

Atta boy, Avi!!

Robertson has such great moving action on his pitches. Just a pleasure to watch!

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jun 8, 2015 -> 09:21 PM) There's no doubt he's not this bad offensively, but IMO the bat doesn't project enough to be a regular and therefore we shouldn't endure his growing pains while we attempt to compete. At least Micah has a shot of being our long-term 2B. The question is will Micah's defense ever get to a point where you can tolerate it? It was pretty bad. If he can, then I agree he is the long term solution to the position.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jun 8, 2015 -> 09:03 PM) I wonder how much longer Hahn will be cool with Flowers & Sanchez in the starting lineup. With the amount of high-paid regulars struggling, we can't tolerate a complete lack of offensive production at the bottom of the order. Flowers has clearly proven he's not an everyday catcher. Not sure if he'd be an improvement, but I'd give Kottaras a look in a part-time role. As for Sanchez, he's currently sitting on a .400 OPS. I don't care how good his defense is, he's a negative value player right now. I stand by claim that Micah Johnson should never have been sent down in the first place. But given that they clearly don't feel confident with his defense, simply split time at 2B between Beckham & Bonifacio (Gordon could play 3B against RHP). Steve Stone seems to advocate the position that at every level Sanchez has been at, he's been the youngest in the league at that point, and that his game catches up to that level fairly quickly. Stone also seems to intimate that will happen at this level at some point as well, that his bat will catch up. He seems overmatched at the moment, but maybe he'll get there with a little more patience.

So chances are we will see Fulmer in Sept? That's the plan?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 7, 2015 -> 03:53 PM) For someone who keeps referring to 35 years of misery, yet are still around to complain on a daily basis, there isn't much more that really needs to be said. For someone who keeps referring to a so-called "fickle" fan base, how ironic that you are here criticizing the diehards for expressing some frustration on the current state of our last place ball club.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 7, 2015 -> 03:27 PM) There are some miserable people here today. Get off of the computer and do something more productive than complaining! LOL! Yes, how unreasonable for White Sox fans to come to a White Sox message board and post statements and opinions that resemble complaints on a day when the last place White Sox played another disappointing game. I mean, god forbid!

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jun 7, 2015 -> 03:54 PM) I would love to see JR and everyone under him gone, until that happens team treads water with an occasional playoff appearance every 8 to 10 years. Arrow pointing up. It's really going to be a great situation for whoever the next owner is. The "Jerry/Kenny/Rick/Buddy/Robin Variety Show" is not going to be a tough act to follow.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jun 7, 2015 -> 02:48 PM) Another HOME series loss. 29,000 sent home disappointed yet again. Detroit came in reeling, leave feeling pretty good. And for any of that 29,000 who choose not to come back anytime soon until the product improves, they'll get blamed by some for why the product doesn't improve, because these fickle fans will be limiting the necessary "resources" to fix this mess. Now how is THAT for a bass ackwards way of looking at things!

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jun 7, 2015 -> 02:34 PM) Sox sure are good on weekends sending people home pissed who are not coming back to see this crap in 2015. Some around here might tell you these fans deserve this for being so gosh-darned "fickle" all the time.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jun 7, 2015 -> 02:31 PM) Sell the team Jerry, get new management, get new development guys in the minors, new coaches, new everything YES, PLEASE!!

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jun 7, 2015 -> 02:17 PM) Is he Kenny's boy or Jerry's or both? They come as a set.

I hate Swirsky asking so many questions, but I love listening to Stoney's answers. A lot to be learned listening to his insights.

Swirsky is painful.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jun 3, 2015 -> 08:51 AM) Whichever name you want to assign to each era is fine, but there was a clear strategic shift that occurred beginning with the trade deadline in 2013, and the team is associating that with Rick Hahn's move to the primary executive role for day-to-day operations. I have no doubt that they're all involved, but the Sox have NOT conducted themselves the same way the past couple years. The most recent thread of action is the one we should be judging when considering the effect of Sox leadership currently. So here's what I would tell you. I think the use of the term "primary executive" was, perhaps, applicable to Williams during his run as GM. You didn't see Reinsdorf keeping Schueler around in this role of "executive vice president of baseball ops" during that time. But now with Williams in that newly created role, and with Hahn having been his assistant GM all of those years prior, it's really hard to imagine that this so-called rebuild isn't more a co-developed approach then not. Let's also not forget that shortly after the Peavy trade and the start of the rebuild, Kenny was quick to get in the press to let us know he was ready to do the exact same thing after the 2010 season. Unfortunately, that pesky "competitive spirit" of Mr. Reinsdorf gummed things up then, as he overrode that strategic decision that offseason in favor of the Adam Dunn-led "All In" effort. So they may call Hahn the "primary" exec, but the management structure and Kenny seemingly still hanging around quite a bit suggests Hahn isn't so much on his own plan for running this team as we think.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jun 2, 2015 -> 06:34 PM) 2013 was NOT RH's team. It was holdover from the KW show. RH was "on the clock" beginning with the Peavy trade. That was his clean slate. Also, Thad, it's June 2nd. Let's wait until at LEAST September before we put a wrap on this season. The 2013 team was more Rick Hahn's than it wasn't. It wasn't like he came from another organization to inherit that mess. As Asst. General Manager, he had influence on every single individual comprising the roster that year. He also had an entire offseason beforehand to make changes to the roster, and he didn't, really, other than adding Keppinger. So I'd say he is as much to blame for that horrific '13 season as his predecessor. It seems a little far fetched to me to suggest that from 2002-2012, when Kenny was GM and Hahn was Asst. GM, that somehow Kenny was solely responsible for baseball decisions made to the team during that timeframe, and that subsequent to 2012, it has all just been "The Rick Hahn Show". I think Kenny's periodic interviews suggest rather strongly that he is still very influential on any baseball decisions made. So as far as I can tell, since 2002, the White Sox have essentially been run by the trio of Reinsdorf, Williams & Hahn, with only a change in titles for the latter two a few years ago, while maintaining a consensus view between the three in terms of strategy and decisions made throughout these past 13 years.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jun 2, 2015 -> 06:03 PM) It's worth noting that our winning percentage is actually currently better than last year's and also that every player has sucked and also that it's June 2nd. And we're THREE GAMES under .500. And we want to fire the GM. WHo has increased our winning percentage every season so far. Actually, that's not true. The 63 wins in '13 was a decrease from '12, when in his first offseason as GM after '12 his biggest addition/upgrade to the team was Jeff Keppinger. With nowhere really to go but up, yes, he did increase the winning % last year by getting the team up to a whopping 73 wins. And now we are trending slightly better than that so far this year, but we're in last place, so that uptick really doesn't mean a whole lot. So given Hahn has been a major part of the brain trust (such as it is) with Reinsdorf & Kenny over the past 13 years that has garnered all of two playoff appearances, I'm going to need to see a whole lot more than these slight upticks to have confidence he is the right guy to get us out of the baseball gutter.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 2, 2015 -> 02:00 PM) This is Hahn's 3rd season as the GM. He took over a team whose shelf life expired and was pretty bad. He's done a lot the last 3 years to make things bearable. I still think they will be entertaining this summer. 63 wins in '13. 73 wins last year. A last place team a third of the way through this season. I'm not sure how much more "bearable" I can take!

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 1, 2015 -> 06:30 PM) Uh, no. Not even close. Oh, c'mon! Why not. Could be a "Director of Player Development" role for you somewhere in this scenario!