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From what I Just read the CPD is now saying the shooting took place outside of the stadium.

If it is maintained properly by the owners, yes...it will be fine.

August 26, 1933 - The Sox honored one of the greatest pitchers in franchise history when Ted Lyons day was celebrated at Comiskey Park. Lyons though didn’t have his best stuff that day as he took the loss in the 10-5 decision to the Philadelphia A’s. He gave up eight runs in a little over seven innings of work. Lyons and Bill Veeck are the only individuals associated with the franchise to have two testimonial days in their honor. Lyons’ second one would come in 1940. August 26, 1971 - It was the kind of thing that could only happen to the White Sox and only in Baltimore’s “House of Horrors,” Memorial Stadium. The Sox trailed 6-0 before mounting a big comeback that saw them take a 9-8 lead in the ninth inning thanks to a home run by Mike Andrews. With two outs, torrential rain hit the area and after a wait of almost an hour and a half, the game was called. Because of rules in place at the time, the score reverted back to the last completed inning, the eighth, which saw Baltimore ahead 8-7. That’s the way the game ended...a seemingly typical result when playing the Orioles in Baltimore where odd and bizarre circumstances seemed to constantly hit the White Sox over the years.

Even Merkin is no longer afraid to speak truth to power: "Fans booed as Tim Anderson struck out to end the contest, and it was understandable after one of the team’s ugliest losses this season."

The Sox sure know how to spoil a birthday don't they? A complete 180 from just three years ago when Giolito threw the no-hitter.

I'm tired too...of Jerry Reinsdorf.

I could care less what happened in Houston. All I care about is if he could take the Sox out of this garbage dump.

I have a feeling guys now at simply going through the motions, they just don't have the drive and I get it, that's human nature when you've had a season like this. Now add in little to no accountability and little to no pride and this is what you get.

Those teams are fine to pattern yourself after too.

And to think Kenny/Rick thought they could get through the season having only Davis Martin in reserve? Just for thinking like that they deserved to get fired.

I guess it depends on your definition of "winning" doesn't it? In the past 10 years 2013-2022 the Yankees have had 10 winning seasons, five years where they won 90 or more games, three years where they won 100 or more games and made the post season six times. As a Sox fan I'd give my right arm to have that kind of recent history.

He said the same thing on his Foul Territory podcast a few days ago.

August 25, 1913 - The Sox purchased the contract of future Hall of Famer, pitcher, Urban “Red” Faber from Des Moines for $3,500 dollars. Faber would go on to win 254 games with four seasons of 20 or more wins with the team. In the 1917 World Series win over the Giants he’d go 3-1, throwing 27 innings with two complete games and an ERA of 2.33 August 25, 1959 - The Sox claimed first baseman Ted Kluszewski off waivers from the Pirates. “Big Klu” helped provide hitting down the stretch for the pennant and would hit three home runs and drive in 10 RBI’s in the six game World Series versus the Dodgers, five of those RBI’s came in the first game, an 11-0 Sox win. August 25, 1967 – After criticizing A’s owner Charlie Finley, power hitter Ken “Hawk” Harrelson was waived by the team. He became a free agent. With the White Sox in the middle of a four-team race for the pennant, later that same day Sox G.M. Ed Short called Harrelson in his Baltimore hotel room and offered him a one-time contract for $100,000. Short said it was a ‘take it or leave it’ offer since he did not want to get into a bidding war. Sox manager Eddie Stanky also got on the phone trying to talk Harrelson into agreeing to join the club. Harrelson turned down the offer saying in his biography he just wanted more time to consider his situation. He would later agree to a deal with the Red Sox for $118,000 and officially signed with them on August 28. Boston would go on to win the pennant and lose the World Series in seven games to the Cardinals. Harrelson eventually did make his way to the White Sox joining their broadcasting team for the 1982 campaign. August 25, 1968 - The tensions surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago spilled over to Comiskey Park. During a game against the Twins, supporters of Alabama Governor George Wallace and Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy got into an altercation in the lower left field seats after some of the Wallace supporters were accused of making racial remarks to Sox left fielder Tommy Davis. Security quickly separated the groups and averted a larger brawl. August 25, 1981 - Sox pitcher Dennis Lamp carried a no-hitter into the ninth inning against the Brewers in Milwaukee. Robin Yount led off that inning with a bloop double to left field breaking it up. The Sox won the game though 5-1. Lamp struck out six and walked one in the night game. August 25, 2013 - It was a feat that hadn’t been achieved since 1947: Jordan Danks homered in a game his brother, John, won. John went six innings in a 5-2 win over the Rangers to improve his record to 4-10 on the season. Younger by just 16 months, John cracked his third home run of the season, in the fourth inning of the win. It wasn’t even intended to happen this way. Avisaíl García started the game in right field, but was injured crashing into the wall as he tracked Jeff Baker’s home run in the fourth inning. Jordan entered the game as a defensive sub, and in the bottom half of the same frame, cracked a massive home run to right. In his next at-bat, Jordan singled, and finished the day 2 for 3 with bragging rights, for once, over John. August 25, 2020 - In surreal surroundings, no fans at Guaranteed Rate Field due to the pandemic, Sox pitcher, Lucas Giolito no-hit the Pirates winning 4-0. Giolito allowed only one base runner on a walk in the fourth inning. He struck out 13 hitters on 101 pitches, one of the most dominating performances in baseball no-hitter history. Tim Anderson and Adam Engel made terrific defensive plays to save the no-hitter in the seventh and with two outs in the ninth inning respectively. It was the 19th no-hitter in franchise history making them the all-time American League leader in that category. August 25, 2022 – Over the decades the most incredible, strange, bizarre things seem to happen to the White Sox in Baltimore. Games that are ready to be won, are lost in the most astonishing ways, ways that only seem to happen once in a decade except to the White Sox. Case in point, a night game in Baltimore on this date. The Sox led the Orioles 3-2 with two out, no one on in the last of the ninth inning. Sox closer Liam Hendriks was working on his 20th consecutive save. Baltimore outfielder Kyle Stowers sliced a fly ball that drifted into foul ground in left field. Sox outfielder Adam Engel ran to the area, put his glove up…and dropped the ball. The error gave Stowers a second chance and he promptly hammered a flat curve ball from Hendriks into the seats for the game tying home run. Baltimore would wind up winning the game 4-3 in 11 innings.

https://soxmachine.com/2023/08/white-sox-mike-rizzo-rumors/

If I recall he then mentioned the four complete games in the post season. I'm guessing his bullpen comment was in regards to the Red Sox / Astros series.

Good look at the situation:

That system/philosophy is on target for their 8th losing season in the past 11 years and their 11th losing season in the past 17 years. That's some system/philosophy isn't it???????????????????? ?

I guess it depends on your definition of "consultant." The Sox have already said he is not on the payroll.

Quin: If I gave you the persons name you'd recognize it. And I don't think you'd think they were either fucking with me or is a complete moron. They were telling me what they heard and they'd be in a position to know. I'm not saying it was a good deal or a bad one, if the Cubs were right or wrong. But it is a fact Eloy has missed time 19 times now by DVS's count in the Sun-Times. They told me the Cubs privately in baseball circles were laughing at Hahn over Eloy, he found out about it and got pissed. That's all I know, do with it as you wish.

As Jon Greenberg wrote today in The Athletic: "Just when you think Reinsdorf has switched things up, he shows you he’s still the same stubborn guy who desperately wants to win but has no idea how to do it."

August 24, 1910 - It was a noteworthy publicity stunt. With the White Sox in Washington D.C., catcher Billy Sullivan caught a ball tossed off the top of the Washington Monument from pitcher “Big” Ed Walsh. He caught three balls in 11 attempts. The ball was traveling at well over 100 MPH. The ball fell 555 feet. Two months later, Sullivan opted out of a challenge to catch a baseball tossed from an airplane flying at a thousand feet. According to a comment from the Associated Press Sullivan said, “I might as well try to stop a bullet as be on the receiving end of one from an airplane.” August 24, 2008 – One thing White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski had going for him was his brain. A.J. was always thinking, always trying to get into the heads of the opposition and always willing to try something to gain an advantage. On this day his quick thinking directly led to the Sox winning a game, in the middle of a pennant race, that perhaps they shouldn’t have. The Sox were tied with Tampa Bay 5-5 in extra innings when A.J. led off with a single. He was on second when Jermaine Dye hit a ground ball to the Rays Jason Bartlett. Pierzynski broke on contact and was caught in a run down. However obstruction would wind up being called on third baseman Willy Aybar by umpire Doug Eddings when A.J. stuck his arm out and made contact with Aybar after he had already made a throw. The ruling was that even though Pierzynski initiated the contact it was the responsibility of Aybar to get out of the way. A.J. was awarded third base and eventually scored the winning run on a single by Alexei Ramirez.

I was told a few times the Cubs privately were actually ridiculing Hahn for being willing to take Eloy in the trade. That they had inklings of his "injury" prone tendencies for whatever reason. I was told Hahn would get really pissed when he'd hear about what the Cubs were saying from third parties.

Ditto

Literally anybody with absolutely zero connections to the White Sox and who had a major role in a consistently successful franchise...i.e. Red Sox, Yankees, Astros, Rays, Brewers, Dodgers, Cardinals or Braves.