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Bob Nightengale (JR's personal mouthpiece) is reporting that if the Sox don't get back into the race they will be looking to move players at the deadline but regardless of if they get back into it or not, if they don't trade him, they have already decided not to bring Lucas Giolito back after this season. Giolito will be a free agent after the season and if Nightengale is to be believed, no negotiations will be taking place to see if a new deal can be reached.

May 7, 1989 - Groundbreaking ceremonies were held for the start of construction on the new Comiskey Park across the street from the original stadium which was built in 1910. Dignitaries from the state, city and White Sox franchise were on hand for the occasion. May 7, 1991 - Sammy Sosa became the first Sox player with a ‘walk off’ home run at new Comiskey Park when he beat Milwaukee with a blast in the 12th inning. The final score was 2-1. Sosa hit his game winner off Brewers relief pitcher Mark Lee leading off the frame. May 7, 1999 – Sox outfielder Carlos Lee homered in his first at bat in the Major Leagues. Lee connected off the A’s knuckleballer Tom Candiotti. It came in the second inning at home in the Sox 7-1 win. He became the first White Sox player to ever accomplish this feat.

Tim isn't the "Face of the franchise"...he's the "Face of the IL."

“They have talent, but they just don’t look like they care. Something is going on there that’s festered. It looks like they don’t even like being around each other.”---Former MLB outfielder Brian McRae to the Chicago Tribune.

It's typical that the 'core" group Anderson, Burger, Jimenez, Moncada and Robert simply can not stay healthy for whatever reason or reasons. They aren't trying to get hurt, let's be clear, but the fact is and this has been shown over the past several seasons they simply can not be counted on to play a majority of the season. The Sox need to admit defeat, move them for whatever they can if possible come July. (And yes I know the front office is incompetent. That's the position the Sox are in...between a rock and a hard place.

No...typical.

Yes and he was atrocious for the rest of that season. That may have been coincidence, maybe not. It simply just...never...ends for this organization regarding the "core" group and their availability.

At least until he's traded come July.

It never ends does it?

You are welcome.

Depends on your definition of 'fighting chance." All of the projections and odds now show the Sox have a very, very slim chance to do anything. Granted anything can happen but the reality is it very likely isn't... so when the time comes a smart organization acts accordingly.

May 6, 1903 - The White Sox were charged with 12 errors in a game in Chicago vs. Detroit. While that’s a big story in itself, it’s not the most remarkable item to come out of this game. That’s the fact that the Sox won the game 10-9 scoring three runs in the ninth inning! Pat “Cozy” Dolan had an error, Frank Isbell made three, Lee Tannehill had four and Pat “Patsy” Flaherty had three. May 6, 1963 - Making an emergency start in Kansas City, Sox pitcher Gary Peters hit the first of his 19 career home runs, 15 came as a member of the White Sox. It came in the third inning off Ted Bowsfield. Peters would toss eight innings allowing one run in the Sox 5-1 win. It was the first win in 1963 for Gary, who’d go on to collect 19 of them and win Co-Rookie of the Year honors with teammate Pete Ward. Peters had 189 strike outs to go along with a 2.33 ERA. Peters was told that he would be starting this game on the airplane flying into Kansas City by Sox pitching coach Ray Berres after scheduled starter Juan Pizarro got sick with a case of the flu. May 6, 1964 - Dave Nicholson hit what may have been the longest home run in MLB history. On this night in the fifth inning, in the first game of a twin bill versus the A’s, Nicholson blasted a shot off future Sox pitcher Moe Drabowsky that went over the roof and was found across the street in Armour Square. Some Sox fans claimed they heard the ball hit the top of the roof but White Sox officials said when they found the ball it had no signs of tar on it nor was it scuffed. Long time Chicago baseball reporter Jerome Holtzman was at the game and claimed he saw the ball bounce back up after hitting the roof and then go back out of sight. Nicholson’s shot went over the roof around the 375-foot sign in left center field. It was found 135 feet from the base of the wall. Plus, you have to add in the elevation needed to get the ball over the roof, approximately 70 feet. Hitting a ball on to the roof or over it required a ground-to-ground distance of at least 474 feet. Unofficial estimates place the drive as traveling 573 feet eclipsing Mickey Mantle’s shot at Griffith Stadium in Washington in 1956. That shot went an unofficial 565 feet. For the night Dave would hammer three home runs and drive in five RBI’s in the twin bill as the Sox swept both games, 6-4 and 11-4. The post script to the story is that a few months later on July 12 in Kansas City the next time Drabowski faced Nicholson he hit him in the forehead with a fastball that opened a gash which required stiches.

That's the White Sox way.

He also was terrible defensively when he was with the Sox as in passed balls, percentage of runners caught stealing, framing etc.

That is some list. Just shows how incompetent, dysfunctional and inept this organization is.

May 5, 1962 - Sox minority owners, headed up by William Bartholomay (who would later lead the group buying the Braves and moving them to Atlanta), sold their 46 per cent shares of the team to majority owner Art Allyn. It was the first time since 1939 the team was owned by a single individual. Allyn, a Chicago native, along with his brother John, bought majority interest in the Sox from Bill Veeck in June 1961. May 5, 1968 - Sox pitcher Gary Peters became the last pitcher to hit a grand slam for the franchise as he connected in the fourth inning of a 5-1 win over the Yankees at Comiskey Park. It was the first game of a double header. In addition, he threw a complete game with nine strikeouts allowing only six hits in the win. Peters would hit 15 home runs as a member of the Sox. The only other Sox pitchers to hit a grand slam were Monty Stratton and Tommy Byrne. Byrne’s grand slam was as a pinch hitter.

White Sox have now scored three runs or less in 18 of 32 games. 56%

It's a culture of incompetence, dysfunction and ineptness.

Better question is who else gets hurt again first? ?

They rank right up there with last season's dolts.

Didn't even have to be a hit, a sacrifice fly or going the opposite way for a right hander may have brought him home. These buffoons couldn't even do that.

Well...fifth time this year the Sox led in the 7th inning or later...and lost. Lopez has been involved in three of those five times. Usual suspects responsible again today, atrocious bullpen, awful fielding and laughable situational fundamental hitting. TWICE a man on third, no out and they can't score! ?

If they lose it will be yet ANOTHER blown lead after the 7th inning. That would be five times with Lopez directly responsible for three of them.

Agreed. There is something fundamentally wrong today with guys who always seem to be hurt despite having (in theory) the best medical and training opportunities and most of these guys train year round (which may be part of the problem not giving their bodies a chance to rest/heal) plus have their own personal trainers. Yet they get hurt is seemingly innocent ways. Doesn't make sense.

"Normal" isn't the White Sox way.?