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Well said in my opinion. You hope it works out in the end but this front office really hasn't earned much benefit of the doubt. This off season will be very interesting to be sure. Was told basically as long as the Sox offer the most money to the top guys they'll sign here. We'll see...as you said there's more to it than that. If there is only a few million dollars a year difference between offers other factors can come into play. Personally I'd be very surprised if the Sox got any of the elite guys on the market next year. I think they can, and will, get some useful pieces particularly in the bullpen which will help but guys like Harper, Machado, Kershaw (if he opt out) won't be coming here unless the Sox offer some ridiculous amount of money which they have rarely, rarely done (Albert Belle comes to mind)

Or they just want a good baseball manager and not a reality-type TV star with the accompanying drama.

Story says 12 months from this injury. He will not be at spring training next year unless he's just there to watch and rehab.

Maybe it's because Bummer has already allowed 11 inherited runners to score and shouldn't even be on a big league roster. If so, I applaud his thinking. Just read where the Sox 3-15 start at home is the worst in franchise history.

6th blown game this year where the Sox took a lead in the 7th inning or later.

Hahn on injury: "He was walking in his backyard and took a step and unfortunately felt a pop. It appears nothing could've been done to prevent this, much like the first one, just something that happens. "Doctors are very optimistic that this repair, the second repair, will take, especially with the graft tissue attachment. It's a step that's made to help solidify the strength of the tendon and the repair." "Lousy setback for a great kid who's been working hard," Hahn said. "But as was the case with the first repair, the expectation is there's to be no long-term effect on his baseball career. "We expect him to have no restrictions in the future. Nothing the kid did wrong, no issue with anything along the path of his rehabilitation. Unfortunately this apparently happens in a relatively small percentage of Achilles repairs. Despite his hard work, Jake suffered this reinjury." We'll see I guess.

It came out over time that Ozzie wanted to leave long before he was eventually allowed to. Remember the series at home against Detroit that August? The Sox still with a shot, basically their last chance. What does Ozzie do? Before the first game of that series he tells the press how unhappy he is and how he can't come back next year (even though he had a contract) without a raise AND an extension. I couldn't believe the gall especially choosing the time that he did. Agree with the rebuild or not but the Sox front office isn't "quitting on the team"...they are following a plan put in place. I welcome the fact that they finally picked a lane and stayed with it. For to many years this "contending while rebuilding" philosophy was total BS because ownership was never going to shell out the gigantic amount of money needed to fill all the holes in the organization player-wise. Now it may not work, that is certainly a possibility because the same people that drove the franchise into a ditch are being asked to fix it. I'm not comfortable with that and this front office really hasn't earned the benefit of the doubt I certainly understand those feelings...but in fact there was no other option. Ownership wasn't changing and never will until JR leaves the scene as eventually all men do, the front office won't be changing because of JR's loyalty regardless of how bad they screw up. That's reality unfortunately. This was the best plan they could do under the circumstances. All we as fans can do is hope for the best, hope it works out and if it does, hope that we are still alive to see it. Or hope we are still around to see new ownership come in and perhaps radically change the dynamic. Other than that you can root for another team I guess or like me pull out the tapes and DVD's from better days to help you through. (My library has games from as far back as 1981 with the Sox)

Agreed.

They very well may lose 100 this season.

Can you explain where you heard about the "knee issues?" That's something I'm not familiar with. If so that's why there is a DH.

Hahn himself was quoted as saying the Sox top six or seven guys could play with anyone. The issue was guys eight through 30.

Saw a story today where the Rangers are definitely interested.

Tim Anderson has to know to take the out at 1B when he basically just crossed 2nd base getting that ball and is almost humanly impossible to throw backwards on the run. Have no idea what Sanchez was thinking. Agreed with some who have already posted, doesn't make Renteria look good. We'll see if he holds anybody accountable.

One of the better broadcasting duos in Sox broadcasting history.

I don't think the Sox front office is feeling their "window" will be all of four years. I'd certainly hope not...not the way Hahn was talking about sustained contending. If the Sox truly want to try to win for a sustained time period they are going to have to pay the price financially to the players and much will also depend on who the owner is in that time period.

That's pretty bad on both counts and for both catchers in my opinion.

Maybe...maybe not...all depends on who the owner is three/four years from now.

I actually thought Narvaez could be a decent back up catcher. Guess not, six passed balls already...in limited time. He's as bad as Tyler Flowers.

I agree but it takes two to make a deal. A free agent has to want to come to the Sox. If this team were to say lose 100 games this year, even though it's clearly understood that it is rebuilding it may be hard to convince a top free agent, regardless of the money being offered to come to the Sox. Guys want to win now for the most part and don't have a lot of patience given how relatively short the career is. That's why I feel that the Sox must show some type of progress this season, if nothing else to plant a positive image in the minds of the guys they may be looking at this off season.

Folks: If you haven't seen this show on NBC Sports Chicago when it comes on again you need to. I was absolutely floored by the fact that somehow they found the actual TV broadcast footage from Bill's 33rd home run at home against Milwaukee on September 30, 1971 to win the A.L. title. It had to have come from the channel 2 news originally because the graphics on the video (and they were from that time period) said, "White Sox Highlights, Courtesy WFLD-TV, Brent Musburger Reporting." Brent of course was working for channel 2 at that time. For that footage to have survived is unbelievable. No nat sound from Harry Caray but still worth seeing the show just for that one clip. They did have other TV footage of Bill playing with the Sox as well. Just incredible. I remember to this day walking home from Brother Rice high school listening to the end of that game on my radio and hearing Harry say that Bill got the record. Also Chuck Garfien just released a podcast with Bill this morning on the 50th anniversary of his White Sox debut. The audio highlight of Bill with Harry doing play by play in 1973 at Kansas City came from my library. NBC Sports Chicago contacted me yesterday and I was happy to send it along to them. That was a nice discussion with Bill as well for any interested.

Nice to see them get a win like this.

Head scratching move by Ricky. Jones is really the only guy in the bullpen pitching well. Ricky uses him in the 8th inning instead of closing. He brings Soria in...who promptly blows the game. Oh well.

We have to see what happens now with Hansen after he's thrown a few times. As mentioned he's not out of the woods yet. Remember Rodon last year had issues, came back, had issues again.

Been calling them that for years. Sounds fine to me.

Great news especially with Hansen.