The Mighty Mite

With the biggest fool being a cheapskate who still thinks it 1970.

The Getz modus operandi hasn’t changed a bit.

There are reports all over Tampa media that the deal could be in jeopardy. https://baynews9.com/fl/tampa/sports/2024/11/16/rays-stadium-deal-could-collapse https://www.tampabay.com/sports/2024/11/16/rays-stadium-deal-bonds-vote-pinellas-st-petersburg-tropicana-field-steinbrenner/ This is unbelievable, we were told this summer that the stadium was a done deal, baseball could very well be returning to Montreal. As someone who has watched this fiasco for years, I thought it was a mistake to build a new stadium again in St. Pete, the Rays fan fast base is in the city of Tampa and the surrounding suburbs. If they can’t work out a deal in Tampa they should look at Orlando which has tons of money or else it’s adios Florida which I think Sternberg has wished for all along, he knew that building a new stadium in St. Pete wasn’t the ideal situation and Tampa was the place but he took what he could get.

I’ve been to Dodger Stadium, the edifice itself is no better than GRF, it’s the setting itself that makes its sort of cool sitting in Chavez Ravine and with the grandstand actually built into the side of a mountain. It’s a nightmare getting out of the parking lot and there is absolutely nothing around the place.

How delusional.

This.

Amen.

Venable should be able to hire his own coaching staff, the days of JR favorite ex players as coaches like Baines and Boston must come to an end along with saying goodbye to TLR.

Just can’t get exited about anything about the White Sox as long as JR owns the team, remember Getz has said that the payroll will be lower in 2025. Hopefully things will change if and when JR sells.

It took awhile but the record for me was the night in 1997 when the Marlins won the World Series, it took forever to get out of the Joe Robbie Stadium parking lot and then we had a 95 mile ride back to Naples on Alligator Alley.

Ricky never should have been fired, this team went south because of the hiring of TLR, the worst move in a long list of bad moves by JR, along with players who never really lived up to expectations like Eloy, Moncada and even Robert, then there was Tim Anderson who completely lost his game, they also rushed Vaughn while never filling gaping holes at second base and right field.

Been there but stayed to the end and it was an 11 inning game back in 2009 when extra inning games were really extra inning games.

Agree but the Sox have always had a bit of a problem drawing at 35th and Shields, the casual fan for whatever reasons will not venture there not to mention out of towners. Since I became a fan in the early 50s I’m pretty sure the only year they have led the American League in attendance was 1960.

Went to a couple hundred games from 1955-1990 and I probably sat up there more than other part of the park along with the right-outfield upper deck. Let’s face it, if fans want great skyline views, they need a new park at 78.

You would have a nice view of the trees in Armour Park. If you sat in the upper deck on the first base side you did have a view of the skyline, not great but a view.

Agree.

Exactly.

Same here, I don’t want groups led by so and so, I want a guy or gal who has tons of money and isn’t afraid to spend it while keeping them in Chicago.

If I was going to build a stadium in the burbs I think the best place would be around where the Eisenhower and 294 meet, it’s almost smack dab in the middle of the metro area and the CTA line that runs up and down the Ike could be extended. My second choice would be at “78”.

Our franchise is a disaster, JR refuses to hire good scouts and the best people around to develop our players at both the Major and Minor league levels but to tell you the truth I thought Kopech was a lost cause but because he went to an organization that does everything right in order to win they were able to turn MK around to the pitcher we thought he was always going to be. f*** JR and his cheap and antiquated ways that have just about destroyed the White Sox franchise while becoming the laughing stock of MLB.

Well with 31 years in Florida we survived another hurricane, actually 2 of them 2 weeks apart with Helene and Milton. With Helene and living in Port Charlotte and even though Helene was about 100 miles out in the Gulf we still had about 60 MPH winds but what was scary was receiving Tornado warnings every 15 minutes for about 5 hours as we were on the side of the feeder bands which produce Tornadoes, fortunately none came close to us. Helene then made it north as far as Ashville NC and everyone knows what happened there, that was as sad as I’ve ever seen in the aftermath of a natural disaster. Milton hit us Wednesday night and we had gusts up to 100 MPH, we lost power and cell service was very spotty. Power was back on at 5PM yesterday which surprised me as I was expecting 3 days until we would have power again. No tornadoes as they were again in the feeder bands mostly on the Atlantic side, last I heard there were at least 40 of them with tons and tons of damage. Other areas here in Charlotte County did not fare as well as us especially if you were near the water, areas along the coast and Charlotte Harbor had severe storm surge with many losing their homes. Downtown Punta Gorda flooded during both storms. Last night I was watching a report and there was a couple living in Charlotte Park in Punta Gorda who were nearing their 90s and they lost their home to water damage, they were such a nice sweet couple and they had no family and no where to go so they were going to sleep on wet mattresses in their garage until they could figure out where to go. I’m sure everyone like me were crying like babies including the reporter who was in tears watching and hearing this sad story. We have a widow lady in our church who lost her home in Englewood during Helene and 2 couples who had mandatory evacuations for Milton, haven’t heard if they still have a home. As Milton headed north and made landfall in Siesta Key which wasn’t good for those people but if it had gone further north like original predictions and hit Tampa Bay the storm surge in the Bay itself would have been catastrophic for the city of Tampa. Still can’t believe that the Trop lost it’s dome after 40 years and countless hurricanes. Like I said we’ve been in Florida 31 years, we still love living here but if anyone has plans of moving to southwest Florida I would advise to look to homes east of interstate 75 away from the Gulf and Bays and make sure you are not in a flood zone, we have had 4 homes in our years here and never lived west of 75.

Maybe 45.

He actually played 3 games at second base in 2022 and never made an error, still think it was a mistake to trade him, his 29 homers might have won a few more games this past year.

One of the problems of the last rebuild was the lack of a true right fielder and a second baseman, instead we had AV and Sheets playing right field, surprised they didn’t try AV at second.

My guess is we wind up with Schumaker or they bring back Sizemore, I’m OK with either guy.