The Mighty Mite

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jun 12, 2016 -> 03:24 PM) Can we stop with the stupid relocating theories? It's utter f***ing nonsense. Baseball is looking to expand and has at least two franchises with legit cases to relocate. The Sox aren't going anywhere until their sweetheart lease deal ends in the very distant future and when it does they'll likely move to the suburbs or lakefront. They aren't leaving the Chicago metropolitan area. If the Sox stay in Chicago it will be at 35th and Sields because no one is going to give them a billion bucks to build a new stadium especially when Chicago and Illinois are just about bankrupt.

QUOTE (SCCWS @ May 25, 2016 -> 05:23 PM) Ozzie is over the hill. But Adam LaRoche is available. We need a real leader, hire Drake.

QUOTE (sin city sox fan @ May 25, 2016 -> 04:20 PM) This team doesn't care because it takes after the personality of its manager. We need leadership for these 25 players who gives a damn about winning and losing. Every team goes through a few dry spells each season, but ours last longer than most as we don't have a manager who will throw gas on a spark and light a big ass fire. Ozzie is the answer and its time to stop pretending that Robin can get the job done. I loved Robin as a player, but he's truly one of the worst managers to ever wear a uniform. The fact that this team has the record it does shows that we could run away with the division if we had just average leadership. Come on JR, don't you want another world series title on the south side? Than do what is necessary to make it happen. Anybody but Ozzie, he's a disgusting clown. You saw how long he lasted in Miami.

I'm not sure, I say put Saladino out there everyday until Anderson is ready. Release Rollins, why the hell did we sign an over the hill SS to begin with. And while we're at it, it's time to say goodbye to Ventura.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 25, 2016 -> 02:57 PM) Just getting absolutely no production from the catchers over the last few weeks. Both of these guys are back ups on most of the ML teams. I think Avila is done.

We were duped.

QUOTE (InTheDriversSeat @ May 24, 2016 -> 01:52 PM) Once I saw Ronnie Woo Woo at USCF, wearing his complete Cubs uniform, walking around the lower level / infield seating section. The Sox were not playing the Cubs on that night. I thought that was VERY strange! . That's because Ronnie Woo Woo is very strange.

QUOTE (NCsoxfan @ May 24, 2016 -> 10:54 AM) I know this has been talked about, but why no interest in James Loney? He's hitting 333 for the Padre's AAA team and can opt out of his deal if he finds a ML opportunity. Given Jose's struggles and Sands just being meh, could it make sense? Living in Florida and watching the Rays almost every game, I have always been a Loney fan, great glove at first and would be a nice backup for Abreu and is a damn good contact hitter, would be a good fill in at DH also. I don't need to see Sands anymore.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ May 22, 2016 -> 06:35 PM) Where the Dave & Buster's is located? I work across the street from Medinah Country Club and can't even begin to think how awesome it would be right now if the Sox were located down the road. We've been in Florida for 23 years so I don't know where Dave and Busters is, the Sox stadium would have been between Swift road and 355 on the east and west, on the north and south it was Lake street and Army Trail road. EDIT. Just did a Street View search and found D & B, the stadium was to be just south of D & B.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ May 22, 2016 -> 04:38 PM) If I recall correctly the motion lost by one single, solitary vote after the public had its say. Mark The vote in Addison was all Pate's doing, he was a Cub fan and didn't want the Sox in Addison. Here's the thing, when we first moved to DuPage county in 1972, we lived about a mile west of the proposed site in Bloomingdale, it was in an empty field no where near the main population center of Addison. Most of the traffic heading to the park would be from 355 to the south and 290 from the east and the north. From the west fans would have driven on North Ave or Lake street. I'm not even sure the land was in Addison, it was just about a mile south of Medinah Country Club.

QUOTE (Lillian @ May 22, 2016 -> 04:03 PM) What exactly does Jimmy Rollins bring to this team? With Abreu getting the day off, the best DH they could employ was Rollins, even with a RH pitcher. Wow, if that doesn't speak volumes about the need for another bat, I don't know what does. If Rollins isn't going to hit, what is the point of having him on the roster? He is not a good SS, at this point in his career. I asked once before but I'll ask again; How much better is Saladino, defensively? I know he's better, but to what degree? I think they should give the SS job to Saladino until Anderson is ready. Tyler gets 2 hits yesterday and rides the bench today, that's Ventura for you.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ May 22, 2016 -> 02:21 PM) Would you rather have Trayce Thompson or Todd Frazier? Semien can't play SS defensively. Saps all of his offensive value. Semien is a butcher in the field, he sure as hell would be a better DH than Rollins.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 22, 2016 -> 02:11 PM) What in the world has he done to get another season after this? So far, his tenure has been abysmal. No results on the field and farm system is garbage. He's a victim of the policies of JR. Not investing in a productive farm system is one of the policies, not signing premier free agents is another instead we sign slugs like Dunn and LaRoche and has beens like Rollins and Jackson.

QUOTE (harkness @ May 22, 2016 -> 02:02 PM) Players have changed.. getting same lethargic results. The first thing to try is another manager... if its still the same then Hahn needs to go. The whole front office including the owner need to go, Hahn right now is the only guy I would give a pass to.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ May 22, 2016 -> 02:04 PM) I'm not even joking, but if I were Hahn I would fire Robin immediately for DHing AND batting Rollins 2nd against a RHP. I just don't get what the f*** he is thinking. He must not ever look at splits, because it would be painfully obvious how stupid this decision is. Makes me really f***ing mad just thinking about it. Amen to that, this lineup is a complete joke.

QUOTE (Alexeihyeess @ May 22, 2016 -> 01:59 PM) They died after blowing the lead in Texas. The Rays lost a similar game to the A's last week and they came back to play some of their best ball of the year, the difference being the Rays have a good manager in Cash, not a half dead Ventura. Today's lineup might be the worst since 1970 and to tell you the truth that team could hit the ball with Melton, May and Herrman in the lineup, the pitching was horrible that year.

QUOTE (SpankyEaton @ May 22, 2016 -> 12:51 PM) Would Oakbrook have been an option? I wish it was in the suburbs, at least they would have built bars and restaurants around the park. I mean, I guess it doesn't matter, I only don't like going south of the ballpark. It was never going to be Clark street anyway. After the Addison move was voted down there was no more talk of a move to the burbs, the issue was then build a new park for the Sox in the city or they move to Florida.

QUOTE (WhiteSoxfan1986 @ May 22, 2016 -> 11:44 AM) I've always thought the location of the park was fine. It's literally right off the Dan Ryan and the Red Line. It's not too far from the downtown METRA stations either. The area around the park gets a real bad rap as well. The trouble is that most of the Sox fan base moved to the burbs, that plus a lot of people who live in the northern burbs have never ventured to the Southside of Chicago.

QUOTE (SpankyEaton @ May 7, 2016 -> 09:45 PM) People are leaving the city and Illinois in high amounts, but I can't see them ever moving outside of the city unless they were moving out of Illinois. What I think the low attendance boils down to is that the Sox have a smaller fan base than the Cubs due to all of the factors that have been discussed over the years. It's a better environment for families, so at least they can compete with that aspect even if there's no night life scene outside of the park. I was trying to figure out with my dad at the game tonight why they didn't move to the suburbs in the early 90s and we just agreed that there wasn't enough financial backing and quite possibly the fan support for that. Having said that, I think attendance would grow if they were in Oakbrook of all of the suburbs. I could support the Chicago White Sox of Oakbrook, but I don't think I'd enjoy if they were in the loop (not that there's much room for anything there). It was great to see 28,000 there tonight and I could see crowds like that coming if they continue their winning ways into the summer. They tried like hell to build the new stadium in Addison on land owned by JR off of 355 just south of 290, Addison and Phillip Pate didn't want them and the issue was voted down.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ May 22, 2016 -> 11:23 AM) Agreed. And when the Cubs announce their own TV station / network that's going to suck up a lot of the advertising dollars. Sully had a column today in the Tribune which has been running a number of stories on the 25 years of U.S. Cellular Field and he had an interesting line in it: "One longtime Sox employee told me Saturday they would have been better off if they had built the ballpark in the suburbs." That's the first time that I know of somebody with the Sox has made a comment like that. Of course they had no choice as Mayor Washington said the ONLY location that he would support (as well as his cronies on the Sports Stadium Authority Board) would be across the street from the original Comiskey Park.) Mark I've always believed that, the Sox would have had a Bonanza in the Burbs. The biggest mistake was building the new park at 35th and Shields but after Addison turned down the move the Sox had no other choice.

QUOTE (MAX @ Sep 17, 2014 -> 08:37 PM) Were the NL and AL mound heights different? Because the NL was killin it. Mound was lowered in both leagues. The NL back in those days was the better league, they won 19 out of 20 All Star games from 1963 to 1982

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Sep 17, 2014 -> 03:35 PM) Holy s*** Conor is 10th with a 292? Man, offense is sooooooooooooooooooooooo down. IIRC There was only one player in the AL to hit .300 in 1968 and that was Yaz at .301. The next year they lowered the mound 6 inches.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 20, 2014 -> 06:49 AM) That's pretty funny. And false. Have you been away all summer and missed DeAza's escapades in the field and running the bases?

Danks should have been on the roster from 2014 opening day with DeAza shown the door. We might have won a couple of more games from his defense alone not to mention better base running than DeAza who doesn't have a clue on the base paths.

QUOTE (GreatScott82 @ Aug 15, 2014 -> 07:01 AM) I remember the Sox coming close from moving to Sarasota back in the late 80's. I never want a scare like that again. The White Sox belong in Chicago. Close but no cigar, the Sox almost moved to St. Petersburg, not Sarasota. BTW Sarasota for years (early 60s) was the spring training home of the Sox, Reinsdorf demands Sarasota to build a new complex and a few years later he moves spring training to Arizona. Since I have lived in Florida I was irate with the move. Most retirees in Florida usually settle down near the city of their favorite team from up north. The Naples-Ft. Myers area is heavily populated with Red Sox fans since they train in Ft. Myers, Clearwater has many Phillie fans living there. Sarasota had thousands of Sox fans who were upset like me when JR moved ST to Arizona.