The Mighty Mite

I started out with Bob Elson back in the 50s with the transistor under the pillow, no worries about falling asleep with the Commander calling the game but I have to agree that call by Schriffen is something we never hear again. I wonder if Stone is helping this guy.

That call was ridiculous, I hope this guy starts growing into the job, right now he’s coming off as a buffoon.

He sort of was on a mini tear for awhile and was hitting some homers, hoping he gets it back.

The old adage is a walk is as good as a hit but I prefer hits.

I’ve always liked Pham but I really don’t think his trade value is as high as a lot of people around here think it is, I hope I’m wrong.

Nancy said she started playing it in 1977.

https://www.soxon35th.com/interview-with-long-time-white-sox-organist-nancy-faust/

I’m pretty sure that’s when Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye made it’s Comiskey Park debut.

That’s unbelievable, no wonder we never sign any premier free agents.

I don’t think they care either, the question is WHY.

I just don’t feel that was possible, if they had 52,000 for the Cubs game with fans on the field and sitting in the aisles where the hell did they put 55,000. Another crowd I thought was inflated was opening day in 1981, that was JR’s and EE’s first home opener as the new owners and the announced crowd was 51,000, I was at that game also and would bet a couple of my social security checks that there were not 51,000 there that day, more like 45,000. I think you have mentioned before that you were at the DH as I was against the Royals on July 31,1977 over 50,00 there and when we won the first game of the DH with a come from behind win I never heard Comiskey as loud as it was, IIRC we were now 6.5 games ahead in the standings, It was so loud that the place was shaking and I was waiting for it to implode from all the noise. Unfortunately it was all downhill from there as the Sox finished 3rd behind KC and Texas.

Hard to argue but the geniuses in charge really thought that Robert, Moncada and Jimenez were due for monster years and would stay healthy without any stints on the IL. They probably also thought that Benintendi was going to come back with a good year and that AV was going to become an .850 OPS guy.

Good take on things but things are not going to really get better until we have new ownership.

Ground rule double.

I was at that game with my high school sweetheart and we sat in an aisle in the upper deck near the right field foul pole. As you can see in the photo they had fans standing on the warning track from center field to the right field foul pole, any ball hit onto the warning track was a ground rule double. If you notice the score board the Sox were the visiting team as the Cubs complained that because the game was always at Comiskey, the Sox always had last at bats, didn’t help the Flubs that night. I went to quite a games with huge crowds at the old place but never saw a crowd like that on that night. I also question the Sox largest crowd in the history of the franchise when they announced a crowd of 55,555 on Bat Day in 1973.

They averaged something like 4,800 in the horrible 1970 season. They almost doubled that in 1971 with a team that improved by 23 games, that was Harry Caray’s first year also. With Dick Allen on board they drew 1,777,000 in 72 and 1,302,000 in 1973. In those days drawing a million fans a year was like finding the holy grail. Their best year in the 70s was the fun and exciting year of the 1977 Southside Hitmen when they drew 1,677,000.

Just a note, last nights Dodger starter Bobby Miller who is coming back from an injury is the Grandson of my best friend when I was growing up in Rogers Park. In 1965 I enlisted in the Air Force and my buddy who was also named Bob and Bobby was named after was drafted by the Army. We both wound up in Vietnam but he was deployed in the jungles of the Central Highlands and came back with PTSD and had other issues and died at age 61. He never saw his grandson play baseball beyond his grade school years.

We are 27th only ahead of Miami and Oakland and going ahead of TB last night but doing better than I thought, I thought the Sox would average around 12,000 a game.

Didn’t realize this but just read that since Willie Mays died the oldest living member of the Hall of Fame is White Sox great Luis Aparicio at 90 years old.

But JR still pays bills which doesn’t include signing top free agents and building an excellent farm system. The only housecleaning which will work is new ownership.

Hey LaRussa, just retire already but before you do please advise your buddy Reinsdorf to sell the team.

Whose job would he taking if he played everyday, that’s right the outstanding Andrew Benintendi who is the biggest flop since the Edsel.

Probably.

Either that or maybe there are some issues with the guy we don’t know about, something isn’t right. We know that Grifol doesn’t care for him but if Getz wanted this guy out there everyday then he would be out there everyday.

I haven’t been a big fan of Colas but what the Sox have done to this guy is a crime, do the guy a favor and trade him.