The Mighty Mite

As I mentioned recently, the franchise is on life support. There have numerous articles lately on how bad an owner JR is, does the man have any kind of a clue, is he showing any remorse at all, does the jerk have any pride at all. If he refuses to sell then he must change his modus operandi and start spending money on free agents and bring in the best GM and field manager he can find, this OJT must stop. Im sure there isn’t one other team that would have hired Getz, this guy should resign immediately, the guy is a compete joke, a failure who is in way over his head. What other team would have hired Grifol, at least someone figured out that he was horrible. If we see a repeat of this year in 2025 the Sox probably will see the fan base dwindle down to nothing, they can then move their games out to Wintrust Field in Schaumburg where they won’t come close to filling the place up.

I met Jungle Jim Rivera when I was working the pro shop at the Naples Beach Golf Club about 25 years ago and I remember him telling me how upset the team was that Billy didn’t get a start especially in game 6. Lopez was probably right in not starting Billy out in LA with the Left field foul pole only 250 feet away even though they put up a 40 foot high screen from to the foul pole to beyond left center field. I still think Lopez is the best Sox manager in their history but for early October of 1959, he had a horrible brain fart.

I’ll never forget my boyhood heroes especially Nellie and Billy. Tribune has one of the pictures wrong, that’s Early Wynn not Big Klu, Early who won the Cy Young award in 1959 but him holding a bat in the picture is not all that funny as he was a very good hitter. 3 sad things, Minnie Minoso was not with the Sox in 1959, he was traded after the 1957 to Cleveland for Early Wynn and Al Smith, we got him back in 1960 and in first game back on opening day he hit 2 homers including a walk off. Billy Pierce did not start a game in the World Series which pissed off all his teammates and every Sox fan in the country, bad blood between manager Al Lopez might have been one of the reasons but no one knows for sure. We lost the Series in 6 games and IMHO game 2 which I attended might have been the turning point. After winning game one, 11-0 we were trailing 3-1 in the 8th, we had a nice rally going, with no outs and Landis on 2nd and Lollar on first, Smith doubled to left center with Landis scoring easily but Lollar was out by a mile at home plate, why 3rd base coach Tony Cuccinello sent the slowest runner in the league trying to score the tying run remains a huge mystery. The rally came to a screeching halt and it carried over to the games in the LA Coliseum, we lost the next 2 but managed to squeak out a 1-0 victory in game 5. The Series returned to Comiskey for game 6 but Lopez gave Wynn the start on 2 days rest, he was gassed at the Dodgers were World Champs, Lopez messed up and should have started Pierce saving Wynn for game 7.

The only thing I’m sorry about is that Jerry Reinsdorf still owns the White Sox and has done a great job of just about destroying the franchise, right now IMHO the franchise is on life support.

It just keeps getting uglier and uglier, who is going to be able to fix this mess.

Wrigley Field sits in the middle of a huge populated area, I remember reading an article many years ago about how many people are a short walking distance from Wrigley, I can’t remember the number but it was quite substantial. When I was in kindergarten and first grade in the early 50s we lived on Dakin and Sheridan and remember walking to Wrigley with my parents to see of all things, a Rodeo with the Star attraction being the Cisco Kid and Pancho. I went to LeMoyne elementary school on Addison and Fremont, 2 blocks from the ballpark.

Benintendi has come around also, he’s healthy and we’re seeing what we thought what kind of a player he was but defensively he’s another Ralph Garr, worst arm I’ve ever seen for an outfielder.

A Series win, get the confetti out, parade on State Street tomorrow.

Most of the guys are playing themselves off the team, the only position guy that will be here next year is probably Benintendi because of his contract, maybe Lee but he has really regressed as the year progressed. Fletcher might be around as 4th outfielder. Robert will probably be traded as well as Vaughn, the rest are DFA candidates.

No chance at all.

Sheets didn’t help with a bad throw on a tailor made DP ball.

Hey Creep, just sell the team, 43 years is enough.

The pathetic numbers are just plain mind boggling with this team.

This is one crazy inning.

Guards look like the Sox this inning.

Andrew Vaughn is an idiot, all he had to do was tag the runner. I wish MLB could somehow fine JR for putting a MLB team this bad on the field, just an utter disgrace. I know it won’t happen but it should.

I doubt if JR has friends.

Jerry Reinsdorf, a name that will live in infamy.

This clown said the roster he put together at the beginning of the year was going to be competitive, competitive teams don’t lose 100+ games.

Agree, I’m not sure if Schumacher is the guy, like you said, they need to conduct a thorough search and wind up with the best guy available, if Schumacher is the guy then go with him.

The Sox would have to give him a 5 year contract.

Those are my thoughts also. Maybe they decide to keep Robert, they can then move him to RF, prolong his career by cutting down on all the running in CF.

Nice job by Flexen today.