The Mighty Mite

Not close to Hall of Famer Aparicio, Looie was one of the best fielding shortstops in the history of the game and also had tons of stolen bases, Anderson couldn’t touch Aparicio’s glove.

Hiring Grifol was a huge mistake, the franchise in the last 15 or so years has been infested with a losing culture and we hire a guy from an organization that is worse than the White Sox.

They needed someone to replace Remillard in Charlotte, another career minor leaguer.

IMHO Teddy Ballgame was the best ever.

The Sox will always be #1 in my heart but I’ve adopted the Rays as my second favorite MLB team, not just recently, probably around 20 years now. Same with the TB Lightning, never miss a game on TV but I still love the Blackhawks. As far as the Bears, Bulls and of course the Cubs, no interest at all except I pull extremely hard for teams that are playing the Flubs with one exception, when they play the Red Sox, I despise all Boston teams and 99% of their fans.

Agree.

Excellent post. I have no problem with fans voicing their displeasure with certain players on the Sox but as far as me personally while watching some really bad Sox players down through the years I can honestly say I never booed one, it just isn’t in my makeup as I guess I love the franchise too much. Of course as I haven’t lived in Chicago for 30 years now the circumstances have probably changed with some of the things I’ve see this year. Now if I happened to see JR pop up on the field before a game, that would be a different story, there would be no problem showing my displeasure with that jerk.

Anderson a few years ago volunteered to play the outfield, OK by me but who plays shortstop?

If BN is right I wonder if Kenny Williams is still thinking that the Sox are going to win the division.

Agree, it’s horrible that we have such a hard time developing players. This whole organization is in shambles and won’t be fixed until Reinsdorf is gone one way or the other.

He had us excited for awhile.

I read an article this AM about Colas and it said they are working on the same thing that plagues just about everybody else on the Sox roster, pitch selection. I forgot where I read it. He has his OPS up to around .850 so that’s a good sign. One thing I noticed about Sheets in the Marlins series is that his swing is awful loopy, not swinging on plane.

If that’s true about TA, well screw him, he’s being paid millions to play to the best of his abilities, he’s a piece of dog crap and without a doubt the cancer on the team.

You should have seen the backlash when the Sox traded Minnie Minoso in 1958, 2 of my best friends immediately became Cub fans but not me, Minnie was a favorite of mine but we still had Nellie, Looie and Billy and the Sox were already in my DNA.

I was born 1946 at the old St. Luke’s hospital at 14th and Michigan and lived at 18th and Wabash among many Greek and Italian immigrants. We lived there until I was 5 years old and then moved to Lake View 3 blocks from Wrigley Field and then to Rogers Park in 1954. My mother’s family were all Sox fans including my favorite uncle who really was the driving force in me becoming a die hard Sox fan. He didn’t take me to my first Sox as that was with the Cub Scouts in 1955 but took me to so many other Sox games including the second game of the 1959 World Series. He worked for the Sun Times and had all kinds of connections and was always coming up with tickets to everything, even came up with 2 tickets to see The Beatles at the International Amphitheater on Sept 5, 1964 on their first US tour. I took my high school sweetheart to see the concert, she thought I was the greatest thing since sliced bread for taking her to see The Beatles. My father was not that much of a baseball fan as he was into boxing and also liked to make frequent trips to the various horse racing tracks in the Chicago area, he went to one baseball game in 1962 with my mother who loved the Sox and my sister who became a Cub fan.

Got a hunch that TA is on his way out.

You just know the Sox will phone it in in the bottom of the 9th.

Now catchers interference.

Trying to give the game away.

TA doesn’t make that play.

Just let the Marlins back in the game, all of a sudden our bullpen stinks.

Talk about a good glove-no hit guy, he is it.

Not behind the plate.

But neither are the Sox.

It’s hard to believe that 6 teams in the AL have struck out more than the Sox. What is easy to believe is that only the Royals have a lower OBP than our guys