The Mighty Mite

No doubt about it , this is what you get when you have a demented fool as manager. Does he realize we only have 67 games games left to catch the Twins or get a Wild Card spot but here we are still resting our best players who have to be the most rested guys in universe.

Al Lopez was great, knew how to handle a pitching staff, it didn't hurt that he had Ray Berres as his pitching coach. Lopez was a catcher in his playing days, I have always believed that catchers made the best managers. I always wondered why Fisk didn't try managing. Walter Alston was also damn good, he had a few more horses than Lopez. Can't argue with Casey Stengel's record but talk about horses, it was the Yankees. Others who I thought were damn good were Billy Martin, Chuck Tanner and Tommy Lasorda. BTW...Lopez, Alston and Lasorda in all their years of managing were never fired, that says a lot right there.

One could always hope.

Only if there are some big changes.

Such a dysfunctional organization from the owner to the GM to the manager to the farm system and to the players.

Yep, he screwed up big time bringing in Pollock who is horrible in right field besides regressing with the bat.

Yes there was.

Living in Florida, I watch just about every Rays game, compared to the zombies we have on the Sox, it's like night and day.

I can't tell you how much I despise TLR for his pathetic managing and his bull crap lineups, almost as much as I despise JR. Unless our guys can't walk, the constant resting of the players has to stop, put the best 9 out there and try to win the friggin division.

The Guards wanted this game a lot more than the Sox, they hustled their ass off while we went through the motions, perfect example was when Giolito was slow in covering first base on a grounder to Abreu. Sometimes I wonder if the Sox know that they are in a race for the division or a a wild card spot or just don't care.

Agree, hope they find the cause.

Robert's health is the most guarded topic since the Manhattan Project.

Can't see him helping us, he's been on a downward trend for about 4 years now, forget about it.

I think they will get a new stadium, though it's harder to get to for us than St. Pete, the new stadium should be built either in the Channelside District near Amalie Arena or Ybor City. There was an article in the paper last week about a new stadium in the current parking lot of the Trop, big mistake, most of the population is in Tampa and suburbs to the north, east and west of Tampa, St. Pete is more of a snowbird town and is a ghost town in the summer.

We moved to Florida in December of 1993, saw Micheal Jordan in ST in Sarasota. My last Sox game in Chicago before the move was the Division clincher in Sept. of 93 though I've been back to Chicago a few times and have seen about 4 games. We have seen the Sox play the Rays many times at Tropicana Field

And slapped all us Sox fans who retired to Florida so they can see their favorite team in Spring Training in Sarasota, another reason I despise JR.

They always say " no news is good news" but I'm wondering in this case.

If it was 1987, it was Fregosi.

3 way tie: Cease, Abreu, Vaughn. Honorable mention: Cueto.

You just can't count on him.

A lefty hitting left fielder is a must, I want Robert in RF and Engel in CF for the second half.

He's a jerk, watched a lot of his BS when he was with the Rays.

Cardinals moving back to Chicago would be cool. I was a Cardinal fan as I associated them with the Sox because they played their home games at Comiskey. I went to the second to last Cardinal home game in Chicago in 1959 and oddly enough it was at Soldier Field as the Cards for their last season in the city decided to leave Comiskey for the lakefront stadium.

Never heard that one but the again we have been in Florida since 1993. I'm not sure how I feel about a stadium near United Center, just west of the loop would be better where working people and hotel visitors could walk to the ballpark.

I grew up in the 50s and 60s and we outdrew the Cubs just about every year until the late 60s, the riots of 1968 really hurt the franchise but we bounced back in the Dick Allen days and until 1984 things were about even, the Sox were the first team to draw 2 million in 1983 but when the Cubs won in 1984 things really turned around. Harry Caray moving to the Cubs along with the Tribune buying them was huge, they marketed Wrigley Field like it was watching a game in heaven. When WGN became a Super Station, people all over the country saw games at Wrigley on TV and put a visit to Chicago and Wrigley Field on their bucket list. Wrigley in the daytime looked so good on TV, almost like the Garden of Eden. The Sox could come close with a new stadium near Downtown or somewhere in the western suburbs in the middle of the metro area, I think just west of Hillside or close to Oak Brook would be ideal, not hard to get to from any of the northern or southern burbs by expressway and an extension of the Eisenhower CTA line would help getting people from the city to the park. It was a huge mistake to build new Comiskey at 35th and Shields but when the Addison deal was voted down the Sox had no choice, there are just too many people in the area that won't take in a game on the Southside of Chicago. It's sort of sad and though we came close in 1991 and again in 2006, the Sox are only 1 of a few teams in MLB that have never drawn 3 million to Sox Park