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Interesting.. I always thought Reinsdorf was the majority shareholder or at least owned more shares than anyone else. Anyone know for sure who owns the most shares?

D we did well on util. infielders that'll never be worth anything

Do it now, we have nothing to lose and can see how he'll be.

Jeff Luhnow is who I'd like to see them hire

I agree with you for the most part but I think there needs to be some changes made. A new mgr. and all new coaches might be asking for to much but thats what is needed most. I'd keep the pitchers we have but we def. have to many 1st baseman/DH's. The players who don't seem to want to play and/or the guys who are always hurt need to be talked about. We're not getting anything or much out of them anyways, so salary relief might give us something to work with. I've suffered long enough to sit and watch this team of supposed playoff caliber losers play anymore. I don't believe a rebuild is necessary but changes should be made. The only fear for that is who's making them.

I can't agree more

These are good thanks for posting

You very well could be right. I see no hustle, desire. This team is better than what we're seeing.

I'd like to say yes because we have a lot of talent on this team but it's not looking so good right now. I don't believe even if we make the playoffs we're not going to the WS...So I'll say No in the hopes it'll be a wakeup call

Yes I know who you meant and you're probably right about Keuchel, he seems to like pointing his finger at everyone. It'll be interesting to see what he says. Jerry has given Hahn/KW plenty of money to build and better this team, but they've wasted to much of it. I'm sure Jerrys talking to his buddy and wouldn't be to surprised to see TLR as our next GM. and that really scares me

Well in this case maybe he shouldn't

Yes and you got to think sooner or later Jerry's got to say hey you're costing me a lot of money and we're not getting better.

I'm guessing between 89-91 wins. I think we'll win a playoff series but not make the WS, but you never know. We have a really good bullpen and thats what it takes to win it all.

QUOTE (Al Lopez's Ghost @ Dec 10, 2015 -> 08:10 PM) Nope. Steve Lyons. I'm sorry you're right..my memory fades

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Dec 10, 2015 -> 06:59 PM) To be fair, Mike Squires was a very good fielding first baseman. Rich Morales was more or less a utility player. I don't have too much problem with those kind of guys. Yes you're right Squires was one of the best fielding 1'st baseman I've ever seen. I'll never forget the time he pulled down his pants brushing out the dirt while standing at first base...lmao.. to funny. For me an in the modern day it would be Dunn, his first yr. He was so bad they sent him home early.

I for one would still love to see the Sox sign him. Give me Heyward and a power bat an I'll see you in the playoffs.

QUOTE (LDF @ Dec 10, 2015 -> 12:30 AM) b/c of my stupid arse prediction of 90 + last yr, i really would like to see how the rest of the off season plays out. i am still eating the crow pie. I got a little over excited myself last yr. so I've eaten half of that pie. My hopes are they can get me as excited again with a different outcome. So far so good but we're still a ways away.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Dec 7, 2015 -> 02:28 PM) So I'm not going to make some big winded post as what I am posting is purely based upon conjecture (along with some of Hahn's quotes) but I've heard Hahn talk a lot about working to fix our offense, but like last off-season, I've heard so little about our defense? It just makes me go hmmm, have we learned nothing from our struggles the past few years. I realize that good defensive, OBP guys don't grow on trees (and to be frank, OBP and good defense are the Sox two biggest achiles heels) but for us to consistently talk about offense just strikes the wrong chord to me. I have watched a team that has been fundamentally bad for the past few years and last off-season we tried to fix the offense while ignoring defense. Sox deserve the benefit of the doubt cause they have yet to make a move this off-season that made the defense worse, but they also haven't upgraded the defense either (which is fine...only position they addressed was catcher and net net I'd say that move was defensively neutral to slightly positive while offensively having the upside to be positive). I agree 100%. I'm a little old school in my thinking in that I believe good pitching good defense an the 3 run home run wins. Problem is we have only 1 Home run hitter an rarely have anyone on base. Saying that I still believe we need to improve our defense at almost every position.

I wonder if the FO has given any thoughts to Ozzie being the bench coach? Then I had a funny thought. What if they signed MB, AJ an Uribe? Maybe the old farts can show the team how to win. The thought does make me grin even though it's completely ridiculous.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Oct 18, 2015 -> 09:06 AM) He was ejected in Baltimore when had that quality start streak ended. Complete BS ejection. Thanks, I remember now...still think he was trying to get ejected in Toronto, just seems like something he'd do for the fun of it.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 05:23 PM) In what could be (if Texas comes back) his last moment as a big leaguer, Mark Buehrle was ejected in today's Toronto/Texas game for doing nothing. I don't remember ever seeing MB ejected. I'm sure he has at sometime in his career but I think he might of wanted to be ejected.

I like the new banner, thanks. I liked the one with Thompson in it too. I think Thompson represents a hopeful future an at least he's home brewed.

MARK BUEHRLE DENIES RETIREMENT TALK The veteran pitcher, who was left off the Blue Jays' active roster for the playoffs thus far, said he hasn't made a decision to call it quits at age 36, despite reports to the contrary at the end of the regular season.

QUOTE (LDF @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 01:03 PM) ref the bold, the biggest problem the sox have and will continue to have is the favoritism that is ragging in the FO. the owners favorite son |s| will never be let go. this is the best in the FO will do, no matter what comes. I don't think this team was good enough for us fans to point our finger at Robin an say it was his fault. While I didn't like how he used some of the players (LaRoche an others) or how bad the team started the season (which I think had something to do with our coaches and mgr.) I can't put the blame on Robin. I don't think any mgr. could of gotten us any more than a couple more wins at most, which by the way would have cost us the protected pick. The players themselves need to take responsibility for their sloppy play. Hahn made some good sound moves that didn't pan out for some reason. The stats all lined up for us to be a much better team than they showed. The team just didn't play good fundamental ball an I think thats on the players.