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I don't know who will be on the Opening Day roster but I hope the White Sox don't ask Adam LaRoche to throw out the first pitch.

If Fulmer is that good this spring put him in the starting rotation right now. The bottom of the rotation scares me to death. If Fulmer is better than our 4th + 5th starters plug him into the rotation right now. I try not to take these exhibition games too seriously but Matt Latos is pitching today for the first time this spring. He needs tp step up and have a good outing. The team needs him to perform good this season. The 2016 season will be determined by how the back of the rotation performs. If the 4th + 5th starters do well this year I believe the team can get into the 2016 Playoffs.

Ron Santo, when he was with the White Sox in 1974.

Lets see how he performs this year before giving him a long term contract. The White Sox haven't had any success with ex National League players. Both Dunn and LaRoche performed well in the NL and came over to the AL and tanked. I'm hoping Frazier has more success with the White Sox than those 2 did.

You're wrong. The White Sox will not be good in 2016. The White Sox will be GREAT in 2016. Playoff Baseball is coming to the Cell in 2016.

This isn't a prediction. I'm just hoping La Roche and Danks are not on the 2016 White Sox Opening Day roster. I don't care if they're traded or released. I just hope that they are both gone. It's time to move on without those two stinking up the team.

Avi is going to have a GREAT year. The entire White Sox team is going to have a GREAT year in 2016. The 2016 White Sox are going to the 2016 Playoffs. They will be the only Chicago team to reach the 2016 Playoffs.

What killed Sportsvision was : 1) Chicago was use to getting their baseball games on free TV. 2) More importantly, Chicago was not wired for cable at the time. It was expensive paying for only one channel, which Sportsvision was.

Nobodys talking about this yet but from I know the Cubs are going to have all of their games on cable when they have their own TV station. I would like to think that WGN will give the White Sox some serious money to have some of their games on Channel 9. The White Sox will be the only baseball team in Chicago with some of their games on free TV.

The White Sox TV ratings were almost equal to the Cubs a few years ago. Their ratings doubled on Comcast last year when the team got hot. When the team started losing again the ratings went bad. As long as JR or one of his investors own the White Sox/Bulls there are more than enough TV stations in the Chicagoland area that will want the White Sox on their channel.

I grew up in a Chicago Cardinals family. I was at their last home game when I was a young boy in 1959. As time marched on the old Chicago Cardinals fan base died off. This became a one team market/monopoly for the Bears in a metro area of 9 million people. If the White Sox move, eventually the White Sox fans will die off and they will become a distant memory like the Chicago Cardinals are now. The Cubs will have a identical situation like the Bears do now.

The miserable upper deck might be standard for most parks the last 25 years but that still doesn't make it acceptable. JR changed the original design because he wanted more levels of suites. It has ruined the park and most people don't like it up there and don't want to sit up there. I've been a season ticket holder for years, through the good times and the bad times. If they ever moved my tickets upstairs in the upper deck, I wouldn't renew. You're better off watching it on TV rather than sitting up there.

Always remember the following: 1) The City of Chicago offered to build a new baseball stadium for the White Sox in the South Loop at Roosevelt and Clark. 2) JR turned down the offer and wanted to build a stadium in Addison/DuPage county. Keep in mind that the stadium would of been built with tax payer money on land owned by JR. 3) When the stadium in Addison didn't work out, the City of Chicago offer in the south Loop was off the table. 4) The State of Illinois agreed to build the new park at its present location. If they hadn't agreed to that the White Sox would have moved to Florida. 5) I've tried to simplify this as much as possible but JR should have taken the original offer from the City of Chicago and had the new stadium built in the South Loop. EVERYBODY would have been better off. The White Sox franchise, the White Sox fans and the City of Chicago. Its bad enough the stadium was built where it is now, JR is responsible for the miserable upper deck which nobody likes and has ruined the park. The lower deck is wonderful and the upper deck sucks. 6) Sometime, somewhere and someday the White Sox will have a new owner. The new owner is going to inherit a franchise that has a stadium in a location that is not popular and a stadium with a lousy upper deck. It will be interesting to see if the new owner tries to get another stadium for the White Sox or if he renews the lease when it expires in 2027. 7) Looking back at the whole situation I wish JR would not have bought the White Sox. I wish DeBartolo would have purchased the team.

This subject on Cespedes has produced over 3,000 replies AND 0ver 190,000 views. Its obvious that White Sox fans want Cespedes on the South Side of Chicago. I think he would be the final piece on the team and help the team contend in 2016. My gut reaction is the White Sox are not going to sign him. I hope I'm wrong.

Both Cespedes and Upton have yet to be signed by anybody. Yet somebody like Shark signed with the Giants for some serious money. (I'm so glad he's not on the 2016 White Sox) Both of these guys are considered major talents but still nobody has signed them. Is there some reason why nobody has signed these guys? Are they trouble makers? It doesn't make any sense to me. I would love to have either of them on the White Sox. Having one of them would make the White Sox serious 2016 Playoff contenders. I'm hoping that something can be worked out between one of them and the White Sox.

If the White Sox don't sign one of the remaining free agents they just simply go in another direction. Maybe trade LaRoche, Danks and Garcia to the Angels for Mike Trout. I would like to think that most White Sox fans would be pleased with that trade.

Danks does not fit in the White Sox plans. They would love to move him now but there are not any takers for him. The White Sox haven't invited Danks to Soxfest the last couple of years. 2016 will be the last year for Danks in a White Sox uniform.

I already drive a Vette. Now all I want is Mike Trout on the White Sox.

If the White Sox don't sign anybody else I'm hoping they trade LaRoche, Danks and Garcia to the Angels for Mike Trout. This would turn out to be the most shocking trade in baseball since Rocky Colavito was traded for Harvey Kuenn.

When the bad guys on the Northside start their own TV station in 2019/2020 this could help (not hurt) the White Sox. From what I know the Cubs are going to have all of their games on their TV station. There won't be any Cubs games on free TV. To the best of my knowledge both the Yankees and Mets don't have any of their games on free TV. I'm told the Cubs are going to go the same route. We'll have to wait and see if this actually happens because if it does it has to hurt the Cubs franchise. The White Sox would be smart to keep some of their games on free TV like they do now. They would be the only baseball team in Chicago on free TV which would be a good thing for the franchise. I would like to think that this could shift some of the balance in fan popularity back to the White Sox.

Without Cespedes the Mets would of never reached the World Series. They probably would of never reached the Playoffs without him. That being said, I can't help but wonder, why aren't the Mets going to bring him back ? Am I missing something here.? If the White Sox are going to bid on him, why aren't the Mets even bidding on him? Is he a clubhouse cancer? He has been on 4 teams already. Do these 4 teams know something about him that we don't?

Every White Sox fan is hoping that the team signs another big hitter for the 2016 season. There has also been alot of talk about hopefully moving La Roche and Danks this off season. If the White Sox move Danks or Johnson this off season I can't help but wonder if the White Sox are going to sign Mark Buehrle. To the best of my knowledge he hasn't officially retired or been signed by another team. I would much rather see him in the White Sox rotation than Danks. If the team trades either Danks or Johnson for something that improves the team I would like to think Buehrle would fit in here quite well.

This is certainly one of the most interesting articles I have ever read about the White Sox franchise. That being said lets hope JR goes out and gets a couple of good hitters before Opening Day 2016. I don't want another season of bad baseball on the South Side like we've seen the last 3 years.

If Johnson comes through for the team in 2016 the White Sox can have one of the best rotations in MLB. Sale, Quintana, Rodon and Johnson is a very good rotation to have. If Fulmer does well the first part of 2016 in the Minor Leagues he might become the 5th starter by the All Star break. Why waste this type of pitching? As Bill Veeck once said "The future is Now". Acquire at least one more big bat through free agency (Upton) and hopefully the team will score enough runs to get the team into the 2016 Playoffs. If Hahn is expecting La Roche to bat cleanup for the team and be productive it's going to be another long season the South Side of Chicago. Hahn has added 2 catchers and a third baseman. He has upgraded those 2 positions. The team should be better offensively with those 3 players. The team needs one more big bat. Lets do it this offseason.

Am I the only White Sox fan that is glad the White Sox didn't give the type of money and contract length the Cubs did to Heyward, Zobrist and Lackey?