Sosa

[The Beast]

After starting to read his autobiography I thought differently about him. I realized all the bulls*** he put up with in his life. I mean for starters, the guys father died when Sammy was very young. In addition he was so poor that the man shined shoes for a living for about .10 a shoe set. He eventually got work and at age 14 began baseball. It was just natural, and Omar Minaya, then GM of the Rangers signed him to a 3,500 dollar contract after Sammy had been rejected by NYY, NYM, Philadelphia Phillies, and Cincinatti Reds. It took him a little while, but under a span of 2 years the man was in the big leagues, where he struggled but since Texas kept faith in him, he stayed up with the rest of the young stars:

Palmer

Rodriguez

Gonzalez

He got traded for Baines, which was unpopular with us, but it worked. Truth be told I found out a lot about our organization of how:

1.) The managers decide who gets called up and sent down.

2.) We are sleezy son of b****es.

3.) How only certain GM's know how to run the team. Aka ex GM (Larry Himes)

I finally realized that even back then Reinsdorf was cheap. He wanted the Cubs to be up for 3 million left on George Bells contract. Cheap ass.

Bottom Line: One of the worst deals in White Sox history.

[The Beast]

Ya but Beastly, where do you think your "boy" Maggs would be if Corky were still here???? Most defenilty not the Sox.

Possibly the Sox but playing in LF, I bet the Sox still would have put him there...

[The Beast]

Im sure the Jr would pay Sosa and Maggs there desired salieres.   But when you look at it, the entire team would be differnt, just based on the way you draft, $, who knows, Mark, Garland, C.Lee, None of them might not be here if Sosa was around now.

So true, yet I couldn't help to wonder what it may have been like