A-Train to 35th

JR's going run his new Stadium Sorts network into the ground before it even gets off the ground. I'm not paying to watch the Bulls and Sox. Why the Hawks would partner with this miser is puzzling.

I agree with you....holy cow!

I agree about Eloy being an accident waiting to hurt himself or others. I was just throwing it out there to show how the Sox value Eloy as some kind of hitting machine and that he needs to be in the lineup everyday. I disagree with that thought process. Who's sitting when Pham comes, if we are only going to play him when we give Vaughn a rest, and move Sheets to 1B, keeping Eloy as DH what's the point of signing him. My point is Eloy has really done nothing to make him a player that needs to be in the lineup everyday. Let Eloy pinch hit and play a couple of games a week at DH until he proves otherwise.

Not sure I like Sheets in the outfield but he has to play. I do find it interesting that the Sox claim Eloy's healthy so why isn't he playing his natural position in the outfield instead of taking Sheets spot as a DH?

I'm semi sure Reinsdorf runs the Sox in a way he thinks is best to keep them in Chicago and prevent them from leaving the city like his beloved Brooklyn Dodgers did. I liked your analysis, except I disagree with the statement I bolded above. I think JR wants to run the Sox out of town just like his beloved Brooklyn Dodgers left him angry. He wants to take it out on all of us because we don't show up for games when the product on the field is so inept. Sox fans don't flock to the game the way Cub fans do and JR resents that and always will. His dislike for all things Cub is evident in things he has said over the years. The year after the Sox won the World Series in 2006 attendance came 40,000 short of 3 mil. Sox fans want to see results and if the team would have performed better in the years that followed, we would have supported them in droves. Sox fans don't show up to pretend they're in a bar like Wrigley, they show up when a winner is on the field. If we had a winning organization similar to the smaller market St Louis Cardinals we would come close to 3 mil in attendance every year. But remember JR gets a sweet deal on his stadium rent if attendance doesn't reach a certain amount so it's in his best interest to field a team that comes close to winning but doesn't draw too many fans. I know it makes no sense but that's JR for ya. Remember his other quote when he said “Sports is a business of failure. Only one team is going to win every year. But the fact that you finished second or third or fourth, it doesn’t mean you had a bad year. I think the important thing for fans is, while they want you to win championships, they want to know that when you get to the last month of the season, you still have a shot. You’re still playing meaningful games. If you can do that consistently, you’ll make your fans happy.” On top of his recent visit to Nashville JR also held us up threatening to move to Tampa Bay so the history is there.Now if my childhood team left for LA like his beloved Brooklyn dodgers I would be upset and never want that to happen to anyone else. Not JR, he's tried once with Tampa and now he's going to do it again if he doesn't get the state to build a new stadium for him. Even after they built the current park, JR had it remodeled and then he thought the seats looked too much like Cub blue so he had the state or us to pay for the color change to the current green, was that really necessary. JR could give a sh** about fans or a winning team, all he cares about is having the state pay for his stadium so he can string the fans along with 2nd, 3rd, or 4th place talent just so he can keep attendance down and have the state kick in more money.

I meant tailed into the bottom inside corner, but it wasn't a strike.

Nice frame job by the catcher no-one wanted. It wasn't a strike but when it tails off (correction, tails in) it just misses the lower inside corner.

Like it would really matter, we could get all the calls and we'd still have this record.It's not like the next batter wasn't going to ground or strike out anyway.

So we put Sheets a 1B/DH in the outfield and start Eloy at DH, for what? I say put Eloy in RF and let him injure himself so I don't have to watch him beat the ball in the ground or swing at pitches outside the zone.

Don't count on it. We need hope that the Sox will actually be able to develop these players and keep them healthy instead of calling them up before they're ready or playing them out of position.

I think that fact has already been proven. Yes they are only out for the $$$$$$ and could care less about developing a team to actually win ball games.

Born in August of 1959 I like to tell my kids that the siren's the mayor turned on when the Sox won the pennant woke me up. I became an avid Sox fan in 1970 and have followed them ever since through mostly bad times but at least it was baseball. This video is how I feel about the team now, and I will do my best to not subject my self to this BS excuse of a baseball team until things get better, which may be awhile. I'll continue to get updates from SoxTalk but I'm basically done with this team until I see something to change my current outlook which is bleak.

Ozzie also questioned why Crochett was still pitching after throwing 90 pitches down 5-0. Ozzie's right, they need to learn how to save his arm, or he'll be toast by the All-Star game and headed to surgery.

I'd rather not read anything Paul Sullivan writes.

They'd make the wrong selection anyway so it doesn't really matter where they draft.