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Nice. I have a wedding in IL on Oct 3rd. May have to extend the trip a little bit :)

Are they retiring number 7? If they are I think that’s too far.

Seems like i'm in the minority here but I love it. Watching him hit the walk off in Iowa will be an all time memory I take to the grave. Fall off aside, there's a reason why he got a standing ovation when he came back to Chicago and YoYo was booed. There are few I like from that era but TA is one of them. F the haters!

Why would they? That's a random name. Tim Anderson is still a fan favorite. Guy I'm replying to "can't stand him" but was all for signing Trevor Bauer a few months ago. Again, couldn't imagine why.

Taking a family road trip to Florida, October 2-October 11. Pray for my wife and kids.

I almost went to 2014 but then i'd have to remember checked out paul konerko and 2013. Best to cut off too early than too late and remember being excited on christmas we may sign Alex Gordon.

This seems silly. Everyone from that crew i feel had no passion, and just didn't care. I don't understand why we are celebrating them in any way.

Seems weird to have a retirement game so soon. As others have said, maybe honor him in a few years. For sure, TA was something special, for a short period of time. His walk-off HR in the Field of Dreams game will always be one of the best White Sox highlights. The injuries, to go along with the off field drama, killed a promising career. Starting a fight and promptly getting KO'd didn't help matters.

poor Jose

Yeah, way too early for something like this. He just turned 33. He was an All-Star for the Sox in 2022. If things went as everyone expected, he'd still be playing for the Sox. He was a teammate of Davis Martin. Him having a "retirement night" in 2026 is basically celebrating the failure that was the last rebuild. Way too soon.

I have to say that any serious focus on the Ramirez incident - other than as a joke - is goofy meathead BS. This idea that his character was somehow exposed because a bigger player beat him in a fight is ridiculous, even if that's what happened in that 5-second incident. (In fact it looked like he just took a glancing blow as he was losing pulling/falling back out of a typically fake pro-sports skirmish.) Not directed at this poster, by the way, but at the outsize importance I've seen this take on with some fans.

It was meant in jest

I recall writing on this site during his prime that I couldn't wait to never watch him play again. I remember being told I would have to wait a really long time for that, it was even faster than I had hoped. In my meaningless opinion, he never played the game the right way, flicked off fans multiple times, never put in the effort to get better, never even had the desire to learn proper footwork defensively, thought he was bigger than the game and that his raw talent was enough to net him a 9 figure payday. Tim was already cooked when Jose laid him out (to me it was the bad Hanser Alberto play where he jacked up his knee that truly was the beginning of the end), but the fact that Jose Ramirez, who to me exemplifies the way baseball is meant to be played putting the final nail in his coffin was the storybook ending that Tim deserved.

Josh Donaldson

That basically wipes out Abreu Sale Rodon Crochet as well...Chris will be going to the HoF as what? A Red Sox? Brave? No hat?

I have no idea what happened with Ramirez, or why TA felt compelled to fight. The famous Ventura/Nolan Ryan dustup has been fully explained. The team decided first guy hit charges the mound. That was Robin. TA wasn't a fighter, either. We've all been taught to box in one form or another. Dad, gym class, park district, CYO. TA's right-handed, and he came at Ramirez backwards, leading with his right. That just all probably sprung out of such a deep frustration with where he was, and all. He also got it a bit from other teams, calling him Jackie, and all. He made some mistakes, and had to carry the weight of that, too.

Not sure what you mean. I just posted what actually happened. The guy made over $40 million in his 10-year career. He just flamed out a year or two early.

If Grich goes on another tear, we’ll all forget Hayes.

How do you really feel?

Sox fans stopped caring about him when he couldn’t hit anymore and had an increasing amount of defensive lapses. The baby mama on the side didn’t help, considering she was posting pictures of him on social media as if he didn’t even care what his wife would think. Getting knocked out like a clown by Jose Ramirez was probably the last straw.

The definition of "too soon." A central theme of this season has been exorcising the demons of the post-2021 implosion. Now we dedicate a night to that team's posterchild? Not to mention celebrating the "retirement" of somebody who's still playing age is odd, basically a celebration that he's officially completed his tragic flameout. That said, I'm all for celebrating TA as a player when the time is right. Really like him a lot.

I loved TA. Dude made himself into an all-star SS after primarily growing up as a PG. The off of the field stuff was sad, but his legs and the perpetual injuries just killed his biggest asset. The Field of Dreams game is one of my all time baseball moments. Still remember exactly where I was.

Basically I think the white Sox should operate as if time as a franchise went 1894-2012 2025-present

I unno. Him and Jonathan Schoop were always compared when they came up. Both hit similar cliffs.