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Bro I know it's your thing but how many times are you going to yell at the chef when the proprietor is bringing in nothing but rotten ingredients and the stank fills the entire neighborhood?

Very sad. He seems like a real nice guy. He was at Soxfest many years ago, and Roland Hemond was around. He called him Mr. Hemond. He was so grateful for what Roland had done for his career.

Worst idea in the thread.

I’m with you. with out combined money, all we need now is 3 to 4 billion dollars.

It’s insane for Kevin Warren to keep on banging the drum for the museum/soldier field lot. It’s over man, go own your own building where you aren’t beholden to the city park districts whims. In a perfect restructured infrastructure world I could see it being a viable option but that space is just snarled with traffic on game days

There is a rumor going around that Uncle Jerry no longer wants to pay those exorbitant AC/DC licensing fees Submitted for his and your approval.....

Wasn’t enough to just ruin your own life. You had to drag us all down with you.

He was drafted by the White Sox.

Montgomery hasn't exactly set the International League on fire and his numbers have only gotten worse as the season has gone on. After hovering around .700 OPS for about a month, he finally dropped below .700 and seems to be trending toward .666 (!!!). Couple that with his mediocre defense, we might wanna pump the brakes on this guy a little bit. What are the odds he ends up as a first baseman who can't hit? We already have a couple guys like that. What are the odds that the player development/hitting staff did this to him? I suspect very high. Is he recovering from a back injury and he'll be fine next year? Maybe. But calling up our "best" hitting prospect so that he can go 0 for 100 seems to me like it would be the s%*# cherry on top of a s%*# sundae called the 2024 White Sox.

Like most things White Sox, I'll take the under on that.

I mean...if you've watched Nishida, I literally can't imaging talking about him without mentioning his personality. The fact that he plays the game with such obvious joy makes him emphatically calling himself safe after hustling out IF singles and putting defenses on edge dancing on the basepaths so much fun to watch. It's not a "skill" but it absolutely is a unique part of his game.

I believe Chuck asked a question about him being fun and entertaining etc

The Sox are only mostly dead? Interesting.

Veeck Field at Comiskey Park.

See, there are more Sox fans than people realized...

We are on a roll !!

Love it. You know they’re going to go on a “hot streak” and only get to 119 though just cause.

At the end of the day we KNOW Luis Robert won't be a White Sox when this team has a chance to be good again. With that being the case, you get everything you can for him before he leaves. It really is that straight forward. It's the same with Crochet, who has a year less to be here.

I still believe all of this is a ruse to get the state to renew the insanely favorable GRF lease terms exactly as currently written. Maybe even try to twist their arm into a couple more concessions.

From my interview with Chet: ML: One of the problems I guess you could call it for big leaguers is that they make everything look so easy but that had to be a tremendous change for you going from the infield to center field. Describe to me some of the drills and work that you had to do to be able to pull this off. CL: "It was a challenge and it took a lot of work but I wanted it. I used to say there are no bad hops in the sky. I’d say to myself that no matter where the ball was hit I was going to beat the ball to the spot. I became a student of the game, that’s where a lot of the work was done. After a few years I knew all the pitchers and how they were going to throw to hitters. I knew the signs, I knew where the ball was going to go if a right handed pull hitter was up and one of our pitchers threw him a breaking ball for example." "It got to the point where for me; it was a lot of fun to rob guys of hits. Bobby Bonds said to me one time that I was one of the best young outfielders he had ever seen. This was a guy who played with Willie Mays, and for him to say that to me...boy that was special. Cal Ripken Senior also told me that I was one of the toughest outfielders to go from first to third on. That was because I was always very aggressive charging balls." ML: With the thousands of games that you played Chet I don’t know if you’ll remember this one play, but if so, I’d like to know what you can tell me. It was on July 3, 1977. The Twins were in town and the Sox beat them the first three games to take over first place. I was in the stands that day and in the second game of that double header one of the Twins hit a drive into the gap in left center with a man on base. You sprinted backwards and to your right and at the last second stretched out your left arm making a shoe top backhanded catch before crashing face first into the wall. Do you remember that play? CL: "Oh yea! One time I was invited to appear on that kids TV show they used to have “The Baseball Bunch,” hosted by Johnny Bench. What they do before you come on is show a minute or so of highlights from what you’ve done and that play was on there. I remember it! Anytime you start hitting the warning track you know you’re only a step or two away from the wall. " "That was one of the things about playing center field in Comiskey Park when I was there. They had such a big center field and you had a lot of room to roam. (Author’s Note: In most of the years Lemon was with the Sox there was no center field fence. The barrier was the base of the original grandstand where the scoreboard was located... 445 feet away!) It was terrifying. You could never take a pitch off. You always had to be on your P’s and Q’s. I was always fearful that if I made a mistake or didn’t get to a ball, you could play it into a double or triple or if it went over your head in center, an inside the park home run." "I remember another catch that I made and boy I wish I had the video of it. We were at home and a guy hit a ball over George Orta’s head at second, so it was in right center field. I went after it and said ‘I got it.’ Richie (Zisk) started over and said ‘you take it.’ The problem was the ball was curving away from me! I kept running and running and running and the ball kept curving. Richie had already backed off so it was up to me. Finally as I get to the right field foul line I dive and make the catch. I get up and start brushing all this chalk off me, meanwhile Richie is laughing and the fans are giving me a standing ovation."

Generations...you mean.

It’s far worse than that. Anger would mean they care. The (former) fans just do not give a s%*# about the team anymore. It will take a lot of work and several years to win them back.

That starter looked terrible, too. Seemed like they were gonna score some runs today in the first few innings.

Brothers and sisters, we are somehow on the precipice of 4-34 since the All-Star Break. I quite honestly, didn't even think that was possible in modern day sports.

This is going to go down as the worst season in professional sports history.

I feel it, its imminent!

It’s amazing how consistently bad this offense is. The whole idea of not wanting offensive upside should have got Getz ridiculed more.

Teams know he’s unmotivated being around these minor leaguers. I actually think he’d be a great acquisition for a team like the Phillies or Mets.

No team will ever have a worse 2nd half record

They could easily win 2 or 3 games the rest of the way.

We won 8 of Fedde’s 21 starts too. 14-73 in games not started by Fedde or Crochet.

Robert will be traded

This team could play two full seasons and not even break 81 wins.

@Capn12

Man that is such a great view.

The Sox heading to shattering the 1962 Mets futility record isn't exactly going to help JR get the taxpayer money he desires. His incompetence is working against him here.

Have the Cubs scored more runs in the last 10 games than the Sox have since the ASB?

Tough to get hurt with his workload lately.

I think it's also the position of most voters.

I hate to hear that. I have some great memories of getting my driver's license and heading to games. He was the guy.

No excuse, but the reason is Jerry Reinsdorf.

Has anyone from the Chicago media got a quote from Getz or anyone else in the organization yet on the likely possibility that this Sox team is the worse in the history of baseball? Has this trajectory even been acknowldeged at all by official Sox media? Also, they are truly missing a unique marketing opportunity here. They should be promoting the march to infamy in different fun ways to get people out to the ballpark. Instead it is just more Elvis nights and bobbleheads..

No no no no your angle is all wrong here. You name it Comiskey park because Jerry would hate that. Not new comiskey, not old, simply Comiskey Park. Because he couldn’t wait to take that name off lol

Except Getz acquired Lopez to be the starting 2B from the beginning, not a bench piece. Also, why would you be surprised if Lopez is DFA? His $4.3 million salary is a sunk cost already and Baldwin, Sosa, and Amaya should get most of the at bats in the infield over a guy the Sox are going to non-tender anyways.

See, I get excited about him, then Paul Janish says something stupid like this: Personality isn't a baseball skill you idiot.

If I had the money, I would make the new ballpark on the river happen. All that is stopping me is 3 or 4 billion dollars.

Are you sure? The draft pick was nice but the player return look like trash. DeLoach is an aging outfielder who apparently has no power and Berroa has a 6+ ERA in the minors. A good GM gets a better return than that for a good flamethrowing reliever with a low ERA, good strikeout rate, and 4 years of control. Like you said, just because the Sox are terrible and didn’t need a quality closer doesn’t mean we should get back sh1t for him. Santos had value, and it seems like only the Sox knew about his injury issues.

Definitely, no takers.

Too bad Schriffen isn't a GM. He'd pick up Nicky in a hearbeat. He said last night he's really settled into the leadoff spot.