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Funny how he says this for an article but has the absolute thinnest skin when on Twitter and craps on any White Sox fan that disagrees with him or challenges him.

Reds radio available but no video broadcast today

I hope we don't have to go through this s%*# when it becomes the Sox turn for a new stadium. This is exhausting.

Still undefeated in the televised games, which bodes well for the regular season

Reader asked if any of the current starting pitcher core is worth keeping. They said Shane Smith. Somebody asked about a rumored Houston interest in Benintendi, and they threw cold water.

Easy 1-2-3 for Martin, 3 routine groundouts on 9 pitches. Sox also go down in order (Meidroth K on a Reds ABS challenge, Mune and Vargas K swinging) but saw 20 pitches at least.

Yes, that's a concern of mine...giving Baldwin (and/or others) away to the Rays, while we keep the players that the Rays and others have been unable to squeeze value out of. I'd prefer not to have the older guys around at all, so as not to tempt. The older guys should be here for the purpose of trading in July (and not for more org guys, please). As for wins, last year the Marlins won 79, with a 72 win Pythagorean. The Sox won 60, a 15+ game improvement from 2024, with a Pythagorean of 71. 77 or even 82 wins isn't inconceivable. But players will have to show progress and this is the time to let them show it (or not). Baldwin, Sosa, Vargas, Cannon, Burke...it's "this is it" time or close to it.

“Having been in Chicago since 1973 [as a pitcher] with the White Sox, they’re one of the most educated fan bases around,” Stone told the Sun-Times. “Some people don’t like it that they boo or don’t show up in a losing streak, but the fan can express his feelings as he wants. There’s nothing wrong with booing. If you’re going to be in line for the cheers, you have to be for the boos. The fans know what is good baseball and what is bad.” https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2026/02/24/white-sox-chairman-jerry-reinsdorf-birthday-steve-stone-john-schriffen-chris-getz

I like Will, but managers don't usually make or break baseball teams, talent does. I def agree he's the right man for the job right now and he is a good motivator and leader.

All fair . Will that be a literal parade or a parade in your head ? I think Venable and his staff would deserve a lot of credit too . I must admit I do like a lot of the young talent and the culture they have built so far. It just fits with my own personal beliefs on how to instill confidence in young people. If you quit before you allow yourself time to grow you throw away your opportunity to become more than you think you are. Ugly duckling , caterpillar to butterfly and all that. Those stories to teach lessons about personal growth have been around for ages.

Wouldn't happen here 💦 (Also, they couldn't give him the courtesy of "lower body injury" or just "an infection"?)

It has a lot of flaws (mostly the author would readily admit tbf) but ZIPS has exactly one WS and pitcher in the top 100 of projected fWAR: Teal at 2.6 (98th), Smith at 2.1 (59th). There just isn't much bankable talent on the roster. There's some good promising young talent, but it probably adds up to around 65-75 wins this season. 77 seems a bridge way too far, even as an error bar imo. Assume the young position players gain 10 WAR as a group, that's still around 75 with our pitching. If we win 75 on the backs of the kids I'll give Getz a parade honestly.

I assumed you were aware that actually calling a certain group of people crazy or cult like for optimistic viewpoints is generally frowned upon .But since your head seems to be planted firmly in the sand your ignorance is understandable. It had calmed down lately but apparently you dont have a filter and cant read the room. Tell me what your prediction is then.Let other have a crack at you . I noticed last year in the predicted wins thread when most people took the normal route of making a prediction before any games where played you waited until the season was half over before you could commit to being on record. Apparently being optimistic lacks brainpower and everyone just buys into Sox propaganda and you can separate the wheat from the chaffe. You have expressed this opinion before. So please just give your opinion before the season starts this time. There's plenty of betting lines out there and WAR estimates of wins that range from 64.5 to 74. There's also Pythagorean models that had the Sox at 71 wins last year . So they underperformed last year by 11 games. That usually indicates regression to the mean which would be a much better record the following year . Being optimistic and encouraging is a choice of how you treat people. There are times in life especially when raising children or coaching that it's your job to nurture , encourage and teach that confidence and belief in yourself and your team mates means something. Winning means something. A lot of these players were a part of the Birmingham Barons 2 consecutive Championships. Winning breeds winning. That optimists are sheep talk would be dangerous if you were in political office. Are you part of an elite ruling class that knows better than most ? Your baseball acumen and people skills aren't that impressive .

Knock on wood seems like we are as healthy as we've been as an org to start camp in a few years.

He's going to have to cover a lot of ground surrounded by Benintendi Hays and Baldwin (unless he makes a huge jump in his reads/routes).

Go with your World Series-caliber team thought. Much more fun to dream happy thoughts.

The trade was primarily for Sandlin. Any value from Hicks or the PTBNLs is a bonus, though I do expect Hicks does well enough back in a pen role to get flipped.

Kelenic seems lost so far...granted, it's early but with all the offseason talk you start looking for some type of evidence or verification of something clicking. Hard hit balls/ev rather than K's in key situations.

Somewhere in the valley but it's a little like a mini camden yards. not a "lower deck lawn" type park it has an amazing concourse with a kids area field adjacent. https://saltriverfields.com/ Last time I was there it was pretty much new iirc which is why we hit it up. Think we saw Diamondbacks Athletics or something.

Talking Stick sorta blew me away as a facility.

I've been to Talking Stick, Camelback and Peoria Complex. Of those three Camelback is the most isolated and also the most basic. It's also one of the older training facilities in the valley now I believe. All that said, Camelback is completely fine as a fan experience. The parking is much easier than Talking Stick for example. The brown is a little ugly but it's also the desert.

I guess primarily the look? One of them compared it to a woman that he'd turn around and leave if he saw her waiting at a blind date...which is potentially more revealing about him than the ballpark.

What is it they're "unimpressed" by? Is the upper deck too high there, too? Stadium facing the wrong way?

Hopefully, available more which makes it a plus.

Leasure's velo was a bit down but he puts up a 0. Single to left, nice catch in right by Peters on what sounded like a would-be XBH, weak grounder, routine flyout. Vargas flyout and then Colson finally gets the Sox on the board with a HR to right center. Nice hard hit single (107 EV) for Acuna, and then Beni just misses tying the game with a deep flyout to left. Acuna steals second but gets scratched up on the slide and leaves the game. Kelenic groundout ends the frame still Reds 3-1.

Colson blast, 3-1

Thanks, I figured it out. My ESPN and MLB.TV accounts were not "linked" even though they both use the same email address.

Hicks still throwing 100, but gave up a 2 run shot on a splitter to Bleday after a grounder to Colson that was too slow to turn two on. Reds 3-0. Decided to stick to the heat in the next AB to K Stewart. Peters GO, Meidroth flyout, Murakami liner off the end of the bat to left for a single (on a 96mph fastball from a LHP). Vargas worked a full count, but Mune got picked off pushing his luck to get a good lead before the payoff pitch.

So, I assume this means you aren't wishing him a happy 90th birthday today?

let me know when Jerry Fucks off

1. James Fegan works with the White Sox, and his career literally benefits from team interest. Not saying he's lying, but he's certainly bias as he swims through the White Sox sea of shitty propaganda. 2. No idea what that means. 3. Is that what you're doing here? Instilling confidence in young players by speaking nice about them on an internet message board? Interesting concept. Fathom should be ashamed of himself for all that negativity he's voodoo'ed into players heads with his posts! 4. I'm not limiting anything. Sox have a bottom 4 projection in baseball, and probably a 1% chance or less of being .500.

predictable response from Stone

some of us are not doing so well

Its no joke fielding high popups and fly balls in the AZ. sky on sunny days. We havent seen the Sox players looking particularly bad yet but we will.

February 25, 1917 - The White Sox, badly needing a competent first baseman, reacquired Arnold “Chick” Gandil from Cleveland for 3,500 dollars. Gandil would go on to become the ring leader of the infamous “Black Sox” scandal in 1919. In his last regular season game for the Sox, he’d go 3 for 4 in a loss to Detroit. In that tainted World Series, Gandil would hit .233 with a triple and five RBI’s. Perhaps sensing what was coming he retired after the World Series loss to the Reds. In 1910 he actually started his career with the White Sox playing 77 games but after only hitting .193 he was sold to Montreal of the Eastern League. February 25, 1946 - The White Sox created what is regarded as the first media guide, handed out to beat writers. Now, clearly there were programs and even media guides published before 1946, even by the White Sox themselves. However, those were often (always?) Spring Training and/or player rosters-only. The guide, written by Marsh Samuel and running 17 pages, actually just triggered a deeper, more interesting story ... that the White Sox were once forerunners of the metrics revolution! According to researcher Alan Kornspan at Cleveland State, beginning in 1946 and following in the footsteps of some other innovative figures (Branch Rickey, for one), Samuel began tracking advanced statistics, likely of his own creation but resembling some of what we see in the metrics world today. Cleveland owner Bill Veeck got wind of what Samuel was doing — and hired him away. At that point, Sox successor Ward Stevens took the reins and continued the work, which was still merely siloed in the P.R. department — not player evaluation. However, once Frank Lane was hired as G.M. he added Earl Flora as both publicity director but also statistician. Lane’s pet stat, tracked as a child rooting for the Cincinnati Reds, was RBI with RISP. Under Lane’s direction, Flora started tracking reach percentage (i.e. on-base percentage), base runs (both bases advanced by runners, as well as bases a batter’s hit moved runners) and GWRBI. In fact, Lane felt so strongly that RBIs were an overblown stat that he created his own offshoot: OBR (opportunities to bat in runs), the percentage of time batters drove in RISP. Flora eventually returned to sports editing, to be replaced by future White Sox G.M. Ed Short, a tireless worker who drove statistical analysis on the South Side to new heights.

Oh they did. Even sticking Illinois with a bigger bill is a win to them. Plus they get all of the free publicity.

This is why I'll be very surprised if the Ishbias decide to just stick with There's Nothing Wrong with It Field long-term and let the team continue to be an afterthought in Chicago. The Ballpark at Arlington didn't last because playing outdoors in the intense summer heat in Texas turned out to be problematic for them as far as getting fans to come out to the game when it's 100 out. This video gives a pretty good explanation of why Turner Field didn't last. Lack of things to do around the stadium was part of it, but accessibility was a problem too. It also explains why a new ballpark out in the suburbs works for Atlanta and I don't think the same applies to Chicago.

That back injury scares me more than anything else. Not really understanding what happened to him last year I HOPE it was injury related, but it was never really explained, so I have no idea if it was more than that or not.

PCA rules. An MLB player with a personality. What a novel concept.

True, a half year does not make a career. From what I saw last year was his fielding was damn good, better than I thought. He has excellent power but the thing that he needs is to be is more consistent, he was very streaky. I don’t expect him to be a 40 homer a year guy but 25-30 a year would be about right with 80-90 RBIs and an OPS of .800+. As good as he was last year playing shortstop, I think eventually he winds up at third base.

Grizzlies

Well...since I was less than 10km from Ground Zero of Covid breaking out in Wuhan and went through almost three years of lockdowns, left that part out. Actually quite fascinating how a country of 1.4 billion could so easily be controlled virtually overnight...as almost no one lives in regular two story individual houses or apartments with all parking underneath the building. Every building/complex has a gate (or multiple ones) and extensive fencing with security cameras. The way I was asked/accused of living in "Chy-nah" was why I answered in this fashion. It's fine. A mod will come along and erase it anyway. It wasn't so much the original comment as the constant "piling on" effect. (Well, at least one poster reached out to apologize so that was well appreciated. Everyone is a human being behind their screen names, after all.)

I don't get why people are so quick to want to trade Sosa. Even with Murakami and to a lesser extent Austin Hays, this team needs all the power it can get. Sosa even with his flaws hit 22 homers last year, he has value.

Totally different audience. JR is 100% a consumer of traditional and not social media.

He'll be fine, but I can't imagine the reactions here if this was a Sox lol

Wow. The point was that it was a joke, application of a frequently recycled internet meme like "TLDR" or "I ain't readin' all that". It was intended as a light jab since, you know, you posted like 10 times in a row. But based on this response it appears it impacted you in a pretty profound way, so while I think you're thin-skinned (and have misdiagnosed "why our country is so fucked up right now") I now I confess that I feel a little guilty. So don't let me stop you, list away.

What the f*** is the point of coming to the thread and making a comment when you're going to be such an asshole? Excuse me if I enjoy baseball. Maybe if you actually read articles about baseball you might learn something. I actually enjoyed taking time off for six weeks and used it more productively. This is part of the reason why our country is so fucked up now. It's certainly part of the reason why there's so much vitriol online. There's no accountability or conscience...all the times I've attended Sox games in person, it was a great experience and a memorable time sharing that same passion with fellow Sox fans (except for a few memorable drunks). People have forgotten what civility is...how to treat others as they would like to be treated. I just attributed it to the differences between people from Chicago and the way Iowans (used to) treat each other in real life. We used to be tolerant of others while realizing what made us different or unique from one another was a strength and not a weakness to be exploited. You realize you're acting like this towards someone who is 56 years old and retired, right? I think Cali and RayRay have it right. He doesn't waste time ignoring people or going out of the way to comment on something if he doesn't care for a particular poster or feels they have nothing constructive to add to the conversation. Sure, you won some likes on the internet, laughed or ganged up on someone, got to be an internet bully for a day. Hopefully that brought great joy to your life and earned you some points somewhere, with someone. At one point (twenty years ago) I thought this board was such a positive thing because it brought Sox fans together, but a number of the interactions in the last 3-5 years are just about tearing people down because there's nothing positive to discuss about their favorite baseball team. I could celebrate from Colombia with fellow Sox fans while the team was winning the World Series a continent away. It was sort of like a family with the same old predictable characters you'd meet at a Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. Having no brothers and sisters and now no parents...it was also a home at times. I'm not so sure anymore. Does something in your life affirm you or does it tear you down?

Jesus. Can we trade our next 5 years of first rounders and draft two guys this draft?

At first I thought we were a World Series caliber team. Then we lost one, but then we won and now we lost again. i don’t know what to think 😕