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Jerry let the best player in franchise history walk away over money, after insisting on, and then invoking, the diminished skills clause in his contract. Jerry is quite dumb enough.

Quero’s swing is a mess. Last year, he would let the ball travel. This year, he’s trying to be quick through the zone and is weakly pulling everything. He’s hitting .150 and it’s no fluke. He looks like a .150 hitter.

CLE and DET lost which means Sox will be alone in first place if they win tonight. Giddy up Edit I see somebody already mentioned it, but still!!

The Sox have had more guys off waivers bat cleanup in the last 3 years then the entire history of the franchise, probably. Just a disgusting lineup in every way. I get resting guys. I don't get forcing Acuna or Grichuk into the lineup or batting Sam 9th. Makes zero fucking sense.

He's still on track.

We traded away cash considerations. Let that sink in.

Because Bob Nightengale was on The Score recently and claimed that another team may offer him $14m and the White Sox would lose out on him because they wouldn't offer him that much. It shows how unserious and stupid Bob Nightengale is regarding the MLB draft.

The problem with being great.

This - I would go to PETCO and literally mimic it. They have the local vendors all throughout, unique food, brews etc everywhere. Make it a differentiated and Chicago experience with a variety of well known institutions and vendors all over the place. You can still have your standard fare - but a much more nuanced experience and quite frankly - a very different experience that you can get from any other stadium in Chicago. Help make it an experience - use of venue for concerts post game in the city for weekend games that create just a totally different experience blending in the concept and truly maximizing benefit of a downtown stadium.

If I were designing the concession concepts at a new park, I would lean heavily into licensed renowned/beloved local institutions as the purveyors, whether Levy/Delaware North/Aramark or whomever is handling the point-of-sale. Whomever makes the best pizza, hamburger, hot dog, fried chicken, donuts, or whatever in Chicago should have a stand on every level of the stadium with their name on it. And generic cheap-o alternatives of those foods would be available at generic/typically-named stands ("Ballpark Classics") at a lower price point. Do a licensing deal with Rick Bayless and put his Mexican food in-house. You get the idea.

On no planet should Robert have been allowed to keep playing at the end of that season. Even if he asked to play, the appropriate individuals should have shut him down. Technically one-armed swinging or not, it was obvious he couldn’t be effective.

I like what I am seeing with Vargas busting it on every play and on course for 25+ hrs. Sam A. could be our leadoff man and is intense on getting better. Colson is on course for 30+ bombs and playing outstanding defense, Muni, the Babe Ruth of Japan, is everything we could ask for and more, Teel will be coming back, B Montgomery is tearing it up in the minors and could be making the move to the Sox, Schultz is the real deal, Davis Martin has been an Ace so far, Burke has been dealing, the team is united under Venable and is fun to watch. I believe this team is only going to get better.

Speaking of concessions, it's just another area I think will be an improvement under Ishbia. Markup on stadium food has gotten completely egregious. Really hope they do something like this at the new ballpark.

C’mon tray, where is the historical evidence of Reinsdorf coming up big and signing a star when he needed to? Signing Machado or Harper? I think it’s pretty fair for most Sox fans to say, “I’ll believe it when I see it…”

The current White Sox ownership headed by the Reinsdorfs will make every effort to keep this very competitive team intact. If they can do that it will boost revenues and consequently, the price of shares in the White Sox..

I'm going to go against the grain here. The White Sox do NOT do a good job with food and drinks. They do good marketing with food and drinks, but their concessions (imo) are horribly run. I don't go to tons of games at other stadiums, but I have to say it is rare to lose a full inning to waiting in concession lines. The white sox staff the bare minimum every day. It's actually easier to get food on a packed day than a slow one. Sitting in a light section? Sorry yr walkin halfway around to home plate to be in a massive, slow moving line. Part of this is the food choice. They put stuff on there that cannot be served fast enough, that their part time emps aren't trained in. Everything is just WAY too slow by how they staff it or their food. Give a 'gameday classics' stand that just has a bunch of hot dogs that are equal to the ones in the stands, and sling em out fast and I'll eat that trash before waiting for nachozilla or whatever the f*** they add each year that takes 4 innings to get.

Colson has a lot of maturing to do with his late game approach

congrats on giving Murakami a day off, oh I mean 2 less at bats. fucking ridiculous

I don't mind roster churn, I guess. But I would like them to consider giving Ben Peoples a shot. He's been dealing at Charlotte.

I’ve not seen him get a hit all season

Hope are having a great time at the game! Bring us a W :)

We could save the Angels some money and swap Benintendi for him straight up.

.500 is right there, let’s go and get that bread

Yeah it’s not a pennant race yet.

Count me among the weak mindsets for tonight's game. I wanted to see an all out push to get to .500 and beyond. Not get to within a game and take a day off.

Shoulda charged the mound.

That's crazy but also something I suspected was happening based on how good the umping has been this year. ABS is just an all around winner. Good job Manfred.

Yeah, but you watch to watch them win. Assuming a victory every game is a more beneficial delusion than the negativity bs.

What a b**** ass loser.

Has to be named Dante, opposing P Tigers getting smoked Cleveland down early to KC First place or bust

How you gonna bat Sam 9th with that 4-8. Good lord

Worst lineup of the year, so undoubtedly Sox will win it like 8-3.

I’m thinking Chicago Pope is a sham account and just using the ESPN 1000 tweet as his source. And the ESPN 1000 tweet already said 4/$100-112 wouldn’t be enough anyways.

Guys been worth 27+ WAR and san Diego. Not sure how that's a bad signing anyway.

I don't think it's that crazy at all. It's clear a lot of people were wrong on Murakami. The Sox aren't signing Murakami if the Padres, Mets, Angles decide to go 4/100 last offseason on Murakami. No one wanted to make a serious commitment, and the Sox came in and (in theory) offered the best deal. And credit to the Sox for making the move. But they aren't in the discussion if other teams had better scouting departments. "Stumbled into" seems pretty accurate.

Of all places, the airports do a solid job of getting Chicago institutions into their building. The Sox could pick up on this.

Chicago White Sox: B+The big headline has been Munetaka Murakami, who is a threat to break the single-season record for strikeouts -- which scared off many teams, despite his big power numbers in Japan -- but nonetheless is hitting .231/.374/.564 with an MLB-leading 13 home runs. He's as pure a three-true-outcomes guy as we'll ever see: He hasn't even hit a double yet. But Murakami isn't the only story here. Top pitching prospect Noah Schultz has debuted and displayed strikeout stuff. Colson Montgomery is swatting home runs. Sam Antonacci looks like a fun player and Miguel Vargas has more walks than strikeouts. The White Sox probably don't have the pitching or lineup depth to hang here all season, but they'll avoid 100 losses -- and maybe even make a run at .500. dave schoenfeld espn.com

I was at the Sox-Nats game last Saturday. There were 35k but it was the worst crowding I've ever seen in my life. The concourse was at a complete standstill, took me a full half inning to move a couple sections. I don't remember the crowding situation being that bad back in the day when 35k was more common. Either Sox fans don't know how to operate in crowds anymore or staffing was cut, idk but either way it was absolutely miserable.

That is such a hilarious outtake, Danny simply cannot hold his s%*# together

You literally posted an article that serves as a confession by Robert that he strong-armed the team into letting him play. Maybe he didn't hold a gun to their heads, but he certainly had a bat. You're claiming he went to the plate, basically with one arm in a sling, and pulled a Pete Gray, swinging, only using one hand, for an entire season, which is ludicrous. That didn't happen. Was it after the season that a one-armed Luis Robert was being marched to his at-bats at bayonet point that Chris Getz was supposed to get a boat-load of prospects in trade for their patient/prisoner? Maybe other teams read this blog to find all the "reporting" of how Robert was really just being tortured by having to play baseball from his death bed, and decided they wanted no part of that, real or not. It's weird that in a string where we should be celebrating finally getting a guy in a Sox uniform that you people have literally been screaming for a decade to obtain, it's turned into yet another diatribe on one of three players who could never stay healthy. You finally have Randal Grichuk on the White Sox. Your Holy Grail. Enjoy the moment.

I just want to enjoy this ride and not immediately turn it into something to be nervous about. He could have easily been awful.

We are talking about JR here with of some of the most disastrous moves in White Sox history.

This team is so much more professional than the last few years. They take mostly professional at bats. They don't chase nearly as much as they have in the past. They rarely let mistakes cascade. Really some fun baseball since the first couple series.

A lot of it just seems anti JR sentiment which I get, but the draft spending has never been a problem. Who they draft sure, but it’s never about money.

Best they’ll do is move the Sox up to 28th on all of their power rankings.

Sox owning the West coast is wild.

Munetaka "Can't Hit Velo" Murakami is now the only player in baseball with multiple HR vs. 98+ mph Side note: 22 other players have 1 each, 3 of them are Sox (Vargas, Hill, Meidroth). So the Sox are responsible for more than 20% of the HRs vs. 98+ in the season so far

People qualifying Jerry as cheap has been wholly owned by his actions as Bulls ans Sox owner and has nothing to do with yet another trope you are hung up on.

It was only a concern to folks who don't know much about the draft, or if they have a narrative to weave it into.