Stinky Stanky

Gordon's improving. Don't tell me you don't hear it. Also don't tell me that Stone isn't irritating in a different way. I'm neutral on Kasper, but he belongs on TV. He's too terse for radio, sort of an Ed Farmer type. Benetti too good to be confined to the lil' old White Sox? How did guys like Mel Allen and Vin Scully survive? Jason has got to decide who he wants to be.

He's still a 6'7" PF.

Yeah, Anderson was poor with the bat and Ozzie brought the hammer down right away. Makes me wonder if he might have progressed if he was handled differently. Mike Cameron hit sub .200 for a season and kept the CF job. Most of us thought Anderson was a party animal and didn't like him. Others who did far worse seem to be made of Teflon.

I'm willing to come back.

Look at the bright side of the muffed punt. Fields didn't have to try and take the team 60 yards in 2 minutes without a time out. Could have been embarrassing.

Got a question about the game here. When Harrison scored from first and was lucky to beat the throw as he slid by and tapped the plate with his hand, his feet were already 5 feet past the plate. Shouldn't he have just slid right in and beat the throw easily? Otherwise, they got breaks and Gio got away with atom balls. I'm still glad they won.

You know, I may have unintentionally said something smart there, in spite of myself. The key is roster construction. We had too many power hitters and no leadoff man. Lee for Pods fixed that, even though on paper it was a trade down. Then KW added a good bat handler with a little power to bat behind him (Tadahito). Everyone in the lineup could hurt you with the bat. Ozzie trotted out the same lineup every day and didn't worry about being rested for the playoffs. Right now they have an abundance of DH types and a bunch of holes to fill. Could a smart GM do something with that? Wish we had a smart GM.

Hahn is one lucky duck for that. Quack, quack. Although Hahn is German for rooster.

That's what I was saying!

Traded Carlos Lee for a singles hitter. ?

There's a hack for this. When the article comes up, there's a 2 or 3 second period before the paywall appears. In that time, if you're on a desktop computer, hit ctrl-P as if you were going to print the article. The print preview containing the whole article for you to read will be in the preview pane. Typical Morrissey echo of what everyone knows anyway. Not worth the time to hit ctrl-P.

Paciorek used to use that one. Could use a real sense of humor in the broadcast booth right about now.

Trying too hard to nail "it" got him canned from his last gig.

I didn't realize Mark Gonzales was back here. When did that happen? He cared about the Sox until the Tribune switched him to the Cubs and gave us a rotating cast of semi-competents. Not the current guy; he's OK.

All Fields needs is better receivers to overthrow.

With a payroll of $197M I'd place the blame at RH's feet. He did get JR to spend the money, so I give him credit for that. If I were JR, I'd be mad as hell about what he did with it.

Good job of identifying position player hustlers. Comes to about 20% of them, doesn't it?

Grain or two of truth among the chaff, there. The OF and bullpen solutions leave me shuddering, though.

Grounded into an around the horn triple play this year. Slooooow.

We're in agreement that the situation was so mucked up that a measure we know would fail in the long term was needed to attempt to right the wrongs of five months of bad managing.

For all you fans of the butt-kicking style of managing and the effect of Cairo's ultimatum to the team when he took over, what you're seeing now is the inevitable result when the shock value wears off. I hope the people you work for aren't butt-kickers.

Wasn't much, was it? Better stuff on this site or anywhere else for that matter.

This has the ring of truth. Saying a payroll within a hair of $200 M isn't spending enough doesn't have the ring of truth.

Irony is that on this site, he's covered with it. But not for all of us.

Some of those bullpen flops (Graveman, Kelly, Bummer) throw filthy stuff but can't get enough people out to be relied on. That on Katz, IMO.