South Side Hit Men

Nice Home Run Jake! Avoids a one hitter across two games Bottom Fourth Yoan Moncada - Strikeout Swinging Andrew Vaughn - Groundout 1B unassisted Bottom Fifth Jake Burger - Foul Pop Fly 1B (1B into Foul Territory) Oscar Colas - Lineout CF (Deep CF) Seby Zavala - Groundout 2B - 1B Bottom Sixth Andrew Benintendi - Groundout 2B-1B (Deep 2B) Tim Anderson - Groundout 1B-P (2B-1B) Luis Robert Jr. - Strikeout Swinging Bottom Seventh Eloy Jimenez - Strikeout Looking Yoan Moncada - Single to RF (Line Drive to Short RF Line) Andrew Vaughn - Foul Popfly 1B (1B into Foul Territory) Jake Burger - Groundout 3B - 1B (SS-3B Hole) Bottom Eighth Oscar Colas - Strikeout Swinging Gavin Sheets - Flyball CF Andrew Benintendi - Flyball CF (Deep CF) Bottom Ninth Tim Anderson - Lineout SS Luis Robert Jr - Groundout SS-1B Eloy Jimenez - Groundout SS-1B Bottom First Andrew Benintendi - Lineout SS Tim Anderson - Groundout 3B-1B Luis Robert Jr. - Strikeout Swinging Bottom Second Eloy Jimenez - Groundout SS-1B Yoan Moncada - Groundout 2B-1B Yasmani Grandal - Flyball LF

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There will be a big tussle between Robert, Cease and others to become the next rep and get the f*** out of town ASAP.

Nice getting out of it. That said, Sox need to starting hitting, zero for over six innings (Yoan's hit in the 4th yesterday their last one).

What I find expendable? Cheering the fifth decade Jerry's laundry, and the second decade of GM Hahn. Goodfellas' treatment for fans of Lucas: https://www.audacy.com/podcast/parkins-spiegel-show-6fb30/episodes/chris-tannehills-goodfellas-treatment-for-white-sox-pitcher-lucas-giolito-d314b

Kenny had even more restrictions in terms of payroll vs. league average and built a World Series Champion.

https://www.audacy.com/?videoId=6331954212112

First game during Hahn Tanking 2.0 Era. White Sox are a slight underdog (Pick vs. -110 Bibee via Wynn), think the +180 - 1 1/2 run line the better value if backing the Sox. Over 90F an hour before gametime so the ball could continue jumping despite the anemic offenses of both teams. Sammy Peralta is back to replace Giolito and Lopez. They are not bothering to fill the other spot today. Par for the course in the Hahn era.

No Manager has won more games than Connie Mack 3,731 - 3,948. Jerry can stick his second/third place carrots up his ass.

Jerry is approaching a half century with three losing decades. He is complete and utter horseshit. The owners you are bitching about had short terms, primarily limited to what you inherit in such a short window. Reinsdorf's crony hire Hahn has had a longer stretch than all but three White Sox owners over 124 years. Charles Comiskey by far the most successful, Charlie's daughter-in-law Grace Comiskey who owned during their transition to successful 1950s teams. Jerry Reinsdorf who Tried to move the team Destroyed the 50/50 Chicago fandom split with his SportsVision scheme and firing "scum of the Earth" Harry Caray Cancelled the Sox best chance at a World Series in nearly a half century by cancelling 1994 and trying to field scabs in 1995 Led the worst stretch of White Sox baseball in the 2010 during the modern era.

The White Sox remind me of an amalgamation of The Producers and The Aristocrats. Fire Rick Hahn.

It would have been through 30 years ago, when you had to win a 6-7 team division or 8-10 team league to be a playoff team. Now you can be an under .500 Central Division winner and be in the 12 team postseason farce.

The 2000s were the White Sox their second best decade in the desegregated era, with the two Whites Only 1900s (.563) and 1910s (.535) decades also better. 2000 (+28), 2003 (+10), 2006 (+18) and 2008 (+15) were also solid plus seasons. Desegregated White Sox Winning Decades 1950s: .5496 847-693-13 (One American League Pennant) 2000s: .5287 857-764 .529 (One World Series) 1960s: .5285 852-760-2 1990s: .5261 816-735-3

The Six Losing White Sox Decades: (likely seven with a third total and second straight for Jerry through 2029) .447 1930s (678-841-11) Charlie Comiskey dies, Great Depression .459 2010s (743-876) Rick Hahn Alive, Sox Playoff Chances Dead .463 1940s (707-820-9) MLB Desegregates, Bridgeport Furious, White Sox remain Whites Only until the 1950s .469 1970s (752-853-3) Team almost moves twice, two different owners with Veeck saving the team .476 1920s (731-804-7) Judge KKK Landis dismantles White Sox Championship Core .486 1980s (758-802-3) Jerry Reinsdorf the lone White Sox owner with two losing decades. The result of Jerry's greed, averse, arrogance and ST stupidity. 2020s through 7/26/23: 246-233 .514

It's 1/3. It's not about the amount cut from payroll, as the DFAs and pro-rated share of demotions aren't savings. Once the deadline is over, a follow-up listing remaining rostered players 2024 costs will be posted.

Garfin is as big an clown as Bruce Levine. He is a terrible finger pointing teammate like the equally worthless douchebag Keuchel. Lose 50 pounds, take care of yourself and actually try to perform better you morbidly obese assclown. What I find most amusing over the past 12 hours is Bruce Levine reporting Hahn wanted to get the Giolito deal done so he can focus on trading Lynn which is a salary dump at best. Hahn approached this big decision as he does each year with Free Agents, overpaying extremely against no other offers for marginal at best players in decline like Keuchel and Grandal by Thanksgiving, so he can spend family time into the following year before reading Street and Smiths, Athlon Sports and Baseball America to get a feel on the upcoming year, and determine which internal scouts he can trust.

I’m hoping Houston can win for Jose, and Anaheim can win for Lucas and Reynaldo. I will be rooting against the team that acquires Lynn.

Cots has this. The trades this week aren’t impacting 2024 unless they move players controllable beyond 2023, which they publicly leaked / stated they are not looking to do. 2024 is pretty much set at this point in terms of the several players who will take the vast majority of 2024 payroll, with no credible additions likely. The money “has been spent”, on Benintendi and the remaining core which failed to collectively deliver.

Hahn has done what Jerry asked over the years, took on Tony, is now cutting payroll on Jerry’s behalf and will continue to do whatever he is told. Hahn cannot assess baseball talent, but he is cromulent in Jerry’s eyes.

The three things that struck me were: Rick claiming the organization helped Lucas after 2018. Lucas left the worthless organization to work with his high school pitching coach and become what he has. Hahn said there was more disappointment that there weren’t more Postseason victories along the way. There weren’t and won’t be ANY postseason successes under Hahn. WTF is NPR/WBEZ covering the White Sox?

How about second base?

At least in 2019 they could credibly state the had a solid core of players, and they had money available to be spent to fill in the gaps they sadly never filled (RF, 2B, C). Now they are down to two credible players, Cease and Robert, and hoping for bounce back seasons and health from Tim and Yoan, with a dozen holes to fill and no capable promotable starting players until 2025/2026. They also will likely cut payroll the next two seasons as players / contracts expire and FA signings are the typical marginal players and bullpen heavy to replace what they ship this week. There was reason for hope and optimism in 2019, now it looks like they will need to get lucky and smart to field a merely decent team by 2026 or 2027 at the earliest. The worst thing about this is it appears Hahn and friends are firmly in place for the remainder of Jerry’s tenure.

The Sox best pitcher since the Sale/Quintana trades. Gave us many good memories and a few epic moments.