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As much as I despise modern baseball, the Sox need to embrace the fact they'll never have a collection of pitchers who can effectively go more than 4 innings. So start the system in which you have a large pool of pitchers taking turns going 3 innings max at a time. Folks, what does 'build a future rotation" mean nowadays when guys can only go 5 max. You're gonna have to give in to 3-inning mound work day in and out. Seriously ... is anybody confident the White Sox can build a "future rotation?" i say no way. Arms are too brittle and pitchers too lousy.

The organization is rock bottom right now. So yes Hahn should be fired as well as Ken Williams. Problem is there's nobody who believes Jerry would hire the right GM to turn this around. Dombrowski is 66 and from Chicago. I doubt he'd do it but he's the only man for the franchise turnaround right now that Jerry would hire (since he knows him).

Is the park gorgeous at least? As a fan of being in a ballpark, sights and smells and eats and drinks, would I be in nirvana today? Have any fans left yet?

yeah it's hard to come up with comparisons. mine would be Baltimore Orioles from 2001 to 2011 maybe. That's kind of the current White Sox. A team that sorely lacks mlb caliber players on offense defense or pitching and has no chance out of the gate thru September.

I hear you. I don't want 'em to lose either on a daily basis. I want all W's every day. i was just pointing out we got one title at least in our lifetimes. About all we could expect with Jerry and his crew.

The older peeps on the board at least got one WS title out of the Jerry years. There's no chance of anything getting better now with him in charge unfortunately. Only the diehards remain as fans who follow the team on a daily basis.

Smart of him to not turn down at bats in the Cell against the Sox rotten pitchers.

How many fans really are in the park? Under 10,000?

Ohtani vs. Lynn is like Fred Lynn vs a Little Leaguer back in the day. Batting practice, baby.

Nice win. Don't understand why advanced stat people don't like the RBI stat. Good job Vaughn and Romy. We'll take the W.

Good post as usual, Dick. I'd like to point out the Sox are equal opportunity losers. They've lost to good teams, sure (Rays, Stros) but also gotten boatraced by the Royals (in KC) and Tigers and some other rotten teams. Sox appear to have another horrific road team and a .500ish squad for home games.

Eloy with the bomb. Liam. Otherwise another disgusting loss. Sox stink and dat is dat.

Any boos tonight?

Didn't sale have at least 2 stellar seasons before the arm woe? Sox pitching staff since the tank has been atrocious. At least in the past we always had one stud to cheer for: Buehrle, Sale, Hoyt, etc. Sox truly have been an embarassment since "tank" entered the vocabulary around 35th and Shields. Let's face it, we cheer for an abysmal wreck of a frachise that was not this horrible pre-tank. Sox actually had a chance yearly to do something in this appallingly bad division.

I was one of the very few on the board who cheered for WINS and fought those who wanted the Sox to lose during the fake rebuild. It's obvious the baseball draft is a crapshoot and i'd have rather taken my chances keeping Sale and building the ol fashioned way. Cause the draft in baseball is a joke with so many Sox flops through the years. The tank/rebuild thing would have required amazing trades (not meh trades) and amazing draft picks to go with SMART GM/scouts to acquire some real bullpen pieces (besides closers, Sox have done a nice job there) to give the team a fighting chance in the era of starters going 5 1/3 innings max. Give me WINS forever. Tank jobs are for Sixers fans. Didn't the Bulls try to tank for a while there? They stink as well. GO SOX!

Wonder what the Sox all time record in Detroit's new park (is it still called Comerica?) is. Sox are not built to win in big yard. Sox not built to win anywhere really but I can see why they consistently lose in Detroit. Still can't believe nobody got fired during the 10 game losing streak. It cost the Sox any relevance and makes it a wasted season. Puke loss today.

I think this is one time the eye test aces all. Burger, folks, is no second baseman. OMG I see some ridiculously funny developments on bloops, grounders to his left, bullets to his right. Burger needs to be 1B/DH and that's that. 3B is acceptable but he's no Brooks Robinson there either.

Prolly Lawrence. I've been a bit down on my hometown of Chi cause of reasons I shouldn't bring up here. Peace out.

If Sox played their games in Detroit ... wow, they'd have Benintendi-like HR totals for most of their hitters.

Only if they can rattle off 8-10 wins in a row at some point. That losing streak was quite disconcerting (edit fix) and not conducive to making the postseason. Thanks Pedro for your work during that skid.

That 10-game losing streak is/was so "White Sox." Thanks guys for basically ending the season before it got started. Now we have to endure the bitterly cold winter before Sox try to stay in the race for more than a month again.

So much bad about this loss. Four hits is disgusting. The no name pitcher we trotted out there stunk. Kelly's line is hilariously bad. He had seemed to be doing better. Getting boatraced by the Tigers, not hitting HRs on the road is a good reminder this team still blows. Overall if you look at the names of the guys who played and pitched today ... that's a lot of bad baseball players and pitchers. When our 'name' players don't hit (TA 0-4, Moncada 1-4) that's a recipe for a 7-3 loss to a bad team. p.s. Capt. obvious statement: Grandal has been lousy since he joined the Sox. I am not a fan. Today's performance by team in a big game: Solid F. Disgraceful

It's not my money but is Benintendi at all valuable to a team in this day and age? I'd think the advanced stat lovers despise him for the fact he may not hit a HR all year.

Good to see Alberto rip that fastball. Is he any good or a complete stiff? Glad to see that fall for Tim Anderson 3 hit night helps him bust loose IMO.

That's a great post. To field a contender Sox scouts had to pick the best 1B and 3B and make some trades. They won't pull the trigger on trades and it has hurt the franchise for sure.