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"Chicago White Sox: We rarely hustle but when we do we get hurt."

Didn't the Sox play a lot of Central teams early, stink against them and set the tone for their quick starts? Like the Twins? Sox are so arrogant to not get gritty and grimy and do what it takes to beat Central teams instead of flop against them.

Sox go out with a whimper. Most boring disappointing season I can remember in a long time. Poor old Tony kind of set the tone for the season I hate to say just from his being 77 and mumbling all the time and looking lethargic. This team fittingly should finish .500. It doesn't deserve to finish over .500. It's a .500 team. Hard sell for ticket customers for 2023. I guess you make a highlight film of Eloy and Cease and try to sell them as worth the price of admission.

I am on the record as saying I don't believe in the team core. The team has a lot of work to become good I say. Pitching: Not necessarily the starters' fault, but they are modern baseball five inning wonders meaning the second half of the game is basically up for grabs on a nightly basis (cept for Dylan sometimes). Sox bullpen blows. Needs major work. Pitching not near contender status. Core: Moncada (I've given up; great defensive player tho so I would not be against keeping him, just realizing he ain't gonna hit like I once thought). Eloy: Love him but gets hurt so much. Got to somehow eliminate the injuries. Jose: 72 RBI isn't close to last year's total but I still think he can drive in 75-90 next season. His defense is better than people say. Still love him. Grandal: Ha. He's toast. Timmy: Love him lots; Gets hurt. Good guy to keep. 2B: Laughable. Get rid of all. Robert: Like him, gets hurt too much. Not so high on him anymore. Pollock: Laughable. Bye bye please. Sheets, Vaughn: If the Sox are gonna contend ever again they believe it or not are key. They either turn into studs, which they could, or they play the .250 20 HR game. If they emerge as all star types I'd be a little higher on sox future. I still say we're the new Baltimore Orioles. Going nowhere. p.s. I do like Cueto. He, Cease, Jose and Eloy had good years. Vaughn pretty good too for a 24-year-old. Cheers to him.

Somebody needs to discuss why the Sox are so lame against the Central Division. Even when healthy the Sox lose so many to pathetic teams.

I was so against it from the start. Terrible way to build a winner. In my world we kept Sale forever (even tho he has gotten hurt as people thought he would). I need to watch some 2005 Sox baseball to get in a better mood. ... as I pointed out then, draft picks are a crapshoot and yes the Sox whiffed on many during the tank job years. And baseball completely changed and as I've said a lot the team is in no way built for modern baseball. Peace out.

Man you'd have to have a lot of time and money on your hands to buy White Sox season tix for 2023.

Yeah, Naylor does what we all knew he'd do. Sox are one huge LOL in 2022.

Nice job moving the baserunner by Cleveland.

This Sox team is so poorly constructed for baseball in 2022. So much work to do on this roster.

This Sox team is so poorly constructed for baseball in 2022. So much work to do on this roster.

That was a miserable at bat by Robert.

LOL at the parade of relievers when u have mediocre to bad relievers cept for the closer.

He's gonna ultimately strike out but nice at bat IMO.

Damn, nice try by Robert.

Sox catch a break just as I was gonna ask for a new hitting coach.

That was one of the worst at bats imaginable by AV. No hyperbole. That was mind bogglingly bad.

I just tuned into the game. Oh boy. The Sox bats are dead again. Yay, though, Elvis with the hit.

The team execs should read this post and be alarmed. A lifelong fan, seeing how sickening it is to watch these guys strike out and hit weak grounders and popups into shifts, and basically appear to play with NO passion has driven a lifelong fan to simply eat his tickets for 11 games. says A LOT about how boring this team is and how disgracefully bad this team has been against the weak weak Central Division. Great post by Harry. He hates this organization right now and this should alarm the Sox (but won't of course).

Good post. When I read something like this I realize Sox pitching kind of blows. ... I think Moncada unfortunately is a bust. I'd do whatever I can to dump him first. Ditto Grandal and Pollock. I think addition by subtraction if team could get rid of Grandal, Pollock and Moncada and start rebuilding from there.

I can't argue with much of anything here. Nice wrapup of the team and the future. I do disagree about the bullpen being good. I feel it's not except for the closer Liam who is great. Sox future looks very bleak to me. I still say we're like the Orioles when they stunk every year for a long while. Sox are gonna be in a period of lousiness under Hahn. He's constructed a team that can't win anything of note. The Sox's chances of being an overachieving team and winning big are not good cause we have a bad manager in Tony and apparently a horrific training staff considering the injuries. Hitting, and pitching coaches also seem abysmal along with the 3B coach who to be fair did seem to improve as the season went on. I like your post but am sad as a fan. Sox future is very bleak IMO.

I was thinking Sheets "seems" to me like a guy who wants to make it as a regular. Have you seen how he's gone with the pitch a few times of late and drilled singles to left? Is he one of those guys figuring it out? If these players would figure out trying to pull everything does not work out in the long run they'd be better off. I guess with the shift being phased out via rulebook that will free everybody to pull everything. Not sure that's good hitting strategy for the modern player. .241 is right around the league average BA. 13 HR, 48 RBI and and 25 walks obviously blows. Should the sox really give up on this second round draft pick? Remember MLB isn't what it used to be. There are a ton of players with Gavin Sheets-like production.

Not pointed toward you but I can't believe the Sox best player is overlooked so badly.

That's incredible stat. But a lot of us here have expressed the Sox didn't lift and pull over the fence successfully at all this year and that's why the team stunk. ... Regarding the team. Has there ever been a Sox team with this good a record that has had such a "bad team?" When I think of the 2022 Sox I think of a horrific baseball team. Nothing positive really comes to mind at all. I'd say Jose but even his RBIs are way down. I guess Liam and Cease but even Cease except for the near no hitter usually gets pulled in the sixth or seventh, modern day baseball b.s. So I ask: Has there ever been a Sox team this rotten with such a good record? Weird to me.

Sox are five out in the loss column. Their odds of winning division have to be about 3 percent, right?