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Montgomery is such a natural hitter. He's one of those guys who does better in the majors than the minors. Good thing nobody gave up on him for minor league stinkage. He can flat out hit the baseball where they ain't. Including over the fence. He and Meidroth and Quero should be around a long time.

The team is light years better than last year's abomination but I hear your point. I was talking to a diehard Sox fan of many decades this week and I asked him if he would go to a game this seasons if he got free tix and he said no. Total diehard fan. Said it's not worth the risk of having a terrible time in a blowout. ... By the way, I don't care what anybody says, Beni is a good hitter. I mean the Royals started Pham in the playoffs last year. Pham is nowhere near as good a hitter as Beni. I know his BA still is under .240 but nobody cares about BA. Beni can hit folks.

Past trade update: Andrew Vaughn on fire with the Brew Crew. He's just mashing the baseball. That would be cool if he became another Tatis. Pity the White Sox in terms of developing players.

He deserves the Hall of Fame just based on that. He hit all kinds of home runs. Roof shots, high towering HR to RC, the only home run in Comiskey's little RC area out there. Using that incredibly long bat ... that memorable batting stance little kids copied. He deserves the Hall on style alone. I remember when he hit the homer to RC in Comiskey. What an amazing HR.

Does Civale have a bad attitude. Serious question. I am not aware of any controversy but you could be.

Most embarrassing home run call ever: After Tauchmann homered (nice treat for the fans to see the exploding scoreboard in the 9th), our play by play guy bellowed: "This is where the comeback starts for the Sox." Cmon, it was 6-0 and that made it 6-1. Tell us what it was ... a cute reward for sox fans who stuck around. Geez. I know he's paid by the team but that's a homer call.

Lip I didn't know you were a fan of trades. Interesting. Aren't you a more traditionalist? Tinker with the roster so we'd have rotation of Sale, Crochet, Rodon, Cease? ... Man the Sox young guys are for real. Montgomery is a superstar in the making and Meidroth is Pete Rose-esque. Quero is the real deal. Our manager may be here 20 years if the young guys continue to rake. Montgomery and Quero can carry a team.

As greg's critics know I've been saying this for years. Nobody is winning 300 games again. So put Mark in. A good standard for the future would be being dominant in your era. Mark wins that battle. ... Of course it also will be tough in the future to be "dominant" in your era going five innings. I'd say averaging say 11 or so K's over those five innings probably will be a new standard down the line. I would think a lot of old timers will be reconsidered just so they can have Hall of Fame induction ceremonies in the future. Maybe add some more managers and announcers too.

In answer to the question posed in the title of the thread. A: Keep guys like Crochet (he'd look good in a Sox uniform right now with Sale and Rodon).

Here's an interesting question (to me). Say Robert was hitting .272 with all other stats the same. Would he be valued so much that a team would trade for him and pay the whole salary? If you say yes then why is BA considered an archaic stat? Why are teams scared of his .206 if BA means so little to the advanced stat people?

As you know it's all about talent and Sox currently have five good regular lineup players compared to what, one last season? I do think our manager must be good because I'm still vastly unimpressed with the pitching staff. He's doing a good job with five or six pitchers a game. Now that Robert is raking that will be a bit of buzzkill if he's traded soon.

Your post truly makes me wonder why anybody would be nuts enough to follow this team. It's all about providing Jerry and generations of his family money. It has nothing to do with competition. Sad. We should treat this as a minor league team, check out a game once in a blue moon for grins. The Sox payroll is so low they could keep Robert easily even with cheapo Jerry in charge. ... Still probably 20-80 Mr. .202 batting average gets dealt.

I don't know why you laughed. The casual fan does not care about minor league players they've never heard of. They have heard of Robert and he's on a decent streak. He also plays a mean CF. He's a real ballplayer and casual fans don't like shipping 'name' players for minor leaguers they've never heard of.

Can't see them trading Robert if this recent surge is an indication of good things to come. It'd be a PR disaster. Sox aren't spending any money and are making big time bucks as a franchise so it doesn't hurt having one highly paid guy. Trading Robert will anger the casual fan.

Robert continues to get at least a hit a game. Has he finally turned the corner? Sox could be the story of the second half. Is the new manager the reason for the success of late? Is he another Ricky R in terms of giving players a boost?

I had a nasty screwball as a kid through high school. It was funny to see that ball break the other way at the last second.

I know I change my mind a lot, but Sox are much better team this season than last for obvious reasons. -- No massive losing streaks. Didn't we have 2-3 huge streaks last year of double digits. I think this year we had just one ridiculous one (9 games? 8 games?). -- The games themselves. I don't have the stats but my eyes and memory tell me the Sox have grabbed the early lead in a lot of games this year. Last year as I recall we got boatraced a lot from the first inning on and we also got shut out way more than this year. -- We have a handful of everyday players that are young but promising. Last year that wasn't the case. Pham bugs me. -- Our manager doesn't seem to be a buffoon. He's just a regular manager, with very little effect on the actual game but not one to do monumentally stupid things with the lineup, etc. Only thing as bad or worse this year is our pitching and that keeps us way way under .500. Sometimes the Sox get a good outing but our pitchers don't even go six innings and our bullpen is mostly unknown stiffs. So the pessimist in me tells me there "always will be something" keeping us 20 under .500. The optimist in me tells me the young players will propel us to .500 in 2017. Still way too long to wait for mediocrity. But I do think we are better this year than last (despite the fact I change my mind on this a lot). What do u folks say?

Robert's game today should assure his being traded. The trade of course is not gonna help our immediate chances of getting better. Even though he's been a disaster today's performance shows what he (still) is capable of doing. On paper you need young guys like Quero, Montgomery, Robert to go with guys like Beni and Vargas. I'm not suddenly saying Robert is special but I would think after today his trade value is never higher. He looked like Tatis or somebody good. When the Sox blow teams out like that you wonder why we can't at least play .500 and contend in our pathetic division.

Ugh. Now am I a Royals fan too? Why don't you give me a Sox test past and present and see what score I'd get? My dad's partner at the board of trade was a Sox owner til he died. I bet Lip knows who the owner is. I went to tons of games as a kid into high school and college til I left town. But now I love Witt? No sir.

35 results. How many posts do I have? So was Witt mentioned in about 1 percent of them total?

I don't think so because I don't even know the particulars. I haven't talked about Witt at all on here. I rarely talk about the draft in any way on here. Except lately I've used Vaughn as ammo in arguing against salivating over draft picks and wanting to lose to get a top draft pick like Vaughn who stunk. ... To tell you the truth I've been busy and at this moment I don't know who we took in the recent MLB draft. I assume it's a pitcher or high school slugger, prolly a pitcher.

You must admit some of the Sox first round draft picks that folks were drooling over the possibilities via tanking have been crud. That's why I always laughed at those who were rooting for losses that one year in expectation of a better draft pick. I always wanted wins over our front office's choice for first round.

Ugh. I guess my knowledge of past Sox and stories have gone unnoticed on here over 20 years or more. That's on me. If my posts have screamed "Cub fan" then it's on me as a very very very poor communicator. Before Jerry decided to hoard every single penny for whatever or whoever he gives his money to, I used to have epic meltdowns on here over losses against the Cubs and Royals especially. I bled game to game. But I am a Cub fan. Oh my gosh. Oh well, like I said it's on me if that is the impression. Yes I know of Tommie Agee and Tommy John and Dick Allen and do not know of any Cubs except those of my childhood when my grandfather took me to Cub games and dad to Sox games with that everyday group of Kessinger, Beckert, Williams, Santo, Banks, Hickman, Hundley, Rudolph/Qualls and Bill Hands. That same grandfather fell leaving a Sox game with me and Sox management was great getting us an ambulance. ... So in conclusion I am an utter failure of a communicator if anybody thinks I care about the Cub. I even know JC Martin was one of Harry's color announcers in a move that was a failure; as well as Lou Brock, but I love the Cubs, baby.

Don't some of you fans of teardown/rebuilding long to have players for long Sox careers like Baines, Hurt, Robin, Ozzie, Shingo, Thiggy, Buehrle? Aren't you crying with us traditionalists? A city as big as Chicago should be embarrassed the Sox have no local heroes. Sox actually draw pretty well considering management has done all it can to disenfranchise. Jerry baby should be embarrassed his team is so far behind the other small market teams in baseball.

Crochet, Rodon, Sale, oh. my. We traditionalists are crying. The tank/rebuilders shrug and dream about acquiring name draft picks like Vaughn, who stunk here. I do realize Jerry not willing to pay also has a bit to do with it but it's no fun to be a fan of an organization that can't keep good players and has to have a run of guys like Tauchman, Rojas, Taylor, Slater, DeJong, Lopez, those types.