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oops. Sorry. Good correction. Hey Caulfield, you have lived in China a long time. Just wondering as an internet 'friend.' Have you lost your Midwest/American accent? The reason I ask is I know somebody who moved to Ireland and in 6 months or 8 months had a full on Irish accent. Somebody mentioned it to her at a party and she started crying.

What the heck do the players want now? Geez.

What was the atmosphere in Comiskey back then? Did many male fans wear suit and tie? And did the women get all dressed up? Did the men wear hats like in the old footage? Did fans complain as much as today? I'll say this. Aside from postseason 05 the atmosphere in Comiskey was most magical (in the history of the old yard) in 77 with the South Side Hit Men. Amazingly it was the true Summer of Love. Fans would hi five each other, hug as the Sox battered the baseball all over the park and over the fence. Even Gamble, Spencer, Soderholm, Bannister probably all had career highs in homers that year or bullets banging off the wall. ... Amazingly that team, which had no defense of course, completely got bulldozed by Hal McRae and the Royals down the stretch and finished a zillion games out after leading the division all June and July into early August when the kids went back to school. If life could be as joyous as the summer of 77 everybody would be on Cloud Nine in Chicago. And who better than Harry Caray to call the games in 77? Bill Veeck forever. He better be in the Hall of Fame. He should be.

That was a good game today by the way. Musings as we enter the all-star break ... -- Beni is a good ballplayer, folks. Can't understand why a contender doesn't want him except for the fact his arm is probably one of the weakest in all of baseball. -- Robert is hot (for him). He seems to get at least one hit a game of late. I'm thinking he has a 4 or 5 game hit streak as we speak. -- Quero has a good arm and could be a sensational big leaguer. -- The Sox pitching staff doesn't interest me or even intrigue me. -- Why isn't Meidroth walking more? I thought that was his forte. -- Montgomery is a stud. -- The reunion stuff was neat to watch on X and youtube. I worship Ozzie Guillen in a non religious sense. My gosh I love that guy. And just 20 years ago we had four fricking complete games in the World Series. Imagine that. It took about 15 years after that for starting pitchers to cut their workload to five innings, six max. (Oh for the days of my childhood when we'd fight Cub fans at school the day before and after the all star game. It meant something for our beloved AL to win. Now, yawn.

Many people on here think greg is a baseball dumb, jerk. Yet a columnist wrote this today?? What has my main point/criticism ad nauseum the past 5 years? This!!! This perpetual rebuild is/was unnecessary as other teams in our division have proven by having contending records almost every year.

Makes sense. Falstaff by the way is the first beer I got drunk on. We southside kids in the summer between 8th grade and freshman year got somebody to buy us beer which scared the hell outta me when a friend asked somebody to buy for us. We buried the cans by a golf course where my friends caddied and went to them on a Friday night, dug up the beers and drank a 12 pack between 3-4 guys. Yes the beer was warm and gross but kids will be kids. Falstaff forever!

I should probably drop the topic but you really think Chase is wearing down? My gosh this isn't NFL football. If he's tired, take less BP. I get frustrated with how much ballplayers need rest. Cal Ripken needed no rest.

How can you say we've gotten smarter when the few guys I mentioned (so many more, just check all star rosters in the 60s and 70s and 80s dominated? I think I read Mark B's arm hurt once in a while but it didn't matter. He excelled for 8-9 innings. Gary Peters said his arm hurt too sometimes. That's why we saw all those pictures of pitchers icing their arms. I think Koufax threw in pain too sometimes. Not always.

Why? In the old days of Jack Morris, Gary Peters, Bob Gibson, Fergie Jenkins, LaMarr Hoyt, Juan Marachal, Mark Buehrle, such things as rest were not considered. Ballplayers played ball. To heck with pitch counts in college and workload. They just pitched.

I read your whole post and enjoyed it. Good stats; good post. ... However I tire of the White Sox having possible solutions to problems or expected problems no other teams with a clue ever have. This desire to save arms for the future, rest the arms now. And worrying about things to do for players in hitting slumps. Look, Meidroth plays every day and see what you have. If he's utterly pathetic and you have to bench him, fine. And Smith ... geez. Just have the guy pitch. If you deem his stuff has become totally hittable either send him to the minors or suffer with his bad performances. It's a long season. If the Sox think Vargas is a big league regular, play him every day with the occasional day off. That's baseball.

I can't think of a good fit for Robert. Hell, maybe Milwaukee again with Vaughn off to a good start there. Or the Cubs. Do they need a pinch hitter type for the stretch run or a regular DH? The Royals might be a landing spot but KC doesn't make real trades with the Sox.

No doubt Sox have a weird roster.

Kudos to fathom. He has posted a long time and yet never offends anybody or acts like a know it all. Some of us have poster flaws on occasion. Fathom is an MVP poster IMO.

Comments: 1.) Civallo was awful. Meatballs. 2.) Jays are hot and smart to not take the Sox for granted. Teams that beat up on the Sox do well in the standings. 3.) Good to see Montgomery keep it up and get a hit. 4.) This game was like the old days. Sox got boatraced.

I disagree with you. For instance Soxtalk freaks about making sure players are "ready" before they come up to the bigs. It's a non sequitir. So Vaughn is deemed "ready" yet when he comes up he has to play a different position than he's been trained at all that time in the minors? It nullifies the being ready argument cause he's certainly not ready to play outfield when he's not played it in the minors. But these guys are expected to just move from a comfy 1b or DH to outfield? It's stupid IMO.

Yeah he finally got a lot of at bats. Hopefully the change of pace will help him. I think Burger is still in the bigs for somebody.

They decided none of our everyday players are hitting well enuf to not have embarrassing stats for an all star game. Beni's BA is too low. Tauchman is up to .280 but not an all star. Most don't have enuf at bats. I'd have pulled a Bill Veeck and named Abreu, Jose to give him a proper sendoff from the game. Let him have one at bat as a Bill Veeck type stunt. Frankly the team doesn't have a player on the active roster who deserves it yet.

He's 27. Time to start raking. Wish him well. Not his fault he was with a losing organization.

I'm speechless. Aside from Nancy adapting the Na Na song to White Sox baseball, I personally think Ozzie making the "hulk sign" when calling for Jenks is one of the funniest, coolest, most special things in Sox history. Makes me laugh to see Ozzie not wave his right hand but do the "hulk" when summoning Bobby. Rest in peace Bobby. You were a star closer. Very sad to hear of his passing. Enjoyed hearing Ozzie's take/memories.

Oh my. Sosa and Colton. In my mind the Sox are close to having enough hitters to contend in our weak division. The problem I think is our pitching staff is not good. It's not in the top 50 percent of all staffs. Montgomery baby. He appears to be a natural hitter. What a swing. With him, Meidroth, Teel, Vargas, Quero, maybe Baldwin, Beni, Yoda, and whoever I'm forgetting (Tauchman isn't so bad) we can hit. If the season started today we might contend for the division title though. We look more like a .500 to .550 team than the usual horsebleep squad. Colton baby!! Way to hit.

I thought you got credit for a hit when it's catcher's interference. I see he had no hits today. So what is it? Hopefully not an out on your BA since it's ruled an error by catcher. If it's an out, that's a rule baseball needs to change. It should be a hit.

Congrats to the poster who called this. Said bring him up this weekend, no pressure in Colorado. I predict he may just play this series then go back to the minors. However if. he sticks this is a huge moment. An actual good player joins the team to go with a few others like Meidroth and Vargas and Elko and Teel n Quero. Go Sox.

Good post. That's what I thought. Robert is always under .200 it seems.

Seems like he'd been better than that. 30 games? Are u sure? That's awful.

Listening to some of the Dodgers highlights it seems we were just what the doctor ordered for some of their players who were 'frustrated' and slumping before clobbering our Sox. Sox helped turn St. Looie's season around this year. The poor Royals have stopped dominating our Sox thus their playoff hopes are wretched.