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To those who 'hate' Tony and want him gone, please answer this serious question: Do you think anybody could manage this team to a better record at this time considering all these injuries? I mean examine the current roster. With Vaughn and Sheets not tearing it up (yet) and all the injuries, it's a monumentally bad lineup, I mean White Sox historically bad. And pitchers? The closer blows chunks (at least in April) and two starters were hurt badly. also it's Mr. Hahn's fault the defense is so bad. Haters ... please comment. INJURIES!

They are not going to fire LaRussa. No. 1 he's a Hall of Famer and Sox would be mocked big time. Jerry isn't going to embarrass his great friend over 3-4 bad weeks in April. No. 2, cmon. The team has so many injuries it's ridiculous. When a team is this banged up, you basically write off the season and try to get something out of it personnel wise while realizing the team in its injured form has absolutely no chance of winning.

Sox have rarely put a high premium on defense since the Hitless Wonders. does pitching and defense still win?

Wouldn't that be cool if Tony resigned, said he didn't have the energy and didn't like modern baseball and Oz took over as interim? It'd give Oz a full season to show if he'd changed (the mouth that roared) and I'd like to see Oz add his personality to this team. Oz wouldn't allow starters only pitch five innings. He'd up that baby to seven innings for starters in a hurry IMO. I can dream. But Oz would wake up this team, which needs to be inspired amid all the injuries. If he didn't do a fine job, hire some genius sabermatrician next offseason.

Baseball has a way of changing quickly but the banged-up White Sox are not going to contend for the division title as the team is currently constructed. Seven consecutive losses does indicate a huge problem. I'll stick with the injury explanation but the Sox have so many holes right now they are not division contenders. Team is below average defensively, has no reliable bullpen, starters are only expected to go five innings per modern baseball, and has so many injuries the offense is mediocre at best. Ouch.

When guys are going badly, the lineups look anemic. However this lineup is interesting. Hitters 1 through 6 are on paper pretty good. That's an average to above average 1 thru 6. But 7, 8 and 9? Yuk. So the question is ... how does a lineup with six acceptable to good options and three ridiculous options score 5 or more runs? Well the top six have to produce. I ask oddsmakers ... what are the odds those top six on a bleary day can produce 5 or more runs likely needed to win? Or on a strictly odds basis, is the fact three of the nine hitters strung in a row being lousy automatically means defeat?

Very true about the road. Sox are soooo bad on the road at this early stage of the season. It's horrifying/embarrassing (with the injury caveat always there to consider as a viable excuse).

Baseball has worn me down to where this lifelong Sox fan is also uninvested. I want the Sox to win but a loss no longer ruins my mood/day. Last night while in the car waiting out a hailstorm in a covered parking lot, I watched the end of the Red Sox game. Five pitchers combined for a no hitter. Yawn. Benetti always saying a game was a "thriller" if there's some action at the end of a boring one-run game of lift and pull, work the count and either whiff on a strike three slider, draw a walk or hit a weak pop up after fouling off seven pitches. Knowing no pitcher has a chance to pitch a gem (complete game? LOL) and the boring hitting philosophies of hitters nowadays ... I just take the results as they come. Baseball is boring. Sox habit is hard to break but I'm not invested emotionally any more. That could change I guess as the season heats up, but for me the Sox are no longer "must see TV." Oh for an injury free season, too.

Injuries have totally messed up the team. I'm not worried about the record, I'm concerned injuries "could" totally ruin the rest of this season as well. In the "next man up" scenario I'd still pick regulars and give those new "regulars" the majority of at bats. Work the injured pitchers back in where applicable.

Can't argue with this. But he's a bust IMO only cause of injury. If he coulda stayed healthy somehow with those physical tools I think he'd have been a terror at the plate.

True about not being graceful. But you can't deny the guy hustles his butt off at all times. Very sad. It's pretty obvious he'll never be healthy playing sports. His track record suggests that big body of his implodes/explodes way too often.

This is heartbreaking. Eloy, Robert and so many of our guys who get hurt a lot obviously love the game of baseball. They hustle so hard and get hurt all the time. Just read on Twitter Eloy was crying and Sox players who saw him immediately started crying. I won't say anything dumb about how these guys get hurt all the time, but some of these physical specimins just seem to have body parts that can't handle the sudden movements required in baseball. So sad for Eloy. All the Sox as a team can do is have next man up philosophy moving forward as the team has injury after injury,.

I am out for the rest of the game. I'm speechless right now at bad things are going for the team. I do think a 7-run inning is in the Sox future.

I didn't like stratomatic. I did like All Star baseball with the player discs. Love me some Bill James.

He's been messed up at the plate for one full season and a month now. I don't think he's finished yet. I don't know the guy but to me I think he's just been in a mental funk at the plate a while now. He's been the opposite of hitterish. Sox are who they are. A beat up team physically that has to hope to stay afloat til it gets healthy. If it doesn't get healthy it will have a disappointing season.

I do hate Sabes. Though I was one of Bill James' first fans. Read his awesome ratings of players every year for a decade. Couldn't wait to get the Bill James Abstract right after it available.

Did he get hurt running the bases or hitting? I was reading some old stories about his injury but it didn't say how he did it. I guess for the future the Sox need to be two deep with "stars" cause history suggests our guys are gonna get hurt and be out significant portions of seasons. Sox subs are not very good. Sox need a better 2 deep.

I like your posts generally but anything negative about Eloy is misguided tonight. He came through with the leadoff double and should have scored easily if not for pathetic at bats as Sox hitters appeared to be praying for bases on balls rather than slashing hits against a lousy closer.

Getting rid of Collins and having the replacement be McGuire bothers me. My gut tells me several of the Sox reserves reek.

I know he fouled several off. The result was a catastrophe, a weak infield pop up when Sox needed a sac fly or hit.

And horrific at bat by our backup catcher.

Disappointing last at bat. Swing the bat, sir. Terrible loss. Sox setting the tone early as a crummy road team. My boy Jose with the goat horns.

Eloy either hits a double here or homer. Book it. Believe.

No need to panic. but if Sox lose this is a revolting development on how the Sox suck on the road.

Why Stoney is so great. He's not a homer. Grounder to Abreu, he immediately without hesitation comments how Jose screwed up on running to the bag. If you think all teams' announcers would criticize one of their own players, I say you are very very wrong. And now he's pointing out Jose screwed up again! nice work Stoney.