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Is Shane Smith really that good? His pitches got raked tonight. Is he a 25 year old wonder or blunder?

I still say we're going nowhere in the standings if all we do is trade guys. Vargas and Beni ... if the rumors are true I could understand them. They both are major league hitters IMO. Beni doesn't hit for average as well as he should but will get you 15-20 homers and average to bad defense. Vargas seems like a real player who like Meidroth could be part of a contender. I would assume Sox will be after more pitching.

Robert did a nice job of avoiding injury this season til now. Is this the longest he'd gone in his career healthy? From Opening Day til the time of this injury? I bet so.

That's a great post. I used to feel this way you describe. But like I've said before the Sox accomplished an amazing feat in my life: Made me not care about how they fare on a daily basis. Considering how big a fan I was I shudder to think how many fans in Chicago actually care about the White Sox right now. Not many.

Teel is for real. Meidroth is exceptional. Will make us forget Ozzie at ss or Iguchi at 2B wherever he plays 15 years. It seems like the Sox have led early in a ton of games this season. I betcha compared to last year it's monumental how many times the Sox have led after 1 or 2 innings.

The trade lovers have to be salivating. Beni and Houser are both valuable pieces to a contender that has money to pay Beni.

I'm starting to learn our position players but I really still know nothing about our pitchers since they only work an inning or two and I don't watch the games only the highlights ... so somebody have mercy on greg and tell me which pitchers to pay attention to (future stars) when I peruse the box scores and which ones are stiffs who are about as effective as fathom would be at this stage of his career/life. Thanx in advance.

Good call. I wonder how he could do it without outing his name and going on camera. Maybe send an email to all the outlets who cover the team, TV, radio and print? But if it was an ill timed ill informed mama joke a lifetime ban mite be too much. It might have been a dumb harmless mama joke. Either way the fan was stupid to go there and insensitive.

I would hate to play for the Sox as they constantly make you change positions. I remember in youth baseball I was a stellar third baseman and comfy there. The final year we had a good bat come up and the guy played third. So he took third and I went to the outfield and was very shaky out there and went from wanting the ball hit to me at 3B to dreading it in LF. It was like a pasture out there in my mind. The center fielder did as. much as he could to help me out. But having Yoda have to play RF, ugh, poor fella.

Shows you should never heckle about family members especially moms. Even if he didn't refer to her dying you gain nothing by going there with a mom comment. They should just make sure the guy is kept out of Comiskey the rest of this season and half of next season. And make him write a letter of apology to the player and make sure he emails it.

Maybe he's one of those loser type fans, like in certain college groups, who research the opponent to know what to yell at them.

Sosa appears to be a real player. What's his upside? Semien?

Lucky for him we have very few fans. I was thinking the same thing u wrote until I realized the Sox probably have a loyal fanbase of about 1,000 to 3,000 fans. Everybody else fair weather. Most of the loyal ones are old and won't check the Internet.

Poor guy's hammy made it through the cold weather months. Hope he doesn't come back too soon and tear it. Robert seems like a can't miss prospect physical specimin (like Eloy) but is another Eloy. Inexplicably he can't hit.

Nah. Our organization pulled a Knicks. Had a fit we got eliminated and canned a great fit as manager. Better for him, though. You win with talent and the White Sox only care about money not product.

I'm speechless. Even if dead drunk a normal human wouldn't yell at a player about his deceased mom.

You make good posts, Mighty. Good stuff. Agree on most of it.

10-0? Back to the dumpster. What pathetic baseball. ... Has anyone noticed this year's Sox seem to have saved the Cardinals season? The Cards swept us and in doing so, woke up.

The Thunder front office probably pulled off the best feat in sports history with that team considering how tiny a market. Incredible regular season record proves postseason was no fluke. Not sure how they worked the salary thing but they have great players and apparently aren't making Thunder owners go broke. Some tank lovers will tell me they tanked/rebuilt to get this good. I dunno about that. Hopefully somebody will write a piece on how they got this good. Greg doesn't merely accept they did the tank/rebuild thing. They have some players who other teams passed on, etc. Whenever I hear "Thunder" I think of thunder buddies in the underrated movie, "Ted."

Funny how Sheets turned out to be a better trade piece for the opposing team than Robert will be. Robert is an abysmal hitter/good fielder. I don't see a change of venue saving him like Sheets.

Nice pick up though by Getz in Houser.

Man we got clobbered today. Yesterday musta been the deal where the Jays took us lightly. They have such a much better team. Did anybody watch the Cub highlights? It must have been gale force winds blowing out. Simple fly balls were flying out of that place.

However 10 homers. As you know I've bought into the lift and pull thing in assessing value.

Gavin Sheets is a fan fave in San Diego. Hitterish with a good organization. The fans apparently chant "Holy Sheets" when he comes up to the box. Good for Gavin.

That isn't happening. The Sox are too cheap to win pennants. Isbia could change that but it may take 5-10 years after his taking over to win an ALCS.