greg775

You guys are being too harsh at Ricky tonight. Look at the big picture, please. This team is .500 provided it doesn't blow the lead. This team. ...

This is pretty neat. If Lucas starts the all star game and Eloy makes the team ... the announcers are going to be talking White Sox a lot. Don't discount Eloy making it if baseball is smart. 11 HRS and going up.

Wat's it doing raining in Chicago. Weather here has been gorgeous and u always get our weather eventually, a day or so later.

I wouldn't trade Eloy for both Harper and Manny right now, if that was possible. Stay healthy, Eloy. The world is yours.

Send Hahn an email. No excuse to not go for it with so many teams tanking out there and baseball so weak. GO SOX! Eloy baby!

I like the way he hits so many HRS to CF. Pitchers better beware. Those liners can take pitchers' head off.

OMG. What a blast. Uh, do what you have to do to make the playoffs, Sox. Time to buy some starters! He is a god, small g.

Eloy misses the cookie. He'll hit it someday tho. He's stupendous IMO

Got to switch that to an error. Cmon.

I think the whole shift thing is sickening. Just think if you were on a high school baseball team on down. You come to the plate as a lefthanded hitter. 3 infielders are on the right side and one lone soul near shortstop. Simple physics tells you if you plop it down no way the pitcher or one infielder can get you out. So guess what??? You bunt there EVERY TIME and get a hit every time. If I were the manager I'd bench any kid who didn't bunt that way. Ditto major leagues. DO IT!!! Just bunt.

Granted teams that win the titles usually get manager of the year. Sometimes, however, overachieving teams' managers are considered. As of today, one game under .500, Renteria has as much claim to the award as anybody. One game under .500? With this team that has a ton of holes offensively, defensively and both in starting pitching and bullpen. Maybe not manager of the year considering the Twins are rolling and other teams are winning divisions, but .... you cannot deny one game under .500 for this team gets Ricky a lotta votes. At least grade his performance. He gets a firm, solid A from greg at this time. Could change if we revert to expectations.

Your only option is Uber/Lyft. Go to an expert and calculate how much you have to drive in order to justify car wear and tear. You can write off your car expenses I believe. Sorry you can't control yourself around your bosses. Another option would be to put an ad online and be a dog walker or somebody who will take care of animals when folks go on vacation. If you could get several dogs a week and 20 dollars an hour, do the math. You'll make some cash and work for yourself. Or a lot of grocery stores now need delivery people. You take the orders and select the groceries then drive them to the folks' house for $$. Have you found anything yet Jack?

Poor Alonso won't adjust so when he hits the ball it's into the shift. Too bad it appears to be against baseball's unwritten rules to just bunt the ball every time and get hit after hit against the shift. The shift should actually be against baseball's unwritten rules since players refuse to attempt to beat the shift.

I said most baseball fans are older as Millennials and Gen X ignore the sport and the oldies don't want to play the secondary market game or the purchase tickets on the phone game. Thus the lack of attendance, not worth it. They look at the cost of the ticket and it's too high (for good seats). Nobody wants a lousy seat unless the team is a pennant winner. Big screen HD TV, no lines. They might suck it up and go to one game a year. Or two.

Do you realize there are new wave trade-happy fans who actively would be glad to trade Bummer, Colome and after last night Herrera, as well as Abreu, McCann Alonso (obviously he's worth nothing) and Leury all in the name of flipping. That could re-stack the system with prospects to develop and talk about.

This team is one under .500. A team with one starting pitcher, a below average bullpen, 4-5 automatic outs in the lineup including Alonso. I am of the opinion it's still going to fall apart, but as of this moment, one under .500 with this roster ... wow. Ricky deserves some money for this. p.s. I should give Lopez some credit for a few good starts and Colome a bit more credit than I have.

Wow. Why in the heck would any team want those 3 players you mentioned? Their fanbase would erupt in anger.

Good job by Bummer. No talk of flipping him. He's too young. This was another game where Ricky looks like manager of the year. With all those holes in the lineup, we beat the Yankees ane are one below .500. Team is overachieving to this point. Nice home run by Tim.

Rondon with a big league play. He threw that ball mighty hard to Jose.

Hope for the reverse jinx, but I am almost 99 percent sure Bummer is incapable of finishing this off.

Why can't Herrera pitch the ninth? Am I missing something here? He was nasty tonight.

Any trade/rebuild/tank people in the thread? We gonna talk about flipping Herrera soon? He's useful again and still can throw 98ish.

Frankly I'm surprised. I wonder if it has a lot to do with cost of actually attending a game? People realize they can't really afford to go to a game or maybe 1-2 a season and instead have become accustomed to watching on big screen HD TV? (I realize you can get tix in the nosebleeds for cheap and can do the secondary market thing for cheap, but baseball fans are old and they aren't the type of folks to be playing the secondary market for tix. Just a thought. I'm a little surprised more fans are tuning in. The team is a bit better but still overall a noncontender.

Oops as longtimers will tell u, I loved Konerko as well.

We just have to accept the fact he's not a popular player. He should be one of Sox fans' all-time faves but he isn't. Vaughn is the new darling, the one to replace Abreu at 1B with somebody not named Abreu DHing in the future. If Hahn wants to trade him he might as well. He has the fans' blessing to dump him for a good prospect.