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Here's a way for you to believe me that I am not a Cub fan and can't even name five guys on their team ... folks on here I think know I am Catholic and try to be a devout worshiper and all that. So ... I swear on a stack of Bibles, I swear on my religion that I am not a Cub fan, don't follow the Cubs, can't even tell you their record this past season or where they finished (I know they were flirting with the playoffs for a while) and AM a diehard Sox fan and have been for decades. So does that do it for you? I would not swear on Bibles if it were not the truth, sir. ... As a caveat my gramps took me to a lot of Cub games as a kid (age 10-13) and yes while in Wrigley at those contests did at that time root for the Cubs while at the same time attending Sox games with my dad and enjoying that ballclub and its park much more than the northside.

I simply didn't see TA as the Sox future reliable shortstop. He appeared to be a guy who could succeed at the plate thus rather than just stick him at 2B I came up with catcher. We'll never know but his body frame and arm did not disqualify him from catching and hitting .280 with 20 homers or so.

That's because "rebuild-niks" tend to be popular message board posters. There's a certain type of fan who loves tank jobs and rebuilds because they involve the acquisition of mysterious new bodies who nobody has seen yet, thus have not seen their flaws, yet. I hate rebuilds. I miss the days in the winter we already had a 'decent to good' roster and wondered if we'd tinker a bit and make one good trade or sign a good bullpen piece or something to add to an already .550ish team. Now? All we got are prospects to discuss while staring at 95-110 losses. It's not the right way to do things. Give me a real roster, now, please! Even though Lip tells me it has to be this way cause of Jerry, I can dream of the commish intervening and telling the White Sox/Jerry they are penalized for this ruining of a once proud franchise.

Ask any true baseball mind if TA was a good shortstop defensively or ever projected to be a good SS. He was very erratic. His future was somewhere else. Outfield? Not enuf pop. 3B or 2B? Don't do it for me. Catcher? Why not? The arm baby, the arm was there.

Bless you for your optimism and enthusiasm. For me losing 120 games is not fun. It's horrific. Trades for players not yet ready for the big leagues for me is annoying. You love it, which is fine. I just think the more the Sox lose the worse it is for the already small fanbase.

Good insight Lip. I guess all that's left for me to do is give up and divorce myself completely from the team and the entire sport. Haven't quite been able to pull the trigger on that yet as I was a lifelong Sox fan and it's difficult to forget the days of Ozzie, Ventura, AJP, Frank, Dye, Buehrle, Paulie, Jenks, Zisk, Gamble et all. I won't say what I would have done cause it gets people mad on here. Suffice it to say I never would have traded Sale.

And that is why sports frankly are no fun anymore. It's 2024 with the 2025 season coming up. Lot of wasted summer afternoons ahead. I heard all this down the road stuff during our first failed rebuild.

That first article mentioned the trade will help the Sox 2028 lineup? Geez it's always 'wait til 3-4 years from now' with our White Sox. Those are three brutal winters to survive before the team sniffs .500? Yikes.

What round was he picked?

Montgomery isn't finished yet, is he at SS? That would be disappointing if so.

I can throw water on the flames as well as anybody but I won't. The person who said they'd trade Meidroth for Crochet is being silly. I'm optimistic cause I'm down on pitchers' value as a whole and the Sox acquired 3 position players. I just wish Monte2 was ready earlier than 2026.

Good luck to Crochet. Thanks for trying. He seemed to try hard, was a good competitor on a historically bad team. His absence probably guarantees even fewer victories this season but maybe not. Best wishes to him. Sox "rotation" should be worst in team history this season. Will be interesting to see how many nights they just go with openers. I'd say a lot.

Sox need position players so they get some here. Considering they were drafted by Boston instead of our Sox there's hope they are decent. I have no reaction to the trade except position players are more valuable than pitchers nowadays in the era of five innings max. Woulda been nice if Montgomery was ready earlier than 2026 cause then the Sox could have 3 new players in the lineup from Boston relatively quickly. Three new Red Sox instead of White Sox in the White Sox lineup sounds good. I don't really care about losing Crochet cause I'm thinking five inning pitchers who can do a decent job in the future won't be that hard to come by. ... I do have to LOL at the team that Sox will put on the field in 2025 though. I also have to laugh at the 'rebuild fanatics' -- I won't say tank lovers cause some of these players are close to being in the everyday lineup -- getting satisfied. Whatever.

Baseball is a simple game. Play Colas now. He sinks or swims on a 110-loss team. Forget these older guys unless we are a .500 team. Colas baby!

Should have happened a long time ago when he was alive. One of the most electric players in sports history. Well deserved. Hope his family enjoys this forever. Anybody who saw Dick Allen play for the Sox realizes he is a Hall of Famer.

I wonder why Walker stunk last year after being pretty good the previous two seasons. He's 32 now. 7.10 ERA last season. Beni actually is one of the Sox better hitters with 20 homers a year ago. I've never liked him of course but he actually would be missed in this pathetic everyday lineup.

The fact the Sox couldn't get one run in 9 innings that day to force an automatic Game Five victory with Hoyt is one of the most disappointing days the White Sox have experienced. That team was built to win a WS and should have won a World Series. Disgusting to waste BB's performance. Also the biggest baserunning blunder in Sox history if not all of MLB history.

He missed the 2020 season. So I assume he's already had the requisite Tommy John surgery? That's a lotta money. Is he the 30-year-old pitcher who won 33 games in 2017 and 18 and 11 last year with 3.91 ERA or the guy with a 6.65 ERA in 2023?

Good. We don't need a Golden Bat. Terrible proposal.

What a great hitter. I remember this the most about Melton, courtesy of Lip's post: "September 30, 1971 - When Bill Melton smashed a home run on the last day of the season off the Brewers Bill Parsons in the third inning, he became the first Sox player to ever win a home run championship. Melton hit three home runs in the final two games to pass former Sox player Norm Cash and Reggie Jackson for the title. Typically, White Sox, he only had 33, the lowest total for a champ since 1965." He patrolled 3B the years the Sox had an astroturf infield and grass outfield for some reason. That 'almost' ruined the experience at Comiskey as it was ugly configuration with turf, then grass in the outfield. Not to be preachy but it's sad to see the Sox have no players to root for now like Melton, just stiffs on the 40 man for the most part. Bill played for that abysmal Sox team but still kept the fans' interest cause of Melton's homers. Lots of kids copied Melton's batting stance. Rest in peace to a Sox legend.

Does he wanna play up there? Taxes.

I don't like it much at all. In actuality, you'd probably save the Golden At Bat to the 8th or 9th inning of a game. In the ninth there'd be no reason to not use your Golden At Bat because there's no reason to save it. So let's say Sox are trailing 2-1 and bases are loaded with two out in the ninth. Our manager goes with Luis Robert instead of say, Vargas. That'd be exciting, sure. But there has to be a penalty like somebody said if the Golden Batter fails. Maybe a team mascot could race out of the dugout and smash a pie in Robert's face. The organist could play the theme from the Three Stooges. I dunno. I guess I could live with the rule. The example in the article was dumb, using Aaron Judge as an example. He was pretty lousy most of the playoffs/Series. He wouldn't be much of a Golden At Bat guy.

I see almost all the private schools won their finals against public schools. I read O'Brien's story on how the Illinois state high school assn needs to fix some things. All but one game was a blowout and the close game was two private schools playing each other. Q: To Harry or WhiteSox: How's BR look in hoops this year. Contender, pretender?

I think in my next life I'd be one of those people that never left their hometown. I think that'd be a good choice for Life No. 2. Life No. 3 I'd be a carefree idiot who worked as a bartender til I was 40 then moved to Hawaii and owned a store that rents out surfboards and boogie boards. Being a responsible adult seems overrated.

My dad could be a mean MF but he never hit or spanked me or my sibs or my mom which was appreciated. He would yell a lot and basically instilled fear though. To each his/her own but spanking seems wrong to me. But that's just me. I don't hold it against any parent. I would guess it's pretty effective though.