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The White Sox are good at ... being loyal to players and managers and front office people. The Sox are bad at ... having a sense of urgency about anything. I really truly don't think we're gonna ever get over .500 again for an extended period until we clean house. It's always "early." No need to panic. It's too early. Then every year we hit September and oh, yes, it's too late. September is a boring methodical funeral for the rest of the season. Don't worry, folks, it's early they said after going 0-4 to open the season. Oops. Give me some urgency!! We finish 10 under .500 and I sense Jerry and everybody are OK with this. Hey folks, the season sucked!

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 8, 2015 -> 12:09 AM) Oh the irony You talk of rational people, and try to tell us that Rush Limbaugh is one of these rational people You guys always want to maim the messenger so to speak. Sometimes Limbaugh and the NY columnists say things that are true you know?

Astros and Cubs are the darlings right now. Royals Game One is crucial. Can the young emotional pitcher Ventura get the job done Thursday night with an afternoon game Friday coming so soon after Thursday's result whatever it may be? If Royals lose Game One, they done.

Cubs are officially the darlings of Chicago again. You get in the playoffs and win the WC game, now they have a real series coming up. It's a young team with key pieces coming back. No matter what happens they'll be so excited for baseball next April while we Sox fans are just clamoring to finally get over .500 during a season again. Well, the White Sox now truly have to compete against the Cubs which truthfully is probably good for us fans. When the Cubs totally sucked and the sox were great, the Sox sat on their hands and let the franchise crumble instead of building on 05 which is such a long time ago. Good luck Hahn, Jerry, marketing, everybody trying to compete with Cub mania now!! On the field, Good win for the Scrubs. That was a nice play by Bryant at third to turn the DP in the sixth or seventh. Kept the 4-0 lead safe and sound.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 07:48 PM) greg laughs at all of your "facts" and "numbers". He knows the score. Guys, most rational people agree with me. America is not safe. America is less safe than 20 years ago. Cmon. Do you guys live in a bubble?

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 08:45 PM) Is it possible for you to enter a single conversation without bringing the Royals up? It's clear that you're obsessed with them. You could have said the Tigers, Twins or Indians but of course you chose the Royals. I'm sure there is a good Royals message board you can go to if you want to talk about your favorite team all the time. Whatever. The Royals happen to own the White Sox and I despise losing 80 percent of our games to them every year. Of course you make a good point. Minnie, Cleveland and Detroit own the White Sox as well.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 06:03 PM) I'll enter here to chime in with the fact that the world is a safer place today than it's ever been before, DESPITE the massive increase in population. The world maybe. America? Safer than before? Cmon. You can make any stats fit any argument. America is a dangerous land.

"I don't recall that." "I don't remember doing that." "I must have had a reason to do that." Politicians are good at blowing stuff off. What a joke this guy is for screwing Jersey people and wanting his home state saved.

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 10:24 AM) My last ticket I was going 35 in a 25, cop pulled me over and said he and his partner saw me talking on my cellphone which is why I was pulled over. I tell him my car has blue tooth and what you guys saw was me eating a bagel, he decided to give me a speeding ticket instead. Do the cops tape everything now? Like the bagel thing. I was wondering what would happen if a cop wanted to raise money and SAID you went through a stop sign when you stopped completely. If you go to court, they just believe the cop and you are out the cash? Or is it taped and they see if you rolled the stop or not?

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 07:55 PM) Like Keppinger, right? I said good free agent contracts. The big deals.

QUOTE (Coach @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 10:26 AM) If I were Ventura, I would see what happens to him in Spring Training. If it's the same, I would say eat the salary and get someone else. Shuck only struck out 11% of the time, so why not let him DH? They are both lefties. Why is this so hard for Ventura to figure out? Teams don't eat salaries. When a guy is making that much, they play them. It's another of baseball's unwritten rules. No matter how bad you are, if you have one of those good free agent contracts you play. QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 12:14 PM) This is like the Greg/Adam Dunn...why isn't he benched? debates of the past. Because the White Sox aren't in the habit of eating any contract of more than $5 million completely...until they've first thoroughly exhausted every avenue in an attempt to extract any remaining value. Exactly. Robin knows LaRoche blows. He can't do anything about it. You play him til mercifully the contract runs out or he retires.

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 12:42 PM) $5.5 million is a good bench or decent middle relief pitcher these days not a starter who puts up a sub 4.00 ERA with around 200 innings. According to Fangraphs Buehrle was worth roughly $16.8 million this year. If Buehrle plays another season, which I don't expect, somebody will be willing to give him a 1 year, $10-$12 million contract. If the Sox could move Danks without eating salary I would love to have Buehrle back but you're not going to get him for $5.5 million. Yes, but the perception now is the new Buehrle is done. He's not even on the playoff roster which is a total slap in the face. I hope the Royals don't give him that deal. I'd hate to see him mow down our lousy lineup 4-6 times a year.

QUOTE (juddling @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 11:25 PM) I remember driving home from Bloomingdale (on 355) on a Friday night during rush hour. I was going faster than some.....slower than others though I still managed to be the one to get pulled over. The cop approached my car on the passenger side....put his elbows on my window and did the usual "Do you know why I pulled you over?" routine. I don't remember what i said to that but he said i was speeding and again the typical question "Why were you speeding?" In my head i was saying "because i'm on a f***ing expressway in f***ing Chicago and i don't want to get run over" but instead i went with something along the lines of "It's Friday...and just trying to get home like everyone else to start my weekend" OF COURSE, i get the smartass reply of "Well...It's Friday night for me too..and I'd like to go home to start my weekend" Obviously...there is nothing I can say to this that doesn't get me in deeper trouble so i say nothing. He then leans in a little closer (again...from my passenger side) and says my eyes are all red and asks why. I say 'Really?" and i look in my rear view and my eyes are as white as snow. "Sir...i know the light in here isn't great but my eyes are fine." He stares at me a long time and finally asks for my info and goes back to write me my speeding ticket. He came back with a ticket and of course the obligatory "You should consider yourself lucky this is the only ticket I'm writing you" I never did figure out what he was thinking he could write me another ticket for....i said "thank you officer and have a nice weekend" f***er still followed me for the next 10 miles....... Damn. That cop was a spooky bastard.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 02:16 PM) And after his agent stopped laughing, what would you say then? He's worth more than that at his age?

QUOTE (fathom @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 05:55 AM) 22nd in sac bunts this year, and 6 of those were the light hitting Sanchez. They were dead last in 2014 under Ventura. Find something else to dislike about Ventura. When it's time for a bunt and we fail, it makes me mad. You can't deny this has happened a lot in his era.

QUOTE (jamesdiego @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 04:28 AM) I love Wimpy on the broadcasts. He brings so much life to the games. He would make the home games listenable and fun. I'll just mute the away games. I want Wimperoo! Bring back Wimpy!

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 04:26 AM) Yeah, it's a shame he couldn't pitch as long as someone like Ted Lyons. But who cares about the past? Anyway, Mark is the active leader for IP at 3283.1 IP, 95th all time. Still really damn good. And Hawkins is a reliever. This is a no brainer. Sign Mark Buehrle. One year and an option at 5.5 mill a year.

QUOTE (fathom @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 05:43 AM) how about not bunting and getting better hitters Yeah but I'm being realistic here. Ventura DOES call for the bunt a lot. He's not going to change in that regard. If it's 2-2 in the sixth and we have a runner on and nobody out, we probably are bunting. So they must learn how to fricking bunt!! Remember watching Lexi try to move a runner or whomever? It's downright horrible and is costing the White Sox ballgames.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 05:31 AM) It's quite sad in the modern day, where there are millions of ways to measure receptivity to your product, that this organization has suddenly become so tone deaf and stubborn. If we are gonna keep Robin, Jerry should at least demand somebody like Luis Aparicio (if we need to keep it in house) or Cal Ripken come to spring training and teach the guys how to fricking bunt! I can't remember but Cal was such a solid Hall of Famer I assume he was a good bunter. I mean, baseball is not THAT physically demanding a sport. Have the guys out there an hour early each day, Robin, and make them learn how to bunt. I've seen batting practice. They normally make a couple half-assed attempts at bunting then start trying to pull home runs instead of fricking work on their swings. But seriously Robin calls for the bunt and these stiff cannot bunt!! Make them learn how to bunt with Cal Ripken JR.!! Hire Cal as consultant. Then bring in Tim Raines and pay him some spring training money to teach these bums how to run the basepaths. Again ... make these millionaires spend AN HOUR A DAY running the bases and make them learn how to do it! That's two extra hours a day the millionaires must spend on the field. Tell them, "Maybe next spring we won't have to do this if you guys f***ing lay down bunts when called on and actually run the bases well this season!" That would require raising one's voice and being a leader and I am NOT SURE Robin has that in him. Can he speak above a monitone? So bring in Ripken and Raines next spring. Finally, fire Steverson's ass and bring in another hitting coach (Seitzer? Ripken? anybody) who preaches hitting to all fields. Tell the millionaires that hitting into the shift is selfish and sickening and they need to spray the baseball to beat the shift. Tell LaRoche that his 12-home run season forfeits the right to hit into the shift. Since he cannot pull the ball over the fence, DEMAND he go with the pitch or not play in the final year of his contract. Yes, bench him if he hits into the shift. Finally bring in motivational speaker Tony Robbins to talk about TEAMMORK and WINNING. Or Donald Trump to talk about WINNING. Or Ditka! That.Is.My.Suggestion. You can't deny it all starts in da spring!!!

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 03:06 AM) With all of the new security precautions, how could there be a "massacre" at a major sports arena? Glad u asked, Jose. I've thought about this a bit. Here's what happens. Let's say you are in a college basketball crazed city like this town I live in or Lexington, Kentucky or Bloomington, Indiana. Or even Wichita, Kansas or Omaha that sell out all their basketball games. Three morons who want to cause a stir and die over their sick causes, arm themselves with tons of weapons, maybe even a hand grenade. Each have a hand grenade which I would think they could acquire nowadays. So they wait until the second half. Everything's going smoothly and the rent-a-cops (so to speak) on hand are even catching a peek at the game. The 3 crazies who have cased the building out beforehand take their weapons and go charging out on the court, flip the hand grenades into the crowd and start shooting. Or they throw a ton of smokebombs first to get the place all clouded up then start firing. Or a college football game. Even at a lousy program like Kansas you get 35,000 at a game with rent a cop type security. Now there is a chance a real cop (there might be some real cops on hand) might shoot and kill the lunatic gunmen before they do their damage. I think probably not. It probably would be even easier at a sport like women's basketball where the school maybe draws 5,000 fans in a 20,000 seat arena. It still would be a huge tragedy obviously and would be easier to gain admittance before hand with weapons and hand grenades. Or volleyball with 90 year old rent a cops at the entrances and crowds of 3000 or more at some schools like Kansas. I think nutjobs could definitely storm the entrances or have spots they've been in hiding waiting for the right moment to pounce. I want to say I pray (yes I'm religious) this never happens at a sporting arena, but I've often wondered what would happen if the lunatics wait until the second half or latter stages of a game ... then ATTACK! It did happen at the boston marathon which was very sad and very destructive to human life. But I think ISIS or somebody could hit a sporting event and it would change sports forever.

Say what you want about Limbaugh ... it's not a bad take. He points out a.) the media doesn't want to talk about the fact the gunman targeted Christians. It's uncomfortable for the liberal media who do not wanna go there. And b.) The minute I think I'm for getting rid of all guns I read this and Limbaugh points out this school was a gun-free zone. He says it's exactly what the liberals want. But the bad guy does have guns and there's nobody to stop him cause none of the good guys have guns. It's worth thinking about. If we assume the bad guys are gonna get guns anyway ... don't we have to have some good guys with guns as well? Or else we're just out to get butchered by bad guys ... If you have time, I challenge you to read Limbaugh's take and not just say, "Gawd-dammit it's Limbaugh!!! I'm not reading Limbaugh!!" http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/10/...e_zone_shooting

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Oct 5, 2015 -> 10:01 PM) Don't think his arm has two years left. This proves that Jamie Moyer was the last of the guys able to pitch forever, as well as LaTroy Hawkins. I mean Mark has never been on DL, has that smooth motion and is done at 36? Poor pitchers. Their arms just can't take the stress. 36 is not old compared to some of the dudes of the past.

QUOTE (Mike F. @ Oct 5, 2015 -> 09:02 PM) I am going to be so depressed when Hawk finally hangs up the mic for good. I love him so much and he's a great announcer. Sox games won't be the same without him. I worship him, too, but I don't understand this one. I mean, he's got to be rich beyond belief. Stay in a hotel for half the home games. So you stay 45 nights in a hotel at 200 bucks a night (check Air B and B and you could probably get a really nice condo for 200 a night). That's 9,000 bucks. At Hawk's age, 9000 bucks is obviously like 50 bucks to the normal Joe. Not even an annoyance. You might even be able to write it off on your taxes. The other home games, suck it up and drive home and back as you've done the last many years. It's only April through October. I don't understand how the team would OK him only doing road games. Just seems ridiculous. That said, I'd go for Stone as lead announcer on all home games with somebody like Paciorek or Frank Thomas or AJP or Buehrle joining the team as home games color man. On the road, it's Hawk as play by play guy with Stone; and Farmer/DJ as radio crew.

QUOTE (Big Hurtin @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 01:29 AM) I don't know, the ages and the silly reason, just seems like such a waste of life. It's like I've been saying, in 20 years it will be a whole different America. People are going to be scared to go anywhere. I mean now it's dipping down to kids shooting kids. I always think of the parents (assuming they are good ones). So mom gives birth to a boy one day at the hospital. Can you imagine if you could look into the future and told her, "Your boy will commit murder at the age of 11. He will blow away a neightbor girl with a gun." She'd have told you you were insane. Can you imaging a mom giving birth to a little girl at the hospital one day. If you told her, "Your daughter will be shot and killed at the age of 8 by an 11-year old boy." She'd have said, "How the hell is that going to happen? That's just not possible." Our country is in the toilet and it is only going to get worse. Folks who read my posts know that I'm predicting the end of sports as we know them once one of our big stadiums/arenas has its first massacre. I'd still rather live here than anywhere, but America is a warzone, no doubt about it. Be safe, people, be safe. And like the guy said in another article somewhere, if you are ever in a situation some madman brandishes a gun, by all means fight back with your car keys and charge the gunman. Not a fair battle, though, car keys vs. semiautomatic weapon.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 5, 2015 -> 07:26 PM) It was Levine reporting he was retiring. It was horrible reporting. There's no accountability for the media anymore. I'm convinced if somebody tweets something most of the other reporters don't even check. They just quickly chime in "sources confirm buehrle to retire." I mean if his arm feels OK he should definitely keep pitching. He obviously hasn't made up his mind. Part of it might be whether the Sox or Cardinals want him. If the Sox want him, he'd probably come back. Ditto the Cards I believe.