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First of all I'm not offended by your mention of church which is kind of a non sequitir here. If that was a little shot, that's OK. You may have not meant it that way. I can take a little teasing if it was a little joke. You know what? I thought of the 'little kid' thing. And I could accept that argument that kids might like the growling in the call and screaming of 'adios.' Might even be educational if a 5-year-old wasn't familiar with 'adios.' HOWEVER I came to the conclusion on a bright summer day, nobody's watching or very few kids are watching (if they are indoors they are playing video games over White Sox baseball) the abysmal White Sox on TV versus the abysmal Rocks. So in short I can't accept the little kid argument. Besides announcers are supposed to be announcing for the beer demographic, 21 to 41. Even if he decided on his own to go for the 5 to 12 year olds, that'd be a good way to get fired. Not many 5 to 12s are watching MLB Sox style. Peace out.

That call deserves some discussion. I tried, couldn't spark any. greg rarely gets outraged but the growling turned me into a critical madman.

So you are kind of agreeing with me with the only holdup Jerry's wallet. Sad state of affairs Jerry won't even TRY to field a winner. I repeat my mantra: If this is the case fricking contract the team. Just move it to Tennessee. That state is growing, will sell out every game and that new owner will make a ton of $$. Sox get an expansion team bought by M. Cuban or Ice Cube or some foreign mogul.

The growling was too much. The adios was not good according to my tastes but I could understand if he wanted to do 'adios' on Robert homers. The growling makes me speechless.

I feel for Stoney. What can he do when his partner is completely grade-schoolish? No offense to Schriff. But why force it? Bennetti couldn't come up with a reasonable catch phrase so he just announced. Schriff's call was so silly I don't even know what to say.

Ugh. Double ugh. What is going on with these announcers? Everybody wants a signature call I guess to put on Tshirts and monetize.

To growl on the call was simply ... for gradeschoolers (who weren't watching/listening). The adios is simply too loud and the growling may have been the most embarrassing moment in Sox broadcast history. Agree?

Modern baseball play by play quite different from the days of the pros like Caray, Brickhouse, Scully, Mathews. Denny Mathews of the Royals would rather be fired on the spot than make a silly call like this one. Listen to it and comment. I give the call a solid F.

That'd be a good start to a T-shirt re. the Sox: Deadbeats and Buffoons. Catchy.

Hmmm, a skeptic to all the tank nonsense might say the Sox have a few pieces to work with on the starting pitching side, albeit starting pitching now means 5 innings. Maybe spend a couple bucks and have a good staff next season? Nah, can't do that in the age of tank/rebuild. Got to make those trades cause of Jerry's wallet. ... Lot of bombs today against the inept Rockies. Sox finally playing a team they should boatrace at home and are doing so.

I'm trying to figure out which players we are developing for Chicago and which we are developing for the trades. Are we trading tonight's starter? If we're trading Crochet don't see why tonight's starter would be safe. Now that it's obvious we're dealing Kopech, Getz better rob some team 3-4 fricking future starters either pitching or hitting or a combo of both. Kopech throws 100 consistently. A good organization should be able to turn him into Gossage. Getzie better win that trade!!!

That's about right. A bad team should beat another equally bad team when at home. Thorpe looks good still. I wonder if we woulda lost if the Rocks would have thrown home on Lee's grounder. Good job by Lee nonetheless going that way and making it 3-2. This is gonna be Sox first or second sweep of the season. Sox swept the Rays I think.

The Rockies are terrible. It's the heat of summer and Sox are at home. Big crowds probably for a carefree weekend. First Sox sweep of the season? Go big or go home. Bet.The.House.Baby. And our new stud pitcher is going tonight with more to follow. This is the type of series to judge a Pedro on. Teams of equally horrible talent.

I can see why they'd want Kopech added. In terms of sheer prospects (where they got drafted) that is highway robbery on the Sox part. There's no way in hell I'd make that deal if I were the Orioles. Maybe Crochet and Kopech for that foursome. I still wouldn't do that if I were Baltimore. If they were to be negotiating with those top draft picks I'd say I want Robert/Crochet and go from there. Maybe add one more player if I'm Baltimore.

Not sure we are allowed to speak on this topic (politics a no no). Without being partisan or meaning to cause a hurricane, it's kind of shocking to me that Republicans agreed to debate with the rules put forth by CNN. Kinda stacked against Donny IMO (greg ducks for cover). Seriously if mods think I'm starting an explosion kill this now! I won't be offended.

That's about the most unlikely win of the season. Sale-led Braves allow only one run and they can't score off four relievers after a starter named Kuhl?? Sox don't get through many games with that scenario. Four measley hits. The one bomb. Braves should be ashamed. That's one they can't let get away.

Like Caulfield said, Robert is over .200! Hard to believe a guy with that talent was under .200. I think it shows his lack of discipline. It's obvious he's trying to jack a homer every time up, never draws a walk. He needs to fall in love with line drive doubles to the gap as well as HRs.

Not so sure Flexen or Fedde will bring anything of eye opening value.

What happened? Soft tissue or did he get nailed in the elbow with a pitch or something?

My guy Tommy Pham appears to have holes in his bat suddenly. Alas he also prolly has lost interest.

Sox are back to almost everybody in the lineup not hitting at all. Four hits?? LOL. That's truly pathetic in this day and age of lift and pull. Sox can't hit.

Very good column/story. I read the whole thing and he looked up a lot of facts. Curious to not at least mention Jerry and some others. Only names he mentioned were the announcers and some players. Yeah the Sox stink and we longtime fans are hurting/suffering.

I love the way we are all so realistically negative about our Sox. The peeps on this board would have to be considered in the top 5 percent of Sox fans since we care enuf to talk about them every day instead of a complete divorce from them. And all of the top 5 percent cept for maybe one person or two on here are very very negative about the team. Jerry should be very very embarrassed. You are not fooling anybody Jerry. The fans know your organization is one of the worst.

Lead 3-1, lose 4-3. That's about right. Typical Sox game in 2024.

I'm no Beni fan, but I'd think a high dollar team in dire need of an outfielder would consider taking him off our hands if the Sox paid say 1/3 of his salary? That said I don't want to disparage him after a HR. Nice hit, Beni. Just am not a huge fan but am a huge fan of that at bat.