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The elephant in the room regarding Oz is how he would approach starting pitching. During Ozzie's managerial days pitchers went very deep into games. With this crap bullpen and below average starting rotation I don't think Ozzie could avoid similar carnage in the W/L department. Team would still lose every series and almost every game.

Plus Reinsdorf has a thing for the Royals way. Ever since he fell in love with Kauffman Stadium and made GRate field a cheap imitation with no waterfalls. He should have picked another team to fall in love with.

It seems like every winter a lot of our diehard fans think the front office has put together a good to great bullpen and the bullpen always blows.

Was Chet Lemon our last great centerfielder? Man that guy could cover ground and get good wood on the ball. Love me some Chester Lemon. One of the great baseball 'names' as well.

Can you imagine the clubhouse after that one? Arguably the worst loss of the year.

Jack Brickhouse used to say baseball's the best sport because every day you see something you've never seen before. Ha! One big LOL. A pinch runner who steals second in the 9th getting picked off when there's no reason to stray off the bag. A base hit scores you. And folks I give you Pedro Grifol. Sox blow what, a 5-0 lead? History.

To the tank people out there compared to the traditional fan (me): Hmmm Cease and Crochet would be 2/5 of a pretty dandy rotation for years to come. We had both on the South Side. After the Crochet trade we'll have zero of them. You can start to build a team around 2 fantastic starters and one superstar candidate in Robert. My point is at some point if we ever win we're gonna need 4 good starters. We had two but soon will have none. I get so frustrated by all this tanking ...

With the Sox luck we trail 3-2 after 5 1/2 inns and they call the game cause of lightning.

Oops one of our few decent players is hurt. Ten days is a long time in baseball.

Robert is a fine player so far. Hope he can stay healthy. If Sox win tonight he'll prolly be the reason.

The Cubs should try to lift and pull everything and put us away early with Flexon fixin' to offer up some meatballs,

Do the Cubs still sell out every game? If they do (Sox do not) it provides some proof it's a Cubs town. Maybe a Cubs country 'cause I realize out of towners want to include a Cub game on spring/summer visits to Chicago. They do not venture to Sox Park, not only cause we stink, but the stadium is blah and true or not the neighborhood does not have the greatest reputation.

It truly did. Lipman could give us a good history lesson but back in the pre interleague day the Sox and Cubs played a charity game midseason or so alternating between the ballparks each year. It sold out with the proceeds going to charity. And it was amazing. Sox and Cub fights throughout the city. It was special seeing the Sox uniform go against the Cubbie uniform. The teams would give their starters 2 at bats before putting in the stiffs. The only thing weird was the teams usually started their best minor league prospect then put in some pitchers who needed work. All in all it was special. Interleague has ruined it of course. Just another series. Unlike the Brewer series where I knew we'd get swept I think the Sox 'might' take one or even both games. Wrigley might awaken the bats. At this point you almost hope the Sox drop 16, 17 in a row just for the continued embarrassment factor. How can Jerry show his face in town? Maybe he just tells his friends it's all part of the latest tank plan. Peace out and remember when u go to the betting booth, "Sox might win a game or two vs. the Cubs."

Cubs could really embarrass Sox by winning two and getting the losing streak up to 13. You'd think 13 in a row would be an all time franchise record for ineptness. Cubs are not doing well. I don't think I'd bet this series cause Sox are due to win one and DeBong and some other guys might finally elevate a few HRs. Are we last in baseball in HRs and RBIs?

I really think Ricky Renteria was somewhat special (I'd rate his work as a very solid B). His only problem was his work in that playoff series. Questionable decisions, etc. The playoffs are a crapshoot. There was no reason to axe him after a playoff appearance IMO.

This is an excellent post but as a weird fan, here's my take from it: The Sixers have been OK even though they've yet to make The Finals in the Embiid era. The Sox and Bulls equally stink with neither front office having a clue. Maybe the Bulls' philosophy blows, you make a strong case for that, but the Sox philosophy blows as well. And it all started with the tank job (Sale trade) and has continued til today (cept for one playoff appearance after which Ricky was canned stupidly).

That's where I differ from most modern fans. It makes total sense because I like him and actually want to see him play for the Sox until he turns into total badness. It makes no sense for the builders, those who think we're actually capable of reconstructing a winner thru the flip player at the break method. It also made no sense to sign Beni who is gawd awful. At least Pham is worth 2/10th the price of admission. Most of the Sox are worth 0/10th the price of admission,

Yep. We Sox fans don't deserve players who actually give a flip. BTW in the Pham deal we'll get some 27-year old former first-round pitcher or everyday player who blows. Probably a pitcher. Or we'll get a 20-year old middle of the road prospect with the upside of Claudell Washington. As much as I worship (in a baseball sense) Pham, analytics will tell teams he's soon to be washed up if not already washed up.

Yes heaven forbid we have an MLB caliber player on our 40-man.

What a soundbite! I love me some Tommy Pham. I wouldn't mind him signing a multi year deal. He's a competitor and closest thing we have to a real ballplayer. Now several of you can tell me all sorts of reasons why I'm a dummy and we don't want Pham. Darn it I want some ballplayers on my team, not have to wait 5 years to have a few watchable players! Sign him.

That's a lot of games remaining. We need the great Bill Walton to cheer us up. He could wax poetic about how it's still the grand sport of baseball and we should embrace our team. Lot of cities don't have a team. Rest in peace, Bill W.

Cubs are struggling a bit. Time for us to make another team get back on track. Everybody gets well when they play the Sox except the Rays.

Yeah I got burned with that post. But the Sixers' tank job of misery hasn't resulted in titles. And they are completely rebuilding again this offseason cept for Joel E, the oft-injured franchise,

I'll read the thread later for enjoyable reading. Well, five hits won't cut it. Our starting pitcher, Pastrami, is no good folks. Only flipping we'll be doing with him is at the 4th of July picnics workin on burgers and steaks. I will say this: Pham and DeJong are major leaguers. If somebody needs a once or twice a week infielder and an everyday outfielder we might get a few bodies in trade for Pham and DeJong. They seem to be trying, too. I salute them. That was a poor series vs. the Brewers, folks. Sox looked like an AAA team for sure against another team that took advantage of playing the Pathetics (not Athletics) and swept our boys. Steve Stone forever! peace out.