The Beast

I started following the White Sox in 1998, when I went to a late season White Sox game against the Yankees. The next spring, my dad took me to the third game of the year. I had just quit playing baseball to be an umpire and my dad was looking for something for us to bond over. We were working in the back yard when he asked me if I wanted to go to the game. Off we went. We got to the park and didn’t have tickets and were headed to the box office, when a guy and his daughter approached us and offered tickets to join them. My dad and I followed them and we walked towards home plate. We eventually get to the seats and we found ourselves three rows behind the plate. My dad and I couldn’t believe it. We also got to see Jermaine Dye play that day and he became one of my dad’s favorite players to watch. This lead to countless games when I was a kid, making Sunday Kids Days and Fuji Film Photo Days a regular habit. We would go to SoxFest when I was younger and had a blast. In 2005, my dad got seats in the 300 level and generously gave me tickets to go with friends and a girlfriend at the time. I also met some posters around here sometime between 2004-2005 and attended some games with them. I’ve had my birthday game at Sox Park for all except this year, when my daughter was born and I had to be home to help my wife. I had my own bachelor party there and hosted a friend’s bachelor party there. I saw the Tim Anderson walk off against Detroit in 2019, a Jose Abreu walk off grand slam against the Rays in 2014?, Carlos Lee’s walkoff grand slam against the Cubs, several White Sox bullpen meltdowns against the Twins and more recently against the Rays in 2023, when they couldn’t stop the losing streak and Vaughn needed to the next day, along with Konerko’s last game, Buehrle versus Sale and my first game during the pandemic which turned out to be my last game with my father in law, who learned he had pancreatic cancer six months later and died less than a year later. The night before my father in law passed, I took my dad to the Sox game against Houston and got great seats so that we could celebrate his retirement, I could thank him for all he did for me and we could watch a game together as my father in law would have wanted. I have tons of memories at the park and have continued them with my son. My parents, my wife and I took my son to his first game against the Twins last fall. It was a terrible game that the White Sox did not have a chance winning. I’ll take my son, now three, to his second game this Sunday with a friend of mine, some of his kids and his father in law. Hopefully my dad shows up so we can have three generations of Sox fans watching the games together.

What did he do? Maybe he’s depressed for being the worst ranked broadcaster.

Do you trust they will get enough for Robert though?

Joniak: “FAAAADDDEE TO BLACK.”

Great play. Take him out after this.

20 more bombs.

Grifol and Katz look stressed. Maybe the original poster is wearing them out?

Add to it. Nevermind.

Great, then add a circle change. Make adjustments as a soft tosser or get hit hard as batters catch up. He’s doing fine so far.

He needs some sort of out pitch. The fastball and changeup are good, but I think he could work on something more. He reminds me of Buehrle with how he pitches.

Let’s hope Thorpe’s start is more like Buehrle’s first start of his career and less like Garland’s.

Be loud enough where it makes it to the broadcast and you make that bum Schriffen call you a hater.

Hoping Thorpe doesn’t get shelled and gets either the win or a no decision and they win.

Sure, sell for a discount. Why not?

If it gets some guys out of here in trades and ages Grifol a bit before he gets fired, let’s do it.

Seems like the goal is to slash payroll, be bad, have poor attendance and set up for a move to Nashville. That is what makes sense to me right now.

Aaron Rowand? Brian Anderson? DeWayne Motha Fuckin Wise?

Meh. They should know the Cubs can come back after what Morel did to them last year.

Even though this is a throw away year, I don’t really understand what the goal is as far as getting better. I’m having a tough time understanding Getz’s strategy. Perhaps we will know more by the trade deadline, but this team is garbage and doesn’t make a ton of sense. I don’t like Grifol, but it doesn’t matter who is managing this team with how bad they are. That said, I don’t think the Cubs are very good either.

So is the entire organization.

Game.

For one run?

With the guy they have no confidence in. And whose confidence they shattered.

Flexen was good tonight. I had my daughter sleeping in my arms so I was watching on my phone, but I don’t know why they took him out so early. He didn’t have a high pitch count. Anderson and Banks were garbage tonight and Leasure was meh. Those Cubs bats came to life after rain delays. Too bad they needed a rain delay to win anything. Grifol has to be gone after this year. Right?

Not sure what Moldy told him but Anderson threw a craptastic pitch to a showboaty Morel.