The Beast

What if additional spending is not authorized and this is the team they have to compete with? What if Romy and Frazier man the positions you mention and succeed at them for the rest of the year? Lets worry about next year in the offseason.

Good take. I also think injuries have hurt this team and that a rebuild isn’t what they need. More talent in the minors? Absolutely, but not at the expense of the major league roster talent. The question I think ST posters need to ask themselves is, on May 23, or by the end of the month, are you in, or are you out? As in, will they contend for the division and you believe they can do it, or I want this team to burn, they have no chance and I have no hope. I’m in the optimistic camp they can do this camp despite all of their faults and flaws. A little optimistic realism never hurt anyone and is a hell of a lot better than the negativity displayed by many on this board.

They can all come back on board, the water is fine.

Nice team win, go get the series tomorrow and let’s watch them to continue to get out of this hole. It’s not over yet!

TA is frustrating. He’s either bad now or is still hurt. Where is the raw power from previous years?

Didn’t Gaddis come up before and the Sox lit him up last time? They look like crap offensively tonight.

Jesse Scholtens up. In a separate tweet, Jimmy Lambert gets the ball tonight.

When I saw Clevinger was hurt, my mind went to Scholtens and Shaw as possibilities for a bullpen game. If Shaw has anything left, they might as well use him as an opener. Otherwise I guess they need to call up Scholtens.

They are charging to see BP for a few games? Cheap fuckers

It’s possible. But do we know that it will happen yet? No. It’s possible that they won’t and it’s possible they will. I’d rather let the season play out before they start trading away people and come back with suspects.

Great memory. In this weak division where they will eventually get Hendriks and Jimenez back and they have gotten hot as of late with the bats, it is possible to come back. It might just be a spark that doesn’t last, but they could also go on a tear and get back to winning. That hole they dug at the beginning of the year left me wondering what it would have been like if they didn’t have all of the injuries to start this year even with the awful pitching performances they had in April.

Sadly, I still think they have a shot in a weak AL Central.

Exactly my thought as he mowed those batters down.

His frustration probably blew over, he hasn’t gotten a break from this crew over some balls.

I always thought they needed to spend higher draft picks on starting pitchers. What is the downside in that, they either get injured or fail and go to the bullpen?

Why did they have to deal those picks and players to Orlando and pick up Vucevic when they did?

Ah, the message board I I was banned from for giving their admins some s%*# after I got bored on the whitesox.com message boards and chat room. I then found Soxtalk and 20 years later I’m still here.

David Wells and his bad back say hello. Look at those stats. How can you not like ball players who play most of the season and actually hit for power?

It is fair to say a sell off is coming and it is fair that fans don’t trust either of them for those reasons. For those who are pissed at JR or Hahn, the question still remains, what will you do to pare back spending on the team? The second question is with a sell off, what do fans expect from the sell off and next season?

And Rocky’s b**** ass wouldn’t even address what they are doing today let alone the sins of the past. What an embarrassment of an owner, man and until they address the past or future, the organization. Here’s the Rocky Wirtz outburst.

Boston doesn’t control the direction of the White Sox in the business sense like Wirtz does.

Once the team is different and a sell off happens, then what? Do you all then hope Hahn gets fired and JR keeps the team here or dies so we can endure another rebuild? I got my game in, but will the rest of you limit your games and commit to not buying memorabilia to take a stand?

This. He sounded like an out of touch owner and old man when the issue was raised at the end of season press conference. He didn’t want to talk about the past and didn’t want to talk about how to set things right in the future. If I were a parent of the top draft pick, I would want to know things like that are over and steps would be taken so it wouldn’t happen again.

I mean, they could get a good draft pick at this rate if these results were to hold up. But it’s not like the NFL and this team has so many needs. I don’t want them humiliated, I want progress. I think retooling will actually help and am not a fan of another rebuild. If Hahn gets fired then I can be on board with more changes than retooling. I just don’t see him getting canned.

Yeah, but it’s useless. Does it make everyone feel better to point that vitriol at him when there’s no action taken?