Soxfest

QUOTE (TitoMB @ May 5, 2015 -> 07:21 PM) do we even have a third base coach? or is he asleep right now? No and yes

Nothing has changed. First inning runs galore. I think this will be Robin's last home stand.

Wow Hahn with a list of excuses. Talk all you want Rick, If this home stand is a disaster it Is not too early anymore.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ May 5, 2015 -> 07:41 AM) I honestly think Zayn hurt his shoulder as he was making his entrance into the ring. He was super pumped up obviously and I think he threw out his shoulder getting the crowd going on the steps. Did anybody else see what I'm talking about? Sounds like he hurt it on entrance all reports. Raw last night without the regular authority angle segments 2 times a show for 35 minutes was a nice welcome change. I hope we see less of them on a weekly basis. Best episode Of Raw in 3 years to me.

Sox need to string some wins now.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 5, 2015 -> 04:36 AM) http://chicago.suntimes.com/baseball/7/71/...stand-white-sox On Monday, fans already were calling for a managerial change. The Sox’ front office was not a happy place Monday, but firing Ventura isn’t likely under chairman Jerry Reinsdorf’s watch, the big-league executive said. ‘‘[Adam] LaRoche, [Alexei] Ramirez, Eaton, [Jose] Abreu, [John] Danks, Sale and Samardzija need to pick it up,’’ he said. ‘‘There is no way Jerry Reinsdorf is going to fire Robin Ventura. He’s too loyal.’’ Great, we're probably headed for a "lame duck," lost season. If nothing else, a new manager when the team is psychologically out of the race could at least give the front office a better read on how the team will perform going forward...how much of it is lack of talent/aging veterans and how much of it is attributable to some other variable or "human factor." Loyalty is killing the Sox again and again.

Cubs choking this game away.

Game 2 win would be sweet

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ May 4, 2015 -> 09:12 PM) This feels like the best Raw in years. Did they get new writers? No HHH/Steph makes program 100 times better.

Montreal crowd not Cena fans. Cena vs Zayn nice surprise with Hitman introducing him.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 4, 2015 -> 03:32 PM) Just like he does with his other team. I disagree looks like neither one of us is going to change our mind.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 4, 2015 -> 03:22 PM) So the problem isn't with Jerry at all then. Jerry signs off on all decisions what are you even talking about?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 4, 2015 -> 03:03 PM) This whole forum is becoming ridiculous. I was just asked to defend my position, then the response is "it hurts my eyes" because nobody has the patience anymore for anything that isn't a soundbite or "SABRE stats burn" which is just positioning statistics in a way to attempt to make others look dumb/er half the time or exhibit superiority. You can't have it both ways. Either we have intelligent discussions or we just shout at each other...and Dick Allen tries to score points against me or vice-versa. Do moderators get points for how many posters they can upset or provoke arguments with in a single day? Is the main point for everyone just to insult each other out of frustration with how the White Sox are playing and the state of organization in general? It has got really bad the last 2 years.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 4, 2015 -> 02:24 PM) Yet Jerry owns even more of the Bulls, and they continue to fly high. How does that work, exactly? Getting old only hurts in baseball, but helps in basketball? There is a difference IF Tibs gets fired a Ex Bulls player will not get the job by default, Sox fire Ventura like you said yourself someone in Sox org now will get the job. JR with the Sox is way too loyal in keeping guys around to collect checks for a lifetime.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 4, 2015 -> 01:34 PM) The idea that the White Sox will hire outside of the organization is 100% laughable to me. Anyone who is counting on Ron Gardenhire to be brought in is fooling themselves. I'd say the odds that the replacement manager is already drawing a White Sox paycheck are somewhere around a 2nd standard deviation level of confidence for me. That is also why the Sox are in shape they are in. JR is becoming a detriment to the team every year that goes by.

Nice win now just split at Minn.

Some teams know when to cut bait!

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ May 3, 2015 -> 06:56 PM) Nothing changes until the Sox are sold. Because with this current ownership group, you will not get a movement to, as you shrewdly suggest, "cherry pick...(superior) front office (execs from other teams) to actually build something (representing a sustainable winning Chicago White Sox organization)." No, the approach with Reinsdorf to building a front office and in-game management team continues to be borne of favoritism and loyalty, and favoritism and loyalty only. How else do you either explain the continued employment of people like Williams, Boyer, Pizer, etc in the front office, or the hiring of Ventura, Baines, and Boston in the dugout? I mean, Ventura is the prime example of all of this. He was hired to be the manager of a Major League Baseball team with ZERO managing experience, and he wasn't even in the damn game at the time. Ah, but he was a personal favorite of the Chairman, so that trumped hiring someone like Dave Martinez, who was actually in a dugout for many years learning from someone like Joe Maddon. So firing Robin makes sense, but does it when the next manager is just another Reinsdorf favorite with no experience like Jim Thome, for example. No, it does not. It's really frustrating that we, the fans, continue to suffer from such poor decision making. If the Sox do not make it to the postseason yet again this year, that will represent the 30th time in Reinsdorf's 35 years as owner that they haven't. It's an abysmal record of futility and I, for one, choose to hold Reinsdorf accountable for the continued mess he and his management team deliver to our fan base. I truly do look forward to the day, whenever that is, when we wake up and hear that the team was sold. The idea of a fresh new ownership with different ideas and approaches on how to guide this team that operates in the third largest market to success will be warmly received and embraced. Anything different than what's been peddled these past 35 years, I'll take it. Got nothing to lose at this point. Finally someone that gets it, in reality as Sox fans with JR around nothing will change. Kenny Williams still collecting checks is really all you need to know about Sox brass.

Kenny and RV need to be gone on Monday...................will not happen but that is 100% on JR!

QUOTE (Mike F. @ May 3, 2015 -> 04:54 PM) I bet Ventura gets canned sometime this week. Why wait Monday it should be done.

QUOTE (flavum @ May 3, 2015 -> 04:39 PM) That's an all-time bad road trip for only 5 games played. That may be the worst 5 games I have seen since 1974.

4 DP congrats Sox......................Twins all 4

That has to be caught.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ May 3, 2015 -> 04:13 PM) Avi continues to hit. Only plus the whole week.

Ass