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There's a reason why Getz said Acuna was a switch hitter. He was dizzy from doing cartwheels after he got a taker (sucker ) to take the money and give up 2 players. The players were secondary as long as they got the money. Getting an athletic , fast SS with bloodlines wasn't a terrible idea. There's enough there to work with but not having options kind of sucked. He really should be in the minors undergoing treatment from Dr. Fuller.

This team hits way more HR's and takes more walks and is way more left-handed however they both generated excitement. Big time power always brings in the Southsiders. We've had far too few teams like that. The 1977 team was like that. Oscar Gamble led the team in HR. The South Side Hit Men Oscar Gamble 31 3.6 WAR Richie Zisk 30 2.7 WAR Eric Soderholm 25 4.4 WAR Chet Lemon 19 5.9 WAR Jim Spencer 18 Lamar Johnson 18 Jorge Orta 11 Jim Essian 10 3.4 WAR Brian Downing 1.5 WAR so catching was great. Ralph Garr 10 Also had Lerrin LaGrow at closer had 7 wins and 25 saves and 4.2 WAR Finished 90-72 which was 3rd in the AL West. So no playoffs. Gamble and Zisk were impending free agent traded for by Veeck for 1 year each so next year they were gone and the wins and losses .reversed. Rich Gossage and Terry Forster were traded to the Pirates. So some of the 1st rental players. Bucky Dent and the young Lamar Hoyt were traded to the Yankees. Hoyt never pitched for the Yankees and the Sox reacquired him for the 1979 season when he was 24 years old. The Sox hit a then franchise record for HR with 192.

Have you used an internet browser on your smart TV ? I can get you the game or any game if you want to message me. It's probably the easiest way if you have a fairly new 4K smart TV.

Sure did ! He crushed that one 415 ft. Montgomery's HR landed in almost the same spot.

Beauty and the Beat will be celebrating it's 45th anniversary of its release date in a month. It was released 7/15/1981. Just about every song from that album I'd hear on the radio. Of course that was a time when New Wave was following on the heels of punk and the success of albums was not rooted in top 40 hits anymore since music was divided up into genres and played on the corresponding stations on FM. Here in California it was the very popular KROQ (rock of the 80's). By 1982 FM had around 70% of the general audience and 84% in the 12-24 demographic (where I fit in ) at that time. To me it's funny to always see the blue background on that album. It wasn't released that way. It originally had a pink/peach colored background but the girls didn't like it so it was changed. Not sure when. But if you're looking for an early pressing look for the pink/peach vinyl or CD pressing. Also at various times it's been in Rolling Stones Top 500 albums of all time or however they re-titled that category over the years.

Can't forget that 4 guys are starting rehab assignments tomorrow. Reinforcements coming...Teel, Schultz, Shane Smith and McDougal. Good luck gentlemen !

I just came here to see if anyone mentioned this too. I knew I had also heard that.

One of the best albums of all time !

Sox are going to pick up Kenley Jansen for cheap from the Tigers. You heard it here 1st .😜

The love of a grateful nation !

The White Sox are The BEAST ! 666 6 runs on 6 hits in the 6th inning !!

8 straight home series wins for 1st time since 2003 !

That was so easy !!

What a lovely inning !💣🎆💣🎆💣🎆

There is being a Sox fan and rooting for them to be no hit. If they get beat I sure as hell don't want them no hit. Why would you want that ? Just to say you witnessed baseball history ? Did you want the Sox to be historically bad too ? NO you did not. You hated it even when it was a rebuild and you're supposed to lose. I don't see any difference between those things. At least I could accept the rebuild losses knowing that there was some plan in place. I know that puts me in an isolated position because of the woe that has followed that season where people were so angry that they couldn't even acknowledge there was meaning behind it just like there was meaning in the rebuild that Hahn and KW orchestrated that everyone had unbridled enthusiasm for. The Sox skipped the 10-15 years of being "mired in medocrity" and went straight to bad enough to tear it all down again. If you look at it like that it's not that long to wait from 2024 to what this is now in 2026. Getz didn't start the rebuild by actually trying to contend and trading away what little prospects they had before he declared that rebuilding was the only way out like the Hahn/ KW era did. How that time period got so much support I have no idea. Lets screw it up for 10-15 years, trade the good prospects away, screw it up even more then tell JR we need to rebuild . Sure it looked like a successful rebuild until it suddenly collapsed because it had no foundation. JR will still JR and Hahn and KW still didnt know how to truly rebuild the rot because they were the rot. What's happening now is just a small victory. There's years to go before we will see how it all turns out but I like the idea of trying to emulate the Brewers and Rays without money while JR is still around so when the Ishbia money is there maybe there will be an actual team and front office with a knowledge of how to run a modern baseball franchise.

If I may be an intermediary in the Peters discussion. I have not dove in his pedigree. All ballplayers have some degree of pedigree but so much growth has to happen to become a good major league hitter. Pedigree can work against you because you become less adaptable. Now a lot of that growth is being attributed to luck and when you read statistics it jumps out at you. What strikes me is that recent Fegan article where Venable defined the Sox hitting philosophy as selective hitting where you have to identify the right pitch to hit and put a healthy well timed swing on it. You refine your swing which then leads to defining how well you can attack those in zone meatballs. He's actually better at doing that than Colson Montgomery but he doesn't have the power to consistently jack it out of the yard. Peters hard hits all seem to be mostly pulled so he has identified the pitches that he can do damage on. He had a pretty destructive May for a guy perceived as having just a little pop. After May was over and he was sitting at 1.5 fWAR it was equal parts offense and defense. If you have great defense always with your game it makes it so much easier to find a hitting philosophy that you can work with. In the 1st 2 weeks of June to go along with his studly May he's jumped up another .5 WAR and is now at 2. Pitchers haven't yet figured out his hot zone and the fielders in the outfield are really going to have to start playing him to pull much more . He's going to have to be pitched away a lot more. Then we'll see if he can readjust to that. Edit: He's now at a whopping 7 Outs Above Average which is good for being in the 98th percentile.

Delauter has come down quite a bit from his hot start and Bazzana has come down too but not quite much.

I put on a very special White Sox jacket before Peters AB. After the HR I took it off and thanked the person who's jacket it used to be in heaven.

Good choice references L.A. and Chicago in it.

Sounds like it should've been in the Blues Brothers along with Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, John Lee Hooker & Cab Calloway since both the song Take Me to the River and The Blues Brother had gospel and other religious undertones in it .

Can honestly say that I did not know this was an Al Green song. Unless it's even older than this recording. I'm partial to the Talking Heads version.

Just went on the Baseball Reference White Sox page and saw this: Playoff Odds: 62.7% to make postseason, 1.6% to win World Series This is also game #69 for the season. On this date the Sox are 58-49 vs RHP 2026: 27-21

That's really the best case scenario with maybe Mason Adams , Thorpe or Berroa contributing but those are even bigger longshots.

Good luck brother 🖖

I was talking to my TV "right size , wrong shape Stoney" . You only worked with the guy for how many years ?