South Side Fireworks Man

And a couple of people laughed when I said it could wind up worse than if JR did nothing.

I was at that game. Bought a $1.00 Bleacher ticket like I did for every game Harry would broadcast from the CF bleachers. Sat there right behind Harry for most of the game but then went and snuck into seats in the upper deck just between 3B and Home Plate. That's when Dick hit that Home Run into the CF bleachers where I had previously been sitting. I miss the days when White Sox baseball was fun and full of likable characters.

So LaRussa knew Hahn and KW had to be overruled by JR to get rehired as manager. Then he becomes a FO consultant. JR conducts "internal interviews" (gee, I wonder with whom?) and it's decided that Hahn and KW need to be fired. Then the rumors begin that the replacement is someone TLR thinks highly of.

I always liked KW more than Hahn but if this is true KW was even worse than Hahn. Edit: But why would dealing Burger keep them from dealing Anderson? Unless some team demanded Burger as a condition for taking Anderson's contract.

Why the negativity?

Did anyone think JR was going to change? This organization was horseshit from the day they bought the team.

I liked the way Stu Holcomb and Roland Hemond approached things when they took over after the 56-106 1970 season.

Get well soon!

All he had to do was look in the mirror.

He's the biggest problem!

At least the Sox had a seat at the table.

At least Kenny was never complacent with losing and was never shy about shaking things up when he felt the players weren't performing up to his expectations. Trade deadlines and offseasons were always much more interesting under KW than after Hahn took over.

Worse than nothing.

Wow! Didn't see that coming so soon! Now JR should hire Theo Epstein or someone like that to run everything. But he'll probably just promote/hire some other incompetent cronies to take their places.

This guy? That would have been interesting!

Oh, what might have been! The White Sox could have become a great franchise under DeBartolo but instead became an irrelevant joke under the two asshole "Sunshine Boys."

How about the Cubs and the Sox merge into one Chicago team called the Cocks?

Unless it's with different, competent owners.

He and Einhorn bought the team and immediately dissed Bill Veek. Then they fired the popular Jimmy Piersall, took the Sox off free TV on national superstation WGN, causing the beloved Harry Caray to go to the crosstown rival Cubs which cemented Chicago as a Cubs town. Then when his team clinched the division, he promptly used the occasion to call Harry and Jimmy "scum" only to watch his team be defeated in the first round never to return to the playoffs for another decade. Then he threatened to move the team to Florida, tore down the beloved Comiskey Park and held up the taxpayers of Illinois to build an ugly monstrosity of a stadium. He has hired nothing but cronies instead of competent baseball people, making this franchise a joke and just about irrelevant. Screw him and the horse he road in on. He should just sell, take his profit and go away. Or if they contract this franchise, so be it.

I wouldn't.

What a jerk.

Well, he didn't miss much.

Too bad you're not in charge of it.

And we know how that turned out.

He's probably still a Dodgers fan. The White Sox are just a money making investment to him.