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670 The Score ‏@670TheScore 16m16 minutes ago On air, @MLBBruceLevine said Dexter Fowler will "probably" sign elsewhere next yr & he's hearing #Cubs are more interested in Jason Heyward.

QUOTE (Hatchetman @ Oct 19, 2015 -> 10:27 AM) I PREDICT.....Alexei will be back at SS, but the 2016 opening day 3B and 2B are not currently on the roster. Agree with you on Alexei and 3B. 2B will be Saladino or Sanchez, leaning towards Sanchez.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Oct 18, 2015 -> 02:37 PM) Wasn't there a rumor going into the draft that Theo coveted Rodon? Yeah, this totally.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Oct 19, 2015 -> 08:31 AM) McDermott to come off the bench this season (or for now, at least), according to Hoiberg. He hinted at this starting lineup for the regular season: Rose Butler Snell Mirotic Gasol Hopefully that means they are saving Jo's knees with smart minutes.

With both Lester and Arrieta going down, there should be plenty of panic today in Wrigleyville. They have Hendricks against DeGrom in Game 3 too.

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ Oct 18, 2015 -> 10:50 AM) Correction: this is what "we" have "gotten" out of the team during Reinsdorf's years as owner, from a purely team results point of view. Our Sox did not win one playoff series in 34 of his 35 years as owner - that's been unfortunate for us all. What Kansas City Royals fans have gotten to experience these past two years with their team going deep into the postseason in consecutive seasons, Reinsdorf has failed to provide us such an experience in 35 years. That's the record of the past and it is certainly worthy of mention and debate. Now moving forward, I, as would most of the fans at this site who are more team results-oriented and less insults-to-other-fans focused, we simply would like more winning and more active participation in the postseason. How much more simply stated could that be. There are legitimate questions and concerns, however, as to whether Reinsdorf and his management team can make that happen based on their less-than-impressive track record. I HOPE THEY DO! It's fine if some fans like yourself, SS2K5, don't necessarily need to see the team in the postseason any more frequently than the pace they currently make it there. That's up to you to decide for yourself. But for the rest of us, just be respectful of our desire for the U.S. Cellular electric bill to be much higher in October more frequently than it has been over the past few decades. Respectful would also include not turning every single thread into the exact same trite referendum on ownership.

QUOTE (ewokpelts @ Oct 18, 2015 -> 06:32 AM) Journalistic integrity and sports go great together. Like how no one knew Mickey mantle was a raging drunk because he was drinking with the press. or joe cowley's second job as The guillen family spokesman. And let's not forget mariotti Or that Roosevelt was a handicapped man in a wheelchair...

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ Oct 17, 2015 -> 11:57 PM) That's an interesting theory, and if you have any evidence to back it up, I'm sure we'd all be interested in hearing about it. In the meantime, let's be very clear in what most of the rest of us are talking about as it relates to the state of things today with the White Sox. No one other than Dick Allen with his post here has suggested that Mr. Reinsdorf has "screwed all of us", per se. But he has FAILED US. Failed us on so many fronts over the years, they're too numerous to count at this point! He's mocking you, and it went over your head.

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ Oct 17, 2015 -> 09:04 PM) Another throw away comment only meant to insult, when you can't refute facts. So sad for you. Meanwhile, in 34 of Jerry Reinsdorf's 35 years of ownership of our White Sox, the team has failed to win even one playoff series. Not one! It's almost impossible to believe. The Kansas City Royals have a more impressive postseason record during this same time period, for crying out loud. That's why when we true diehard fans see the kinds of results we've seen as recently as the past decade, and yet the operating model still continues to be dominated by an unaccountable loyalty program, you see the angst in so many comments at a site like this. It also explains the miserably low attendance and TV ratings. These are the facts of the past as they relate to Reinsdorf's management of the team. He's been a complete disaster as owner. Now, can he and his unaccountable henchmen find a way to turn this thing around and find that elusive "sustained success" they've been "talking about" for so long now? I guess it's possible - anything can happen. But boy oh boy, their track record doesn't create much confidence in their ability to do so. I hope they prove me wrong! This is my point exactly. This is what you get out of the team. Nothing good at all. Every single post is misery. It is like Kathy Bates has Jerry Reinsdorf locked in the room with your keyboard.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Oct 18, 2015 -> 10:06 AM) He was ejected in Baltimore when had that quality start streak ended. Complete BS ejection. The one where Joe West called him for the balks, and screwed up the ejection call.

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ Oct 16, 2015 -> 10:13 PM) I do enjoy the "good more", which is why I, unlike you, continue to look forward and strive for better than what we've achieved. You and Dick Allen are very clear in your acceptance of the status quo. Long ago, fans like you and Dick Allen kind of gave up, seemingly, and resigned yourselves to season after season of little to no expectations. That's why you're not disappointed in the team's results that practically every other fan base wouldn't tolerate. How else do you explain someone like Dick Allen pointing to seasons like 2003, 2004, 2006, and 2010 as "exciting seasons"? They were certainly better than many other dreadful seasons the Reinsdorf era has coughed up on us, but that doesn't make them exciting in the classical sense. You and Dick Allen focus more on excuse making for the horrid record of Reinsdorf over the past 35 years than I do reporting accurately on it, which is saying something, given my consistency of pointing it out. Life is what you make of it, as you rightly suggest. If that involves settling for much less than you should, then that's ok, if that's what you desire. It's also ok if you strive for something a little bit more, which overwhelmingly, the majority of fans of our White Sox on this site seem to do. That is the most ridiculous justification of misery I have ever read. You sound like a battered spouse who is still trying to fix him. If you actually enjoyed the team at all, you wouldn't be constantly be complaining about the last 35 years all of the time.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 16, 2015 -> 06:52 AM) I stop for a full 15 minutes at every stop sign. Liar.

QUOTE (fathom @ Oct 16, 2015 -> 08:27 PM) Um no, go KC if it's vs Cubs Totally this.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Oct 16, 2015 -> 06:52 PM) Sorry my beliefs offend you. I was brought up when journalism actually mattered and people at least had some ethics. Guess I'm simply out of place in today's s***ty world then. And as someone in the business editorials are a far different avenue than reporting. Mark Offend? God no. They don't matter nearly that much.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Oct 16, 2015 -> 12:29 AM) If you don't root for your city's team, you're just a hater. Call me Hater.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Oct 16, 2015 -> 03:56 PM) Let me put it this way, from a journalistically ethically standpoint ABSOLUTELY. But you and I know that's not how it works not with the way things are. But yes those professional teams should get a fair share of coverage regardless of if anybody cares or not. It's not the newspapers / broadcasters job to decide what coverage to give, the job they have is to cover everything as equally as possible without bias as much as possible. Period. Mark lol, that is the most idealistic, unrealistic thing I have ever read. Even in one of my all time favorite books on historical editorials, there is no hint of that, and we are talking about editorials all of the way back to the Civil War.

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ Oct 16, 2015 -> 04:59 PM) Wrong song, LeRoy! I'd much rather enjoy and be chatting about good White Sox baseball than complain about bad White Sox baseball. Unfortunately, we've had more of the latter than former the past 35 years under the leadership of you-know-who. But you are correct about one thing - life is good! I just want White Sox baseball to be good as well, and enjoy more of it in the form of exciting postseason play than we have in the past 35 years. That little request there - more postseason play - is the point I keep making but which you inexplicably keep equating to complaining and whining and moaning and this and that. I don't know why you do that, but you do. It seems to be your thing. That's ok, though. I can handle it. I'll just "olay" that charging bull off to the side and continue on my merry way. Why? Because as a wise man once said: "Life is good." You might think that you enjoy the good more, but you sure focus on the bad, almost exclusively. Life it what you make of it, and being a fan of a team isn't much different.

QUOTE (TheFutureIsNear @ Oct 16, 2015 -> 02:38 PM) Thought about him, but he still has a 6 year $100M extension that hasn't even stated yet. No thanks unless the Rays would eat a big chunk of $ and I don't see them as the type of team to do that. These days, that isn't as much as it seems. It could also serve to bring down his price.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Oct 16, 2015 -> 09:25 AM) And how should he have used his personnel this season? It's not like he had a bounty of options. Beckham and Bonaficio completely stunk up the joint at the plate. I think he utilized Shuck/Soto pretty well, and when Saladino came up he stopped using Conor as he should have. Only issue was maybe taking too long to pull the plug on LaRoche, but it's not like there were a lot of better options and it wasn't necessarily a bad idea to see if he could turn it around. Totally agreed. The problems weren't as much with the bench, as with starters you had counted on, flopping.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Oct 16, 2015 -> 11:24 AM) It is now thanks to the marketing genius of the Tribune Company and the fact that for whatever reason the Sox felt they couldn't take the Cubs on when they bought the club in January of 1981 BEFORE the Cubs had that advantage. Historically though that wasn't always the case, during the Golden Age (again as I point out in the stories) it was the Sox who got the lion's share of the coverage. I think Sox fans would be fine with an honest split in coverage but that's not going to happen even though journalistically and ethically it is supposed to be that way. Mark Let me put it this way, should the Trib spend the same amount of time covering the Sky and the Fire, as they do the Bears and the Bulls?

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ Oct 16, 2015 -> 02:43 PM) Actually, and maybe you know this, Dick Allen, but was 1983 "exciting"? Most of us, the very great majority of us, in fact, certainly heard it was, but we wouldn't really know. Because that year, due to one of King Reinsdorf's many franchise-crippling moves from over the years, that particular team was practically hidden away from us on that brilliant brain child of Reinsdorf and Einhorn's known as "Sportsvision". So instead of having 150 games or so on free TV like the Cubs did the next season in '84 during their successful run that year, which made them wildly popular throughout the city and beyond, that '83 team, which was a very good team, was seen on free TV a mere 32 times, with the balance on Sportsvision, which practically no one subscribed to. I, like so many, had to rely on the broadcast stylings of one Joe McConnell on WMAQ radio to paint the mental image of what was happening on the field with that '83 team. So if it was exciting, it's only because McConnell told us so, thanks to that failed get-rich-quick Sportsvision scheme. Very impressive move of the goalposts.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 15, 2015 -> 11:14 PM) The Cubs fanbase is at least double the size of the Sox, if not more. And that doesn't count all the more Cubs fans outside of Chicago. Why would you expect the media to spend more time on the Sox? Totally this as well.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Oct 15, 2015 -> 08:20 PM) I think it's pretty clear especially now how many pro Cub supporters are in the Chicago media. Gonzales and Cowley both confirmed this in part II of the original story. I don't have a problem with that as long as it doesn't spill over into the way those people cover things but unfortunately it does and that violates every journalistic / broadcasting rule out there. "Back in the Day" newspapers in particular used to either hire people from out of town or they'd rotate the beat writers at the All Star Break. The guy who started the season with the Cubs would be switched to the Sox beat and visa versa. They don't do that anymore. Mark They tailor the news to those who are buying it. That is what media is these days. Look no further than Fox News and MCNBC. People find the news they want to hear. Sports are no different. It is why you always hear about the Cubs in Chicago, and teams like New York and Boston on the national sports channels. The rules of journalistic integrity have been gone for a generation now.

QUOTE (shipps @ Oct 15, 2015 -> 05:09 PM) I have to say I really cant stand Derrick Rose. Its not that meatball sports fan type of hate either. Its the "I know a dumb ass and bad dude when I see one" type of hate. Can't stand is a good way to put it. I don't hate the guy. It isn't like he is a wife beater, a rapist, or Jay Cutler. But the guy just irks me every single time he opens his mouth. He could own this town if he would shut his mouth for a while, but he has no desire to do anything but worry about himself outloud.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Oct 15, 2015 -> 07:43 PM) I still think he wants to end his career in St. Louis or Chicago If we pulled off a Quintana for a 3B and/or C plus many other parts type of deal, I would LOVE to get Mark back on a one or two year deal. Those two moves alone could change the fortunes of the franchise in a hurry.