Dick Allen

Released. The woman he assaulted was holding a baby.

Bryant's homer today landed in the front row with the wind blowing out.ESPN stats said in normal weather, Wrigley Field is the only park that is a home run. Its not who you play, but where you play em.

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ May 25, 2015 -> 11:06 AM) Since Jerry Reinsdorf took over the club in 1981, of the other 25 non-expansion teams in existence since then, only four of those teams (Royals, Mariners, Brewers, & Nationals) have been to the postseason fewer times than the Sox. And of those four, one team, the Royals, have made a World Series appearance more often than the Sox. If this record of futility doesn't bother you, if you are fine buying a ticket and getting the kind of quality we just saw during this last home stand, and in 2014, 2013, 2011, all the way through most of Reinsdorf's 35 years at the helm, well then fine - have at it. Buy a full season ticket package and get out there to the park and cheer on the mediocrity. But please don't be so crass and condescending with your completely unnecessary "cyber pat" comments when some of us legitimately look at the record of achievement of the ball club and, on a fan message board, suggest it should be better. You are the one who says the White Sox have had 1 exciting season over the last 35, so postseason appearances that don't result in winning a WS would be considered total failure and an unexciting season. Yet you use postseason non WS win appearance as positives for other teams. It is too bad you have to wait until almost November to determine if a season was exciting or not. But since the last time the White Sox won the WS and had an exciting season according to your parameters, there are 24 teams that have had a just as worthless existance Baseball probably isn't for you.

His mom said he was a good boy. I am sure this is just another misunderstanding. This was beyond predictable, and as much as I hear embarrasing being overused in sports, this should be really emabrrassimg to the Bears. Pace shiuld be on notice. Fangio should be on notice, and George McCaskey needs to realize guys that beat and rape women generally don't stop as long as they have access to doing these things.

BTW at the Chicago Sports Depot at the park, they had those The straw that stirs the drink t shirts. They weren't the flourecent green the players have, they are yellow, and a bit pricey at $30.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 23, 2015 -> 08:06 PM) So much for the theory that Van Gundy was helping Thibs. It still might be. The Bulls obviously don't want to pay Thibs, if the teams he is willimg to be "traded" to dries up, or at least appears that way, the Bulls are left bringing him back, which would be actually very interesting, or paying him sit. I really don't know if a second round pick is worth $4.5 million which I think the Bulls owe him next season.

No Hawk this road trip. The Swirsk will be in the booth

Aviation is really limping

Coming into yesterday's game, LaRoche had a .443 OBP his last 18 games. Why is the target on him just getting bigger here?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 22, 2015 -> 03:19 PM) Did the White Sox begin the season in a fashion that demonstrated to anyone they were prepared to play...or even competitive? No, they got blown out by the Twins and Royals. And, as we ALL know, 1983 is the only season we've improved in the second half of a season and sustained it into the playoffs. And actually, those numbers were still a 25% improvement on similar dates last April and May. Progress! You do realize you were responding to your own quote I hope.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 23, 2015 -> 09:51 AM) Really? Tell me which of those numbers is incorrect? I didn't check the numbers, they mught be correct. But Wild Card? When?

As soon as the shadows hit the scoring came to a new end. Hopefully some clouds move in for the bottom of the 9th

As soon as the shadows hit the scoring came to a new end. Hopefully some clouds move in for the bottom of the 9th

QUOTE (Heads22 @ May 23, 2015 -> 05:29 PM) Hicks robs Eaton of at least a double. At least a triple.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 23, 2015 -> 11:33 AM) And of course, he's 1/11 at the plate since he was pulled from the game Monday with 5 K's. And of course that is all because of his knee, yet he hurt his knee in Oakland and did fine on Sunday.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 23, 2015 -> 09:50 AM) If your leg is so sore you need to ask out of a game you shouldn't be playing in another 18 hours later. He didn't ask out but facts shouldn't come into play, as I am sure the front office and training staff told Robin he needed to sit, and he just ignored them.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 23, 2015 -> 09:54 AM) FWIW, this stadium is approaching 25 years old. That puts it in the 10 oldest ballparks in the league, plus a lot of the older ones (Fenway, Wrigley, Angels, Kaufmann) have undergone major makeovers. If you drop those out since they kind of became new-ish stadiums, only really Dodgers Stadium, the Oakland Coliseum, Rogers Center, and Tropicana field are genuinely older. It has also been almost totally renovated in the last 12 years. The Sox also have a lease they would be foolish to try to break, and the are making money. So they really aren't goimg anywhere for a while.

QUOTE (glangon @ May 23, 2015 -> 10:22 AM) Retiral is a word, it's in the Oxford English Dictionary and its roots are Scottish, which is where I'm from. If you guys can miss out the U in colour, then I can use retiral. Do you wear a kilt? I ran into some Scottish guys at a bar a few years ago and they were in kilts. We asked them a lot of questions. They were hysterical.

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ May 23, 2015 -> 07:16 AM) HA! Oh, I have, and with very good reason. The results of Jerry Reinsdorf's 35 years at the helm of this franchise have been a disaster. He has only one season during his tenure as owner that he can point to and really claim to be an exciting and successful one - '05. During the other 34 years, the team only won the division a measly four times, and the playoff appearances those four years were anything but memorable. And then we wonder why the fan base is dormant. Why we have to operate like a small market team because the team Reinsdorf routinely runs out there is not postseason caliber. That is really a horrible record of futility, no matter how you look at it. No sustainable success for three and a half decades now. Meanwhile, over the years he's publicly fought with the likes of Harry Caray, Carlton Fisk and Larry Himes while remaining unapologetically loyal to people like Kenny Williams, Buddy Bell, Robin Ventura, etc. He dumps Harry Caray and WGN in the '80s in favor of SportsVision. He hires Hawk Harrelson to be GM and ends up losing Tony LaRussa in the process. He blackmails the state of Illinois to build him a new stadium while also providing him with a sweetheart lease deal, and then turns around and directs the construction of an abysmally designed ballpark. He fires Himes who drafted Frank Thomas, Ventura, Jack McDowell, Alex Fernandez, Jason Bere, and who traded for Lance Johnson and Wilson Alvarez, claiming Himes got the team from "point A to point B", but he didn't think he could get the team to "point C", i.e., the World Series. In his judgement, Ron Schueler was the guy who could do that. How'd that work out for us! It could have happened in '94, except the Chairman chose his burning desire to break the players' union over the World Series aspirations of his team and fans that year. Terry Freaking Bevington! White flag trade. The list goes on and on and on with this failure. This franchise is in desperate need of new leadership, strategy and vision from the very top. That is very clear. Jerry Reinsdorf has been the owner now for 35 years, and he holds claim to a very unimpressive record of achievement. Yes, the WS championship in '05 was amazing, but that does and cannot mask the other 34 years. The White Sox need new ownership. It's that simple. LMAO.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 22, 2015 -> 07:15 PM) From 2006-2015 the White Sox are 736-760 with 1 wild card birth. You are wrong again.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ May 22, 2015 -> 07:29 PM) Sox just do not answer when teams score first. I think by the time Sox return from road trip this could get very ugly. Yeah only 13 comeback wins so far.

From 2005-2010 White Sox won at least 88 games 4 times. After 2006, attendance went down every season.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 22, 2015 -> 03:16 PM) Even before that, fans were going to games in Boston. Long before they made three straight playoff appearances, fans were going to games. It was only a year before the White Sox won that the Red Sox ended their drought.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 22, 2015 -> 03:14 PM) And as the stadium ages year after year, I feel like that argument can get a bit more compelling over time. The stadium is fine. The seats are a few years old. They do concrete work every year, sometimes even during the season. They are due a couple new boards soon, but they are going to be there for a while. JR's deal is too sweet.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 22, 2015 -> 03:08 PM) We keep hearing two lousy examples. 2008 had a huge falloff in attendance for two obvious reasons. The complete debacle that was 2007 paired with the total demise that was the second half of 2006. Every study has shown the positive effects of winning a World Series wear off in 4-5 years. Exactly what happened. Not to mention the fact that sales are usually 80% a reflection of the previous season...not "in season" walk ups. That's also a huge reason 2012 was disappointing....what happened in 2011? Another complete meltdown of historic proportions where Dunn was regularly earning column space in the NY Times. Other than that, we have some evidence (but not definitive proof because of a one-team market and the Illitch ownersip anomaly that Tigers fans are "better" somehow). Meanwhile, we can point to teams like Colorado, Arizona, Seattle, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Cincy, KC, the Mets until this season despite a new stadium, Toronto, Baltimore and Minnesota (look at their attendance this year after four losing seasons despite being a "winner" so far). And Braves fans were notorious for not showing up in the regular season or even during the playoffs because they didn't truly believe their teams could win it all. The main outliers are TB (stadium), Cubs, Cardinals, Brewers, A's, Marlins and Tigers. (There's also zero relevance comparing us to the Yankees, Red Sox, Giants, Dodgers or even the Angels). So i just named 13 franchises that are very similar to us in responding to winners. On the other side of the ledger is the Brewers, Cubs, Cards and Tigers. Maybe we should hire the Brewers' entire staff, steal their stadium and move it to a more optimal location...that seems to be the only conclusion to draw. There's certainly no debating we got the very worst of all the new stadiums built in the last 25 years, unless younwant to argue Citi Field in NY. QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 18, 2015 -> 10:09 PM) * Finally, how can the White Sox, after winning five in a row on the road, and having Kluber AND Sale on the mound, only draw 17,712 fans? What was wrong with the weather? Blackhawks again?