Dick Allen

One of Jon Greenbergs best lines ever For all the things the Sox do wrong — player development, pro scouting, the farm system, stadium operations, stadium security, ownership, management, ticket sales.”

First off, we have no idea if he left for more money. Since he was under contract, he couldn't just leave. He is working at least 127 games which is 35 off, same as what he was doing. Whether you like him or not, he was a White Sox fan long before he became a broadcaster, and he left, after being encouraged to listen to a rival by the team that he loved and worked for. Lip had a piece around a year ago where he talked to people and they came up with many issues. When I read it, my first thought was cmon man. Not that I thought Lip made any of it up, but I figured his sources were making things look way crazier than they could be. As time has gone on abd stories leaked, its been spot on.One issue was the broadcasters and how there was a lot of discontent there. Then Hawk goes on AJs podcast and let's Brooks Boyer have it. I've had a couple on encounters with Brooks, and he was great to me, but Hawk has an issue. Jason apparently does too as Jon Greenberg of the Athletic said their relationship was not the best. But I think where most are missing the point is this guy loved the White Sox, like most everyone on this site. He was under contract. Yet for some reason, and it may be money, but I just doubt it., I think itwas something else. He goes to Detroit? The percentage of people on this site, who if they were the television voice of the White Sox would just someday say, the one thing better than this would be calling Tiger games is miniscule. He isn't Harry. He isn't Haawk. But he's good, and he's one of us. Love him or hate him his replacement is almost certainly a downgrade. Maybe they figure so few will be watching it doesn't matter. I just hope someday soon they hire a guy who will be synonymous with the White Sox for a couple of decades.

That's what I don't get. They lost a guy who if he wasn't an announcer, was such a huge fan of the White Sox, he might have been a Soxtalk poster. He has what he as said was his dream job and he up and leaves to Detroit of all places. It's just a sign of how messed up the organization is. And if anyone thinks the position will be upgraded, they haven't paid attention for a few years.

Funny thing is, people complained about that as well. There never will be someone in the booth everyone likes. Some will have really big issues with who ever calls a game.

He's forbidden by the team to tell the truth about what is going on in the field, so what the f*** is he supposed to do in the booth?

Back in the day they had phone books, Harry's number was listed when he moved into Water Tower Place.

I know youre joking, but I bet he was.

That's nice. I too had an encounter with Farmio, and he was really a sweet guy.

That's why I think there is more to this story. No one seems to be noticing the White Sox encouraging him to pursue the job. It might be that Brooks has been butt hurt ever since Jason disagreed with Brooks' description of their negotiations.

Its one thing if its football or basketball games. It's another if its a baseball job. As I stated before, JR refused to even consider letting KW and RH out of their contracts until Tony told him to fire them.

The White Sox release said they encouraged him to check into the Detroit offer. Would that make you feel you had job security?

When youre as bad as the Sox, people do tune in for the broadcast. Harry and Jimmy was the best show on TV when the Sox were awful.

JR let perhaps the greatest basketball PBP guy ever, Jim Durham, walk from the Bulls.

I would hate for one of the first trades Chris Getz ever makes would be trading Robert. You can't mess that up like the Marlins did with Miggy. Let's see what kind of driving skills he has before giving him keys to the Lambo.

Jason and Steve's best year was 2021 when the Sox were good and they could talk about the game. When the games went bad, it's a different world, they couldn't go all Harry and Jimmy Piersall over them. The broadcast goes off into other areas. They next announcer the Sox get will be just as far up Brooks Boyer's ass as Pedro is up Getz'. He'll be going off on the one hit Koey Lee got a few months back.

Jason wasn't the reason I watched the Sox, but when he wasn't there,and it wasn't Kasper on the call, the downgrade was easy to notice. He did have a lot of fans.

For those of you who think announcers aren't important, see, Caray, Harry.

This is more a firing than Jason just moving to greener pastures. Toronto wanted to talk to KW about a job as their president. JR said no. RH supposedly tried to resign after LaRussa was brought on. JR supposedly said he would hold him to his contract, and wouldn't be able to pursue other MLB jobs until it ran its course. Detroit says, hey we'd like to talk to Jason.....the Sox don't ever want to hold Jason back, you should talk to the Tigers.

When JR's network takes over the games he'll have Gordo, McKnight, and Mike Huff with his ridiculous beard.

It won't, but it's a sign there is something so rotten, a lifelong White Sox fan with his dream job, now would rather be in Detroit.

If my boss encouraged me to pursue a job with a competitor, I would believe he was trying to tell me something. The Sox statement reminded me of the time Ron Schueler encouraged Jeff Torborg to listen to what the Mets had to say.

This guy was a huge White Sox fan. I can't imagine how much money he needed to make himself a Tigers fan instead. I thought unless he went Joe Buck and went national, he was in the booth for 30 years.

Probably after an exhaustive search, they will decide on the very poor man's Chip Caray, Mr. Conor McKight, saying they did it for the fans. It would take at least a season for someone from the outside to get to know the team.

To me, this is shocking. If it were to do the game of the week or something like that, it would be a different story. But while under contract to go to Detroit? C'mon man, there is some more White Sox dysfunction.

Steve was unavailable.