Dick Allen

Back to Clevinger, I was watching Chicago Tonight last night on WTTW. One of the guests is an anchor on WGN. He echoed what has been said here, even going so far on public tv to call the White Sox too cheap to vet Clevinger properly. He acknowledged this particular accusation might not have been attainable, but as been mentioned here, there’s a lot more out there. Then even the host of the WTTW program wondered why the Sox were not cutting ties with this guy. I’m guessing for financial reasons. We are only a couple of weeks from spring training report day. This has been going on since the summer with MLB, so you figure they won’t have a final judgement by then. Does he show up, or do they put him on the administrative leave?

Think how much money they could make for charities if the had a JR, KW and RH dunk tank. All sitting together. I'd pay a lot per toss, and show up at a 35 degree game vs the Tigers in April if I had a shot of getting them wet.

Instead of these worthless bars in the upper deck, build a dispensary/coffeeshop where fans can buy and use their weed. It's a win/win. Sox make more money, more fans can tolerate the product they put on the field by ingesting products into their bodies.

I hope they have a plan for the rest of the pool other than selling it to get salary relief, but at least they signed 19 guys. Hopefully one or two will turn out very useful.

But 516 and 548 aren’t handicapped sections.

Does the timing have anything to do with the Clevinger situation?

Usually the first thing is these allegations are false, a total denial. This wasn't anything close to a denial. “We need to fairly and thoroughly protect our client and at the same time be respectful of the White Sox and MLB,” said Clevinger's agent, Seth Levinson in a statement provided to The Athletic And I guess by being respectful to the White Sox, that doesn't include giving them a heads up on the investigation until the contract is signed, and the accuser is going public.

i think he's of the age and at the time in his career where travelling to call all these games is still fun. Most people who have had to travel for work initially thought it was pretty cool, but eventually thought it was a pain in the ass. I think in a few years Jason either goes the Joe Buck way where he does one game a week for a couple of sports, or eventually bags the football and basketball and does baseball full time with his winters off.

I just don't know where they make their money back here. There are 8 seats in an undesirable location for most. They took out 8 rows of seats for this. They sell those for Cubs games and opening day. Do they really think they will make that up in beer sales there? There are other places to buy beer. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of games up until now, if you wanted to get a beer from a vendor or your nearest stand, and wanted to mosey down to section 516 to watch the game, there probably were seats open in the first couple of rows.

The Sox initially had bigger plans for the bars when it applied for a building permit in September, but the bars were simplified afterward to meet the budget. Just like the roster. A recurring issue.

I would think if it was totally false, an investigation, which has been going on since the summer, would have probably been closed by now. There's even more layers to this. It seems the more you hear, the bigger asshole this guy is. My buddy once told me the one nice thing about Albert Belle was he made no effort to try to come off as anything other than he was, a total asshole. It's the guys who are so phony that are really bothersome.

The only major league team that would have Rick Hahn as their GM is the White Sox.

The Texas basketball coarch was recently fired for abuse. His girlfriend or fiance did recant, said it was all her fault. She provoked the poor guy, but it was too little late. Probably was going to be paid off for dropping the charges. But it didn't work.

Most of the Royals couldn't hit. I like Pedro. I think he was a good hire. But if they think he and his coaching staff alone are going to make these guys so much better, Pedro is going to have an impossible job. I guess if you don't want to spend and no team will give you a bargain in a trade, its all thats left.

Yet it appeared the Padres had very little interest in a return.

While your thought is logical, I would imagine some of that depth would be headed the other way if there was a trade.

I know supposedly the investigation can't be revealed, but I find it hard to believe they couldn't find out there was an ongoing investigation into this guy even if they didn't tell them what it was about.

I get all that but the problem is, of all the free agent pitchers, he picked this guy. There were red flags with him about other things. Hahns instincts are horrendous.

He's actually hit with more power at home than on the road for his career.

Talk to me after the parade.

Weren't his numbers poor at 2B though last season? I read one of the sites had him below average. I won't buy that, he's obviously got a nice glove, but still a .600 OPS at best is going to require a lot of glove. If he was a bench guy, fine, but he is being driven out of the KC line up, and they are a really bad team.

Hes a utility guy. He's basically Yolmer Sanchez, althouh he can probably steal a lttile more, even though he isn't all that fast, and hit fewer homers.

What should have happened is Clevinger or his agent could have alerted the Sox at some point.

The other good news is Hahns best decisions are the ones where he has no choice. Cueto because Lynn was injured, and Andrus gets waived right when TA goes down. Any fantasy league person could have done that.

Apparently they don’t have to disclose it, but unless they too knew nothing about it, which seems hard to believe, it seems slimy Clevinger and/or his agents didn’t give the White Sox some sort of heads up.