Dick Allen

No it's not. He wasn't ready to pitch the first 6 or 7 weeks of the season. They knew that going in. For a team that supposedly has budget problems all the time, they sure do spend a lot on shit. Shit everyone can see coming for miles.

Maybe Joe Kelly would feel more comfortable closing. He sucks.

Figures. My wait on the waiting list ended this year.

Unless the Sox are looking for a chemist to fix their hitting woes, Cano is not a solution. They could use a 2B. It isn't even clear if Cano can still play there. They need to aim a bit higher.

People get fired, and they wonder why. He was with the team for a long time. I would bet someone told him it was because he was gay. That doesn't mean it was. That person might have considered him a friend, didn't think it out, and didn't want to tell him there was a possibility they fired him because he wasn't good at his job or some other reason. And maybe during their conversation Ball led him to saying that. Maybe he told the guy he thought it was because he was gay, and the guy responded, yes. Or maybe the guy is a whistleblower. The fact is, there probably isn't a large employer that hasn't had similar lawsuits filed against them. Age, orientation, disability...if you were looking for a job and saw these lawsuits, and what was on the lawsuit filed, you considered gospel, would have a very hard time finding employment. .

Why didn't he file suit once he was told that either? That was December of 2020, It's been a pretty long time. He's thrown a couple of discriminations at them. Sexual orientation and age, which begins at 40. Yet they employed him and promoted him after that age. Yet, it could be true. My take is they probably tried to settle before the suit. Told the team if you don't settle, this would happen, and it would obviously become public. As to individual A, I would say it's probably better than even money he told Ball that. But if he was speaking to him, he's probably a friend, and isn't going to tell him he was bad at his job . If they didn't fire him because he was gay, and the only evidence is the lawsuit, I would hate to be that individual.

Do you really think the White Sox fired him for being gay? He said they found out he was gay in 2018. In 2020 he got promoted.

Cannot say what is in the lawsuit is all BS, there probably is some truth in there, but if the suit does say they knew of his orientation well before he was promoted to head trainer, so I don't know how far he will get. It depends on how good his lawyer is. There may be some sort of settlement to make it go away. I doubt it goes to trial. He isn't working, so he probably needs some money.

That ball was kilt

Guaranteed Rate Field is a cashless facility, yet they have ATMs. Shouldn’t they have reverse ATMs where you could throw so,e cash in and out spits a card you can use to buy things?

What kind of daylights are in a ball that you can hit out of it?

Think how little the Mets must think of his ability if they are willing to pay him $44 million to sit on a couch or potentially play against them.

Hopefully he does great so it's not. But if he gets lit up again, I agree. At some point, it makes no sense basically forfeiting all his starts.

He's a RH hitting firstbasman. As you have told us many times, he has very little value. No loss.

He would have been out after a review anyway, but almost every player does this these days, especially on routine pop ups. They just keep going and if the ball somehow falls they would bee easy outs.

I live about 3 miles from Wrigley and just had to walk down the street to pick up dinner. If LaRussa didn't put me in the line up tonighr, I think I would hug him.

I actually had some hope for Dallas this season, but he's like Shields now. You start him, you put your team in a position to lose. I imagine they will give him a couple more chances, but it has to be near the end of the rope.

The one thing I don't get is in 1995 the Sox were expected to be good, but got cheap after the strike, and started off really slow. It cost Lamont his job really quick, replaced by Bevington, and JR had no problem blaming Lamont for supposedly not having the team ready to play. This team has far more talent, and a terrible start. How come that isn't on LaRussa?

2 PED suspensions. 39 years old. Pretty obvious he can't play anymore without the juice, and that's in his mind. It would be taking ABs away from Harrision and Leury, so it makes it somewhat plausible, but chances are this guy is toast.

He can't play. He might get hurt.

The object isn't to walk per se, it's to swing at a good pitch to hit. Usually on 2-0 the pitcher is forced to do that. If the Sox are swinging at pitches that are good to hit that are thrown first or second in the sequence, this stat doesn't matter. No one was complaining when they lit up Robbie Ray early and often in the sequence. If they are swinging at pitchers pitches that early, then this is a huge problem, one that coaching really couldn't reasonably fix. You would have to change personnel.

Grandal gets really cold then really hot. Very streaky. Always has been.

The team is as sleepy as a LaRussa post-game press conference.

A very energetic can of corn.

Yes I get it, but you are setting Fields up to fail if you keep passing on getting him some weapons and protection. But I guess there are so many holes best player available should probably be in play.