Dick Allen

That's the thing I don't get. He was going to use Bummer and Hendriks no matter what. At some point, he had to realize Foster wasn't working that outing.

I never saw Ricky lift his starter with a 4-1 lead and not take out the reliever until the inning was over and the team was trailing 8-4.

If the first 150 plate appearances tell the story, Soxtalk would have Yermin and no one else on the roster. Eloy was crap. Moncada, crap. I vividly remember someone telling me about TA's weak exit velos. Abreu has been hated. No one wants Eaton. Robert can't hit. Vaughn needed to be traded before he ever stepped to the plate. Grandal is a waste of money.

So I keep reading he is just not strong enough. Considering the White Sox do have a weight room and players are on a program, is there even the slightest possibility the guy gets stronger as time goes on?

Thanks for asking. She is pretty much the same. I took her to a pulmonologist yesterday. She had 8 tests and has to go to the hospital today for 2 more. I think she has had over 20 vials of blood taken the last couple of weeks, and every test comes back normal, except for her elevated white blood cell count. The issue is, if it is the vaccine, (and while in the beginning they were saying it could be, but not really buying it, now I think they are thinking it's really possible), they have no treatment. Another issue is she was diagnosed with asthma a little over a year ago. Last fall she had a really bad cough. Her primary thought it was related to the asthma, but they did give her a CT scan in November. She called several times for the results, and never got an answer. We figured no news is good news. When all this started, her primary looked at her records and eventually saw the CT scan, which she missed earlier, and now they think she may have fungal pneumonia which she would be walking around with for about 5 months since the CT scan. Of course, there doesn't seem to be one test that can give the answer. It's very bizarre. She has top of the line insurance, and gets this type of care. The pulmonologist basically told her that her neurologist blew her off yesterday. I could only imagine what people with shitty or no insurance must get.

Now you use Bummer?

It’s Oliver O. Oliver, played by Ray Rayner.

Do you think it’s a hammy or did he bang his knee off the base ?

He made an even better deal buying the Bulls. They paid nothing. Just assumed some debt. And Michael Jordan was already on the team. Many of the same investors. They print money. Barry Rozner interviewed an investor during their record setting horrid period just after they broke up the dynasty. He was embarrassed how much money they were making. Lee Stern, who is or at least was a White Sox investor, and owned the Sting, wrote a book a few years ago, and I saw him interviewed. He said JR offered him as much of the Bulls as he wanted, and he wanted zero. Said it was the biggest mistake he ever made.

Tonight's the last late game for 5 months.

Did Frank Thomas make the thread title?

He probably can. He played a little LF last season.

There was a time about 10 years back when KW was telling everyone who would listen the Forbes numbers were wrong, not even close, but then used the Forbes numbers that stated they used the highest percentage of their money on player salaries.

Texas governor won't throw out the ceremonial first pitch in protest over the All Star game being moved.

Looking at the first several games, the bullpen needed a closer and perhaps another arm or two. I'm not panicked. Its way too early for that. Would like a nice performance out of Hot Carl today.

No one has looked especially good on defense yet. Moncada has made a couple of nice plays, but shaky a couple of times as well.

Estimates they lost $40 million last season. Also interesting, their numbers, who industry insiders say are all wrong, spit out these evaluations, and the Mets were sold within !% of their evaluation.

One thing I don't understand is he seems to think Leury is better LH than RH.

He couldn't PH for Leury. Who else would play SS? Moncada I guess.

He started off like the 2020 version, but he did settle down a bit. I don't think he will be a Cy Young guy, but should be improved.

If Robin Ventura or Ricky Renteria were managing a White Sox team that lost 3 games in 4 days, 2 when they were leading in the 8th inning, and 1 when it was tied in the 9th, this place would be hopping with posts calling for their heads. And they managed shitty teams.

The fact of the matter is, if the previous guy was still here, he would be taking a lot of heat on this board after this series. The defense was bad. The bullpen certainly didn't look as good as advertised. Marshall and Ruiz getting Ls. Not good. I was laughing at Steve Stone the other night when he was jerking Tony off saying individual numbers didn't matter, it was all about the team, specifically pointing out Lance Lynn didn't get his 38th consecutive start with at least 100 pitches. He must have missed how he left Hendricks in a blowout just so he could get a save, and might have cost the Sox a game the next night.

Listening to these ESPN dopes, you would think Ohtani has 15 ks and a perfect game going. Yet itis3-3 and he didnt make it ouf of the 5th

This isn't going as hoped.

So Madrigal makes one bad throw and it’s questionable whether or not he will be able to make throws? Using the same logic, when do you question when Billy Hamilton takes over CF ?