Dick Allen

A difference between Pedro Gomez and a Legit Hall of Fame Baseball Person 2) 1-1, 9th inning. @Eck43 gives up a 2-run homer to Robin Ventura. A's lose, 3-1. My story said Eck took the loss. The Tribune headline erroneously stated, "Eck Blows Another Save, A's Lose." The next game, two days later, the @Athletics are playing the Royals. 1 22 276 Full Dissident @hbryant42 · 6h 3) We're in the manager's office and @TonyLaRussa is fuming that the Trib says Eck blew a save when he didn't. In a group of beat writers and columnists, he looks at Frank Blackman of the Examiner and says, "You see the shit I have to put up with around here? Every day." 1 18 264 Full Dissident @hbryant42 · 6h 4) LaRussa goes on. "This is the type of shit I'm talking about, Frank." He looks around the room. "Where's Hickey?" Then LaRussa looks at the byline and says, "Howard Bryant? Howard Bryant? Who the FUCK is Howard Bryant?" I sheepishly raise my hand. 1 17 276 Full Dissident @hbryant42 · 6h 5) I cover preps. Never been in a big-league manager's office before. I say, "The story says it was tied." LaRussa ignores me, just rails about the bullshit media and the horseshit coverage, shaking his head, muttering for all to hear, "Howard Bryant." 1 18 271 Full Dissident @hbryant42 · 6h 6) A voice interrupts him. "Jesus Christ, Tony. You know we don't write the headlines. The story is right. Leave the kid alone. Why are you embarrassing him?" It was Pedro, whom I didn't know, never met, and worked for the San Jose Mercury News, a rival paper.

Many years ago, a friend of mine, who has also died, and I were drinking a couple of beers at the now closed Jackson Bar and Grill at Jackson and Clinton, right by Union Station before heading to the White Sox game.We were finishing our beers when the bartender gave us another and said this one was on Leon. We looked over to say thanks, and I thought to myself, that guy looks familiar. He had a Boxing coffee table book with him and I quickly figured it out. He was killing time waiting for his train to St. Louis buying strangers drinks.RIP.

Nick Foles won the Super Bowl MVP.

We will see if that really is the issue. You would think if their scouts thought he was going to be the 2018 Folty, JR, I think would gladly cough up $3 million.They have to sign someone.

That is a little more than JR wants to spend.

Bottom line is this one shouldn’t hurt. Way more likely than not Folty can’t help the White Sox.

And why would anyone give the Sox a hometown discount? They wind up trading them anyway.

If Lucas Giolito is anywhere near as good as we hope, his time with the White Sox won’t last more than 3 more seasons.

So basically Folty was too highly thought of for the White Sox to sign. I still think the Sox need a pitcher who can give them innings. I don't know if Folty was the guy. I would guess there is a chance he is available to be a Knight in April or May. Remember Lincecum? Cease and Kopech are as talented as can be, but you have no idea what you are going to get. You have some sort of idea with Lopez. The 3 guys in front should be fine, but if someone gets hurt, and usually someone does, look out.

Considering he was a guy who said he was going to go with one year deals to maximize his earnings, I don't care how good he is in 2021, getting $45 million in 2022 would have not be so easy. He did well. Isn't his agent getting paid by the hour and not by percentage?

You don't get those opportunities much when you are looking for a pitcher and claiming to be all about multiple championships. That said, what were the odds even if they showed some interest? I wish they would have at least tried.

This is really the first year I know of where the main guys have reported done deals and been wrong. A lot of there other stuff is wrong. Their sources get fed bad info all of the time.

You showed me.

Should The Athletic fire Rosental for getting Brantley wrong? What they should have given Bob some sort of reprimand for was his stance on Tony's no big deal DUI.

You're just a contrarian who likes to whine but supposedly hates whining. I was just checking your page of posts to see what percentage were actually baseball related, and not general bitching. Not very high.

What changed? Tony LaRussa to plead guilty to lesser charge TaylorStSox replied to southsider2k5's topic in Pale Hose Talk It certainly doesn't feel good to be a White Sox fan right now.

You don't even watch the team, isn't that correct? So how would you know there are no legitimate gripes?

For a guy who complains about bitching, almost every one of your posts is bitching.

I wonder what is next for the people who thought there was a chance the Sox were involved. They probably think Ryan Pace, who when he had the 3rd pick in the draft and 2 fuure HOFers would have been available to chose from, decided to trade up and draft the 2020 version of Rex Grossman. Mike Glennon and Nick Foltz were a couple more. But now that he has a lower pick and no cap space, he will probably make a sound decision.

Lucroy got into 1 game I think last year. I would be surprised if he made the team. But it doesn't hurt to bring him in. You need catchers at spring training.

The Sox payroll is about league average. What more do people want? JR is down to his last billion. What more can you ask for?

They have pictures and tweets from this scumbag. If he had any class he would just resign and try to be a better human.

If by creative you don't mean offensive, no.

As good as this guy looked, he isn't Chris Sale. Chris Sale wasn't clutching his arm after 5 innings.

The Athletic had a 2 part piece where they were asking agents all kinds of questions about front offices, like who is the toughest to negotiate with, who is the nicest, Hahn didn't rank in anything, but Getz got a couple of votes as a future GM. They did ask the Tony LaRussa hire question, and it was split down the middle with about half thinking it was good and half not so good, and it ranged from genius hire to total disaster.