Dick Allen

I don't think all of the board would have thought 18 games ago the team was ahead of schedule, especially if you looked back at the schedules 2 or 3 years ago. They had a very soft first half schedule. The second half is a bit tougher. Their run differential which Steve Stone, now Mr. Optimist likes to use to say some other teams could be playing above their heads, was and is one of the worst in baseball. Beating Kc and Baltimore, and Detroit, while nice, and needing to be done, doesn't put a team ahead in a rebuild. You are, if the goal is to win championships, expected to be able to hang wjth good teams on a nightly basis. They don't seem very close to that right now. And JR, RH, and KW, whose bad decisions led a bad team to rebuild, are still calling the shots. That is pretty unprecedented.

White Sox fans "fragility" should be understood. They haven't had a bad week or two. They have had a bad decade, and they still have the same people calling the shots.

The Sox still are a bad baseball team. The bad stretch has now stretch many years. There seems to always be an excuse. This team has butchered 4 or 5 pop ups the last 2 weeks. You don’t see that at the Pony League level.

In this home run era, Jon Jay, who has 11 homers his last 2400 plate appearances, is batting clean up.

I would guess they would hope to trade Jay or someone for a lottery ticket to open up the spot. I would think TA is ready to go on Tuesday.

Farmio said last night he doesn’t believe the Sox are even discussing a Coloma trade.

How dare you lol. Don't you know it's windy or the roof is white? Expecting a major league to catch a pop up is nuts

I wonder if it is OK for a fan to be mad at that one. Maybe Stone will let us know on Twitter. Probably not. 2005.

I was in Marshall’s several months ago and they had kids jerseys for sale. The Sox have Abreu and Lopez, the Cubs were all Russell. I was thinking someone was going to inadvertently buy their Cubs fan kid or nephew or niece or neighbor a wife beater jersey.

Will only be a 2 day event next January, friday/Saturday.and will be held at McCormick Place.

Vegan wrote that he clearly won’t be traded.

You can’t trade him just to trade someone. You have to acquire someone who will help you actually win. Not the Ryan Cordells,and Charlie Tilsons and Casey Gillespies of the world. It’s fine going after those types when trading guys that won’t be around next year is the cost. But the Sox are going to need a lot of relievers next year if they hope to not suck, and Coloma fits the bill. The price has to be high.

LGINAA. All I know is that I thought he really sucked coming into this year with very little hope of being decent. He was a legit candidate to start the All Star Game. He might not be an ace, but he's pretty good.

Nike takes over the uniforms next season..Will the Sox even bother with home pinstripes and road grays?

It is amazing Lopez is now suddenly worth something when he needed to be DFA'd only a couple of weeks ago, even though I still think he has options left.

Leury doesn't make much only $1.5 million this year, and also plays SS and 3B, and switch hits. He's a more valuable player

I would take Leury over him without a doubt.

Kemp only plays against RHP

He may be one of many who is a better hitter than Yolmer, but not significantly.

Tony Kemp has never put up a 1.0 fWAR. The grass is always greener.

If the Sox pick up all of his money, they might get an A Baller with a 7.00 ERA averaging a walk an inning and a k every so often.

The Sox have been after Mazara for a few years.

It probably is. Amateur scouting director is a job for a single person with no outside interests. I think Nick has a family. He at least gets to go home more often now.

Just like the outrage when they banned smoking in bars, the net thing will blow over and most will be happy with it in a year.

IDK, having some guy live with someone to make sure he did his work doesn't seem like too big of a deal. At least they weren't paying players or it would have been like the early 80's Iowa State football team. The worst team money could buy.