Dick Allen

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Unearned but yet anther first inning deficit.

Another at least 25 pitch first inning for White Sox pitching.

Double play right here and forget the last 3 ever batted.

Abreu might not exactly be a gold Glover, but this is the major leagues, TA needs to make a better throw. It is all on him.

Vogt looks a lot like Jason Giambi

I think we are getting good Gio tonight.

JR wants to win, but he doesn’t know how anymore. It is all based on so many things having to go right, it isn’t feasible. It worked one year in baseball. MJ was his golden goose obvious withe the Bulls He and Krause couldn’t wait until Michael was gone and the. They could start getting credit for championships. Didn’t quite work out.

At this point I would just take a well played game and not training in the first inning. I think the Yankees were 72-17 when they scored first last year.

JR being worried about years 9 and 10 in a Machado contract indicates some sort of Reinsdorf ownership for a long time.

Would Lester have left Boston for the Cubs if Theo was somewhere else?

Since Engel is playing, do they have to go with 8?

All I know is Theo had his team in the NLCS after a 3 year rebuild where he didn't have Sale and Q and Eaton to trade. Our guy had that, and now the fanbase is willing to give him even longer than 3 years because of a pitcher requiring TJ surgery. He also got some cheaper parts to the Red Sox winning it, including signing Big Papi after he was a non tender. It wasn't all the 9 figure guys. And unlike several other places, one reason the White Sox don't have more funds to spend has been the poor performance from the GM chair for quite a long while.

Anyone who gets sent down will come back if warranted. There isn't anyone who is going to be really good someday UNLESS they get sent to Charlotte.

He had the Marlins in the WS. Look at the mess he had when he took over the Tigers and he made the WS by 2006. All of the 3 teams he GMd made the WS. Detroit twice. I If he's a dunce, what is Rick Hahn? And I will give him credit for signing JD Martinez. Picked him up as a free agent after Houston released him. And if you are not going to credit him for Martinez or Sale, will you give him credit for his minor deal when he acquired the WS MVP? He also beat the White Sox out for Miguel Cabrera, an AL Central game changer.

Put them over the top. We can only imagine the excuses you would make for Hahn if his former MVP was to miss a season and they didn't win. The facts are he signed JD Martinez, got Chris Sale, and had one of the better teams of all time.

He didn't get fired. He quit the Red Sox twice.

The dunce who made the moves to build a team that won 113 games and a WS.

Theo won 3 times.

Let Frare work on things in Charlotte, get some confidence and come back later. It's going to be a revolving door as usual, so going to Charlotte is no big deal. If he's good enough, he'll be back.

I agree. He won twice in Boston. Won with the Cubs. Now he has a team that won 95 games in 2018 and everyone thinks they were horrible. I wonder who really is better than him.

Almora seems like a decent pick. Happ seems like he might be OK. Schwarber isn't Babe Ruth but he contributes. Everyone here seems to like Dylan Cease. Theo drafted him.

He is good at the draft. Has made several good trades. Has missed on some free agents, but, if you are going to have sustained success, most of those teams do miss on free agents and are in a postion to handle it. If we are expecting sustained success from the White Sox, they better be prepared to outright miss big once in while or wind up paying guys past their primes, which right now, seems like they are not since they wouldn't with Machado. They are in a bad division that with Illich dead probably means they are in the only spot they can win for a while without spending tons, but they need new evaluators.

Theo also drafted a couple of MVPs. One in the second round in 2004. The White Sox 4 picks before Pedroia was taken..Josh Fields, Gio Gonzalez, Wes Whisler, and Donny Lucy. And their 5 picks before Theo picked Mookie Betts in round 5 Walker, Johnson, Soptic, McMillen, Snodgrass. It was always a built in excuse the White Sox with their mediocre record couldn't draft well because they didn't draft high enough. Even this rebuild is OK taking longer even though they had a top 3 pick in Rodon a couple of years before it started and Collins was a guy Hostetler said he would have taken had he had pick #1. Rick Hahn is a smart guy. But as a major league GM, he's lacking. The results are there for everyone to see.

Part of the bad watchability is the game is close to over in the first inning. The first inning was a problem last season as well. It would be nice not to be down a couple of runs before they came to bat.