Dick Allen

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.

Yet his teams win, and there is despair when they only win 95, and Hahn is still looking to Generally Manage a team that wins 80 games.

We all would have done the same thing if we were him. No question. So I certainly don't blame him for the sweetheart deal. That's something we all look for.

I think when you have a 12.00 ERA there has to be some concern. We will see if it's just a tough stretch or something to worry about over the next month or so.

The AL Central is the Sox saving grace. It probably is the only division in baseball where a team that doesn't spend huge money has at least a shot of sustained winning.

The ran into a hot team is a great excuse. However, they lost 2 out of 3 to KC, and KC was so hot they haven't won another game.

JR has a deal where if he doesn't sell a certain number of full priced tickets, his rent is cheaper. There was a big to do about this several years ago when they had half priced Mondays and bring a Pepsi can for half priced Tuesdays. I would think the Ballpark Pass would also be an issue, but right now, I think they don't sell many of those, and they are well under the threshold anyways.

It depends what game you are going to. If it's a White Sox game, go to stubhub, buy a $6 ticket in the upper deck, it will run you close to $10 with fees, and you'll be able to sit wherever you want.

So no one is to take what happens in the first 11 games of the season as meaningful unless it fits the narrative that the rebuild is going smoothly? Anderson made strides last year in the field without a doubt. His hitting, after a decent start, fell back to previous norms. We will see what happens. I do know he will not hit .500. Hopefully he will improve to the point where he really is a guy we want at SS for a good team.

They are decent, but can't stay healthy. Building an NBA team that makes the playoffs, ie being .500, isn't THAT difficult. The Bulls will get a decent draft pick, sign some second or third tier free agent, similar in effectiveness to a Jabari Parker, and talk playoffs. The free agent either will not fit in or get hurt. The draft pick will play decently but not outstanding, and everyone will continue to get injured, and they will miss the playoffs again and be in NBA hell. You can see it coming from 1000 miles away. The Athletic had a player poll. One out of 3 players polled said the coach they would not want to play for happens to be the Bulls coach who GarPax are very happy with. They are never wrong, like the Sox brass, everyone else is, results be damned. They both are similar, and they both shouldn't be employed by professional sports franchises.

The vast majority of this board thought the White Sox would be pretty decent by 2019, maybe even contention if you go back to when the big trades started happening. Michael Kopech being hurt shouldn't be the difference between being a halfway decent team or even a contending team, and one of the worst teams in baseball unless he is the most valuable pitcher of all time. Fangraphs had his ceiling as a #3 starter. There is something wrong. It needs to be fixed as soon as possible. Unfortunately, the White Sox have the people who can't see problems in charge of finding and correcting them. You shouldn't be this far along and be saying, but we have this guy in A ball..............

The problem with firing Cooper, which to me would be the longshot of longshots, is Hassler takes over, and really very little change if any, with what they are doing.

KW has in the past, mentioned the Forbes summary of the White Sox profits were incorrect. But he has used Forbes as a source when saying the Sox are one of the top teams in regards to spending their gross revenue on player salaries. So Forbes is wrong, but here, look what Forbes says.

The pitching is bad, but they aren't going to continue to give up 7 runs a game. So there will be some movement toward the mean. Guys like Palka, it should be short leash time. Give him the weekend. If he still doesn't have a hit, sorry Danny Boy it's Charlotte time. I get being patient, and being in a rebuild, but it would be nice if even if it was a token move at this point, the Sox did something to show what is going on is not acceptable.

Firing someone would be an admission of being wrong, something that takes the White Sox making a colossal blunder to ever admit . I have no doubt JR, KW and RH will pop off 9 or 10 years from now to point out how correct they were if Machado isn't still a big time player. I know a lot of posters are sick of the Machado talk, but what a blunder. Not only does he immediately increase your talent level, it's a boost to everyone else on the roster who now knows the White Sox truly believe in them. A large part of the game is mental, and cheaping out on a big time player IMO may have taken the wind out of several other players' sails.

According to Renteria on the postgame the Sox pitching problems have nothing to do with preparation or having a plan, they just all are suffering from delivery problems right now. coop will fix em

Just drove in a huge run.

Eloy looks Kittle-esque with the glove.

The Royals are 0-7 when they don’t play the White Sox.

Hassler is his already been determined successor, so it’s be careful what you wish for.

Castillo needs some performance enhancing.

Ride with us or get run over.

I think the Yankees were 72-17 last year when they scored first. I doubt everyone is that extreme, but it may behoove the Sox to start working out their 1st inning problems.

I know 4 people who became violently ill shortly after getting a flu shot this past winter. 2 actually spent several days in the hospital.

All part of the friends and family plan the White Sox have installed. The Boone Alomar Alou br Brett brothers were all pretty good for a while, Wimpy's brother has a 1.000 career batting average and reached base all 5 times he batted in the major leagues, Hopefully this works out. Then RH can lowball Fernando as a free agent and KW can don sunglasses to hide his shock. that he didn't take the better offer, just the one the team couldn't afford.