Dick Allen

I wondered about the start time as well. Maybe it's an experiment. Instead of playing these cold April games at 1 pm, maybe 4 pm more people will show up.

What were the odds that a 5-0 score after 1 inning would be in the Sox favor tonight?

They are running promotions. This week it's 2 beers and a bleacher seat for $22.

The Sox are already 5 games behind their pace last year when they lost 95.

This has been the way for years. The minute anyone has a good week, they need to be promoted, whether it's to high A or the major leagues. If the Sox do it and they struggle, they are idiots for "rushing" guys.

speaking of, never sit in the row in front of the exit aisle on American Airlines. The seat is tilted forward for more exit room. You are sitting like you are about to be shot out of a cannon.

45 degrees, Fulmer on the mound. Should be a huge crowd tonight.

I read that weren't using straws but did see not empty straw dispensers at the concession stands.

I don't think people are complaining much about a rebuild. I think they are complaining that the White Sox seem to be out of most games, with no shot of winning. But there are teams that are worse. I would hate to be a Royals fan. Think about how long they are going to suck. They don't have a heck of a lot to trade and the pieces they do have, the stock is dropping. Danny Duffy has been pretty awful. Sal Perez is starting to get hurt annually and has some mileage behind the plate.

Engel, Tilson, Cordell, none of them ever could have been substituted for Trayce in the Frazier deal. Trayce is probably better than all three, and has more upside than all 3, although he is far from surefire. But they need to let him play and get some ABs.

The Sox found a way to downgrade from Miguel Gonzalez. Watch GarPax. This is how you tank (even though I don't think RH is actually tanking per se for a draft pick)

When even Hawk doesn't think next year will be a contending year, that will tell you this process is still more toward the beginning than the end.

Anything can happen before 2020. Renteria might piss off the wrong person, or someone may see something they don't like, or someone may become available that the Sox can't live without, but right now, I would suspect anyone but RR at the helm then isn't even a consideration.

The White Sox as a team, have a pretty decent walk rate, yet they have walked 39 times less in 18 games than their opponents. Unexceptable.

That's all fine and dandy, but this stuff should start the first day you report to the White Sox. I don't understand how guys make it through several years in the minors, get called up, and are as clueless as many of at least the White Sox prospects over the years, are. You learn something every day, but you should have a pretty good idea about the basics by the time you get to the major leagues, or there is a problem at the lower levels.

I get it and conditions could be a very legitimate excuse, as the entire Sox staff appears to be walk happy. I just wonder why White Sox opponents aren't having the same issue.

Nightengale was quoting KW. The poor guy had surgery last night. They had to crack his skull open to relieve some swelling and put a clamp on the affected area.

The Reds are so bad. No wonder they hired Buddy Bell away from the White Sox.

Too bad the Sox didn’t play like this last September. They would be picking first.

1-12 their last 13 games, and they scored 2 runs the game they won.

Tanking in baseball isn’t like tanking in the NBA. The advantages to being bad are the high pick, and the ability to play guys who normally wouldn’t have a shot if winning was of the essence and might be able to find another player or 2 that way. if the White Sox could get only the type of return Stanton got the Marlins, trading Sale, Eaton and Q would have made no sense. All the losing gets you is the first pick. Assuming you don’t sign someone that costs you a draft pick, once that top pick is taken and his money accounted for, teams at the bottom of the draft are sitting a bit prettier. Tanking basically gets you that top pick which rarely makes an immediate impact. If the White Sox were picking in the 20s every player the last few years they drafted, would have been available except Fulmer and Burger and Collins. I am not giving up on any of these guys. But the prizefor tanking isn’t as great as in the NBA. Just thank God Hahn signed his best players to team friendly contracts . If not, if you thought this was bad.....

Short term there really is nothing other than waiting for Kopech and Rodon. I do wonder what kind of effect getting killed every night will have on some players, but realistically there aren’t many of them on the roster that will be on the roster when winning is expected. We just have to hope guys like Giolito develop and are far better than they have shown. I will give him a pass for last night. I think he had become pretty close with Farquhar, so his concentration level might not have been the best. But he is walking a lot and not striking anyone out. That has to be at least a little concerning. But this stretch sucks for so many reasons. You wait 6 months for baseball season, and it becomes an uninteresting train wreck almost immediately. Some surprising performances in spring training but wins the first 2 games and a 3-2 first road trip made it seem like this could be a fun season. Now the games are over before they are official. pitching will get better because it has to. No team’s pitching is this bad. I just hope they clean up the other constant gaffes, like bad baserunning, missing cutoff men, throwing to wrong bases, etc. at least make it a watchable product.

Giolito really sucks right now.

Verne Troyer, Mini Me.

Nightengale’s latest tweet suggests this could be something very serious.