Dick Allen

No big dea, but I think they made have just made a bad bullpen worse. Hopefully he can throw a strike once in a while.

QUOTE (Capn12 @ Apr 11, 2018 -> 02:56 PM) What value does Adam Engel bring to a MLB caliber team? I wouldn't write him off yet, but it isn't looking good. That's what seasons like this are all about, giving guys chances with things they wouldn't have received chances if winning was required. I was watching something yesterday where they were noting a difference between Rizzo and Schwarber as hitters. They said Rizzo, because the Cubs weren't winning when he first came up, had a chance to figure out how to hit LHP. Schwarber sucks vs. lefties, and the Cubs don't really have the luxury anymore to let him flail away to see if he could figure something out. The Sox have all these opportunities now. Once they are supposed to win, it's put up or shut up time.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 11, 2018 -> 02:33 PM) Could Baltimore Orioles' $0 tickets (for kids under 9) be the antidote for baseball's attendance woes? https://sports.yahoo.com/baltimore-orioles-...-142016925.html It?€™s not going to bring back the days of 45,000-person crowds at Camden ?€“ not yet at least. This is a long-term play in a sport that has struggled to cultivate a younger base as the average age of its fan runs inverse with its attendance ?€“ up and up, to its current 57 years old. It?€™s what made the crowd in Chicago of less than 1,000 recently so disconcerting. It wasn?€™t just the nasty weather that day. The White Sox barely broke 1.6 million total fans at home last year. The Marlins last year featured about 1,500 people at one game. Which makes the likely failure of their goal of to draw more fans than in 2017 all the more troublesome. What Angelos hopes to glean from Kids Cheer Free, in addition to brand loyalty, is a new set of data. Will a baseball team with across-the-board reasonable concession items be able to do what the Atlanta Falcons did, according to ESPN, and make even more money than they did before slashing prices? Will families take advantage of the program and bring in kids older than 9? Does something like this engender even more loyalty to the team than the latest Cal Ripken Jr. bobblehead? ?€œIt?€™s really a long-term-investment program,?€? Angelos said. ?€œIt?€™s a winner all the way around. If nothing else, you won?€™t walk into Camden Yards today, or five or 10 years from now, and say kids are priced out of the ballpark.?€? A new generation of kids who love baseball isn?€™t going to form all by itself. The Orioles, the Diamondbacks, the Rockies ?€“ they?€™re at the forefront, along with a few others, reaching out to families, cutting prices, insistent the game won?€™t just to get back to the 79.5 million-fan threshold but exceed it. The responsibility is clear, the risk palpable, and yet John Angelos doesn?€™t feel that at all. No, it?€™s something more acute, something liberating, something that the tickets and concessions and everything else germinate in him. It?€™s almost like he?€™s ?€? free. Family Sunday is among the best family bargains in professional sports. Cost used to be an issue with the White Sox, but not for several years. White Sox fans just don't come out until the team wins a lot. They used to complain about the upper deck, then lower level tickets were $20 for Chris Sale starts. They couldn't even sell most of those.

QUOTE (TheTruth05 @ Apr 11, 2018 -> 02:49 PM) It's funny that the offense has legit the complete opposite trend. This has been one of the worst homestand's I've ever seen. If you take the weather, the opponents, and the results, it has to be one of the worst homestands they have ever had.

Didn't Shields have 1 k in 11 innings coming in? Tampa is really an awful team.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Apr 11, 2018 -> 02:41 PM) Lopez WHIP is 0.85 for the season Shields for this game is 1.95 At the time I posted, fewer innings obviously but 2 hits, no runs, 5 BB and 5 K all matched. The amount of walks White Sox pitchers allow is alarming.

All of a sudden, Shields has a Reynaldo Lopez looking pitching line.

There is nothing worse than watching ball 4 after ball 4.

3 walks already. This is really getting ridiculous.

QUOTE (soxforlife05 @ Apr 10, 2018 -> 07:54 PM) A ballpark on northerly island with the seating oriented toward the Chicago skyline would look amazing. Concerts could be played at the ballpark as they already have been on the island. You cannot have a baseball stadium face west. It's one thing to have sun in the eyes of OFs. In the eyes of hitters is a huge no, no.

QUOTE (WBWSF @ Apr 11, 2018 -> 12:38 PM) Maybe JR will sell the team now. $1.5 billion is a lot of moola. It that is what you are hoping, you are going to be a bit disappointed. Why would he sell at this point? I could see if he was in his 50s or 60s and had a great chance of enjoying 20 more years of life with that windfall, but he's in his 80s, and this is pretty fun for him. He will die owning both teams.

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Apr 11, 2018 -> 12:50 PM) Hot take: Bruce Rondon ate one of them. That might be the best hot take.

QUOTE (TheTruth05 @ Apr 11, 2018 -> 12:46 PM) Juan Infante? or Gregory Minaya? They are the same pitcher. It's just some guy with 2 uniforms.

Hot take: No one has seen Juan Minaya and Gregory Infante in the same place at the same time.

Forbes valuations came out today. Yankees $4 billion. Sox $1.5 billion. Not bad.

Hot take, when Yolmer and Leury are batting 5th and 6th in a major league game, a lot of runs scored should not be expected.

QUOTE (Sleepy Harold @ Apr 11, 2018 -> 12:24 AM) That's the smart play, heading right to the bar or stadium club inside so that you don't have to sit outside and freeze. I did that over the weekend while attending, lasted outside no more than a half hour before the lady wanted to leave bc it was too cold. If you're going and able to get in one of those areas why wouldn't you (considering the elements)? Revolution Brewing room down the LF line isn't a bad hang out either although if you aren't there early, the line to get in goes down the stairs. Waiting in line while at a game sort of defeats the purpose of going to the game.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 11, 2018 -> 08:49 AM) Thinking in retrospect, we could well be the Chicago Expos. I would guess that or the A's.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Apr 11, 2018 -> 08:19 AM) Trump says missiles ‘will be coming’ to Syria, taunts Russia for vowing to block them Someone should tell him about Saudi Arabia and all the arms we sold them. The foreign policy of this country always has and always will be a complete fraud. And a couple of hours after he sends out that tweet, he sends this one. Donald J. Trump ? @realDonaldTrump Much of the bad blood with Russia is caused by the Fake & Corrupt Russia Investigation, headed up by the all Democrat loyalists, or people that worked for Obama. Mueller is most conflicted of all (except Rosenstein who signed FISA & Comey letter). No Collusion, so they go crazy! 8:00 AM - Apr 11, 2018 The walls are closing in. If he wasn't such a pompous lying prick, this would be hard to watch.

So Trump tells Russia in a tweet to get ready for some missiles. There/s a Trump tweet for everything: Donald J. Trump ? @realDonaldTrump Why do we keep broadcasting when we are going to attack Syria. Why can't we just be quiet and, if we attack at all, catch them by surprise? 11:45 PM - Aug 28, 2013 1,135 2,434 people are talking about this

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Apr 11, 2018 -> 07:39 AM) The Sox would be in Tampa right now if we said no. Yes, and probably some other team would have taken their place because even with their red headed stepchild status in Chicago, the White Sox have a far superior situation than a lot of franchises.

QUOTE (Donaldo @ Apr 10, 2018 -> 08:33 PM) If 1984 single-handedly turned the Cubs into darlings, why didn't 1983 do the same for the Sox? The Sox routinely outdrew the Cubs throughout the 60s, 70s, and early 80s. Will Perdue was in the booth with Benetti and Stone today, and he said that when he was growing up in Florida, his two favorite teams were the Braves (WTBS) and the Cubs (WGN) because those were the only two teams he could watch on a regular basis. WGN CLEARLY explains the Cubs' national appeal. Why is Chicago a Cubs Town, and what will change that? I have no answer to either of those questions. Then how come the Braves aren’t like the Cubs? They are more like the Sox really. Maybe worse. When they made they playoffs something like 15 years in a row, you could buy tickets at the box office for their playoff games. If the White Sox made the playoffs that often, no way could you do that. For some reason 1984 turned things around for the Cubs. Wrigley Field became a shrine. I truly think if they were 75-87 that year, and did what they did the rest of the time, they would not be nearly as popular as they are nationally or locally.

A disaster of a home stand vs a couple of horrible teams. Ricky’s boys need a couple of wins. 10 walks for Sox pitching. It’s crazy how many runners they have allowed recently without having to get a hit.

QUOTE (Scoots @ Apr 10, 2018 -> 03:04 PM) Why does it seem like last year was easier to stomach in the moment than this one? At least, that's what it feels like to me. I think the first couple games made many of us forget they are still in the middle of a rebuild, and there still is a lot of work to be done.

QUOTE (Capn12 @ Apr 10, 2018 -> 02:58 PM) Looking at it on paper, a home stand against a bad Detroit team, and an even worse Tampa Bay team, looked like a way to build on the 3-2 road trip start. Shows what I know, I guess. They played a bad KC team, and lost 2 out of 3 to a decent Toronto team. I do think this is how this will probably go for a while. I also wouldn't be surprised if they play some good teams really tough. I am expecting a rollercoaster ride for at least most of this season.