Dick Allen

QUOTE (insiderinfo @ Apr 13, 2018 -> 12:10 PM) We already did, Tony and I were watching. It was a good trade to get Juan back, but he should be moved back to shortstop. Tony thinks he just needs to get used to being in the big leagues, but I don't know I think Tony is right. The trade to get him back was great, and he needs to go back to SS. If he only hits right handed and stays at SS, Juan should have a great career.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 13, 2018 -> 12:06 PM) Tony? LaRussa? Bernazard? Probably the beer vendor.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 13, 2018 -> 11:55 AM) What just happened here? Robin f***ed up Juan by making him a 2B. Ozzie knew what he was doing playing him at SS, but he needs to quit the switch hitting. If he would only hit right handed, Tony thinks he would be really good. But he does need to go back to SS. You really can't argue with it.

Exactly.

QUOTE (Footlongcomiskeydog @ Apr 13, 2018 -> 09:25 AM) The Cubs didn't trade the best pitcher in the history of their franchise for Kyle Schwarber. Huge difference man. The Sox need Yoan to be a stud. I love Chris Sale. His antics never bothered me like they did some, but c'mon man. Moncada was the #1 ranked prospect. What good would Sale do pitching on the White Sox now.? Last year people were freaking out Hahn waited too long to get rid of Q. Seems currently he did OK. That rumored Pirate package seems like a bust. And posters were saying he has to take what he can get. Freaking out about a young guy learning his way at a level he hasn't had much experience, in weather he may have never played in, is ridiculous. Moncada will be fine.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Apr 13, 2018 -> 09:17 AM) Kyle Schwarber had to reset down in Iowa last year, should Theo be fired? Baseball is a hard game and sometimes you need to put players in a position to succeed to help overcome mental, physical, or mechanical hurdles. I’m not suggesting that will be necessary for Yoan, but it’s a real option to consider if he’s still striking out over 40% or the time a month from now. Javy Baez was a strikeout machine at first as well.

QUOTE (StrykerSox @ Apr 13, 2018 -> 09:10 AM) I can agree with this. Despite all of my criticism, and despite the fact that I'm very cautious about Moncada's potential at this moment, I want him to get time. I don't want him to go to Charlotte and I don't even really want him to get bumped down the order. Pete makes a fair and interesting point, but regardless, I'd still have Moncada lead off for 160 games this year. Sink or swim. That said, if Moncada doesn't pan out (and that is far from decided right now), Rick Hahn should be the one to pay the price. The Tatis fiasco was bad enough, but this would be the final straw. Moncada's a bust, Tatis with his .494 OPS at AA is a can't miss star. I love extremely small sample size conclusions. How come no one is freaking out about Giolito? He's pretty much sucked.

If DeBartolo bought the team, he would have built the best stadium, would have have the highest payroll, the cheapest prices, and the best team, and it would have gone on for eternity. The 49ers prove it.

Watching the Sox offense lately, if he is to blame, there is no question Todd Steverson should be locked up.

He's clearly a bust. If he isnt hitting now, he'll never hit. He's almost 23 for crying out loud. No one who is any good has ever had a rough 10 game stretch.

Cohen supposedly tapes many of his conversations ironically, to eventually hold against others. I wonder if he taped any with Trump. He probably has some with Trumps former PR guy, John Baron, who sounds exactly like Trump, so the failing, fake news. NYT will probably confuse them if it comes to that.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Apr 12, 2018 -> 02:28 PM) Irrespective of policy, is this type of malfeasance (if proven true) okay? https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/12/politics/epa...ress/index.html Go to his linkedin page and read the summary. This is in there, : is a leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 12, 2018 -> 12:11 PM) And the Chicago Tribune. Yes. Even with all of their denials, it was for all intents and purposes proven the Sox got the short end there as well. And not only with the baseball coverage. If something horrible happened within 2 miles of the park, it was near Comiskey Park. If it happened across the streeet from Wrigley Field, it happened in Lakeview.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Apr 12, 2018 -> 11:56 AM) 1. Going to WGN Superstation was monsterous for the Cubs. With them winning something in 1984 it took off after building for a few years. Even here in Idaho I can't tell you the number of Cub fans I've met and when I ask why the answer most often is because of WGN. 2. The Sox meanwhile had a real buzz around them when the new owners took over. They were spending money, they were bringing in good players, they had a real positive vibe. Going to SportsVision basically killed it because very few could see how good the Sox actually were. Great idea but the wrong timing. As Harry Caray said in Bob Logan's book on the 83 season, "If the Sox were on WGN they'd be a byword across the nation." He was right. 3. As you well know attendance isn't really impacted by a great season until the year after. That's how the Sox outdrew the Cubs in 84. It was a carry over from the success in 83, and I'd argue the build up and gradual success they had in 81 and 82. 4. Around 1984 the Wrigley area started to become a haven for young, up-scale individuals with money to spend. They "discovered" Wrigley and the Cubs as a good place to party. That led to the area around Wrigley to start being developed with more places where they could drink, mix and celebrate or commiserate. 5. The Sox also were guilty of not even trying to fight for their own turf basically conceding Chicago to the Cubs. Why they did this I have no idea. It's almost as if ownership was more concerned about pissing people off then protecting their own investment. Basically nothing was done to counter the Cubs PR campaigns until Brooks' brilliant "Us vs. Them" ad campaign which pissed off a certain segment of the media because it exposed some of the myths about the Cubs and their fans. History happened because of some unexpected success by the Cubs in 1984 coupled with the Sox collapse, the Superstation, the Chicago Tribune owning and marketing the Cubs through their outlets, John McDonough (who grew up a Sox fan ironically) and the Sox unwillingness to go after the Cubs and protect their own market. Some of these things were not of their doing and they no control over (much like the Comiskey Park is in a dangerous area myth after the social unrest of the 1960's) but a lot of it, was caused by their own doing. The other thing everyone forgets is who owned the Cubs and who owned WGN. They weren't going to cede that to the White Sox. As long as the Tribune owned both, the Sox were only going to get limited play at best on their station. The other thing many forget is until the end of the 1988 season, the Cubs played all of their home games during the day, so if you had a job with regular day hours, you didn't see too much of them. Most of the Saturdays you would have to see the Game of the Week, and that wasn't Harry.

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.