Dick Allen

QUOTE (fathom @ May 15, 2016 -> 12:13 PM) This team really needs a number 2 hitter. The two options right now are dreadful. Jackson has a .364 ObP and a .732 OPS batting second.

So the reason the Sox don't draw well and have had only one exciting season under JR ownership isn't because they haven't had sustained success and multiple playoff appearances back to back, it is because JR let Harry go to the Cubs and couldn't get the Tribune Company who also owned the Cubs to put all the Sox games on WGN. Thad Bosley is 'shrooming again. Someone needs to let him know Harry has been dead for 18 years.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ May 15, 2016 -> 11:13 AM) This dude is telling people to toughen up when he had to leave a subway because of how someone dressed/looked. Fantastic. It would be fun to see him freak out if a guy in a dress saddled up to the urinal next to him.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ May 15, 2016 -> 10:43 AM) Or we could just do what we've been doing and have people with male parts use men's rooms and people with female parts use women's rooms and try to find some other way to accommodate the very small percentage who don't want to do that rather than subjecting everybody else to something they don't want. Considering there are far more Dennis Hastert types than people who change sex for the bathroom access maybe they should just not have bathrooms in public.

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ May 15, 2016 -> 07:10 AM) LOL! I must admit, this really is one of your funnier efforts to try and defend the indefensible, and all just to be contrarian on your part. Seriously, you must be on the dole for Reinsdorf to go on these fanciful yet highly ridiculous tangents you do to try and defend that buffoon. But you do and therefore we just have to deal with it, and continually just call out its silliness. Attendance tripled from the time Harry Caray came to the Sox and when he left. It increased by 68% just after his first year and was tripled by the end of his second. He accomplished all of this - and again, it was explicitly what he was brought into do - with the weakest of tools to support him. He was broadcasting initially on a tiny, 5,000 watt radio station in LaGrange, IL when he first got to town, and then the best he got was a UHF TV station of all things, Channel 44. HARRY CARAY TRIPLED WHITE SOX ATTENDANCE WITH THE POOREST POSSIBLE MEDIA EXPOSURE AT HIS DISPOSAL. Bill Veeck, however, managed to get the team on WGN for 1981 before he sold the team. Then Harry had the power of the superstation and it's mega-exposure with which to sell the White Sox experience. And he did so brilliantly during the strike-shortened 1981 season, resulting in the highest TV ratings ever for the Sox at that time. But then the genius owners of the Sox committed what renowned White Sox historian Richard Lindberg (or as renowned Reinsdorf apologist SS2K5 refers to just as "someone") referred to as a "mistake" by letting Caray go to the Cubs, where he took that national exposure on WGN to make both he and the Cubs a household name. The Cubs haven't looked back since. HARRY CARAY TOOK THE CUBS FROM HAVING THE SAME KIND OF ATTENDANCE ISSUES AS THE SOX TO BEING THE NATIONAL PHENOMENON THEY ARE TODAY, ALL DUE TO HIS ABILITY TO SELL THE PRODUCT ON SUPERSTATION WGN. That could have and should have been the Sox. It's that simple. But our genius owners...SportsVision...and you know the rest. Harry Caray went to the Cubs in 1982. 1982, 1983, 1984 with Harry on the superstation and Sportsvision, you know the rest, the White Sox outdrew the Cubs. Explain. Please also explain why the Cubs attendance didn't dip after his death, I believe it actually went higher, and when WGN was no longer broadcasting their games nationally.

So Greg is very concerned about security when transsexuals use the bathroom, but planes? No big deal.no bombs. No bombs on those jets they were flown into the twin towers.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ May 14, 2016 -> 02:32 PM) It was up. It still was a strike according to pitch trax and really wasn't close to being a ball.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ May 14, 2016 -> 02:30 PM) Sands swings at ball 4. It was a strike,

QUOTE (SonofaRoache @ May 14, 2016 -> 02:23 PM) Its not hard at all. Go to the plate and take pitch one. If it is a ball take pitch two as well. If that is a ball you have him cornered. If pitch two is a strike you only swing at pitch 3 if it is a fastball. I agree with what Hawk said completely. You have to have a plan going against a junk ball thrower. If it were that simple you could be making $20 million at year, not posting on a message board telling everyone how simple it is.P

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 13, 2016 -> 08:25 PM) Harry was here for a decade. Exactly how long should his magic have taken to work? And the Cubs were on WGN. There was no way the Sox could get a full season of games on there at that time. Ironically JR's first year of ownership was the first year they were on WGN since the 60's.

I get the feeling Plesac thinks Sale is the best pitcher in the AL.

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ May 13, 2016 -> 07:15 PM) After the draft because I think he has a QO attached to him, I would like the Sox to sign Greg Holland. I know that he is out for the entirety of this season but he would be a huge addition to the Sox pen next year. He was non tendered. No QO.

QUOTE (ChiSoxFanMike @ May 13, 2016 -> 04:50 PM) Only if it's one of Greg's. His inventory is low.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 13, 2016 -> 03:57 PM) I don't know which he was, my bad. What do you think of Hickory's post? Shower and bathroom are 2 different things.

QUOTE (Dunt @ May 13, 2016 -> 01:59 PM) Agreed, really want to see more development of the changeup if he's ever going to reach his potential, but he's too young and too good right now to sell on him. Really just spitballing ideas right now. How would people feel about moving Fulmer for an arm? There is the likelihood that you could essentially replace him this coming draft. I think the only prospect that remains untouchable come the deadline has to be Anderson just because there is a great deal of need at SS past this year. I wouldn't trade any top prospect unless they get a guy that is definitely going to help them win and help them beyond this season, and is on a decent deal. The Sox have money to spend. Eventually teams will be looking to dump payroll. Money instead of prospects should be the Sox theme IMO.

Dan Plesac in the booth this weekend for Steve, correct? It seems Stone gets a weekend off each half. Usually he picks crappy cities for his time off. I guess the day off before and after were the motivation for this one.

QUOTE (Deadpool @ May 13, 2016 -> 01:26 PM) It was pretty amazing, but not necessarily fixed. The Cleveland thing seemed fixed in the "LeBron Interim" years. However, they contract out the auditing and such of the draft, so I don't believe it's actually fixed. The only one I buy as fixed was Ewing to the Knicks.

QUOTE (Dunt @ May 13, 2016 -> 12:13 PM) If the Sox were able to swing a trade for Braun + Lucroy, would you trade Rodon+? Rodon has struggled recently but soon, when he gets on a roll, the very thought of him being traded will make you laugh.

QUOTE (Deadpool @ May 13, 2016 -> 01:35 PM) He has the volume on. He's just not happy about it. So not happy Hawk is talking, and not happy Hawk is away from the booth. Personally, I think Hawk's reduced schedule, which also included him skipping spring training, is making him feel like an outsider. And I think the team off to a nice start makes that even harder. It might be another reason he went to check on Frazier, but he's has done that before with a couple of guys getting hurt. This wasn't a first except for the complaining by those that don't want to listen to him anyway.

QUOTE (shakes @ May 12, 2016 -> 02:46 PM) I'm completely on board with this camp. I thought what he did yesterday just proves how big of a sideshow he has become. His act grew tiresome almost a decade ago and to me has been intolerable for the past 5 years. I'm so happy Jason is on board and am happy to at least listen to the volume during home games. If you didn't have the volume on, how did you know Hawk went to the clubhouse?

You would think people who supposedly can't stand Hawk and think the entire organization should be embarrassed by his presence, would be happy he left the broadcast for a little bit to go to the clubhouse.

It's possible the story is accurate and the Sox with minimal interest are still in the top 3 interest-wise. Considering how quickly they initially thought he would sign a contract, it seems to me, he's not getting the offers he was expecting.

I would bet there are exact zero transgendered people that went through all they have to go through just for access to the other bathroom so they can maybe catch a peek or the like. It really is stupid and will only make lawyers rich.

Wouldn't people have been "safer" if Dennis Hastert used the women's room ?

Worst case scenario they could trade a lower level long shot prospect for Flowers.