Dick Allen

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 16, 2016 -> 12:52 PM) So no exposure to sex-ed or the internet yet? Kids these days have seen alot more shocking stuff than a penis I live by the Latin school and Walter Payton Prep. What girls in high school wear today, you don't have to fake being a girl to get in the locker room to see what many teenage boys want to see. Just show up to class.

QUOTE (WhiteSoxLifer @ May 16, 2016 -> 01:57 PM) http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2016/05/16/whi...stone-unturned/ White Sox GM Rick Hahn On Tim Lincecum Interest: ‘Leave No Stone Unturned’ You may as well seem as it was possible you may have possibly had interest when he is headed somewhere else.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ May 16, 2016 -> 09:00 AM) I'm not worried about the transgendered person. I'm worried about the straight guys who are going to claim to be transgendered in order to get a look at my daughter. I've said this at least a dozen times in this thread, so are you trolling or ignorant?????? How many straight guys are going to claim to be transgendered? That's really ridiculous. Your daughter has a higher chance of having a deviate teacher "getting a look". One thing you can do is tell her not to take a shower at school. Make sure she uses a stall in the bathroom and tell her there is no need to walk around the bathroom naked. Problem solved.

Odor stinks.

Do people really expect a,team to,go 4-2 every week of the season? It doesn't happen. Ever. There will be more bad weeks. The Cubs will even have a bad week.

They got a couple off Chapman last season IIRC.

QUOTE (sin city sox fan @ May 15, 2016 -> 02:58 PM) Duke better not be sent out to start this inning. If Robin doesn't go to Albers, I'm buying a ticket to New York to go kick his ass. He won't be there by the time you get there.

QUOTE (StrykerSox @ May 15, 2016 -> 02:51 PM) Look at those f***s doing the wave. Yankee fans are asshats. So you haven't watched a Sox home game? The freaking wave occurs every game.

QUOTE (sin city sox fan @ May 15, 2016 -> 02:45 PM) Ventura managing the bullpen like an idiot once again and it may cost us a game. FU Robin. How come you didn't say anything until after the AB?

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ May 15, 2016 -> 02:43 PM) Dan Hayes ‏@CSNHayes 24s25 seconds ago Carlos Beltran is only 5-for-27 lifetime (.185) vs. Zach Duke. Here come the RV is an idiot posts.

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.