Dick Allen

Supposedly, Buehrle had 4 cortisone shots into his shoulder this season. Chances are, he's hanging them up.

QUOTE (Coach @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 05:26 AM) Dick, Your LaRoche stats fail to state an obvious point. In 2014, he struck out 21% of the time. In 2015, it was 33%. At some point during any season, a player who cannot hit simply needs to be kept out of the lineup until they can figure out how to hit, or to at least have better contact. LaRoche left so many men on base this past season, he cost the Sox runs. His QAB was so incredibly low he was pretty much an automatic out, especially with 2 strikes. A manager's job is to win games and nothing else. Putting LaRoche's needs above the team's most likely cost them runs and perhaps some wins. There's that pesky WAR factor again. If I were Ventura, I would see what happens to him in Spring Training. If it's the same, I would say eat the salary and get someone else. Shuck only struck out 11% of the time, so why not let him DH? They are both lefties. Why is this so hard for Ventura to figure out? JB Shuck is a fine 4th OF. Playing him every day wouldn't work.

Supposedly the Sox came in 2nd attempting to trade for him last winter, of course that was before they signed Melky. His price is going to be extreme, and until this season, had been hitting lefties like LaRoche. I think it will probably be too much money.

QUOTE (LDF @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 04:26 PM) or it could improve it .... i am basing this opinion on the bo jackson jersey in white sox garb. Yeah but if you or someone is sporting a Bo Jackson number 8 with no name, is it Bo, or Albert Belle, or Alex Cintron or someone else? There is a reason game worn Konerko jerseys have a $1000 price tag on them at Sox parties, and you can pick up a Scott Downs game worn for $25. Even non game worms, the name personalized it even more, which IMO increases sales. You see so many more people wearing jerseys to games these days.

I think with jersey sales most likely at an all time high these days, removing names is not happening.

QUOTE (Hatchetman @ Oct 4, 2015 -> 07:16 PM) jeez Bob Elson audio. Makes you want to cry compared to what we get nowadays. Bob Elson could put a coked up Charlie Sheen to sleep.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 03:47 PM) A poster here said that someone close to the organization told him Hahn is going to push for Frazier. I can see that too. Frazier would cost a ton of better prospects if they traded him. Supposedly, he is at the back of the back up the truck lime for the Reds.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 03:15 PM) Desmond will get a QO in my opinion. I'm sure he will, but he's got a lot of power for a SS, and IMO has enough offense to play 3B. A 2nd rounder isn't a big deal especially since they most likely with have the supplemental. They probably won't sign him, but I do think he is a guy they probably look at pretty closely.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 03:09 PM) He's most likely to get a QO though. If I'm signing a player that has a QO attached to him, it's Heyward and maybe Upton. It might not be fair, but the one thing that would concern me about Upton is his brother fell off a cliff when he turned 28 with is exactly what Justin will be next season. I don't think he will be as bad, he's obviously a more talented player, but there could be a drop off in production.

I think Ian Desmond is someone the Sox look at. He can play SS next year, and if Anderson is good enough, move him to 3B. His contract could be a little depressed by his awful start this season.

QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 02:29 PM) Theo said this would happen. He was right. The smart people knew what the plan was. Think about how lucky Theo got: He traded for a Cy Young guy at the deadline for an average FA to be. Samardzija turned down his contract offer which saved him money, and got him Russell. For some odd reason, Houston didn't draft Bryant, they drafted Apel. I won't even get into the Rizzo shenanigans. What if the opposite had happened on even one of these?

QUOTE (Douglas Rome @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 02:29 PM) LaRouche looks like a statue, but he looked like a statue in 2014 too, didn't anybody see that before they hired him? He's a stiff, I would just dump him and write it off as a bad deal. Why keep him around like we did the other Adam, he's a cancer that needs to be cut off at the neck. And he says he's sorry and he should be booed, but he still cases his checks. If one of these stiffs would come out and say don't pay me, now that would be something. How 'bout this, Adam Ladouche comes out and says don't pay me until game 162, and then, and only then, pay me if you think I deserve the money? thanks, douglas LaRoche 2014 26 HR 92 RBI .259/.362/.455 What a stiff, Thanks, Dick

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 02:21 PM) To be fair, Theo did come out and basically say at the time, we're gonna suck for 3-4 years so be patient. At least that front office had/has a plan and are on the same page. And a year ago, Theo was getting ripped left and right. It was reported the Cubs had no money, they spend it all paying down their debt, their TV ratings were horrible... Now nothing in the world is wrong with the Cubs.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 11:26 AM) They spent the money because they had the money to spend. That team hasn't ever lost money in the last 10 years. In fact they made almost $80 million in profit last year., which is why they were able to sign Jon Lester. In the four years before that, they had a combined $100 million profit. In 2015 they had $302 million in revenue. The White Sox had $227. The Cubs haven't pulled in that little revenue since 2008. It's amazing how Theo is great, Maddon is great, the Cubs, the Cubs, the Cubs... Theo was hired in December 2011. This is the first year since 2009 the Cubs have won as many games as the 2015 White Sox. Now, the future is promised. No chance of failure. They were 3rd in their division. Their lowest total attendance during this stretch would be top 5 all time for the White Sox.

QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 11:11 AM) OP mentioned it. It wouldn't last a week even if they found some way to win 5 Stanley Cups a year, and it wouldn't have anything to do with JR and Rocky being attached at the hip. The JR/Rocky comment was basically to refute anyone thinking Rocky would ever leave JR high and dry. And you are right about a Blackhawks network. The Cubs, if they do it, will probably need a partner, and I really don't know who that would be. How can they come up with enough content on a Cubs channel? I guess the winter would be game replay after game replay.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 09:03 AM) Teams practice that (at least they should). Seven seconds is plenty of time to get the job done, but if you really want to be picky, probably should have called the TO with 8-10 seconds left. The chances of a botched snap where the holder actually is able to throw it away is pretty slim. Usually it's botched because the holder doesn't have control of it. If Oakland took that last kickoff to the house, there would be no sympathy for Fox calling TO with 7 seconds left. I wonder if he would have had a different strategy if the game was tied. Like if he went for 2 down 14-12.

QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 10:21 AM) Tigers are in the top 5 despite a 17% drop in ratings. They're in Detroit, had a worse record than the Sox and were a slowly developing catastrophe for the better part of the season. There was also a significant roster sell-off at the deadline. I don't think the Sox ratings and attendance can be blamed solely on the product they field. As terribly as the off-season acquisitions ended up working out for them, they still generated excitement coming in to the year. In 2012 they were in 1st for a better portion of the year, yet they pulled their lowest attendance since 2004. I know tv ratings were up for that year (I can't find the numbers, but I think they were at 1.6), but they weren't setting the world on fire. Also, the mere thought of the Blackhawks having their own network... The Blackhawks aren't going to have their own network, and JR and Rocky are attached at the hip.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 09:48 AM) Just in case anyone was wondering: here's a graph that shows that ranks the managers on challenging calls: http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/just-a-bit-ou...ng-plays-100515 This would matter if every team had the exact same amount of bad calls go against them, in the exact same way. How many times do we see challenges denied that make you scratch your head? But it appears the author needed to praise Joe Maddon.

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 09:41 AM) And that deal ends in 2029 and there is no chance anything close to that happens again. I'm not looking forward to that stadium fight. A lot happens in 14 years.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 08:17 AM) Not worried so much about a blocked kick as a botched snap. If there is a botched snap, the extra few seconds gives the holder enough time to get the ball, get up, and then throw an incomplete pass near the feet of one of the ends. Then you get to try again. Botched snap is another animal, but a lot of things would have to go right after the botched snap to have time to kick again, especially with a new holder. If he was really worried about that, he should have left more than 7 on the clock.

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 08:48 AM) Honestly this kind of terrifies me. For all we talk about wanting Reinsdorf to step down, I think it's more likely we find an owner try to buy that wants to move us than one that brings in a great new baseball system. The White Sox have a long term sweetheart lease and have been one of the most profitable teams in baseball the last 25 years. THEY AREN'T GOING TO MOVE.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 08:42 AM) If the sox are ditching rongey and leaving him at the score, I'd highly doubt he'd be the tv replacement. No offense to Rongey or Garfien, but I would think they would be shooting a little higher on the TV side. I know they have broken in analysts on TV, and Farmer, and Hawk for that matter, got their PBP starts on radio and TV respectively with the Sox, but to me, it's highly unlikely this opening is filled by a rookie PBP guy. Maybe Stone does PBP and they bring in a color guy which to me seems like a Rowand type, but if it is a PBP guy, I think it will be someone with experience.

QUOTE (knightni @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 08:23 AM) Why would anyone that has his family less than two hours away, choose to stay in a hotel room for 6 months out of the year? He could get a driver, it's just the daily commute that he's tired of taking. Plus, Chicago, while a nice city, is not an old person's city. It is still 2 hours in a car coming, and 2 hours in a car after the game. I'm sure if Hawk's daughter and grandkids were based in Lemont, he would be doing home games only, but as been pointed out, this should be a positive when finding another announcer, as I would think being based in Chicago in the summer is far more attractive than a job that is almost exclusively on the road.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 08:09 AM) lol I literally thought this at one point yesterday. I have yet to see any quote from Buehrle that says he is retiring. I wouldn't be surprised if he pitches one more year with the Sox or Cardinals. If Bruce Levine is reporting he's retiring, Buehrle has no choice. One thing I noticed watching the "highlights" of his last start, he certainly hasn't missed too many meals lately. Buehrle is getting really big. It has to end sometime. The contract he signed with Miami, he wound up earning every penny, and then some, which has to be a bit surprising. I hope the Sox don't sign him. I have a feeling he's done, and would hate to watch it firsthand.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Oct 6, 2015 -> 08:01 AM) Like that punt last week that clearly bounced off a Seattle player's leg and was recovered by the Bears. That one was a little hard to believe, but the Bears could have played 12 quarters, they weren't going to score.