Harry Chappas

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 25, 2015 -> 04:10 PM) I didn't see the game, but Darrin Jackson said his cutter wasn't as sharp as usual. He said earlier in the season it had much more bite. I thought his cutter had been MIA for a while now.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jun 25, 2015 -> 03:02 PM) can't believe they ruled that a WP any ball in the dirt is almost always ruled a wild pitch

QUOTE (Condor13 @ Jun 25, 2015 -> 02:58 PM) EASY ball to block yet flowers misses it completely and costs the Sox a run. It really is amazing he is still in the majors...

Why does JB Shuck not get more playing time. Bonafacio is terrible but Shuck seemed to at least have a clue and could play defense.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Jun 25, 2015 -> 12:33 PM) Alfredo Simon sucks I am to lazy and really don't care all that much but didn't he give up three or four runs early in his last outing vs our White Sox only to settle down and breeze through 7 innings?

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jun 25, 2015 -> 09:56 AM) Banner gets raised Wednesday October 7 vs. the Rangers. Blackhawks 2015-16 schedule My favorite two games are the late night wednesday before Thanksgiving game and the Friday after Thanksgiving afternoon game.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 01:49 PM) Shocking it looks like the offense quit after Sale gave up the lead. The offense quit when they arrived in Arizona. As the games get ticked off the schedule the poorly constructed nature of this team becomes more and more evident. Their hitting approach is that of an over anxious little league team. Swing at the first thing close to the zone.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 01:37 PM) Pressure the defense with speed. You bust your hump every time. When did guys lose these fundamentals. Still cracks me up thinking how in game one of the season Hawk was preaching how Vince Coleman was going to be a difference in how this team plays,,,,as with most things he could not be more wrong. Ramirez having the best season a shortstop had ever had was the another....

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 01:21 PM) According to fangraphs, Avi is now 156th out of 164 in terms of WAR. With Utley on the DL, Alexei is far and away the worst hitter in baseball. Wait until Sanchez becomes eligible

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 01:20 PM) I think he was safe and if Eaton was running it was easily safe. par for the course

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 01:09 PM) Made no sense to pitch to Suzuki with open base there. To me it seems to be an organizational philosophy that baseball stupid across the board is fine.

Similar to Monday this game ended in hurry after starting well. Hughes will retire the next 12 in a row. It really is amazing how s***ty players can simply destroy the White Sox on a consistent basis Rayburn and Suzuki come to mind.

QUOTE (Knackattack @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 12:37 PM) Micah is destroying AAA right now, when can we have him back? So was Sanchez before he came up...and Sanchez can actually catch ball.

Does ramirez even get the ball out of the infield anymore?

Anyone see Tampa and Toronto were both throwing no hitters into the 6th. Karns just gave up a hit.

QUOTE (knightni @ Jun 24, 2015 -> 11:28 AM) Isn't Lester Holt on NBC? Maybe he meant Lester Munson, both have Chicago roots The difference in today's generation v prior are over active parental oversight and information access. Everyone knows everything now a days and situations become over aggrandized. The information age has its pitfalls.

The act Abreu is not a DH is one of a myriad of failings. Flowers existence can other. You have a terrible defense and your best defender is the DH White Sox baseball they f***ing suck

He was hired to instill the Oakland philosophy throughout the organization. He has failed miserably. Not as great a failure as Vince Coleman but close.

Sale is due for a letdown and the sox can't hit colby lewis. Sox lose 8-6 on a Robertson blown save.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jun 18, 2015 -> 08:09 AM) I forgot what it said but I saw it Monday. It was a jab at Cheryl Scott being intimately "involved" with the team. She was one of Patrick Sharp's rumored conquests (along with the wife of Clint Reif). Bernstein has run with those stories like they are fact though this entire time. Really weird. The rumor I heard was Crawford was the one behind the Clint Reif story.

This one is over before it even starts. Kind of like the season.

How Buddy Bell and Vince Coleman keep their jobs is beyond me. Also Todd Steverson was brought in to change the organizational hitting philosophy. It is worse now than ever. Hell he even has an assistant in Harold Baines. We hear Mark Parent and Joe McEwing will be mangers some day. I really do not see how this is even possible the White Sox show know signs of any time of in gmae organizational philosophy that makes me think, yes they have it going. I remember back when Joe Nossek was there and he could steal the other teams signs often.

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Jun 17, 2015 -> 10:57 AM) The bolded parts of your comment are pretty ill-informed. The Sox turned Peavy, a backend of the rotation pitcher, into a a guy who could be in the middle of the Sox order for the next several years. Sure, Avi has struggled the last few weeks, but c'mon man. Eaton has also struggled, but I wouldn't call that trade a failure just yet. Reed? The dude is about to get expensive and isn't even a closer anymore? Hardly a bad trade..hasn't really worked out for either club. Salary dump Robertson? GTFO. Garcia is a low OBP player that cannot play defense. Seems to be ideal for this team. He is 2 for 7 in stolen bases. He is a negative WAR player. Adam Eaton is looking more to be a number nine hitter rather than a leadoff man his current OBP is .302. He is 3 for 7 in stolen bases. He is 0.2 WAR player. What exactly is Robertson going to do for this team? His opportunities are few and far between. The White Sox have one hitter in Abreu and he is a terrible fielder who should be the DH but the White Sox seem to not grasp the concept that defense is important. If they did, they would have grabbed Iglesias in the Peavy deal as he is a defensive wizard and this would have allowed them to spin Ramirez off. Yes this is a hindsite item.

How buddy bell is still employed is beyond me. There is no marketing in the world that can save this team. They have not scored in the last 25 innings which is not even saying much for this team. What has Hahn really done.......Eaton and Peavy trades are not looking all that promising. Reed trade nope. I want to believe that kw is still guiding things and if so it is time for him to go as well as I never thought he constructed teams all too well. 2005 is becoming a detrament to this organization. This rudderless ship seems to be the way things will be for a while. There is a stink to this organization that is getting worse with the good old boys loyalty network. Thank god David Robertson is in the pen for that one game a week he is needed. He should be a salary dump.

It was said after the 0-4 start and remains . This team was not ready to start the season and remains behind in simple fundamentals. The hitting approach is that of a little league team, swing at the first close pitch. Hawk in the first game of the season told us Vince Coleman was going to make a difference....no person in America is worse at their job than Vince Coleman. This organization needs to be rebuilt from the top down. Rick Hahn is not the answer. All the glaring weaknesses were there to be seen four games into the season when Tommy Millone aced the sox that day. It has just stayed the same. This team is fundamentally terrible and stupid.....from the top down. Ventura should have been after yesterday, nobody would have known or cared.