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Yet here you are. I can't disagree with your assessment of how JR feels, I've never spent any time with him and don't presume to know how he feels. So you hate the owner, the owner hates you. It's a beautiful world. I believe he and his partners have benefit more from this mutual hate than you have. Go Sox

Whoa, read all my posts. There are plenty of reasons for fans to want a change. So many in fact you don't have to make things up or distort the actual record to want him gone.

Charles did it in the AL one hundred years ago. He also owned the team that was the biggest scandal in baseball history. Imagine if JR was the owner back then. The Veeck/Allen years were as mediocre as any other era. The franchise has sucked no matter the owner. It wasn't like JR bought a great franchise and it got worst. It's as good or bad as it ever was.

The easiest way to build a successful track record as an analyst is to claim every Sox trade is a disaster. Trying to figure out the one on fifteen that actually works out for the Sox is the real test.

I had the opportunity yesterday to listen to a successful D1 college head football coach talk about how they built their brand on integrity and respect. He's local and two of my former students are playing for him. I can't imagine a scandal like this in his program. I can't imagine my former students acting in that manner. I'd be crushed to learn that. I have great empathy for Northwestern supporters who have to deal with this. He also touched on when these problems happen it hurts all programs. It's always bigger than the school.

Actually he's not under .500 and even more surprisingly teams have averaged higher in the standings than any other time since Charles moved the team to Chicago. https://chicagology.com/baseball/soxowners/ He's just another care taker of a historically horrible franchise not much better or worse than the rest of them. As others have noted the are plenty of reasons to want him to sell. Plenty of things he's done that aren't popular with most fans. In fact it seems there is enough to not have to distort or make up stuff to want him gone. But all time won loss stats are meaningless when the only comparison is from the turn of the 20th century versus turn of the 21st century.

Is he well under .500

All these pitchers leaving and no team wants their favorite catcher?? Damn it

For every S there is a M

Know what is happening in your program. Make everyone aware that hazing is cause for termination. Players, coaches, everyone. Create a culture where players will report hazing. Communication, trust. If you can't do these basic job functions, you won't have a coaching job at the high school, college, or pro ranks moving forward.

Agreed. It's as meaningless as stats about losses. Plenty of reasons to criticize him. But most "insert anything" stats can be attributed to the amount of years he's owned the team.

No owner in Sox history has won more games than JR.

Not too get in the way of your usual rant about JR but how many others had a chance for two losing decades? Charles and JR. The various Comiskey family members combined had a win percentage of just under JR. Veeck, combining his two stints was below .500. John Allyn again, worst than JR. Although after this season that may change. This has been a crappy franchise through and through no matter the owner. Some years are good to great, others just suck ass. https://chicagology.com/baseball/soxowners/

I'm enjoying watching UTSA build beyond what would be expected. Good AD and Head Coach.

What a difficult life she had.

Every comment must start with White Sox Baseball is like the silly web site spin the wheel to see your discount feature, only in this case the wheel lands on a losing space each time.

And this team will come back and be really bad once again. I still think they can put together a twenty game losing streak. Perhaps after the sell off.

@Look at Ray Ray Run I think you are correct that Robert has that chance. I'm wondering in the modern style of player contracts if we'll see anyone stay on the roster to be best ever status. As we move towards earlier and earlier free agency I don't see top players staying with one team for more than four or five seasons. That might not be enough to make them a franchise's GOAT.

If you like watching a player it's pretty easy to catch any game, anywhere. So meh, if I see he's pitching and it looks like a good matchup I'll watch. Modern fandom is changing.

This should be interesting.

Sorry if my post offended you.

Imagine if Tony was still in the dugout. That's another five or six losses.

Fixed. I believe the majority of fans here have worked through the five stages of a typical White Sox season. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and here we are now, at acceptance. Next year will be better. The Hawks have a star and the Bears will be better. That shortens the already too long baseball season to something manageable. Toss in a summer vacation and Sox baseball will be sustainable for the next great build. (Can't call it rebuild, because who wants a rebuild of this disaster?)

I have a much bleaker forecast. I think the world has changed since parity. Too many other things to do, new interests. Nothing lasts forever. Society is more mobile, fandom won't be based on a physical address. I'm not certain if it will be humans playing in fifty years. Humans make too many mistakes. We already want to eliminate umpires. We want managers to make decisions as if they were extensions of a computer, why not just eliminate the human and put in a computer and have the players read their instructions? Next step are AI generated players. Watching from home you won't even know the difference. Optimum performance, optimum strategy, optimum umpiring.

Doesn't everyone need someone yelling at them to do their jobs? Could you image professionals in any other business doing their jobs without a coworker to hold them accountable.