The pressure on opposing pitchers must be horrible facing this lineup. You give up a run or two and the guy parking your car is going to laugh is ass off at your incompetence.
While I know a lot of folks here only watch White Sox baseball and would give up baseball if the Sox moved, a whole lot more fans would eventually slide over to the north side because they love baseball and Chicago. While a great Yankee type franchise would rule this city, reality is as a mediocre second tier franchise they would do fine in some new market that is starved for a major sports team. There may be a small slip in revenue from Chicago, but the league will make it up with a new market. They will have an excuse for not being competitive and life goes on. They may be the next Philadelphia/KC/Oakland/nameless Athletics.
How many players do you think they have on the current roster that could be part of a playoff team? Five? Ten? Now sign 15 or 20 above average free agents to compete in the next couple years. You need at least four starting pitchers and a closer, someone to catch them. I don't think you can pull that off in two to three years even with reckless spending.
All we need is a new publicly financed stadium, get rid of TLR, Williams, and Hahn, get rid of Pedro and Getz, get rid of their replacements, and probably the replacements after that, and we will be gold.
It's been that way for a long time. My coach also turned me into a very useful #2 hitter. Lots of contact, drew some walks, sacrifice bunts, hit and runs. There were a lot of kids at tryouts better than me in a few areas but I hustled my ass off and made myself valuable.
I was the everyday catcher and couldn't understand why my coach didn't let me catch both games in a double header. Hubris.
I had the catchers mentality. You're going to fucking try to go first to third on me? NFW
I'm wondering if they have tried and been turned down?! If you were an agent would you advise a coach or manager client to sign here?
We get desperation and former players who can be coerced.
I wasn't in right until traveling ball. I was a bit miffed at being in right until the coach explained it to me and we looked through the score cards. I was involved in more outs than the left fielder.