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Thad Bosley

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  1. I still see his 2019 season and think he can return to that level, at least.
  2. Has anyone ever told you your insights are, well, not very interesting?
  3. Sort of like a do-over, build a ballpark they should have built the first time around. One facing the magnificent skyline and with a far more reasonable upper deck in terms of steepness. Imagine the difference in the upper deck experience if you could see the skyline beyond the scoreboard from most of the seats up there wherein you also don’t feel like you’re getting vertigo because of a steep angle. Put the entrance to the upper deck in the middle of the deck, not at the base as it currently is, so nobody would be faced with a huge hike to get to their seats. I think the demand for an upper deck seat would almost do a 180 if all of this were to happen, and would go a long way towards addressing the team’s long-running attendance issues. Seven years left until the lease on the current ballpark runs out, and that’s on a collision course with the advent of new ownership in this same time frame, so as get closer to all of that I can’t imagine how the talk of a new ballpark won’t steadily increase. Should be very interesting!
  4. Why would you criticize another White Sox fan diehard? As goofy as you can be and certainly are, at the end of the day, we know you’re a diehard Sox fan. So are those folks who chose to make the short trip in the middle of the summer to Minny to see their Sox play there in their beautiful ballpark
  5. Probably the same kind of diehard like you checking into a game thread for this Sox team.
  6. Thad Bosley

    JR

    This is Jerry Reinsdorf’s 42nd (!) year as owner of the White Sox. In his first 41 years, there’s only been ONE year when his White Sox team won a postseason series - 2005. In the 40 other years with him at the helm, there has not only been NO postseason series victories, but a mere SIX postseason appearances and a mere SIX playoff game victories. If that doesn’t scream UTTER FUTILITY, I don’t know what does. Not to mention, but the four plus decades of his *ahem* leadership has included one mind-boggingly, boneheaded, franchise-crippling decision after another. Put the current LaRussa debacle as the latest in that series. Luckily for the fan base, we are in the twilight of the current ownership, and if you look hard enough at the horizon, you can see new ownership that will likely come in, clean house, and hopefully change this culture of losing we have suffered under with Reinsdorf for way too long.
  7. Or maybe, just maybe, it’s the same, relevant observation he and every other Sox announcer has made at this time of day on a sunny day game. ?
  8. It takes a man to do a man’s job in this organization, and the one man who could and has, Hawk Harrelson, is gone now.
  9. Anyone familiar with how Jerry Reinsdorf handles situations like this, after witnessing four decades-worth of his franchise-crippling decisions, one right after another, knows the last thing he’s going to do now is fire Tony LaRussa. It’s not going to happen. Reinsdorf hearing those chants yesterday only made him dig his heels in deeper in his typical “I’m smarter than everyone else, and I’ll show you all that I am!”, and he’ll stick with LaRussa now and hope the combination of everyone coming back from the injuries at the time the schedule becomes easier will turn this thing around and propel the Sox to winning the division and getting hot at the right time in the postseason. The guy is now living for the “I told you so!” moment later in the year. LaRussa is, sadly, not going anywhere.
  10. Shame on Tony LaRussa for putting Leury in a position to fail. Lead-off against the Dodgers? Really? The problem is the manager and front office, not the player.
  11. When are things going right for him? We’ve yet to see him in the role he’s suited for, which is the super sub role. He keeps getting pushed into a starting role due to injuries, the crazy manager, and an ineffective front office who did a terrible job addressing the second base issue this past offseason. Remember: he didn’t pencil himself into the lead-off spot tonight against one of the best teams in baseball.
  12. He’s not the worst hitter in baseball when used properly as a utility player. If and when overexposed in a role he doesn’t belong in, yes, he can look bad. Most players cast in a role they don’t belong would as well. As for the snarky he’s not good at anything comment, he’s good at being a super sub who can give you good defense at SIX positions, while providing good speed offensively. He’s been here awhile. You should know that by now.
  13. He’s not below average as a utility player given the number of positions that he can play and play well adequately defensively, and he has speed offensively. He’s only overexposed when he’s forced to start as much as he has. Forget the injuries: he’s overexposed partly because this front office failed to solve the second base issue over the offseason, and now Leury starts far more than he should.
  14. Leury is a good utility player who is not allowed to be a good utility player because the goofy manager plays him as if he’s an Allstar, and the front office thought that Josh Harrison was the answer to second base over the offseason.
  15. Who thought this lineup would make Gausmann labor to the tune of 98 pitches through five innings!
  16. Why does it take them so long to cut from the centerfield camera to the camera behind the plate when a ball is put in play!
  17. As of today, his so-called Hall of Fame experience is book-ended by bouts of questionable results during his career with the White Sox.
  18. Unfortunately our Sox have looked terrible against both the Yankees and Red Sox at home this month. We wore the collar of looking bad against good teams last year prior to the postseason. We are looking even more futile in the early going this season.
  19. That is NOT happening under the current owner. It only happens if LaRussa walks away from this himself, which seems unlikely.
  20. In Year TWO he was supposed to use his so-called Hall of Fame experience to clean this up, and here we are.
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