Thad Bosley

Bunting and giving up an out and then leaving it up to a guy like Engel. Why!

Wimpy is so much better than Stone at indulging Hawk on the things Hawk wants to talk about.

I’m going to need one last “Your what hurts?” sent Wimpy’s way by Hawk before this is all over!

Ugh - home team lead-off hitter bunting a runner over to third with no outs in the third inning.

Hawk & Wimpy - the antithesis of cookie-cutter announcing!

Hawk is always in a good place when the Wimperoo is around.

Wimpy’s last season. Sigh......end of the Hawk/Wimpy pairing this year, as well. ?

Not a longer window than that? We'll have Moncada, Giolito, Lopez, Hansen, Robert, Cease, et al together starting from 2019 and going through at least 2023, and probably beyond a few years after that. If this rebuild is for real, I'm expecting quite a bit of championship competitiveness right through the mid '20s.

The General Manager has been very clear on this. He said the player's play will dictate when he should be brought up. Thus, if he's playing at or near the Big Frank minor league clip of 1990, we'll see him sooner rather than later. If not, he'll stay down until his development is at a point where a call-up is merited.

Solid write-up and very enjoyable read. Thank you!

Like, one playoff appearance in their last 13 seasons since their last WS appearance, like the Sox’ record?

Having “trust” and “complete confidence” in a management team with the horrible record this one has is foolish and unwarranted. What Sox fans can have is “hope” they finally get this thing right.

...which is on the heels of a stretch of five absolutely brutal seasons from 2013-2016, which is on the heels of the team making just one trip to the playoffs (and a very brief one at that) since the team walked off the field in Houston as WS champs back in ‘05. Plenty for our beleaguered fan base to be frustrated about at this point in time.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 10, 2018 -> 09:10 AM) Its funny to see this post in the 21st century, what with pretty much every single game of baseball being on cable, and WGN being dead as a regional sportscasting network. While this might have been right in 1988, in 2018 it is laughable. It turns out Jerry and Eddie were actually just ahead of their time. Hell the Cubs are about to form their own cable network by themselves. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Yes, that’s what good, ‘ol “Jerry and Eddie” were guilty of back in the golden age of “SportsVision” - being “ahead of their time”. On the contrary - they were guilty of being complete dunderheads in understanding the marketplace in front of them in those days with 150 free games of the Cubs in the same town (hosted by Harry Caray, no less!).

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 13, 2018 -> 07:43 AM) Believe me WBWSF, i know your opinion on Reinsdorf. You whine about him incessantly, the space he occupies in your head is immense Not to be confused with the incessant whining by an apparently uninformed, yet overzealous mod, about anyone, ANYONE, who dares to call into question the horrific record of the owner.

I do love the Sox’ association with WGN throughout the years.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Apr 16, 2018 -> 10:53 PM) Wasn’t the last decade our punishment? Part of it, yes.

QUOTE (Jake @ Apr 16, 2018 -> 10:30 PM) The issue with Yoan is that while he has excellent feel for the strike zone, I'm starting to think he has no gameplan whatsoever at the plate. I'm not sure that he really knows what pitches he likes to hit and doesn't like to hit, what pitches he's likely to get in a given situation, things like that. The fault there is of course on our coaching and development, but it's a somewhat fixable problem. It may also be the case that our attempts to get him thinking that way are kind of paralyzing him where he's constantly caught in between. Jake, don’t you think with this feel for the strike zone, which I totally agree with, it’s just a matter of time? Time which is on our side at the moment?

White Sox fans have witnessed some kind of baseball this past decade.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 16, 2018 -> 08:59 PM) Nothing pisses me off more than bunting a fast guy to 2nd base Amen!

QUOTE (pcq @ Apr 8, 2018 -> 07:14 PM) Harry quit because he did not want to be on a pay TV broadcast. He became a beer salesman on WGN. Harry never impressed me as an honorable person. Nor was he a fan of Einsdorf. You are correct - he was not a fan of “Einsdorf”, or Reinsdorf and Einhorn, for that matter. Can’t imagine why. Caray only had 37 years in the business vs. “Einsdorf” and their one year - what did he know! Meanwhile, Caray didn’t “quit” on the White Sox. He made a very astute business decision on his part to not sign up for the disaster of a proposal that was the Sox’ with SportsVision in favor of the sure-fire winner with the Cubs and WGN. As for his honor ability, he never missed a game his entire career, spent 25 years with the Cardinals, 11 with the Sox, and 17 with the Cubs. Seems to me he was as honorable to his employers as they could hope for!

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Apr 8, 2018 -> 04:01 PM) Absolutely terrific Sox announcer (as well as the Bears). He was 79. Knew him pretty well, spoke with him often. Here's my interview with him from a few years back: http://www.whitesoxinteractive.com/rwas/in...=11&id=3734 Very sad to hear this news. He was, as you said, a “terrific Sox announcer”, and was so during a tumultuous transition period in the Sox TV/radio booth during the early ‘80s. As the “new ownership” group back then was busy ushering out Harry Caray & Jimmy Piersall and replacing them with Don Drysdale & the Hawk, McConnell represented some consistency during that timeframe, while also delivering a truly top-notch broadcast, both on TV and radio. Unfortunately for McConnell, similar to Drysdale & Hawk, his talents were buried during his years with the Sox due to the very ill-fated “SportsVision” experiment. Not as many people heard him as they should have.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Apr 3, 2018 -> 09:08 PM) I applaud the effort Delmonico... you weren't close at all, but I applaud the effort.

A nice first week for the Adam Eaton trade.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 25, 2018 -> 12:17 PM) FWIW there is no discussion about banning anyone right now. Being an Eeyore and saying the same untrue thing over and over isn’t a personal attack on anyone at Soxtalk. And I doubt Reinsdorfs feelings are hurt Not today, anyway! It’s the old bean’s birthday!!