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QUOTE (ptatc @ Apr 20, 2017 -> 09:55 PM) Stop that. Only the White Sox have a history of not spending big money. Every other team has a payroll at least twice that of the Sox. The Sox are one of only three teams to never hand out a contract greater than $70 million.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Apr 19, 2017 -> 08:18 PM) Obviously there is a lot to like in their system, but it's way to jump to any conclusions on the progress of their rebuild. They need young guys to establish themselves at the major league level and have extended periods of success. Sanchez had an insane start to his major league career, but let's see him sustain even 70% of that production. Judge is hitting HRs on 44% of his flyballs, that's not going to last. Servino has been impressive this year, but it's only been over three starts. At some point the league will adjust to these guys and these players will need to adjust accordingly. That's easier said than done and why we see young players regularly flame out after initial bouts of success. The Yankees have a long way to go before I can say they are well on their way to a successful rebuild. Right now, they are far from becoming the next Cubs or Astros. All I said was their rebuild seemed to be humming along nicely. No conclusions drawn yet, and certainly they are not at the Cubs or Astros level just yet, but seemingly trending in that direction.

Well, the Yankees' rebuild seems to be humming along nicely.

Avi laying off all of those down-and-away pitches was nice to see.

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Apr 17, 2017 -> 08:03 PM) Very debatable Not if he's to be judged by White Sox team results.

QUOTE (Sox-35th @ Apr 17, 2017 -> 07:50 PM) Hahn's a smart guy. This team won't sway him. Harvard book smart, yes. Baseball general manager smart, no results yet to support that claim.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Apr 17, 2017 -> 07:45 PM) Game might be a serious challenge for the Sox to rebound tonight considering it's 7-0 Bronx bombers More like a serious reminder to continue on with the rebuild efforts

Lol - Sox "Pride" club

Wow - some nice, knee-buckling curveballs from Shields today.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Apr 15, 2017 -> 01:46 PM) You don't play baseball games for the sole purpose of trading your players. Why don't we just enjoy baseball and root for the Sox for awhile Sadly, sometimes you do have to play baseball with a primary purpose of trading your good players, when your plans for trying to win with those players have failed so miserably. Wouldn't it have been nice if the owner and his current management team could have figured out a way in the past several years to make the kinds of decisions that would have resulted in success on the field which would have avoided the need to discuss having to trade these players now? Based on your consistent commentary on the matter, you are obviously content with any form of baseball, winning or losing, as long as it has the White Sox stamp on it. That's fine for those who set the bar as low as you seemingly do, but for those who would like to return to the ranks of the winning, you should probably pull back on the criticism of those who don't share your willingness to tolerate the lack of winning of this franchise.

QUOTE (Sox-35th @ Apr 7, 2017 -> 08:26 PM) But that seems a lot more fixable than "You know Stoney, this situation reminds me of the time..." followed by a story that no one under 50 can relate to. Meh, everyone is entitled to their opinions, but significantly more relevant people (who understand broadcasting) share my opinion. Your problem with Benetti is he is new. That's fine, he has room to improve. Hawk has been on the downward swing since we missed the playoffs in 2006. Please continue to share your considerable and superior understanding of broadcasting because it is ever so enlightening. And while you're at it, any hints on how to get better at the "Sox Math" nightly exercise would be greatly appreciated, too. Now that's some great baseball broadcasting going on there, I'll tell ya. Perfect for the under 50 crowd!

QUOTE (Sox-35th @ Apr 7, 2017 -> 08:24 PM) He has been a little too silly and needs to focus on baseball, but Hawk is bad by comparison. Where Benetti makes a dumb joke, Hawk makes an incorrect or unprovable statement. Hawk phoned it in a long time ago. Yawn. Wrong.

QUOTE (Sox-35th @ Apr 7, 2017 -> 08:12 PM) Hawk and Stone are easily the worst broadcast team in baseball. Do they raise your self esteem or something? Not by a long shot.

QUOTE (Baron @ Apr 7, 2017 -> 07:55 PM) Maybe it's just me but I cant watch the Sox broadcast until Hawk gets back. Yes.

QUOTE (Baron @ Apr 7, 2017 -> 07:20 PM) Moncada has another single...think that's 7 Hostess ought to be keeping a close eye on this guy. He could end up being the best celebrity endorser of "Twinkies" they've ever had!

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Apr 7, 2017 -> 07:12 PM) The swirling wind brought it back into fair territory and away from Abreu. I think Avi Garcia thought he was going to collide with Jose He should have called off the infielder who was running backwards on the ball long before they were even close to colliding into one another.

QUOTE (TheFutureIsNear @ Apr 7, 2017 -> 06:54 PM) I'd like to see that as well, but we seem pretty committed to Moncada at 2b. We'll have to see if they move him around at all in the minors. They aren't going to bring him up to the majors to play a position he hasn't played all year. I think the original poster meant that Salidino could play third when Moncado comes up and if they move Frazier.

QUOTE (Al Lopez's Ghost @ Apr 1, 2017 -> 09:39 PM) One thing about Harry. Nobody could sell baseball better than he could. He would compare Kevin Bell and Bucky Dent to Robert Redford and Paul Newman. He'd be doing the same thing with our young prospects. Of course that was before he came to despise Reinsdorf and Einhorn, and vice-versa. Harry would go onto find out the hard way what happens in Chicago when you get on the bad side of Jerry & Eddie, aka the "Sunshine Boys", as they gleefully dubbed themselves back then. Yeah, 'ol Harry's career was essentially over once the Sunshine Boys tossed him out to the curb. Who needed Harry and WGN back then, anyway!!

QUOTE (ptatc @ Apr 1, 2017 -> 08:28 AM) I don't think people realize how hard it is to lose 100 games. Last year there was only one team. This team is going to be bad, I predicted 90 loses. But with Anderson, Rodon and Abreu probably not being traded and a couple of acquired platyers being promoted 100 loses will be tough. I don't disagree with you on the rareness of teams losing 100 games, but it does happen. My point is it will happen this year to this team if they don't improve on the brand of baseball they featured the last half of May last year, all of June, all of July, all of August, and all of September. And that improvement must come without the services of Sale and Eaton. It's going to be a challenge!

From the middle of May all the way through the end of the season, for the last 130 games equaling 80% of the season, the Sox played at a worse winning percentage than the 2013 team that lost 99 games. This was WITH Chris Sale and Adam Eaton on the team. Now for 2017 without those two star players in tow, and looking up and down this roster, I don't know how in the world a 100+ loss season can be avoided, particularly as the team sells off its remaining few good players as the season goes on. This is a huge hole Reinsdorf, Williams, and Hahn have dug for this organization, and it's going to get a little uglier at first before it gets better, starting with this upcoming season. The absolute only hope we Sox fans have right now is that the primary architect of the last failed effort at developing a sustainable winning ball club, Rick Hahn, will somehow have different results with this rebuild business.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Mar 26, 2017 -> 02:11 PM) Quick question. WTF does JR's ownership and the "conspiracy" rebuild have to do with Lucas Giolito's FB velocity drop and CB spin rate? I swear some folks complain for the sake of complaining and if there was nothing to complain about, they would complain about that too. Lighten up Sox fans and be glad baseball is back after a long winter. As a White Sox fan, JR's continued ownership is far more interesting and with far more riding implications to White Sox baseball than Lucas Giolito's FB velocity ever will be. So any organic change in a discussion within a thread from the latter to the former should be very welcome for any true fan who is trying to navigate through the next few years of challenging waters in which "JR" and his merry court of management have thrust us.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 15, 2017 -> 12:26 PM) Michael Talbert Kopech Nice. Looking forward to his arrival on the South Side. He appears to have a fun personality which will add further appeal to the next contending Sox team.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Mar 14, 2017 -> 03:21 PM) Holland seems like a cool dude. Happy he's on the team for this year. It appears both he and James "35th &" Shields enjoy acting in the mentor capacity with all of the young hurlers on the team, so that part is nice as well.

QUOTE (WBWSF @ Mar 11, 2017 -> 09:49 AM) This is another low point in the JR ownership. The team can't get a major beer sponsor on their TV + Radio broadcasts. Some people have posted that the White Sox will receive a new TV deal in 2 years. I really wonder how much the team will get from that deal. The next 2 seasons are going to be brutal and I have to wonder if the team is going to get any big offers from any TV station. The inability to re-up with Miller is a downstream impact of the continuing bottom-of-the-barrel attendance and TV ratings. The bottom-of-the-barrel attendance and TV ratings are the downstream impacts of the continuing losing by the teams brought to the fan base by Team Reinsdorf, Williams, & Hahn, with over a decade's worth of futility currently underway. Simple cases of cause and effect. The franchise in many ways has bottomed out, and now all that's left for Jerry, Kenny, & Rick to do in the waning years of the Reinsdorf ownership is to go through this rebuild business, and hope to dig the team out of the hole they dug for it. Do so in a way that they might still be able to enjoy whatever success emerges at the end of the rebuild, before it's finally "Bye! Bye!" to all three sometime in the near future once a new owner is in place.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Mar 10, 2017 -> 12:08 PM) JR will not sell while he is still alive because of the tax hit (which would be very large) on his family. He started as a tax guy, he knows the laws better than anyone. And it has been reported many times by many sources (including JR himself to Bob Sirott on Chicago Tonight) that his children are not interested in running the Sox and he has advised them against doing so. Mark That's fine. Fresh start/clean slate with a new owner who hopefully performs a little housecleaning.