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DVS of the Sun-Times with the story. Some interesting parts of it; ‘‘I’m OK with it,’’ Nicky Lopez said. ‘‘It is what it is. Your career is going to go on, whether it’s here next year or somewhere else. The thing about this sport is it takes 26-plus people; it’s not one person.’’ Rest assured, Lopez isn’t accepting defeat and isn’t OK with losing 121 games. Responsibility for this disaster of a season reaches well above the players’ level. Every Sox player, coach and member of the front office and ownership shares in the infamy. Lopez simply accepts the reality, knowing it was a team loss." ‘‘The way the White Sox lost was too drastic, they were a solid contender, but they gave away the farm and were getting blown out. The [general manager] should be fired.’’ --1962 Mets pitcher Craig Anderson. https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2024/09/28/it-is-what-it-is-is-common-take-from-white-sox-on-record-for-losses-whatever-it-was-it-wasnt-good

True when he was in Little league in Maryland where Veeck was living.

I think they also had it in 1970 or 1971. They took a kid named Danny Goodwin, a catcher if I remember right.

Not when they offer him the position for next year. 😆

Agree. I'd take some past Sox seasons (63,64,65,72,77,90) for example in a heartbeat even though they didn't make the post season. Those were damn good teams.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024/09/27/impatient-white-sox-fans-are-asked-to-be-patient

This is a well written story by Fegan: https://soxmachine.com/2024/09/white-sox-seal-shameful-place-in-history-with-121st-loss/ Regarding Lightfoot's comments if she is as big of a Sox fan as she claims to be she'd know Sox fans could give a rat's ass what Jerry's ethnic background is...just that he is a terrible owner who has destroyed the franchise because he thinks he's the smartest guy in the room and his arrogance knows no bounds.

Not when they name Sizemore the manager for next year.

Given how he has been honestly critical of the organization I can't say I'm surprised.

https://soxmachine.com/2024/09/luis-robert-jr-sees-his-struggles-as-one-of-the-biggest-parts-of-historically-awful-white-sox-season/

Picked up a book for my Sox library titled "Sox" by the late Bob Vanderberg who was one of the associate sports editors at the Tribune. He also wrote some great books on the 1959 team and the Sox battles with the Yankees in the 1950's and 1960's. He was a huge Sox fan. For this book which originally came out in 1982 he scored an interview with JR and I was struck by his comments. My how times have changed: "What you have to do is develop a team that contends every year. I want to contend every year. I don't want to have ups and downs." "We're going to be significant increasing our investments in the farm system. In the long run my feeling is that to be a contender every year you have to develop you own players. You can't do it in the free agent market and you can't do it through trades. You can try to fill a gap that way. But a winning team takes 25 guys and most of them you have to develop. So were gonna be spending our money on the farm system."

Nor should those stiffs and has-been's return.

The fact that the Sox did this for Flexen will get around the other MLB clubhouses. That can pay dividends down the line.

All Star announcement.

Ball is in the Sox court now: https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2024/09/26/garrett-crochet-says-hes-open-to-extension-with-white-sox

There was a video of this.

1.36 million...so how much money does the state owe JR as part of his sweetheart lease deal?

He must be a glutton for punishment.

Anything is possible but he has been adamant he's not selling while he is alive in part because of the massive capital gains tax hit (estimated to be around 200 million) then he'll have to pay the Illinois state tax hit which will be more millions of dollars.

You'll get Grady Sizemore and like it! 😆

In addition to the 'bad ownership' story this came out today from Moneyball author Michael Lewis: https://awfulannouncing.com/mlb/moneyball-michael-lewis-analytics-boring-baseball-athletics.html

Sox Machine breaks down the Olney/Rogers story: https://soxmachine.com/2024/09/the-white-soxs-root-problems-are-still-being-unearthed/

From DVS story today in the Sun-Times: To that end, Robert, who missed two months with the second strained hip flexor of his career, said his offseason routine largely will be the same.

Correct.

Very true and on point.