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As Jackie Gleason once said as Ralph Kramden in the Honeymooners: "Let me have what your drinking I want to get loaded too..."

68-70. Also place a bet on when Grifol gets fired.

With Grifol as manager both on the roster is a possibility.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2024/02/29/white-sox-paul-dejong-changes-focus-settles-in-with-fresh-start

Two more Sox pitchers hurt, that makes a half dozen by my count: Feb. 29: RHPs Jimmy Lambert and Joe Barlow dealing with shoulder soreness Both pitchers are candidates for the White Sox bullpen. Lambert is expected to be out for 10-14 days, while Barlow could be sidelined for an even longer period of time. Lambert is another guy who just can't stay healthy.

This is a long detailed article on the history behind the design and it talks about how JR and the Sox had "considerable influence" of what they wanted vis a vis with HOK: https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/the-white-sox-ballpark-in-chicago-that-never-was-and-could-have-changed-history/ The next book Dr. Fletcher and the Chicago Baseball Museum will be doing (and I contributed) comes out in the spring of 2025. It will look at the 1990 team and the building/controversy surrounding the stadium that opened in 1991. I've just e-mailed him asking if based on his extensive research for the book he can clear this point up.

How to draw fans to a Sox game this year? Does kidnapping count? ?

Washington however told the Sox that the only way his appointees on the ISFA would vote to approve any deal was that the stadium be built across the street from Comiskey Park so those that say he forced the Sox into taking the location are correct. It is also a fact in the book that came out on the building of Camden Yards that a person with the HOK firm which designed the Orioles Stadium was quoted directly as stating that firm offered the Camden Yards design to JR and he rejected it.

I can tell you from previous experience and from what I've been told by some of the Sox front office that (at least in the past) they did have individuals look at the better known fan sites just to get a sense of what was being discussed. I don't know if that info ever made its way all the way up to JR though. I'd tend to doubt it myself.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2024/02/28/all-eyes-on-white-sox-yoan-moncada-including-mike-moustakas-in-third-basemans-contract-year

Well that's not necessarily a bad thing, Boston and Philly have had a hell of a lot more success so fans would have more to cheer for.

This week is a prelude to what we'll be seeing on a regular basis for the upcoming season.

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/rob-manfred-says-athletics-relocation-plans-to-las-vegas-still-solid-despite-multiple-obstacles/

Oh you mean the Brother Rice news letter, got it.

Just wanted to put this out there. Mainstream media stories came out yesterday that the Chicago Red Stars of the women's pro soccer league said they now want to get a stadium built for them. One of the quotes in the story way "women deserve a seat at the table..."

Just my opinion. I don't think anyone is "happy" but I think most are convinced (and I'm one of them) that JR's threat is pure unadulterated bullshit. Again just my opinion but I'm willing to call his bluff at this time. We are years away from the situation becoming critical so we'll see how it plays out. But I can't blame the fans, JR has the unadulterated gall to not be willing (at least yet) to pay one thin dime and then has the audacity just last week to blame the fan base for his incompetence, dysfunction and ineptness. He is a smart guy and I can't think he honestly believes the BS his spouts.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2024/02/27/white-sox-garrett-crochet-strikes-out-ohtani-makes-good-first-step-in-path-toward-starting

https://chicago.suntimes.com/editorials/2024/02/27/gov-pritzkers-reluctance-to-fund-jerry-reinsdorfs-field-of-dreams-is-the-right-call The White Sox continue to paper the town with pretty renderings of their proposed taxpayer-funded new stadium — along with vague promises of the community benefits the ballpark is supposed to bring — so it's good to see Gov. J.B. Pritzker express at least some initial skepticism over the plan. So as Reinsdorf makes his rounds of public officials, we agree with Pritzker reminding the billionaire sports franchise owner that Illinois has bigger fish to fry than helping figure out how to pay for a ballpark, and that funding for the stadium isn't just there for taking.

Thank you.

Happened Saturday, just a very nice time for my wife and I. Received a nice medallion and a crystal trophy....then did back to back broadcasts for Idaho State men and women wins over Weber State...then when I got home wrote a game wrap story on the men's win for the Idaho State Journal. Long day. When were you at Idaho State? Moved here in January 1993 from Louisiana to work as sports director at KPVI-TV.

At least they scored some runs today but the pitching is horrid.

The afternoon Sun-Times newsletter question of the day is what will it take for Chicagoans to agree to help pay for a new stadium? I'll be curious to read the reply's Wednesday.

I never wish ill on a player but this guy was flotsam and jetsam anyway. From a baseball perspective it is no big loss. By my count four pitchers hurt already not that it will matter this season.

He did indeed say that. Some called it the "Aparicio curse." He was upset that after the 1962 season Ed Short wanted to cut his salary.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2024/02/27/white-sox-lose-jesse-scholtens-to-ucl-tear-acquire-lefty-bailey-horn-in-trade-with-cubs