Lip Man 1

Get used to the new reality my friend.

His intervening over the decades is part of the reason this franchise is in the shape it is in.

? The only way they "turn it around" is if the other teams in the league forfeit.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2024/05/08/little-setback-taps-brakes-on-luis-robert-jr-s-timeline-for-return-to-white-sox

“It’s a matter of us getting the big hit when we need it,” said Grifol, overseeing the worst 36-game start in franchise history. That my friends is called whistling past the graveyard. This team is D.O.A. regardless of if they ever get a big hit or not. They needed to do it a month ago, now it's meaningless. Grifol hasn't accomplished s%*# since day one but he continues to talk a lot about what has to happen. The question needs to be asked, well...why hasn't it happened yet?

As soon as a guy gets out of the shithole that is this organization he starts to produce. We shouldn't be surprised.

I'm looking for long-term entertainment. Trading him, in theory, could bring back pieces that will actually help you be entertained by seeing them win actual games. In the short term if you want to be entertained I suggest rewatching the numerous Sox games from good seasons that are available via You Tube. Beats the dumpster fire the team is right now.

It's the "White Sox effect..."

Given the complete incompetence, dysfunction and ineptness of this organization from top to bottom I have a hard time figuring out ANY way this franchise will be competitive over the next two-three years at least. Therefore keeping Robert around while they continue to lose 95-100 games a year is just plain stupid. Get what you can for him while you can (before he seriously injures himself again). If this team was an actual well run organization with a legit change to do something by all means you keep him, he's a great talent. But the Sox aren't close, if JR still owns the team he won't be extended so what good does it do you keeping him?

Nightengale in his column Sunday wrote this: "The White Sox off to their worst start in franchise history, are still hoping to trade Tommy Pham to the highest bidder before the trade deadline." "The White Sox are also expected to trade starters Erick Fedde, Chris Flexen, Mike Clevinger, reliever Michael Kopech and DH Eloy Jimenez."

What happens when the guys you mentioned are all traded at the deadline? Then you have two final months of the club being even worse than when they started the season.

I know about the CW read it last week, that certainly could be a factor in any WGN decision.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2024/05/05/there-for-the-tanking-embrace-white-sox-pursuit-of-being-worst-team-in-mlb-history-jerry-reinsdorf

Lopez by the way is having the dreaded "adductor" issue.

DVS wrote he threw today and felt "fine."

That would be a welcomed development.

I honestly can't recall over the last several years, not just this one and not just last year, where the Sox have had everyone healthy. Simply not happening with this bunch of players and this staff.

You forgot Moncada whom I think the organization would love to unload.

Just a few thoughts. Chicago unlike New York or Los Angeles has never had a large number of 'independent' stations for potential over the air options. A big key to this will be if WGN wants to get back into the sports business. I have no idea if they do or not, if they do, that would really be a boost for the Sox if this report is legitimate. And to that end, for whatever it's worth, a reliable source told me today: "I'm getting some feedback that The Athletic story is inaccurate." I was hearing that last night as well, some are speculating that this was a deliberate plant to spur activity which wasn't coming to bear on what the Sox wanted to do. We'll see how this plays out.

Yay...that's all I got.

Always is with him, first, last and in-between. But that doesn't discount his ego.

JR who honestly thinks he's smarter than everyone else in baseball.

I remember reading on one of the threads someone posted in detail how MLB has been the most competitive league out of the four major pro sports. More different teams have played in the World Series/made playoffs the last few decades compared to the NFL and the NBA. Don't remember the specific numbers though.

I've been told more than once by others that when the Sox are sold the next owner won't be an individual, it will be a corporation.

Jim Margalus with an interesting take on this since he lives in Nashville: "By comparison, Standard Media Group has an extremely low profile. It says it’s headquartered in Nashville “with operations in New York, Lincoln, Nebraska, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and Providence, Rhode Island,” but for a news organization, it’s jarringly scant on information. Its website bears a copyright date of 2021, its latest news article under “LATEST NEWS” is dated Nov. 11, 2022, and its contact page feels obligated to clarify that it has no connection to the Kenyan news organization Standard Group Plc." https://soxmachine.com/2024/05/no-stadium-deal-white-sox-find-different-partner-for-broadcast-future/