Lip Man 1

Opening day: Bad August 1: Worse

????? They've already got seven pitchers, seven having injury issues and you think this team is going to stay healthy???????????????????????

This is how we do things...we lose and lose and lose.

Make that seven Sox pitchers already having injury-issues ? First class training, conditioning medical staff right there friends!

This team/organization is laughably bad.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024/03/01/white-sox-michael-kopech-strikes-out-five-cubs-in-first-cactus-league-start

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/tristan-beck-injury-update-giants-starter-will-have-vascular-surgery-likely-to-miss-opening-day/

I'm assuming you are saying these predictions to get a reaction since you seem like an intelligent individual and realize the complete, utter mess this franchise is in on and off the field. I'd be thrilled if they broke 70 wins but can't see it happening especially after they trade guys come July.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2024/03/01/quite-naturally-white-sox-top-prospect-colson-montgomery-draws-nearer-to-big-leagues

Fanatics say: It's not our fault... https://chicago.suntimes.com/mlb/2024/03/01/fanatics-founder-says-company-doesnt-deserve-blame-for-new-mlb-uniforms https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlbs-new-uniforms-fanatics-founder-michael-rubin-reacts-to-backlash-as-mlbpa-still-concerned/

Well it's not like we haven't seen bad relief pitching and a key error before with this organization the past few years.

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.