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If you believe in such things it's like the baseball gods are saying until you get new ownership we're going to keep dumping all over you.

To me a "minor" injury isn't two to four weeks, that's serious... because then he has to go on a rehab assignment which makes it longer.

“Moncada has had this nagging thing for a little bit,” Grifol said. “But 10 games [into the season], we’re going to err on the side of caution. If they miss a couple of games, they miss a couple of games.” A couple games...that's fine. But if it turns into weeks or a constant nagging issue? That's another story.

Can't argue with you there, the lack of depth/talent at all levels is astonishing.

Twins also aren't in the middle of a supposed "contention window" either after going through a painful rebuild.

Maybe because the other options were either untried or not good?

Not saying it was TA's fault... that was an totally inept sequence by the Sox, but the end result is he's hurt again and more than likely is going to miss time which has happened to him multiple times over the past few seasons sometimes landing on the IL more than once in a year.

Last year was an abomination especially how they handled Robert.

He doesn't seem to be overmatched at least at this time. I think he's going to be very solid when all is said and done.

Watched the play again several times at various speeds. It was set up by fundamentals that would make a Little League team blush but the Sox have been guilty of poor fundamentals for years. Anderson stuck his left leg out, kind of splayed, almost on his knees, trying to grab the throw with his bare hand to keep it from going into the dugout or out of play and as the runner was sliding head first, it looked like his left knee banged Anderson left knee. Freak thing but then freak things seem to be normal for the Sox injury prone players. The good news is he played a few innings after it happened so it's not likely a torn ligament or meniscus. Don't know how you could stay on the field if it was. Maybe a good sprain however and that can keep you out for awhile.

For those who didn't see the play here is how DVS described it at the Sun-Times: "Anderson got turned around near third base during a rundown and got clipped on the knee by a sliding Matt Walner in the third inning. Anderson is being further evaluated and wasn’t available after the game. Anderson clutched his knee and writhed in pain momentarily, but got up and stayed in the game. He grounded out to first base in the third inning but was replaced by Elvis Andrus, who moved over from second base, in the sixth inning."

Either that or the Sox will wait two weeks, play shorthanded, before finally figuring out that he's not getting better and THEN IL him.

According to DVS of the Sun-Times, Kelly hurt himself running out to the field yesterday when it looked like a brawl may be taking place. The jokes are now writing themselves with this guy. Saw a great comment from Jim Margalus of Sox Machine. Kelly is giving off Kelvin Herrera vibes. (Herrera another fine example of a great front office with another five million wasted.)

The thing is there is enough of a track record for guys like Moncada, Jimenez, Anderson, Robert the "so-called" keys to the rebuild for the Sox to know... absolutely know that they were going to get hurt yet again. Like 59 wrote it's part of baseball. So what does the brain-trust do? Basically nothing over the off-season to build up depth which they basically knew they were going to need. It's not a mystery with these guys. the slightest twinge and they go on the IL. That's some great front office isn't it? But it does give them an excuse again when things go south...'Oh well...you know it was all the injuries!' ? By the way now with Middleton up, the Sox have three non-roster invitees on the 26 man roster.

Jimenez, Moncada now Anderson dealing with issues. LOL. Nothing ever changes. Anderson isn't the "face" of the franchise, he's the face of the injured list!

Another brilliant signing by that master tactician Rick Hahn!

It never ends does it?

April 10, 1959 - The season opener to a memorable American League Pennant winning year started in Detroit where Billy Pierce faced Jim Bunning. The Sox blew a 7-4 lead when the Tigers got three runs in the eighth inning and matters weren’t decided until the 14th. That’s when Nellie Fox, who hit home runs as often as he struck out, blasted a two-run shot to give the Sox the 9-7 win. Fox would go 5 for 7 and knock in three runs that afternoon despite the freezing temperatures. Catcher Sherm Lollar had three hits for the Sox who used seven pitchers in the game. April 10, 1961 –Sox outfielder “Jungle” Jim Rivera was always good for the unexpected. Right before the Sox played in Washington to open the season, President John Kennedy threw out the first ball. Rivera came up with it and was escorted to the President’s box where both he and Vice President Lyndon Johnson signed the ball. After Rivera looked at it, he said to the President, “You’ll have to do better than that John. This is a scribble I can hardly read!” So, Kennedy in block letters spelled out his name on the baseball. Oh… the Sox went on to win the game 4-3 getting single runs in the seventh and eighth innings. It was the first game the new Washington Senators ever played as the previous version of the team was moved to Minnesota. April 10, 1968 - The good days were a thing of the past. The social unrest on the West Side of Chicago after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King held the opening day crowd at Comiskey Park to less than 8,000. The Sox then got shut out by Wilfred ‘‘Sonny’’ Siebert and the Indians 9-0. It was the first of a franchise record 10 straight losses to open the season. They were outscored in that stretch 42-13 and were shut out three times. Coupled with the five straight losses to close out 1967, the Sox dropped 15 in a row. April 10, 1981 - If you had written the script and pitched it to Hollywood, they would have refused it on the grounds of corniness but reality is sometimes stranger than fiction. Carlton Fisk, native son of New England, returned to Boston on opening day as a member of the White Sox. Fisk was declared a free agent after the Red Sox mailed him his contract after the time allotment for doing so expired. Sox co-owner Eddie Einhorn and G.M. Roland Hemond immediately got with agent Jack Sands and worked out a multi-year deal, seven years for $2.9 million dollars. With a new team, in a new uniform, Fisk immediately began making Boston pay as he ripped a three-run home run in the eighth inning off Bob Stanley to put the Sox ahead 3-2 in a game they’d win 5-3.

As a White Sox historian the era from 1951-1967 was terrific. 1972 was wonderful as was 1977. 1981-1985 was a solid period and so was 1990-1994. The period from 2000-20006 was about as good as any since the Golden Age from 1951-67. A lot of it depends on what you mean by "doing a damn thing." Not justifying what has happened to this franchise since the start of the 2007 season but they have actually done some good things over the last 100 seasons...just not as many as perhaps they would have with better ownership.

Chuck wasn't the Manager of the Year in 1971, he won that award in 1972.

There is some truth to what you've said but that should also be tempered with Rick Hahn's track record in acquiring talent (the latest being Diekman) which far more often than not has been a real failure. Plus even if they are in a race in a weak division will JR take the plunge financially? They certainly didn't over the off-season when competition for talent isn't as intense or critical.

The 2001 Sox were 15 under at one point but rebounded to win 83 games, only the second MLB team to ever do that (Brewers did it first in the early 90's)

Depends on your definition of winning though doesn't it. Ozzie at least had five winning seasons in eight years but the environment appeared to be getting more and more toxic. And again let's not forget it was Ozzie himself who walked out on a contract he signed, saying the afternoon of his last day as manager he wouldn't want to return in 2012 unless he got an extension and a raise. He made his position very clear.

Well Rick publicly said the same thing to Garfein which is ludicrous by itself. Instead of blasting the fan base as this organization has done for decades...from Rick to Kenny to Don Cooper to Ozzie to even Garfein they should get down on their knees and thank God they have ANY fans left who still give a damn after all the suckage.

So was I, in the lower deck in left center field.