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Nice start again by Gio, I'm sure glad he went to his high school pitching coach over the off season and reworked his delivery. The kid looks like a different pitcher. Nice crowd too on another crap day weather wise and hey Alonso got two hits! My goodness!

Don't play golf. And the deal with Tony was when I was interviewing him and asked what went into making trades...I mentioned trying to have both sides come out a "winner" so you work from that assumption.

At which time he'll probably get hurt again on some other part of his body.

A lefty who throws the knuckleball. This should be interesting.

Minnesota and Detroit both talented teams went out of their minds in the second half and had a win percentage well over 60% as I recall. That happens as often as the Bears win the Super Bowl. The Sox have nowhere near the talent those teams had to make that kind of run. I don't like "giving up" on the season either but I'm getting used to it since the Sox haven't played any meaningful games since September 2012. It's actually not that bad living and dying with every game, every night for six months. (I don't know what that says about me or about the state of the Sox franchise)

I totally agree with your last sentence, but as Tony LaRussa told me one time his issue with me was that I was thinking to "logically". He said there's very little "logic" in the game of baseball.

Sorry...not even close.

As I said earlier to someone who said basically the same thing, JR does not like to pay people not to work even if they suck at what they are doing. I would be shocked if he's let go before say July.

Seriously why? I mean it is not like this team is going anywhere this year. Maybe if everyone stayed healthy but with this organization that's not the case anymore. Why give Hahn more chances to royally screw things up and waste even more money giving JR more ammunition to say "no" in the future. I mean they are already eight games behind the Twins and by the time next week is over that could be in double-digits.

Just a suck game in suck weather (46 degrees in mid-May?). Nova's ERA is now about seven and a half, Alonso is hitting .175 (yet Rickey "the Genius" refuses to bench the guy or at least drop him down in the lineup). I can't see this happening and I know others have brought it up before but I'm starting to wonder if Rickey is being told, "keep playing him' because if he's DFA'd or dropped in the lineup it makes "us" (the front office) look like idiots (As if many Sox fans don't already feel that way...) And those clamoring for Palka. Sorry, the guy is useless unless he hits home runs, he's a butcher in the field and is a base clogger running-wise. No thanks.

As much as we all want it, there are nine million reasons it won't happen. JR does not like to pay people to not work, even if they suck at it.

Not surprised he's on the IL, it also wouldn't surprise me if he goes under the knife.

The may or they may not considering how they have been raking in the profits the past few seasons. The question may be better asked how long will owners hold-out, it could be a long time much like 94-95.

First off I used those named simply as an example of when the Sox actually were getting things right with player acquisitions. I could have easily thrown out the names of Podsednik, A.J., Dye, Hernandez et al if that made you feel any better. Second, none of the guys I did mention were ever in any way connected to steroids. Third, you'll be getting your wish soon as the CBA will be changed. The players are going to go on strike to get those changes and the way the situation has been the past few years you can't blame them. Unfortunately that strike is going to come at the expense of when the Sox are supposed to be good which is typical White Sox timing / luck.

You can hope, pray...even use a voodoo doll if that's your pleasure but it is not happening. Not yesterday, not today and not tomorrow as JR has made clear many times because of the tax hit his family would take.

Alonso and Castillo now down to .180 and .186 BA.

Well since I'm a Sox historian and have been at it for a number of years, I honestly hope I'd remember a lot of the former players! ?

Not necessarily. Did the Sox say anything about Jones for example after he got hurt? I don't think they said a word until Rick announced he had surgery and was done for the year. Same with Rodon if I remember right two years ago with that mysterious shoulder soreness in spring training. They went weeks without saying a word. Sox basically just seem a little paranoid about medical issues going back to Kenny's press conference after "shouldergate" where he defended the Sox medical staff when some of the injured pitchers were saying they were misdiagnosed as well as Toronto's charges that he was hiding Sirotka's injury. (I don't think he was and neither did the commissioner as it turned out)

I don't care if Alonso and Castillo drive in six runs tonight between them. This is simply a stupid move by Rickey. He refuses to learn it seems (so he fits right in with this front office). Of course it may not matter anyway with Covey pitching, he may be resting guys basically because he's conceding the game.

Maybe they should but it's not going to happen, we should stop dreaming.

But he didn't say WHEN said money would be spent did he?

I absolutely agree with that... as Branch Rickey once said, "Luck is the residue of design..."

I hear you but the Cubs had a lot go right for them, ESPECIALLY concerning the health of their key rebuild pieces. The Sox can not even come close to make that claim.

The risk there is that if they tank for another 2-3 years there may not be any fan base left, to say nothing of advertising / merchandising losses and their TV deal.

I yern for the days when the Sox would get guys like Ellis Burks, Julio Franco, Darrin Jackson, Tony Phillips, Danny Tartabull, Mike LaValliere... et al and lo and behold they'd actually produce.