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They absolutely do...BUT (you knew that was coming). They want to do it THEIR WAY. Which in many respects is running contrary to the way most other franchises (including very successful ones) operate. They neglected the minor league system for years, even now it is a legit question about their ability to develop people, draft choices for years were horrendous, with so many injuries piling up the last three years you wonder if they have properly evaluated the training / medical staffs, they are reluctant to deal with certain agents, they obviously aren't willing to pay top dollar for premium talent and the way the front office comments about things to the media often makes you wonder if they have a PR staff that knows what they are doing and finally they are loyal without accountability.

McCann needs to be playing every single day either at catcher or DH until he cools off. Meanwhile Alonzo is now down to .170...what a friggin' waste of nine million bucks. Amazing smarts there by Rick Hahn.

Every major franchise decision including selection of high draft picks goes through JR and that is a fact.

Offense continues to be a real issue for the Sox as it has for the past few years. Tonight marked the 17th time in 37 games they have score three runs or less. That's 46% of their games. It's also the seventh time in the last eight games they've scored three or less. You'd think maybe Ricky would figure out that having two guys both hitting under .200 in the middle of the batting order is a bad idea?

Alonzo and Castillo two more "quality" acquisitions on the shit show that is Rick Hahn's legacy. This guy is a bean counter, a contract guy, nothing more, nothing less...he is not a baseball guy and certainly not a competent G.M.

Unlike Jay at least the guy can actually get on the field.

Well these are the White Sox. What did you expect from this bunch especially with Alonzo and Castillo hitting in the middle of the order. Both are putrid, both are more awful Hahn acquisitions.

Covey four runs, five walks, three hits, two home runs in less than five innings. Another "quality" performance from this starting pitching staff. LOL. Coop will fix em" (sarcasm implied)

Never, never put something that seems totally illogical past the White Sox front office. I've seen them far to many times make decision that make you sit back and ask, "what could they possibly be thinking?"

A desultory, corpse-ball like effort today. On to Toronto.

He's making nine million, it will take a lot for the organization to admit they screwed up again and drop him down in the lineup or flat out cut him.

Because its Ricky Renteria and Don Cooper making those decisions. need I say anything more?

But remember he's part of the White Sox "family" and probably works relatively cheaply...therefore he stays in place.

More than that in my opinion...nine losing seasons in the last 12.

I guessing if he keeps this up he'll be gone by July for a pretty good prospect. It seems to me the Sox are pinning their catching future on Collins and Zuvala.

Have read almost two / thirds of the book and it is outstanding. The research is meticulous and I found out many things about Harry I never really knew including his time in Oakland. But I writing this to provide some addition information to the Caray / Reinsdorf meeting at the 1990 All-Star Game at Wrigley Field that was brought up in this thread. From the book, page 209: "White Sox president Jerry Reinsdorf had spent the All-Star Game in WGN-TV's Wrigley Field Skybox as a guest of the station. According to press reports Caray walked over to Reinsdorf's table, and said- in reference to the comments Reinsdorf had addressed to Caray and Jimmy Piersall after the White Sox clinched the 1983 Western Division title - "I ought to knock you right on your ass. You called me scum." The report said WGN-TV officials quickly interceded and escorted Caray out of the Skybox." Another interesting side story in the book. In spring training 1984 Greg Luzinski was opening his mail from the winter when he got one from Caray. Harry wrote, "Hi Greg. For a guy who was on stage before the 1983 playoffs (at the White Sox victory rally), you sure were conspicuous by your absence after them! Some of us stand out in the open and take the heat. Others, like you, hide out in the showers or in the players lounge when things get tough." Harry was referring to the fact that Greg had been unavailable to the media after Baltimore beat the Sox (unlike Jerry Dybzinski who answered every question after his base running mistake potentially cost the Sox the game)

According to a story earlier today at MLB.com James Shields threw last week before representatives of Cleveland, Detroit and Texas.

Pitching, timely hitting and for once, defense. Baseball the way it should be played. And Giolito was simply outstanding.

Jason is growing into the job, it doesn't happen over night at least he is miles above the final few years of Hawk who was getting almost "Harry Caray" bad (and this was after Harry's medical issues.) Stone is simply the best analyst in the business. Farmer would be right there as well if only they'd move him out of the play by play role which he is not suited for.

When you keep missing basically half to most of most seasons, the numbers while nice don't have a lot of practicality in my opinion.

Rodon will be in the organization, he's under contract. He simply won't be able to pitch.

I think we've seen the last of Mr. Jones, thank God. Guy started off his career something like 8-0 and I remember thinking this guy could be something special....turns out he wasn't.

If Nova could pitch against Cleveland every game he'd be a 20 game winner. Unfortunately that's not the case. Wonder if Indian fans are starting to call him "Cy Nova" derisively like Sox fans used to call guys like Joe Mays and Bruce Chen, mediocre junk balling pitchers who somehow always made the Sox look like a bunch of stiffs.

When Jeff Torborg moved Ivan out of right field (he told me he was misplaced out there) he became a damn good left fielder made sensational catch after sensational catch during that 1990 season.

That's not saying a whole hell of a lot is it though?