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The Madrigal Mystery Tour

Wild and crazy game. Starting pitching wasn't there but the bullpen for once (except for Fry) did well. Always nice to get the first home win (especially compared to the way they started out at home last year!)

Especially since there seems to be a lot of circumstantial evidence as well as more tangible evidence that they aren't going to be willing to give out "franchise-type" deals for top free agents.

The first of many blown games by this awful bullpen. And Rick said this team will be better this season even without Harper/Machado. We'll see...but I wouldn't bet on it.

I think a lot of these guys and their agents suspect a strike / lockout / labor impasse is coming and want some financial certainty.

Unfortunately right now the only thing Burdi has shown is a propensity to get injured and stay injured (late strain in spring training being the latest example...)

2005 to me was the last season they looked solid fundamentally offensively and defensively. It's a shame given the history of this franchise with regards to fundamentals, defense, speed and pitching. Al Lopez and Eddie Stanky wouldn't comprehend what they were seeing out there today if they were still around.

The good things today: Sox actually won a game. Sox weren't swept by a 104 loss team from a year ago. It wasn't raining or snowing. Giolito looked great (who would have thought that?) Nate Jones didn't pitch so he couldn't give up runs.

I hope you are correct in the sense that the record is better than 10-20...and not worse.

10-20

Doesn't matter, it's ruled an error, ANOTHER one. And there will be times when his mistake DOES matter. Errors aren't the point. It's the overall "baseball-stupidity" of this team / organization going on years now. As others have said, these guys can't field, they throw to the wrong base, catchers can't throw anybody out, they can't hit and run, bunt properly or do the "little things" that add up to winning games. These are "professionals" not kids straight out of high school. It's damn frustrating and embarrassing.

I remember that Ventura was insisting / demanding additional practices before games (like big league teams used to do EVERY DAMN DAY back in the day) and it payed off they started playing better fundamentally. I remember Mark Gonzales reporting on it as the Sox beat writer (when the Tribune actually had a Sox beat writer) Then he stopped doing it and I don't recall it happening much since then. Why Ventura stopped it I don't know, maybe the players b****ed about it?

Not that the Sox were going to win this game but the bullpen was total crap again and yet another error to start the year by Anderson.

I personally feel there is enough blame to go around from the players themselves being "baseball-stupid" to the organization teaching them from the minor league level on up to the big club.

True...they just lose. Because it’s Opening Day, even if you have a bad team you hope they play well on Day 1. Just because, like I said, it’s Opening Day, the start of a new season where anything can happen (although it usually doesn’t for a bad team…) With that in mind today was a big disappointment. Disappointing weather and a very disappointing performance on the field. Offense was basically non-existent until it was to late and the defense was up to the usual White Sox standards….bad. Fundamentally bad. Oh well.

Just want the club to start to show some measurable improvement, not just in the win column but among the key rebuild pieces. Oh and for God's sake, PLEASE stop with the fucking injuries! "It's Time" (to trot out an old Sox marketing phrase) for this franchise to become relevant again in their own home market and in MLB in general. Happy Opening Day folks!

I want what he's drinking!

That's what happens when you try to play baseball in March / early April in the Midwest / North. MLB never seems to learn.

69 wins.

I did find it interesting reading his comments in the story that even back in October after he had rested and rehabbed he said the soreness was still there, not as bad but still in place.

As I've suggested in the past, "pay them" from the MLB Central Fund for the "trouble" of having to sacrifice to make things better for fans. Fans shouldn't have to sit through 38 degree weather to watch a game and you have a higher injury risk with really cold weather (hamstrings etc...) The better solution would be to cut the season down and start playing actual DH's again but that of course makes to much sense and owners love their $$$$$

No surprise...another one bites the dust.

The Sox always seem to be reactive instead of proactive. That's part of what happens when you have people in their front office jobs for years (decades) and a group mindset of security without accountability for results sets in.

He can't be any worse than some of the stiffs they are running out there right now, that's for sure.

Jones looks awful as bad as Minaya, hell as bad as most of the pitching staff this spring.