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QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Nov 10, 2015 -> 04:32 PM) Yup. Offseason fluff, I guess. Coming next, "Rick Hahn states that the White Sox are looking to win more games in 2016" He already has...LOL. Mark

Can't argue with it. Strikeouts are nice but wins are nicer in my opinion and Sale was simply inconsistent this year save for that stretch of 10 or so games. Mark

Offer was expected and its expected he's leaving. Which is fine with me. By the way Sullivan tonight has a story at the Tribune saying the Cubs "have their sites on him..." It would be typical for him to have a good season next year, with some other team. Mark

Kendrick would be a nice addition I think. Mark

If another team in the division is smart they'll sign him just to torture the White Sox. According to STATS he's got the highest percentage of career RBI's against one team IN HISTORY! Mark

Good move. let him go. Thanks for everything by time to move on. Hope he's not back. Let Saladino man the position or sign a one year stop gap until Anderson is ready. Mark

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Nov 2, 2015 -> 10:45 AM) They were a excellent duo. Agreed. Mark

QUOTE (flavum @ Nov 2, 2015 -> 01:42 PM) Albers, Beckham, Samardzija, and Soto filed for free agency. 40-man is at 34. Free agents can start signing with new teams on Saturday. Only ones I'd even think about bringing back are Soto as a back up and Albers. Mark

Don't know what to think about this save for the following. The ghost of Sherm Lollar would still be better than Tyler Flowers as a starting catcher. Mark

The crowning moment: http://www.chicagonow.com/soxnet/2015/10/t...e-world-series/ Mark

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away... Mark

Blum's Blast...unexpected and a game winner: http://www.chicagonow.com/soxnet/2015/10/t...-unlikely-hero/ Mark

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 25, 2015 -> 10:35 AM) Last year it was luck or a fluke in the WC game...this year it was the umpiring. What will it be next season as the excuse? If Ned Yost is worse than Ventura and Moore isn't that good either, why haven't the White Sox with exponentially more resources been able to pull off the same seemingly easy feat? Good question. I'll wait to see how someone decides to try to answer it. Mark

QUOTE (Wanne @ Oct 23, 2015 -> 03:29 PM) ' To this day still my all time favorite Sox player to watch....bar none. He was absolutely amazing. There was really nothing the guy couldn't do....and some of the HRs would hit...good lord. He hit one that was at the base of the scoreboard in CF against the O's I believe...and a line drive at that. We were in RF that day. And of course the 3 run-pinch hit hr off Sparky Lyle in the 9th was still the best I've ever seen in person. That was a great link Lip...thanks. Allen was an amazing player for sure. The center field hold run came off Lindy McDaniel of the Yankees. Mark

Unfortunate that he didn't address one single issue that Sox fans are concerned about today regarding the state of his franchise (of course he may have agreed to the interview only under certain conditions, he has done so in the past...) Basically a fluff piece. Mark

Highlights from the first two games of the 2005 World Series: Game #1: http://www.chicagonow.com/soxnet/2015/10/t...story-game-one/ Game #2: http://www.chicagonow.com/soxnet/2015/10/t...k-walks-it-off/ Mark

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Oct 22, 2015 -> 09:04 PM) The postseason isn't even over and we've already written off 2016. If the recent past (nine years) is prologue with the White Sox that's probably a pretty good bet. Mark

I don't think they'd be actively shopping Eaton but you listen to offers...you never know. With as many holes as they need to fill if you can get two good players for him in the long run you may help the overall talent on the club. All depends on what may be offered. Mark

QUOTE (Baron @ Oct 22, 2015 -> 05:23 PM) Great..when does Rick Hahn leave? Right after Kenny does. Mark

August 1, 2005 - Pitcher Mark Buehrle’s streak of 49 straight starts with six or more innings ends when he is thrown out of a game in Baltimore by umpire Brian Gorman. Sox TV announcer Ken “Hawk” Harrelson became extremely upset in the TV booth “you’ve GOT to be kidding me!” Buehrle gets tossed without warning for hitting B.J. Surhoff after White Sox hitters are struck earlier in the game. The Sox would get the last laugh however winning the game and sweeping the four game series. Mark

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Oct 17, 2015 -> 07:52 AM) Journalistic integrity? LOL we are talking about sports here. Sports. I'd say we're still in a golden age since grown men can still actually make a good living from writing about sports. Sports. Sports are a bs sideshow in the overall scheme of the world. Goes with FUN...and GAMES. No journalistic integrity required or even desired by the people- "just write about the team i like please...or don't...i'll get back to the real world either way". Like others have said, if nobody reads about the Sox, why waste resources writing about them? Afterall, most newspapers are already thankful people care to read about sports at all. Sports, news all comes under the same umbrella. There are certain things that you do and not do. Newspaper / TV stations and their like were not set up to make money. Go back and take a course on the FCC and their history. They were set up to serve the public (not in the way the public WANTS to hear or read but what they need to know). The thinking of course as I was taught was that if you do it correctly, you'll basically have a license to print money.) I shouldn't be surprised today that ethics, conflicting interests from a business perspective and things along that nature are swept under the rug or dismissed. It explains a lot to me about the world, common courtesy, dumbing down things to the lowest common denominator, the way people treat each other (including at various web sites...) Explains a lot. I understand I'm out of touch but I'll be damned going along with what I know and was taught is flat out wrong about what I consider a noble profession, one that I've worked at for 40 years. Just my opinion. Mark

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 16, 2015 -> 09:41 PM) Ole. Here I will agree with Dick Allen (amazingly enough). That 1990 one was my all-time favorite season...with the exception of 2005. If we hadn't won it all, it would be a tossup. 2006 was mostly fun, and 2003. 2010 and 12, you always had the sense we just didn't have the horses. Complaining doesn't help, but neither does blind optimism and loyalty earned by being better than Bill Veeck merely in terms of spending on the team, keeping the team in Chicago and getting a new ballpark (another big miss like Sportsvision, White Flag and 1994 though) and 2005. Meanwhile, that original investment is worth hundreds of millions more...so what do we actually owe and for how long? In 2003 they had a two game lead over the Twins with I think 15 to go. Lost the last two games at home of the Twins series and were swept away the following week. They had the horses in 2003 and pissed it away. Again the had a three game lead in 2012 with I think 17 to go and completely fell apart and handed the division to Detroit. They had enough to win it to in 2012 and pissed it away. Ditto for blowing golden chances in 2006 by falling apart in the second half and 2010 when they had a lead in August, every relief pitcher seemingly went on the DL and they fell apart. The only consistent thing about the Sox the past 15 years has been poor second halves which has cost them dearly. How would this franchise look today, how would more importantly the perception of the franchise look if they got into the playoffs in 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012? Alas we'll never know because the Sox keep blowing good chances. I'll repeat something I said earlier someplace, 'blind' loyalty towards anything...a religion, a baseball team, a government I don't care what it is, is dangerous in my opinion. Mark

From October 16, 2005: Bring on the Astros: http://www.chicagonow.com/soxnet/2015/10/t...-on-the-astros/ Mark

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 16, 2015 -> 04:25 PM) lol, that is the most idealistic, unrealistic thing I have ever read. Even in one of my all time favorite books on historical editorials, there is no hint of that, and we are talking about editorials all of the way back to the Civil War. Sorry my beliefs offend you. I was brought up when journalism actually mattered and people at least had some ethics. Guess I'm simply out of place in today's s***ty world then. And as someone in the business editorials are a far different avenue than reporting. Mark

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ Oct 16, 2015 -> 01:43 PM) Actually, and maybe you know this, Dick Allen, but was 1983 "exciting"? Most of us, the very great majority of us, in fact, certainly heard it was, but we wouldn't really know. Because that year, due to one of King Reinsdorf's many franchise-crippling moves from over the years, that particular team was practically hidden away from us on that brilliant brain child of Reinsdorf and Einhorn's known as "Sportsvision". So instead of having 150 games or so on free TV like the Cubs did the next season in '84 during their successful run that year, which made them wildly popular throughout the city and beyond, that '83 team, which was a very good team, was seen on free TV a mere 32 times, with the balance on Sportsvision, which practically no one subscribed to. I, like so many, had to rely on the broadcast stylings of one Joe McConnell on WMAQ radio to paint the mental image of what was happening on the field with that '83 team. So if it was exciting, it's only because McConnell told us so, thanks to that failed get-rich-quick Sportsvision scheme. Well Bob Logan in his book, "Miracle on 35th Street" quoted Harry extensively as saying that was the main reason he left the Sox. What wasn't known at the time but came out in the documentary on Harry by producer Noel Gimble was that the Sox actually offered Harry more money to stay for 1982 than the Cubs offered. He left anyway and a large reason for it was because Harry felt the Sox simply weren't going to be able to be seen as much as the Cubs on WGN Superstation. To me that was a very exciting season but I understand your point. Harry himself that year said that (paraphrasing) 'if the Sox were on WGN Superstation instead of Sports Vision they'd have a national following' because of how well they were playing in the second half. Unfortunately it didn't happen. Another mistake by the Sox made with good intentions I'm sure that simply backfired because the timing wasn't right. Which both EE and JR later admitted. Mark