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Nor should they be but we'll know a LOT more after the next two weeks.

I have a feeling he's not coming back soon. From the Sun-Times: • Left-hander Noah Schultz isn’t scheduled to throw another bullpen session as he recovers from tendinitis in his right knee. “No decision on that,” Venable said. “There’s still some soreness in there, so they backed off to give him a little bit of a blow and then ramp back up.”

Given what they have coming up in the next two weeks, winning today was really big. They couldn't allow themselves to get swept by a team with a losing record. Just a solid win today.

Three factoids today: June 3, 1925 - Sox star second baseman and future Hall of Famer Eddie Collins rapped out his 3,000th career hit. It came in a 12-7 win over the Tigers in Detroit. His single off Harry “Rip” Collins was the milestone hit. That season playing in 118 games he’d hit .346! He’d finish his 25-year career with 3,315 hits, 2,094 of them with the White Sox. Collins is one of only four players in modern baseball history with more than 500 steals (he stole 743 bases) and a .400 on-base percentage (.424). June 3, 1963 - With the Sox in first place another freak injury occurred reminiscent of past bizarre circumstances that cost the team dearly. Sox first baseman Joe Cunningham, who hit .295, with 70 RBI’s and 101 walks in 1962, broke his right collarbone in Los Angeles running out a ground ball in the fifth inning. Cunningham was trying to avoid stepping on Angel’s first baseman Charlie Dees’ foot, so he twisted and lost his balance, tripping over the bag and crashing down on the ground. It was a wild throw from second baseman Billy Moran that started the sequence. He didn’t return until September. Tommy McCraw was called up to replace him but just couldn’t fill the bill. The Sox decline set in quickly after that, even though the club finished the season in second place at 94-68 which was an excellent mark but still 10 and a half games behind the Yankees. June 3, 2023 – It was truly a most bizarre game. The Sox beat the Tigers 2-1 at Guaranteed Rate Field with every run in the game scoring on wild pitches! That had never happened before since the live ball (1920) was introduced to the game. The Sox winning run scored in the last of the 10th when Detroit pitcher Jose Cisnero’s 97 MPH fast ball struck home plate umpire Cory Blaser in the face mask, knocking him down and bounding away from home plate. Yoan Moncada scored on the play.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/02/chicago-white-sox-will-jerry-reinsdorf-spend/

Well find out a lot more about the chances they have after finishing this gauntlet the next two weeks.

And they need to figure out a different was to pitch to Gray on Wednesday, he's killing them.

A picture of Justin Ishbia should be first and foremost.

Given the upcoming schedule the Sox really needed to take advantage of playing a team that was below .500. Hopefully they at least can get a win tomorrow and not start the brutal part of the schedule without at least some momentum.

February 7, 2005 - After one of the more acrimonious disputes in team history, four-time All-Star Magglio Ordonez signed a free agent deal with Detroit. Ordonez engaged Sox management in a war of words over how he was treated, the contract offered to him and his health status. Magglio’s agent, Scott Boras, refused to turn over medical information, which infuriated G.M. Kenny Williams and basically sealed Ordonez’s fate. Then manager Ozzie Guillen publicly called out Ordonez in no uncertain terms as well over the contract situation. Considering the severity of his knee injury, which required a secret trip to Austria for experimental surgery, it was hard to blame the Sox for their stance. Ordonez, who was almost traded to the Red Sox at the winter meetings in 2003 for Nomar Garciaparra, played with the team for six full seasons and parts of two others with 187 home runs and 702 RBI’s. In his full seasons he never hit less than .282 and in five of those years he was over .300.

Three factoids today: June 2, 1959 – Down through the seasons when the White Sox played the Orioles strange and bizarre things seemed to take place. For the most part those instances took place in Baltimore but on this night, Comiskey Park played host to one that fans attending never forgot. Future Sox pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm was on the mound for the O’s in the first inning when a swarm of gnats descended on to the pitching mound area. It was so bad he couldn’t see the plate and the game was halted as trainers, the grounds crew, even umpires tried to get rid of the bugs. Finally after 16 minutes Sox owner Bill Veeck, ordered the fireworks crew in from the center field bullpen to set up a launch site. One explosion later the gnats were gone and the game resumed. Wilhelm and Baltimore would win it 3-2. June 2, 1967 - The Sox traded infielder Jerry Adair to Boston for two players, one of whom was pitcher Don McMahon. McMahon would be spectacular out of the bullpen going 5-0, grabbing three saves and having an ERA of 1.67 in 51 games in a little over 91 innings for the “Near Miss” White Sox. June 2, 1995 - With the Sox having blown four straight games to the Indians, and off to an 11-20 start, manager Gene Lamont was fired and replaced by abrasive, taciturn third base coach Terry Bevington. Bevington would turn out to be a disaster on the field and in the clubhouse and the long-term effects of the way Lamont was dismissed would cause his mentor and former Sox coach Jim Leyland to turn down overtures by owner Jerry Reinsdorf to take over after Bevington was removed before the start of the 1998 season. He’d be replaced by first time manager Jerry Manuel.

Compares Bears stadium situation to the White Sox in 1988: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/01/chicago-bears-stadium-bill-collapse/

From the Sun-Times tonight; NotesFirst baseman Munetaka Murakami received a platelet-rich plasma injection in his injured right hamstring Monday in Chicago. The treatment is meant to stimulate tissue repair. He’ll rest for a couple of days, then the Sox will ramp up his treatment later this week. • Outfielder Austin Hays, another hitter with pop whom the Sox are missing, returned to Chicago from his injury rehab assignment at Triple-A Charlotte because of soreness in his left calf that he hasn’t been able to shake. He was being evaluated and undergoing testing. • Catcher Kyle Teel, who’s out with a strained right hamstring, is on the trip and did catching drills Monday. He has yet to resume hitting.

It all depends on the most important thing, what will JR allow Getz to do? Literally it all comes down to that decision.

Agreed but with respect let's wait for at least a few more starts before categorizing him as a "stud."

https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2026/06/01/mlb-trade-deadline-chicago-white-sox-gm-chris-getz-munetaka-murakami-braden-montgomery

So he was a perfect Bears front office hire!!!

Welcome back to reality Mr. Sandlin.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears-stadium/2026/06/01/pritzker-bears-indiana-illinois-stadium-bill “The reality is that I wasn’t willing to give up billions of dollars of taxpayer money in order to give it to a billionaire-owned family, or team, and believe very much that the incentives that we provide for businesses are to be similar to the incentives we provide to this type of business,” Pritzker said at his Capitol office hour, after a marathon overnight conclusion to the session. “As much of an emotional connection as many of us have to the Bears, and to keeping them in the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois, [the] No. 1 principle is we’re not going to foist this on the taxpayers of the state of Illinois,” Pritzker said. “The question, I don’t think, is how this came together last night, but that we did anything,” Harmon said. “There was an enormous undercurrent in our caucus to not do anything. People were worried about their neighbors being thrown off of food stamps. … 
There was no appetite at all to provide public dollars to a $10 billion sports franchise, as much as we love the Bears.” https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/2026/06/01/bears-stadium-arlington-heights-hammond-sprinfield-house-senate-bill-kevin-warren-george-mccaskey-nfl

SIX factoids today: June 1, 1914 - Talk about an impressive beginning to a baseball career. Future Sox Hall of Famer Urban “Red” Faber started for the first time in the big leagues, on this day, in Detroit. He’d go 12 and a third innings before losing 2-1. He gave up 11 hits and walked seven Tigers yet wiggled himself out of most jams. He didn’t give up his first run until the 11th inning. June 1, 1937 - Sox pitcher Bill “Bullfrog” Dietrich hurled a no-hitter at the expense of the St. Louis Browns. He won the game, played in Comiskey Park, 8-0. The game took less than two hours to play. Dietrich got run support from both Mike Kreevich and Fred “Dixie” Walker who each knocked in three runs on the afternoon. Dietrich walked two and struck out five. First baseman Henry “Zeke” Bonura saved the no-hitter with two leaping catches of line drives hit by the Browns during the game. June 1, 1985 - Carlton Fisk slammed his fifth home run in four games when he hit a two-run shot off the Royals Bret Saberhagen in a game the Sox won 8-7 at Comiskey Park. Fisk drove in 12 runs in that stretch and served notice that 1985 was going to be his best year in a Chicago uniform. He’d finish the year with 37 homers and 107 RBI’s, both career highs. He also was named to the All-Star team that year for the third time in a White Sox uniform. June 1, 2016 – It had been 50 years since a White Sox pitcher had this happen to him. In the top of the 13th inning in New York against the Mets, relief pitcher Matt Albers led off with a ringing double to left center, the first extra base hit of his career. He’d eventually come around to score the game winning run later that frame thanks to a sacrifice fly from Jose Abreu. The Sox won the game 2-1 with Albers throwing two innings to get the win. The last time a White Sox pitcher scored the game winning run and got the win in extra innings was Bob Locker against the Angels on August 7, 1966. The Sox won that game in 10 innings 9-8. June 1, 2024 – With a 4-3 loss in Milwaukee to the Brewers the White Sox dropped their 10th game in a row. It was the 14th time in 124 years of the franchise that they recorded a losing streak of at least 10 games. They also had a double-digit losing streak in April 2023. This marked the first time since the 1931 and 1932 seasons the team had a double-digit losing streak in consecutive years. June 1, 2024 – In addition to dropping their 10th game in a row with a 4-3 loss in Milwaukee, the Sox set a Major League record by going the first 58 games of the season without a single one of their hitters being intentionally walked by the opposition. Which made sense given that the White Sox had the worst offense in baseball across many categories.

Buford never swung his bat at Bart from what Mike Andrews told me when I interviewed him. Andrews though Buford didn't realize in the moment he still had it with him. And thank you for the kind words.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2026/06/01/white-sox-chris-getz-chicago-saw-success-coming-even-if-others-including-me-didnt

https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears-stadium/2026/05/31/bears-stadium-bill-springfield-arlington-heights-hammond-indiana

As long as they don't get swept and can win at least a game in each of those series, they'll be OK.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears-stadium/2026/05/31/bears-stadium-bill-springfield-arlington-heights-hammond-indiana