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With respect I don't think that matters as much as you think. He's still employed, still very good at what he does and he apologized. He's human, he screwed up...deal with it. I'm sure there were plenty of times you f'd up as well.

Doesn't make sense does it? And the fact that Cleveland, Tampa Bay, Milwaukee, the Athletics are doing well (in some cases those teams have been doing it for years) explodes their reason as far as competitive balance. As the Athletic wrote they want a cap for one reason and one reason only, so their franchises can increase in value exponentially a la in the NBA and NFL. Instead of their team worth two billion they want it to be worth four billion. My hears bleeds for the poor owners. 😆

He apologized personally to the guy for the incident. s%*# happens. As a baseball reporter, he's one of the best in the country in my opinion.

I'm guessing lawsuits would be filed if that happened today. Wish video still existed of the incident, would like to see it. Here's from my interview with Bart: ML: Something else happened that 1971 season that was unusual. On May 31, Memorial Day, in the eighth inning of the second game with Baltimore at Comiskey Park, you hit Don Buford with a pitch. Buford charged the mound still holding his bat. Can you take us through what was going on? (Author’s Note: Then in the ninth inning with Buford standing in the on-deck circle he was jumped by a fan, after having words with another fan along the box seat railing. The Orioles then came out of the dugout and beat the second fan to, in the words of Sox second baseman Mike Andrews, “A bloody pulp.”) BJ: “He hit a home run off me earlier in the game and I was going to knock him down. I wound up hitting him right in the backside and he comes charging out waving his bat. Now I watched the game when Juan Marichal hit Johnny Roseboro in the head with a bat, so I started backing away. Frank Robinson came out of the dugout and grabbed him trying to keep him from doing something that would result in a big suspension. While all this was going on I took a swing at Buford which didn’t endear me to the Orioles.” “I was out of the game when that fan went after Don so I really didn’t see what went on. I’ve heard over the years though that the guy was a big Blackhawks fan and was a fighter. I may have even met him at one time but I really don’t remember clearly.”

They have to survive the gauntlet of the Phillies, Braves, Dodgers and Yankees first. Then we'll have a better idea of where they are at and what the future may hold.

Winning is fun, fun is winning. 9th time this season the Sox trailed in the 7th inning or later and won.

Awful AnnouncingKen Rosenthal comes out against MLB salary cap: 'This dri...Ken Rosenthal is firmly against an MLB salary cap, especially if it comes with the prospect of missing games in 2027.

SIX factoids today: May 31, 1914 - Joe “The Butcher Boy” Benz, (so named because that’s what he did in the off season) fired a no-hitter beating Cleveland 6-1. The no-hitter was at Comiskey Park. The Indians run was unearned in the fourth inning because of three White Sox errors in succession. Benz walked two and struck out three on the day. May 31, 1950 - Sox G.M. Frank Lane made a six-player deal with the Senators and included former All- Star second baseman Cass Michaels (real name Casimir Kwietniewski) in it. The move was important because it cleared the way for a youngster named Nellie Fox to take over full time at the position. That year Fox would play in 130 games with 497 at-bats. May 31, 1970 - The torpid White Sox, on their way to the worst single season in franchise history at that time, annihilated the Red Sox in Boston 22-13. The Sox banged out 24 hits, Luis Aparicio and Walt Williams had five each with Bill Melton knocking in four RBI’s. Williams also scored five runs. The Sox had innings where they scored seven, six, four and three runs. The Sox victim that afternoon? None other than former Sox star pitcher Gary Peters who lasted less than an inning. It was the second most runs ever scored in a single game by the franchise. May 31, 1971- In the second game of a double header with the Orioles at Comiskey Park, former Sox infielder Don Buford charged pitcher Bart Johnson with his bat after Johnson drilled him with a pitch in his behind in the eighth inning. When Buford went out to left field in the last of the eighth inning, Sox fans pelted him with garbage and vocally let him know what they thought of his actions. Cooler heads prevailed but in the ninth inning while in the on-deck circle Buford went towards the screen to warn a fan. He was then attacked by a second fan from behind who ran across the field. He was alerted by White Sox players yelling from the field since they could see what was happening. Buford knocked him out then his Oriole teammates charged out of the dugout and did a bloody number on that fan who was led away by security. Buford was then thrown out by umpire Nestor Chylak for going to the screen to warn the original fan in the first place and antagonize the situation. As far as the fan who was beat up? Sox infielder Mike Andrews said he was told when that fan was getting attention, medics turned their backs for a moment and the guy disappeared from the medical room! The teams split the double header that afternoon. May 31, 1973 - It was an inauspicious debut for a player who’d make himself into a fine big-league hitter. In a game at Chicago that the Sox won 10-2, Brian Downing had just entered the game in the seventh inning making his Major League debut at third base. On his first play in the big leagues, in fact on the first pitch, Downing caught a foul pop off the bat of the Tigers Dick McAuliffe, diving to make the catch. On the play though he’d tear up his knee and have to be placed on the disabled list. Downing would collect his first big league hit in August, an inside the park home run off the Tigers Mickey Lolich in Detroit. May 31, 2007 - Mark Buehrle lost to Toronto, 2-0, giving up solo home runs to Aaron Hill and Frank Thomas. That’s it: no other hits, walks, or Sox errors in the game. Thus the Blue Jays became the first team ever to win a game without a single baserunner. Despite the loss, Buehrle also became the first White Sox pitcher since Joe Horlen in 1967 to throw a no-hitter and a complete game of only two hits or less in the same season.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/springfield/2026/05/30/bears-stadium-bill-illinois-budget-deadline

https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/news/white-sox-injuries-and-roster-moves

I'll be curious if the 2027 season is cancelled how that may impact individual contracts and/or free agency? When they eventually settle will service time be given to players like after the 94-95 labor impasse. Will signed deals be automatically extended a year? These could effect his contractual status.

"That's the way we roll..." - Ozzie Guillen.

No big loss.

I did find this quote from Getz to the Sun-Times interesting. Not sure what it means in connection with Teel who may be farther away than first thought, unless he thinks Murakami is going to heel quicker? “But you figure it out. It’s like, all right, we’ll get him back. I think we’ll get him back right around [the return of catcher] Kyle Teel. Hopefully, we’ll stay afloat and keep this interesting." If they are saying it will be 4-6 weeks with him and Getz is saying his return could line up with Teel that would meen Teel won't be back until July around the All-Star break.

A nice solid win in front of a large crowd.

Hays is having his own injury issues last I saw, who knows when he'll even be healthy enough to play.

Four factoids today: May 30, 1951 - The Sox blasted the St. Louis Browns 8-1 to win their 14th consecutive game. It’s the second longest winning streak in franchise history. After returning to Chicago, Mayor Martin Kennelly presented vice president Chuck Comiskey III, manager Paul Richards and the White Sox, the keys to the city in a ceremony. The Sox would go from “Rags to Richards” in 1951 ending their string of desultory seasons and pointing the way to the “Go-Go” 1950's. That year the Sox went 81-73-1 good for fourth place and their first winning season since 1943. May 30, 1960 - Outfielder Jimmy Piersall, who would become a Sox announcer in the 1970's and early 1980's, went on a rampage against the scoreboard and Comiskey Park. Piersall started by throwing the contents of the Cleveland dugout on to the field after he was ejected by umpire Cal Drummond for calling balls and strikes while standing on second base. He then went into the Sox dugout, grabbed a bucket of groundskeeper Gene Bossard’s sand and dumped that on the field. In the other game, Piersall didn’t move when a ball hit by “Minnie” Minoso came right at him. It went over his head for a double and adding insult to injury, the Sox thought it was a home run and set off the scoreboard! Finally, Piersall caught the last out of the game, then turned and threw the ball at the scoreboard which he hated. All in a day’s work, as Cleveland took a twin bill 4-1 and 9-4. May 30, 1966 - Sox pitcher Jack Lamabe fired a one-hitter at Comiskey Park beating the Red Sox 11-0. Lamabe didn’t allow a hit until Joe Foy singled leading off the eighth inning after he shook off catcher J.C. Martin. He faced 30 batters, striking out six and walking two. It was a sweep on the night for the Sox who shut out Boston in both games. The Sox won the opener 1-0 behind pitcher Johnny Buzhardt who only allowed five hits. In addition, this was the club’s third consecutive shutout, since the day before Tommy John blanked the Yankees 2-0. May 30, 1985 - In a night game at Comiskey Park, Carlton Fisk belted a rooftop home run off the Royals Charlie Leibrandt in the fourth inning with a man on base. It helped Tom Seaver and the Sox win 4-3. The shot went over the roof in left field. It was the start of a four-game sweep of the Royals and a week in which Fisk would hit five home runs and drive in 12 RBI’s. That season Carlton would set career highs with 37 home runs and a 107 RBI’s.

They been derailing Sox seasons for a lot longer than this year. Although a better comp would be 'soft tissue' injuries.

Because JR still owns the club.

See you after the All-Star break...(maybe...)

https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2026/05/29/sox-reliever-jordan-leasure-will-be-shut-down-for-at-least-eight-weeks

8th time this year the Sox trailed in the 7th inning or later and won.

Well stranger things have happened but the killer part of the schedule is coming up right around the corner. Terrible time for this to happen.

Sox machine saying Gonzales will be called up. 8th time this year the Sox trailed in the 7th inning or later and won.

Just when things are starting to go well, the 'soft tissue injury' curse strikes again. What can you say? Sox fans can't have nice things.