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Sun Times with the post-game autopsy: https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2026/04/16/white-sox-head-west-with-that-familiar-losing-feeling-rays

Like it or not I don't think they'll be as quick to pull that trigger yet.

Under his contract JR has the sole power to run the day to day operations of the club, period. The minority owner(s) have very little to zero say in things including the sale of the club. The only way JR could be removed is if he does something illegal or puts the team in a perilous financial situation. Since the minority owners haven't taken that last step, given the Sox reported financial difficulties, I can only conclude they are still satisfied with his leadership and you can perhaps assume the reports of their financies aren't as bad as first thought. Accountants have a way of manipulating things.

The numbers don't lie: 3rd time this year the Sox took a lead into the 7th inning or later and lost the game. 6th straight home loss. Sox have now scored three runs or less in an amazing 13 of the 19 games played. They could very definitely lose 100+ games again this season. Nothing really changes until JR is gone.

As far as JR is concerned he's still making money. All is good in his world.

Four factoids today. April 16, 1940 - The Indians Bob Feller no-hit the White Sox winning 1-0. He faced 33 batters, walking five and striking out eight before only 14-thousand on a cold spring day. It is the only opening day no-hitter in baseball history. The game was not without controversy however. Luke Appling hit a shot down the line that apparently kicked up the chalk but was ruled foul. When Appling argued the call, he was supposedly told by umpire Harry Geisel that “Feller is going to be a credit to the game.” Incredulous, Appling replied “What am I, chopped liver?” The only run scored in the fourth inning when catcher Rollie Hemsley tripled home Jeff Heath who had singled. April 16, 1948 - With Jack Brickhouse behind the microphone, the Sox beat the Cubs 4-1 in the first baseball game ever televised by WGN-TV. It was an exhibition game from Wrigley Field. Less than 10-thousand fans attended on a frigid afternoon. WGN used three cameras, one stationed outside the foul line in left field, one near third base and the Cubs dugout and one on a ramp next to the press box. April 16, 1953 - In the second game of the season, Sox starter Billy Pierce fired a one-hitter in beating St. Louis 1-0 at Comiskey Park. It was the first of four one-hitters in Billy’s career. The no-hitter was broken up in the seventh inning when second baseman Bobby Young doubled into right field with two out. The Sox only run scored in the last of the seventh inning when Sherm Lollar hit a sacrifice fly scoring Jim Rivera. April 16, 2005 – It was one of his best pitched games. Mark Buehrle threw a masterpiece to earn his second win of the season, 2-1, over Seattle. The southpaw threw a complete-game three-hitter, striking out a career-high 12 Mariners. What’s more, the win kicked off a career-best, nine-game winning streak, running his record to 10-1 by the end of June. All three hits Buehrle surrendered on the day were to M’s leadoff hitter Ichiro Suzuki. And both runs for the White Sox came on Paul Konerko solo homers, both leading off innings (second and seventh). Finally, Buehrle burned through the Mariners at laser-speed, completing the game in one hour and 39 minutes — the fastest in the majors in 21 years.

I'd be all for that move but with labor unrest and the possibility of a long lockout causing 2027 regular season games to go by the board, I can't see JR doing something like what you are speculating on.

From the Sun-Times postgame story: "While Schultz joins a starting rotation that has been surprisingly sturdy, a stagnant Sox offense is desperate for a spark from Antonacci. He joined a team sitting dead last in baseball in batting average (.192), on-base percentage (.281), slugging percentage (.305), hits (107) and runs (54).

There may be truth in your comment. In 12 of the 18 games played so far they've scored three runs or less, that's 67%.

The "Light" is named Ishbia. Try to stay alive to see what he may be able to do. Regarding Acuna, it has been speculated for years that Sox G.M.'s were telling managers who to play and how often. Maybe that's the case here, where getz is telling Venable to keep playing him. Getz is under enough fan pressure and maybe doesn't want to feel the brunt of another fan blowback due to a poor trade. Maybe he thinks playing him, he'll eventually start to turn it around.

No one should be surprised.

Six factoids today: April 15, 1954 - The White Sox reintroduced baseball to Baltimore for the first time since 1902 as they played the new Baltimore Orioles as their first home opponent. The franchise had moved from St. Louis that off season. Virgil “Fire” Trucks got the start for the White Sox but the O’s beat them 3-1 on the afternoon starting a run of numerous unfortunate, strange and bizarre happenings at Memorial Stadium over the next 37 seasons. April 15, 1972 - The labor impasse, over the pension plan, caused regularly scheduled games to be cancelled for the first time ever. Opening day was consequently pushed back. The Sox opened in Kansas City and lost to the Royals 2-1 in 11 innings despite Dick Allen’s first White Sox home run. Allen blasted a shot in the ninth inning off Dick Drago to give the team a brief 1-0 lead. Kansas City would tie the game with two out in the ninth inning on a Bob Oliver home run off Wilbur Wood, then go on to win the game. The Sox would drop three consecutive one run games to the Royals to start the season, two in extra innings, but would end up with 87 wins in only 154 games and battle the eventual World Series champion Oakland A’s until the end of September. This series also marked the Major League debut for future Hall of Fame pitcher Rich “Goose” Gossage who pitched a scoreless inning in relief the next day for the White Sox. April 15, 1983 - Former Cub pitcher, Milt Wilcox had his perfect game ruined with two out in the ninth inning at Comiskey Park. Sox pinch hitter Jerry Hairston ripped a clean single up the middle. It was the only hit of the night for the Sox who lost to Detroit 6-0. It was only the third time, at that time, a perfect game was ruined with one out to go. Sox star pitcher Billy Pierce being one of the other two pitchers to have that happen to him when he lost his to the Senators on June 27, 1958. April 15, 1985 - In a game at Boston, pinch hitter Jerry Hairston collected his 51st safety in that role, setting the franchise record. Jerry would lead the league in pinch hits from 1983 through 1985 and would retire with 87 of them in his career. He also hit the last home run to set off Bill Veeck’s original exploding scoreboard in October 1981 and he hit it off future Sox pitching coach Don Cooper who was with the Twins. Hairston’s blast was a grand slam. April 15, 2006 – It was an incredible play. In the ninth inning of a game at U.S. Cellular Field against Toronto, Sox second baseman Tadahito Iguchi had to charge in on a slowly hit ball by Bengie Molina. His momentum carried him forward and because of it he left his feet and starting falling to the ground. Before he hit the field though, he got a throw off, despite being parallel to the playing surface. His throw was strong enough to get Molina at first. The Sox would win the game 4-2. April 15, 2024 – After getting shut out 2-0 by the Royals, the White Sox tied a dubious record. It marked the sixth time in 16 games they were held without a run to start a season. The last time that happened in the modern era was in 1907 to the Brooklyn Superbas.

Sox machine with the take on the game: Rays 8, White Sox 5: A rough introduction for Noah Schult...Noah Schultz took the loss in his MLB debut tonight, but if the first inning is any indication, he wins just by getting it out of the way. Schultz almost didn’t make it out of the first inning, throwi

Guessing the kid was nervous but if he wants to have any success he's got to be able to control his stuff and not surrender walks. When he could control it he had good stuff. We'll see if his next outing is better.

NINE factoids today: April 14, 1910 - Sox pitcher Frank Smith fired the franchises only opening day one-hitter as he beat the St. Louis Browns in Chicago 3-0 in front of almost 24-thousand fans at South Side Park. There were so many fans on hand that the overflow crowd encircled the outfield behind ropes. Smith would later go on to pitch for the Red Sox and Reds. The only hit he allowed the Browns came off the bat of outfielder Ray Demmitt who’d later play for the White Sox in 1914 and 1915. The hit came leading off the third inning. For the day Smith would strike out five and walk two in a game that only took an hour and 40 minutes. April 14, 1917 - Sox pitching star Eddie Cicotte no-hit the St. Louis Browns, easily winning 11-0. The game was at St. Louis and is the earliest no-hitter ever thrown by a Sox pitcher in a season. Only one member of the Browns came close to a hit but Jim Austin’s ground ball was ruled an error in the eighth inning when it went right through first baseman Arnold “Chick” Gandil who was in position to make a play but the ball bounced past him. April 14, 1942 - Because of the intervention of President Franklin Roosevelt, Major League Baseball continued during the World War. The Sox would lose to St. Louis 3-0, this opening day in front of less than 10-thousand fans. According to the reports at the time it was a very quiet, somber crowd. Marines and sailors marched in carrying the American flag from center field. Pearl Harbor was still etched in everyone’s memories. April 14, 1953 - Cleveland’s Bob Lemon, who’d go on to manage the Sox in 1977 and some of 1978, almost duplicated Bob Feller’s opening day no-hitter feat, holding the Sox to one-hit in winning 6-0. Feller’s gem is the only opening day no-hitter in MLB history. He did it in 1940. Orestes “Minnie” Minoso got the only White Sox hit and that came in the first inning, a single to left field. April 14, 1955 - The White Sox and Sandy Consuegra defeated the Kansas City Athletics 7-1 in the Comiskey Park home opener. The game was the first ever between the Sox and the Athletics since the A’s move from Philadelphia to Kansas City. Sandy went the distance allowing only three hits. Right fielder Bob Nieman drove in three runs on the day, a pair coming on his sixth inning home run. April 14, 1964 - The bittersweet 1964 season began with the Sox dropping a 5-3 decision to the Orioles in Chicago. Hoyt Wilhelm gave up two runs and three hits to lose the game. The 1964 White Sox would win 98 games...only to finish one game behind the Yankees for the pennant. April 14, 1981 - In the home opener for the season and for new owners Jerry Reinsdorf and Eddie Einhorn, 51,560 fans poured into Comiskey Park to see the new faces and new attitude. The Sox put on a show, blowing apart Milwaukee 9-3. The big blow was Carlton Fisk’s grand slam in the fourth inning into the seats in left center field, off former Sox hurler Pete Vuckovich. Another Sox newcomer, Greg Luzinski would have two hits and drive in two runs himself that afternoon. April 14, 2017 – The White Sox started an all-Garcia outfield at Minnesota, marking the first time in Major League history a team's three starting outfielders all had the same last name. All three collected hits, including Willy Garcia, who doubled in his first big league at-bat in the second. He played left field with Leury Garcia in center and Avisail Garcia in right. Leury had a hit and Avisail had a pair in the game. The Alou brothers all played in the outfield for San Francisco in 1963 a few times but all three never actually started the game. The Sox would win the contest 2-1. April 14, 2021 – He’s always had the talent, he just could never stay healthy but on this night, Carlos Rodon put it all together and threw the 20th no-hitter in White Sox history as he beat the Indians 8-0 at Guaranteed Rate Field. He got all the support he needed as the Sox put six runs on the board in the first inning. Rodon almost went one step further and achieved the pitcher’s ultimate game as he retired the first 25 hitters in a row and was working on a perfect game before an 1-2 slider got away from him and he hit Roberto Perez in the left foot. He then retired the final two hitters to finish off the no-hitter. Carlos threw 114 pitches, striking out seven in the win. He’d become a free agent and sign with the Giants for 2021 before becoming a free agent again and sign a monster contract to pitch for the Yankees.

I don't support JR but I'm still a fan hoping to outlive him and see better days. Could never in any way, shape or form root for the Cubs. Screw them and the horse they road in on.

Sox Machine with the trade breakdown: White Sox trade Lenyn Sosa to Blue Jays - Sox MachineLenyn Sosa is going to wind up falling a few months short of a decade in the organization. Today, the White Sox traded their longest-tenured position player to the Blue Jays for minor league outfielde

Sosa was a one dimensional player who should have been a DH, but with Beni around (and the Sox not willing to cut him) he had no place in the lineup. Some of that is on Sosa for not being able to at least be an average fielder and his baseball sense was lacking but some of that is also on the Sox since he was in the organization for a number of years and they couldn't help develop the skills he needed.

With respect...big friggin deal.

Three factoids today: April 13, 1965 - The Sox turned the tide so to speak from 1964, beating the Orioles in Baltimore opening day, by the score of 5-3. They lost to the same club to open the 1964 season at Comiskey Park by the exact same margin. Tommy John, making his White Sox debut, picked up the save for Gary Peters. He struck out John “Boog” Powell with two on in the ninth inning to close it out. The 1965 White Sox would win 95 games under Al Lopez in his last full season as Sox skipper. They finished in second place, seven games out. April 13, 2009 - The White Sox beat the Tigers, 10-6, in a unique game in baseball history. Jermaine Dye and Paul Konerko hit back-to-back home runs in the second inning — both times reaching the 300-homer career mark! According to Baseball-Reference, no teammates have ever reached 300, 400, or 500 home run milestones in the same game, much less the same inning or with back-to-back blasts. April 13, 2024 – It was another glass half empty, glass half full kind of a day for a White Sox team that opened the season losing for the 12th time in 14 games, the franchise record. Sox starter Garrett Crochet became the third Major League pitcher since at least 1901 to record 30 or more strikeouts and four or fewer walks over his first four career starts, joining Masahiro Tanaka (35/2 in 2014), and Felix Hernandez (30/4 in ‘05). He also became the seventh White Sox hurler to put together a 10-plus strikeout game within his first four career starts and set a new franchise record for most strikeouts through that many starts. But unfortunately his teammates were held to two hits and shut out 5-0 by the Reds. It was the fifth shutout by the club in the first 14 games played in the season.

The guy who got the saves will probably be traded in July.

With all due respect I could never root for both teams. You pick your camp and that's the way it is.

Nice to score some runs and get the win. Wish they had taken advantage of the bases loaded situations better though. Cannon doesn't look like anything is going right for him now.

Three factoids today: April 12, 1966 - The Sox opened the season with a 3-2 win over the Angels in 14 innings. Tommy McCraw delivered the game winning hit. Rookie Tommy Agee would crack a two-run home run off Dean Chance in the seventh inning to begin his season, which would end with him being named the Rookie of the Year and the first Sox player to ever hit 20 home runs and steal 20 bases in the same year. But the game became known for what the 28-thousand plus fans sang to open the afternoon...it was not ‘‘The Star-Spangled Banner’’ but ‘‘God Bless America.’’ The Sox made the change because as G.M. Ed Short said the fans, “Just weren’t singing.” Short said the Sox wanted a patriotic song that carried the spirit but also something fans could actually sing to. Songwriter Irving Berlin (“White Christmas”) would write a letter to the Sox begging them to go back to the original anthem. The Sox then decided to let the fans vote on which they preferred. ‘‘The Star-Spangled Banner’’ won. April 12, 1967 - The bittersweet 1967 season opened with a 5-4 loss in Boston to the eventual American League champions. Boston scored four early runs off of Johnny Buzhardt and the Sox were never able to catch up. The White Sox would go into the final week of the season in position to take their first pennant since 1959...only to lose five in a row to bottom feeders Kansas City and Washington which ended that dream. They finished in fourth place, three games out with a record of 89-73. April 12, 1977 - Former high school teacher and Milwaukee radio broadcaster Mary Shane became one of the first female announcers in MLB history when she began doing Sox games. Mary joined Lorn Brown, Harry Caray and Jimmy Piersall in the booth for roughly 20-35 games. Caray invited her to join him in the booth when the Sox were in Milwaukee in 1976. She was covering sports for a Milwaukee radio station. Caray was taken by the fact that she was a rare female working in the business and asked her to join him, then shocked her by asking her to do some play-by-play. She worked with him again the next day then that off season got a call from WMAQ radio general manager Charlie Warner with a job offer. She only lasted the 1977 season. She returned to Massachusetts where she became an award-winning sportswriter covering the Celtics, before passing away at an early age on November 3, 1987.

The way the season is spiraling out of control, the Sox already have the worst record in the A.L. I guess they have nothing to lose. Personally I wouldn't do it myself and stated why in another thread a few weeks ago but it is what it is. Wish the kids well, how can they be worse than the stiffs and retreads populating the roster now.