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That dovetails with Getz's quote from last week where he said he expects Teel back around the same time as Muni.

Sox by the way have lost 7 of their last 10 road games.

Not a good start to what figures to be a grueling two weeks.

I can only tell you that I've been told by multiple people that JR did have a lot of say in the draft, to be fair I don't know if that is the case now. Here's one example from a source who covered the team for years: “With :30 seconds left in their selection time on draft day JR would say things like “You know this college right-handed pitcher has the lowest injury risk.”

https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/2026/06/05/hammond-bears-chicago-indiana-nfl-george-mccaskey-kevin-warren-mike-braun-wolf-lake

Three factoids today: June 5, 1935 – White Sox rookie pitcher John Whitehead saw his eight-game winning streak to start his MLB career snapped, losing to the St. Louis Browns, 2-0. Whitehead would finish 13-13 in his rookie campaign, with 18 complete games. “Silent John” pitched in 127 games over four-plus seasons on the South Side winning 47 times before he was traded to the Browns. His 8-0 start to his big-league career was one of the best beginnings in franchise history ranking right up there with Gary Peters going 19-8 in 1963 and James Baldwin starting out 9-1 in 1996. June 5, 1960 - Sox pitchers Russ Kemmerer and Frank Baumann both fired complete game shutouts in beating the Kansas City Athletics in a double header. The Sox won both games by the same score of 2-0. The A’s combined for only 10 hits on the Sunday afternoon. Baumann would wind up leading the league in ERA that season at 2.67 finishing 13-6. Kemmerer would fashion an ERA for the year at 2.98 with six wins after coming over from Washington in May of that season. June 5, 1967 - Eddie Stanky did it again. The Sox manager let loose a verbal assault on Red Sox All-Star Carl Yazstrzemski. Before a three-game set in Comiskey Park, Stanky was quoted as saying, “He may be an All-Star from the neck down but in my book he’s a moody ballplayer...and I don’t like moody ballplayers.” Red Sox fans were incensed and let Stanky and the Sox have an earful, as well as throwing tomatoes at him whenever he went to the mound when the Sox went to Boston the following week.

I knew that, he talks about Nancy quite often.

From my interview with Chuck Tanner: ML: 1972 was an amazing season what with Dick playing at an M.V.P. pace, Wilbur Wood was a legit Cy Young candidate and you had very good players in guys like Carlos May, Stan Bahnsen, Tom Bradley, Terry Forster and a young “Goose” Gossage. At what point did you say to yourself, ‘you know we can win this thing even though no one expects us to...’ CT: “When we came out of spring training I thought we were going to be good because we had three top pitchers in Wilbur, Stan Bahnsen and Tom Bradley. Johnny Sain and I told them the same thing we told Wilbur, ‘we’re going to pitch the s%*# out of you and you can make a lot of money because you can win a lot of games.’ Stan thought it over and said O.K. although he also said “you know I could also lose 20 games!” (laughing) (Author’s Note: Ironically Bahnsen would lose 20 games in 1973 even though he had a better ERA then in 1972 when he went 21-16. Wood would go 24-17 in 1972 and Bradley 15-14. ) ML: If Bill Melton doesn’t have a herniated disc and go on the DL in June do the Sox win the division? CT: “Damn right we win it, we were right there and that’s not saying anything bad about Ed Spiezio who did a fine job for us.”

Places the blame: https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears-stadium/2026/06/05/chicago-bears-stadium-illinois-indiana-arlington-heights-hammond-blame

https://chicago.suntimes.com/sports-media/2026/06/04/jason-benetti-white-sox-chicago-nbc-sunday-night-baseball-brooks-boyer-jim-deshaies-hunter-pence-cubs-giants-anthony-rizzo-bob-costas

Five factoids today: June 4, 1959 - 1959 was a year for marathon games for the White Sox. This was the first one that went at least 17 innings, and all took place against Baltimore. In this game first basemen Earl Torgeson’s solo home run in the last of the 17th, off Jerry Walker, was the difference in the Sox 6-5 win at Comiskey Park. Bob Shaw pitched five relief innings to get the victory. The Sox rallied from 4-2 and 5-4 deficits to get the win. The game lasted 4:37. June 4, 1972 - It is forever known as the “Chili Dog Game” one of the most electrifying games ever played in team history. In the second game of a double header with the Yankees, the Sox having already won the first game 6-1, Sox manager Chuck Tanner wanted Dick Allen to be ready to pinch hit in the last of the ninth inning if needed. Allen at the time was wolfing down a chili dog since he had played in the first game, was sitting out the nightcap and was hungry. He quickly had to put on a uniform getting the last of the chili dog all over the top of it which caused the clubhouse boys to give him a new, clean jersey. With two men on and the Sox losing 4-2, Allen was called to hit. On the third pitch from future Sox relief pitcher Al “Sparky” Lyle, Allen deposited the ball into the left field lower deck for a 5-4 win and a sweep of the twin bill. A bat-day crowd of almost 52-thousand exploded. One of the greatest one-liners in Sox history took place as Lyle was walking in from the bullpen. Mike Andrews was on first base. He and Lyle were roommates when both were with the Red Sox. As Lyle approached the mound Andrews called out, “Sparky”, you’re in deep s%*# now!” As a side note, future sportscaster Keith Olbermann, a Yankee fan, wrote about listening to this game in his book that he co-authored with Dan Patrick “The Big Show”. Olbermann wrote that when Allen hit the home run, he threw his radio out of the second-floor window of his parent’s house. Allen watches his game winning home run 6-4-72 June 4, 1973 - Sox pitching ace Wilbur Wood appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated. At the time it looked like Wood was on his way to 30 wins, given he already had 13 before June 1. The cover’s caption read, “Wizard With A Knuckler. Chicago’s Wilbur Wood.” But because of a massive number of injuries to the team Wood would ‘only’ finish with 24 wins. He started 48 times, had an ERA of 3.46 and threw an incredible 359 innings. The Sox that year wound up using the disabled list 38 times. June 4, 1977 - In a game at Comiskey Park versus the Yankees, Richie Zisk, the “Polish Prince,” hit a rooftop home run near the left field line off Don Gullett. It was a solo shot in the second inning. He’d become the seventh Sox player to do this. Unfortunately, the Sox would lose the game 8-6 as the Yankees had a seven-run top of the second. June 4, 2016 – It was a trade that could wind up living in infamy. G.M. Rick Hahn sent young hurler Erik Johnson and 17-year-old Fernando Tatís Jr. to San Diego for veteran starter James Shields. Tatís, the son of a former Major League slugger, had been signed less than one year earlier and had yet to play a single game in the White Sox system. Three years after the trade, Tatis was in the Major Leagues, was garnering M.V.P. votes and was considered one of the top young stars in the game. Prior to the 2021 season, Tatis signed a 14-year, 330-million-dollar contract extension with the Padres, anointing him as perhaps one of the premier talents in all of baseball. It was suspected that Tatis was inserted into the deal to help persuade San Diego to eat some of Shields onerous remaining salary; that short-sighted gambit succeeded, as the Padres sent 31 million along with Shields, lowering the White Sox obligation to Shields to 27 million over four years. Hahn would admit in 2025 that San Diego originally wanted two pitchers and the Sox weren’t willing to do that… enter Tatis. Shields 5.31 ERA ranks second only to Jaime Navarro for highest in team history among pitchers allowed to throw at least 400 innings for the club. The warning signs were there…in his last start for San Diego, Shields allowed 10 runs against the Mariners and was publicly ripped by the Padres owner.

The original diagnosis (if you believe the Sox medical staff) was 4-6 weeks, not 6-8 weeks. That said I don't think he returns until after the All-Star break.

It all depends if they are still in it in 4-5 weeks. That will determine what else may happen.

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/