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My God when you actually see this on paper it could actually be worse than the garbage on the team collectively from last year. https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/news/white-sox-2025-opening-day-roster I have flashbacks to the original movie "Major League." 🤯

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/10/tampa-bay-rays-stadium-deadline/

Dr. Fletcher got back to me tonight and he said that JR's comments had nothing to do with the selection of Phillies for Dick's hat. Again he didn't elaborate.

Dr. Fletcher one of the author's of the "Chili Dog MVP" book and a close friend of the family who was at the announcement told me tonight the cap issue is a "long story." He didn't elaborate. I hope he can provide more details at some point.

With the Sox "luck" they'll lose 108 games and get the #4 pick. 😆

Latest reports are he'll sign with either the Cubs, Red Sox or Tigers. If he doesn't sign with the Cubs they are supposedly looking at Justin Turner.

JR has gone on record as saying publicly he didn't think Allen was a Hall of Famer. I don't know if that had any impact or not over the years.

The Hall of Fame announced today that Dick Allen will be wearing a Phillies cap on his Hall of Fame plaque. Which is unfortunate since in one of his last interviews before he died Dick told Paul Sullivan of the Tribune he wanted to go in wearing a White Sox cap.

Many of those fans may simply be attending to watch the other team or to see superstars like LeBron, Anthony Davis, Luka, Nikola et al. Granted the money still goes to the organization but I wouldn't say that every fan or even most fans who attend are Bulls fans. Not after basically seeing garbage for the last 25 years.

You are correct. Washington said it would be built across the street from the original park or he would tell his people on the Stadium Authority to vote 'no.'

I know he had back issues last year. If the Sox cut him while he has a legit injury that could be grounds for a case before an arbiter. I think he has a few more years on his deal so I agree this is a little strange. Not saying he's any good, he probably isn't but given their situation what do the Sox have to lose by keeping him, hope he rebounds and they can get something for him.

Herb Washington when he was with Oakland?

Best case scenario is some of the veterans play well enough to get something for them at the trade deadline, that some of the kids actually show they belong in the Major Leagues, that the injury situation which has gutted this team the past several years stabilizes and that Chris Getz doesn't get taken advantage of as often as he has been. That's all I can think of.

I'd love to know what JR's thinking is after being rebuffed by the state legislature and now the different leadership in Washington. He's no fool, he's got to understand that unless he kicks in a significant amount of his own money he has very little chance of anything happening.

He did with Ordonez and Thomas to be sure.

To be fair when Scott Boras refused to share Magglio's medical records with the Sox I could completely understand why Kenny went off. And when Mags ripped the organization that probably didn't help matters. 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.

Tony: FYI, these are comments I got from individuals connected to the Sox for a story I did in November 2022. They don't speak well of Moncada in general. I spoke to six people for the story. “The problem is some of these guys just don’t care, they want to win sure but they already have gotten their money with these contracts before they proved anything. Moncada would strike out and just walk back to the dugout like no big deal, he fouls a ball off and now he can’t play for three days? His contract makes him untradable but he needs to go.” "Another one was the Triple Play Game against the Twins. (Author’s Note: The Sox ran themselves into an 8-5 triple play on July 4. They wound up losing the game 6-3 in extra innings) Adam Engel faced the music afterwards, he made a mistake and owned up to it. Moncada who also made a mistake was nowhere, he was already gone. Then the next day he was saying that he didn’t know people wanted to talk with him.” “It could happen, maybe there’s a 5% chance this front office could get it right. But first the front office has to admit they made mistakes. The catcher (Yamani Grandal), third baseman (Moncada) and shortstop (Tim Anderson) need to go. They need to get guys with a higher baseball acumen, the lack of urgency, the way they beat themselves this season was embarrassing."

https://soxmachine.com/2025/02/wrangling-2025-white-sox-prospects-when-injuries-interfered/

Interesting headline that I saw today, couldn't read the story in the Athletic. Maybe someone who has a subscription can give a summery of what Manfred said. Free-spending Dodgers aren’t bad for baseball, MLB commissioner says

Not no but hell no. Good riddance. Regarding his signing with the Angels, I'm of two minds on this: *He'll play his usual 50 games or so, foul a ball off his foot and have to sit out two weeks, pull a hamstring running to first, or check his swing and fracturing a rib... something along those lines. *Or because he's away from the dysfunction and ineptness of the Sox, he'll actually stay healthy and have a decent to good season which would be so very White Sox-like.

Correct. History shows again and again that the owners keep talking about this but when push comes to shove they fold like a cheap suit. They need to give up the ghost because it is never going to happen.

We shouldn't expect anything different should we..... given the state of the organization all departments, top to bottom.

With an owner who claims a new stadium will enable them to compete.

Absolutely.

I miss WINNING baseball.