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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

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.