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Nancy playing today at the park will probably be the highlight of the game.

Exactly. And they aren't the first team to have done this with their revenue sharing money. Bob Costas was on the Dan Patrick show a few days ago and ripped the Pirates a new one.

Good veteran managers cost real money. Years ago JR went on the record saying he never thought managers (or head coaches) made that much of a difference.

Nice column/conversation with Nancy: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/11/vintage-tribune-nancy-faust-white-sox-memories/

10th game this year the Sox held an opponent to three runs or less and lost. 4th game this year the Sox took a lead into the 7th inning or later and lost. The Sox have scored three runs or less in 28 of the 40 games played (70%)

With the White Sox it's never a situation where "everybody is back."

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/09/chicago-white-sox-pope-leo-xiv-superfan-cubs/

From talking with him I don't think respect had anything to do with it, he admitted he wanted to stay and was immature (his words). Remember he also got into a blowup with TLR before a game in Milwaukee, left the team and went back to Chicago again he said he was out of line. That happened either in 1980 or 1981. Roland Hemond had to talk with him to get to the root of the issue. He wished he could have stayed with the Sox but his actions backed Roland into a corner and he did what he could.

The ABC network ran a one hour special tonight on the Pope and had a segment in it about what team he roots for, the spoke with his brother who again said he is a Sox fan.

But one that unfortunately Chet brought on himself as he said in my interview and Kemp drove in almost 100 RBI's in 1982 so it's not like he was like chopped liver.

My complete interview with Chet from 2004: https://www.southsidesox.com/2025/5/9/24426467/chet-lemon-q-a-chicago-white-sox-detroit-tigers

From my interview with Chet in 2004. He explains how things developed where the Sox had little choice but to deal him: ML: You hit .302 in the strike shortened season and played your usual solid defense but on November 27, 1981 you were shipped to Detroit for Steve Kemp. The reasoning as I remember it was that the Sox wanted more balance in the lineup and Kemp was left handed. (Author’s Note: Harold Baines was basically the only power threat from the left side as opposed to having guys like Fisk, Luzinski and the newly acquired Tom Paciorek who were all right handed hitters.) Were you ever told by the Sox why they let you go? CL: "That may have been part of it but there was another reason." "In spring training 1981 I had verbally agreed to a five year contract that would have made me the highest paid player on the team. It was a great negotiation. Eddie Einhorn, Jerry Reinsdorf, Roland Hemond, my agent and I all sat around a table one day and worked everything out including some deferred compensation. For some reason I hadn’t gotten around to actually signing the document though. A few weeks later they signed Carlton Fisk and his numbers came out. When I saw those I told my agent “hmmmm maybe we need to renegotiate.” Everything that I did in five years, I did in Chicago and now I wasn’t going to be the highest paid player anymore? I know it was childish on my part but that’s the way I felt at the time." "It created some problems. After a period of time I said that I’d just play my next year out (1982) and then see what happens in that off season. I guess the Sox thought that I was automatically going to go the free agent route and that wasn’t necessarily the case. However I did know that other clubs were interested, I knew that Earl Weaver of the Orioles wanted me badly and that the Sox were close to trading me to them at one time." "It was weird how some things happened. I mean "Bull" Luzinski, whom I respected, and thought did a great job for us by supplying power, came out and said something like ‘if he’s not going to sign then we need to get somebody for him.’ After the trade I did play out my option but Detroit re-signed me to a 10 year deal which gave me security. I had some no trade clauses in it so I had some control if I was going to be uprooted again."

The Sox were swept in the four-game series. And in the process, they fell to 10-28 to match the worst start in franchise history through 38 games. They share the distinction with the 2024 and 2018 clubs.

Incredible find.

Or hoping guys can make a big comeback who are coming off injury or are starting to age.

I was exchanging e-mails this afternoon with a high ranking member of the front office and we were talking about the Pope, I typed something along the lines of that maybe the Sox can get some help from a higher authority. The response surprised me a little given this person's position. They said the franchise needs the help," we've just had a guy thrown out at home when he shouldn't even have been running."

Absolutely, Brooks did a great job and apparently a hat and jersey are already on their way to Rome. The Tribune also updated and changed Sully's earlier column on his fandom: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/08/pope-leo-xiv-chicago-cubs-fan/

The Sox were 1-for-9 with runners in scoring position. In the fifth, the Sox had runners on first and third after a leadoff double by Andrew Vaughn and Joshua Palacios single with no outs. Lenyn Sosa reached base on a fielder’s choice after Vaughn tried to score from third on Sosa’s soft tapper. Brooks Baldwin hit into a double play to end the inning. “In that situation if it’s not a double play ball then you don’t have to go,” Venable said. “It’s something that we’ll talk about and walk through. It’s kind of one of those in between plays where you know they’re back, so you think that they’re not going to come get you but you don’t have to go. It’s not a double-play ball.”

Until Father Time steps in, you are correct.

https://wgntv.com/news/pope-leo/robert-prevost-pope-leo-xiv-chicago-cubs-sox/

Somebody needs to tell the Tribune: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/08/pope-leo-xiv-chicago-cubs-fan/

Not much to say. We'll see how bad the Marlins beat them up over the weekend. Garbage starts at the top and goes through the entire organization.

I'm for trying anything that could possibly help.

He was an excellent player. Had the chance to interview him in 2004. Friendly man. RIP

Seems he is in fact a Cub fan...even God hates what JR has done to the franchise.