Lip Man 1
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For what it is worth ABC in Chicago is reporting he is a Cubs fan...it figures.
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Lord knows this franchise needs all the help they can get.
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Never mind
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Why Maton you ask? Well, here you go: “Just love the aggressiveness [from Maton] at the plate,” Venable said. “Always ready to do damage. Kind of a guy almost like a fast-break offense, you know? He can hit the ball out of the park, he’s going to put a good swing on it, put a good at-bat together. Excited to have him back. “And the other thing I have to say is that he’s awesome in the clubhouse. We love him in the clubhouse. That was a part of it, too.”
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Even more revealing if you cut those guys probably NO ONE would pick them up. The White Sox are the last destination where players go to die in their careers.
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But remember..none of this NONE of this is his fault in the minds of some. 😉
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She started it at times in the 1976 season and it blew up (in a good way) in that wonderful 1977 season.
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Royals will make it a four game sweep tomorrow. The numbers are outrageously bad: Sox have scored three runs or less in 26 of the 37 games (70%!!!!!) Sox are 2-10 in one run games Sox have already lost NINE games where they held an opponent to three runs or less. Putrid through and through.
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I wonder how they will embarrass themselves tonight? Inquiring minds want to know...😆
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I don't think anybody including JR is "content" with losing, he has always wanted to win but as I've said before he wants to win HIS WAY. Big difference. His way is not paying players what the market is giving them, not going outside the organization to fill key positions, not dealing with certain agents and not firing those who aren't performing both on the baseball side and the non-baseball side unless he absolutely has to. Hell he even is still hoping a salary cap comes into play to break the MLBPA. Given those parameters he's satisfied with the way things are but blames outside forces (including the fan base) and situations that are causing him to do it his way. It's total BS of course. He does, of course, love the low payroll given all the money he's getting from national and international deals that MLB has worked out.
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Like my dad always said, "you get what you pay for..."
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Like I said Getz seemed to make it clear based on his comment about helping long term that Elko is not in their plans. Why these other stiffs and has been's keep getting chances are beyond me.
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In Baltimore Bill Melton lost a pop up around foul ground at third base, it hit him in the face and broke his nose.
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Chicago now trails just the Red Sox (30) with 27 errors -- proved too much for the White Sox to overcome. The club is now 3-15 on the road and has lost 14 games in which it led at one point. Fundamentals are an unknown word to this organization. https://awfulannouncing.com/mlb/ozzie-guillen-white-sox-embarrasing-loss-reaction.html
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Another game with three runs or less. Another game with a crushing fundamental error. 3rd game this year the Sox took a lead in the 7th inning or later and lost. We should be used to this by now shouldn't we? Nothing changes until new ownership, it's really that simple.
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May 6, 1964 - Dave Nicholson hit what may have been the longest home run in MLB history. On this night in the fifth inning, in the first game of a twin bill versus the A’s, Nicholson blasted a shot off future Sox pitcher Moe Drabowsky that went over the roof and was found across the street in Armour Square. Some Sox fans claimed they heard the ball hit the top of the roof but White Sox officials said when they found the ball it had no signs of tar on it nor was it scuffed. Long time Chicago baseball reporter Jerome Holtzman was at the game and claimed he saw the ball bounce back up after hitting the roof and then go back out of sight. Nicholson’s shot went over the roof around the 375-foot sign in left center field. It was found 135 feet from the base of the wall. Plus, you have to add in the elevation needed to get the ball over the roof, approximately 70 feet. Hitting a ball on to the roof or over it required a ground-to-ground distance of at least 474 feet. Unofficial estimates place the drive as traveling 573 feet eclipsing Mickey Mantle’s shot at Griffith Stadium in Washington in 1956. That shot went an unofficial 565 feet. For the night Dave would hammer three home runs and drive in five RBI’s in the twin bill as the Sox swept both games, 6-4 and 11-4. The post script to the story is that a few months later on July 12 in Kansas City the next time Drabowski faced Nicholson he hit him in the forehead with a fastball that opened a gash which required stiches.
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The Sox CAN afford to pay good players they CHOOSE not to blaming everything and everyone from the fan base to the stadium. BIG difference.
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Remember just last week Getz said something along the lines of they only prioritize players who may be able to help them long term. I saw that and immediately thought that leaves Elko out.
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Spoke with Nancy yesterday and today she was bringing her organ accessories to the park at 1PM. Sox are going to supply the organ itself, she wanted to set everything up and get some practice in. It will be in her old location at the park. She said that Brooks wasn't part of bringing her back but it was Jeff Szynal, who runs the scoreboard operations and is the Sox historian who was the driving force.
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/06/nancy-faust-chicago-white-sox-organ/
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When I speak with her I always ask "is this the first lady of White Sox baseball?" 😉 LOL. Given all that's she's done not only for the Sox but for baseball I've always wondered why she isn't in the Hall of Fame? They do allow "contributors" to the game to be allowed in, she certainly deserves it.
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From what I was told by an individual involved in setting the date for Nancy's retirement, several dates were suggested and it was finally agreed to the date in September if I remember right. To be fair to JR, the date happened to be during one of the Jewish high holy holidays and he wasn't able to attend. Some were saying that was deliberate so that he wouldn't have to hear it from the crowd. All I can tell you is Nancy was hurt by the fact that they didn't attend. I heard from Nancy this morning and she is really excited to be able to play again for Sox fans at home. Don't know the dates or how many times she'll play, she does live in the area in the spring and summer and goes to Arizona in the late fall and winter.
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