Lip Man 1

https://awfulannouncing.com/mlb/red-sox-announcers-white-sox-struggles.html

The offensive numbers are atrocious: https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2025/04/10/white-sox-lose-eighth-straight-against-guardians-finish-winless-on-six-game-road-trip

“But I think we’ve been great one through nine, taking great at-bats. It’s gonna show.”---Andrew Vaughn to the Sun-Times.

Looks like this will become a daily tracker...😆 35 runs TOTAL scored this season...2.9 runs per game. Eight straight losses, 1-8 vs. division. Have scored 16 runs during the losing streak...two runs per game. In nine of the 12 games they have scored three runs or less.

PTATC: I understand the concept I simply forgot to add the title of strength and conditioning areas to my comment. Over the past decade a number of them in those areas have been hired and fired.

The fact that the Sox have gone through multiple head trainers in the past 10 years and gone through more trainers and conditioning folks in that same span than you can count...yet nothing seems to change. As I've been told by folks in the organization and around the team something is terribly amiss with the training, conditioning, nutrition areas with this organization. And yes, the players themselves also have some responsibility. Injuries happen but as I was told by an individual: “Given the inordinate amount of soft-tissue injuries they have had you’d think that they would do a complete change in the training, conditioning and nutritional areas.” I have no idea if the Sox have done anything along these lines or not given that the results of Hahn's deep-dive into these areas and the constant injuries was never released.

Well, that's seven straight...shall we try for 10? Don't forget in that 9th inning Robert (yet again) failing to do anything with runners in scoring position or on-base. He is a shell of himself now. Sox have now scored 34 runs in 11 games, that's a tad over three runs a game. They have also scored three runs or less in eight of the 11 contests. During this losing streak they have scored a grand total of 15 runs. Putrid up and down the roster/lineup. The good news? They may be cooked by May 1st and we can tell them to kiss off and try to enjoy the rest of the summer.

Great point 😆 We'll see how long he's out, if it is anything like Eloy, Robert and Moncada it will be months.

They are taking great swings...and have scored 32 runs in 10 games. Sometimes stats can be a little misleading.

Gang it will get worse next season. JR isn't spending a dime given the likely hood of a labor impasse caused by the owners locking out the players before the 2027 season begins. It sounds like that is going to take out at least some, maybe all of that year.

https://www.southsidesox.com/2025/4/9/24404284/chris-getz-and-the-chicago-white-sox-the-aggressive-arrogance-of-the-mediocre

A.J. was one of those who stated that numerous times.

Not disagreeing with you, just clarifying the point.

It was nine and eight.

10 games played, 32 total runs scored (3.2 runs per game), have scored three runs or less in seven of the 10 contests. Have scored only 13 runs in the six game losing streak. Have played about two weeks and already they are 4.5 games out of first. At this rate they won't even be playing meaningful games after May 1st...LOL.

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from the Sun-Times: Manager Will Venable didn’t seem too optimistic about a quick return for left fielder Andrew Benintendi, who exited Sunday’s game against the Tigers with a left adductor strain. “He’s progressed a little bit, but he’s not there yet,” Venable said. “[He] Doesn’t feel as good as we thought he was, so he’s going to continue to get evaluated, and we’ll do some scans on him.” So...let's play short handed for another four or five days before the Sox decide to put him on the IL! 😆😉 White Sox baseball: We LOVE to play shorthanded!

But yet just a few days ago a person posted that the offense wasn't the problem. 😆 I spy with my little eye a double-digit losing streak coming on (which would mark the third straight season the Sox will have had one if I remember right...)

That is a shame. Guy was a hard thrower. Had a ton of strikeouts with the Sox in 2008-2009, had a solid ERA both years as well.

And so switching out flotsam for jetsam begins...

https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/news/white-sox-assistant-gm-josh-barfield-discusses-team-s-rebuild

Magic Johnson went to the Lakers after they won the coin flip with the Bulls for the #1 draft pick in 1980.

Very true and JR won't allow a thorough search outside of the organization. How many times has he had a chance to do so and never even considered it?

It's both... the tax hit and the idea of having to pay anything (for example his unwillingness to announce he's willing to pay anything out of his own pocket for a new stadium) is still the driving force, and that is ego-centric. "I'm rich...I shouldn't have to pay a damn thing...not taxes not my money for a stadium..." BOTH are involved.

And of course the Sox will sit him for four or five days before deciding he needs to go on the IL for who knows how long. White Sox baseball..."We love to play shorthanded!!!"