Lip Man 1

You are correct about the A's, they were united in their hatred of Charlie Finley the owner but also at times didn't get along with each other. One example was when they had a fistfight in the locker room before a game with the Tigers in the 1972 championship series.

There has been massive mis-communication with this going back to when Ventura was manager and of course some probably remember this incident from TLR's tenure: “There was a Sunday game, I don’t remember if it was the past year or the season before. The Sox were playing the Tigers I think and they lost a close game. There were two calls in the game that went against the Sox but the TV replay cleared showed both umpire calls were wrong. The Sox never challenged either of them. In the press conference Tony was asked about them and he defended his video crew, it was brought up to him that TV showed both calls were wrong from the umpires. The next day he said that he should have challenged at least one call. That told me this was not a tight operation.”

https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2024/10/02/mlb-owner-takes-real-responsibility-hint-its-not-jerry-reinsdorf-white-sox-diamondbacks-ken-kendrick

The Associated Press came out with the results today and as you might expect the Sox were right near the bottom: Oakland (43.1%), St. Louis (43.6%), Washington (43.8%) Cincinnati (46%), the Los Angeles Angels (46.3%) and the Chicago White Sox (46.2%) were the least successful.

The Associated Press came out with the results today and as you might expect the Sox were right near the bottom: Oakland (43.1%), St. Louis (43.6%), Washington (43.8%) Cincinnati (46%), the Los Angeles Angels (46.3%) and the Chicago White Sox (46.2%) were the least successful.

Especially since he told DVS of the Sun-Times in a story that he doesn't intend to change his training routine.

https://soxmachine.com/2024/10/andrew-vaughn-at-center-of-white-soxs-non-tender-debate/

https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2024/10/01/in-detroit-former-white-sox-broadcaster-jason-benetti-in-place-that-feels-so-one-with-me

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/09/30/chicago-baseball-season-good-riddance/

https://soxmachine.com/2024/09/white-sox-gave-south-side-a-year-without-a-summer/

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/09/28/chicago-white-sox-loss-record-jerry-reinsdorf-chris-getz/

I am looking forward to new ownership somehow this off season.

How could they possibly be worse? Although I wouldn't consider it much of an improvement if they lost 110 games instead of 121. That's still being a laughingstock. Nothing really changes until ownership does.

Because he knows he isn't getting one! 😆 Talk is cheap Jerry...put your money where your mouth is.

They speak for themselves: The numbers across the board were absolutely atrocious but I wanted to point out a few areas in particular. The offense was dismal but it’s never been this bad and I’ve been keeping this stat for several years now. The White Sox scored three runs or less in an astounding 105 games! 105 games out of 162 played. That’s 64.8% of all games! You can’t win anything when you simply can’t score runs. And you are giving your pitchers simply no room for error (which the Sox defensively made a huge number of but that’s a different story. Another mind-blowing statistic. The Sox won only two games when trailing in the 7th inning or later. TWO…the entire season. April 27 vs. Tampa Bay. Sox scored two in the last of the 10th to win 8-7. September 24 vs. Angels. Sox scored three in the 8th to win 3-2. On the other side of the coin the Sox bullpen was hideous, a complete dumpster fire. 27 times the Sox took a lead into the 7th inning or later…and lost the game! 12 times they lost the lead in the 7th inning 9 times they lost the lead in the 8th inning 3 times they lost the lead in the 9th inning 3 times they lost the lead in the 10th inning As far as when these happened? Here is the breakdown and the pitcher or pitchers responsible: March 30 vs. Detroit (7th) Leone/Hill April 7 @ Kansas City (7th) Garcia April 10 @ Cleveland (10th) Shaw April 17 vs. Kansas City (8th) Kopech April 23 @ Minnesota (9th) Wilson April 30 vs. Minnesota (8th) Leasure May 24 vs. Baltimore (8th) Kopech May 31 @ Milwaukee (7th) Soroka/Brebbia June 1 @ Milwaukee (7th) Anderson/Leasure June 4 @ Cubs (8th) Leasure June 5 @ Cubs (7th) Soroka/Schuester June 9 vs. Boston (9th) Banks June 10 @ Seattle (8th) Kopech June 11 @ Seattle (7th) Brebbia June 20 vs. Houston (7th) Wilson July 6 @ Miami (7th) Soroka July 7 @ Miami (9th) Kopech July 8 vs. Minnesota (7th) Leasure July 21 @ Kansas City (7th) Anderson July 22 @ Texas (9th) Brebbia July 29 vs. Kansas City (8th) Wilson/Brebbia July 30 vs. Kansas City (8th) Ellard/Anderson August 7 @ Oakland (7th) Toussaint/Leone August 14 vs. Yankees (7th) Leone August 26 vs. Detroit (7th) Shuester September 18 @ Angels (8th/11th) Anderson/Kuel September 22 @ San Diego (8th) Ellard The pitcher breakdown totals. In games where multiple pitchers were responsible each pitcher got charged with a ½: Kopech-4 Leasure-3 ½ Brebbia- 3 Anderson- 2 ½ Leone-2 ½ Wilson- 2 ½ Soroka- 2 Ellard- 1 ½ Schuester- 1 ½ Banks- 1 Garcia- 1 Shaw- 1 Hill- ½ Kuel- ½ Toussaint- ½ The White Sox also used a record 63 players this year.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2024/09/28/grady-sizemore-wants-to-help-find-white-sox-identity-change-things-on-south-side

https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/news/john-schriffen-looking-forward-after-first-season-as-white-sox-tv-broadcaster

DVS of the Sun-Times with the story. Some interesting parts of it; ‘‘I’m OK with it,’’ Nicky Lopez said. ‘‘It is what it is. Your career is going to go on, whether it’s here next year or somewhere else. The thing about this sport is it takes 26-plus people; it’s not one person.’’ Rest assured, Lopez isn’t accepting defeat and isn’t OK with losing 121 games. Responsibility for this disaster of a season reaches well above the players’ level. Every Sox player, coach and member of the front office and ownership shares in the infamy. Lopez simply accepts the reality, knowing it was a team loss." ‘‘The way the White Sox lost was too drastic, they were a solid contender, but they gave away the farm and were getting blown out. The [general manager] should be fired.’’ --1962 Mets pitcher Craig Anderson. https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2024/09/28/it-is-what-it-is-is-common-take-from-white-sox-on-record-for-losses-whatever-it-was-it-wasnt-good

True when he was in Little league in Maryland where Veeck was living.

I think they also had it in 1970 or 1971. They took a kid named Danny Goodwin, a catcher if I remember right.

Not when they offer him the position for next year. 😆

Agree. I'd take some past Sox seasons (63,64,65,72,77,90) for example in a heartbeat even though they didn't make the post season. Those were damn good teams.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024/09/27/impatient-white-sox-fans-are-asked-to-be-patient

This is a well written story by Fegan: https://soxmachine.com/2024/09/white-sox-seal-shameful-place-in-history-with-121st-loss/ Regarding Lightfoot's comments if she is as big of a Sox fan as she claims to be she'd know Sox fans could give a rat's ass what Jerry's ethnic background is...just that he is a terrible owner who has destroyed the franchise because he thinks he's the smartest guy in the room and his arrogance knows no bounds.

Not when they name Sizemore the manager for next year.