The Mighty Mite
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8 hours ago, Lip Man 1 said:
Good story that outlines how badly things have gone over the last decade plus:
JR the greedy bastard must do the right thing and sell, he said last year when Hahn and Williams were fired and Getz hired that things would get better, he lied like the POS he is and the franchise is at a just about an all time low right down there with the Black Sox. I hate hearing that apathy is rampant among the fans, I know you think that there is no way the White Sox leave Chicago but if the fans are apathetic and no one cares, what happens then.
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6 minutes ago, flavum said:
Worst owner in MLB. This is what we get until ownership changes.
He wants to win but only his way, how’s that working out.
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13 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:
Now on pace for a 41-121 record.
I’ll take the under for wins.
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1 hour ago, soxfan49 said:
https://x.com/awfulannouncing/status/1796740574197748054?s=46
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Schriffen- another member of the organization who's in way over his head
I feel so much better knowing according to Schriffen that the Sox aren’t that bad and just unlucky that they catching teams while they are hot, I’m sure things will average out.
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6 hours ago, Lip Man 1 said:
Actually it isn't, I've really stopped paying a lot of attention...just tune in occasionally, check box scores, read the newspapers.
It's actually a little refreshing for wont of a better word not to agonize over every game especially in a pennant race.
This season was over after three weeks, no pressure now, just relax and laugh at the incompetence.
On another note...
The is the 8th game this year the Sox had a lead in the 7th inning or later and lost.
Brebbia's ERA is now almost eight, another waste of millions of dollars on flotsam and jetsem that passes for a major league player by the Sox organization.
Nine in a row now and 15 of 18. 😆
I can’t laugh at any of this except that Getz actually thought he had put together a competitive team.
This is really hard for me, I’ve lived and died for 72 years with the White Sox and I never thought that we would see something this bad with the franchise. This is beyond embarrassing, I would call it almost a crime. I wish somehow someway that the season could end today and save us more grief and heartache.
We are doomed as long as the 3 Stooges of Moe Reinsdorf, Larry Getz and Curly Grifol are running the franchise.-
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6 hours ago, greg775 said:
How much you wanna bet there were fewer than 2,000 fans there tonight. I'd bet the house there were just over 1000 fans there. Geez.
Reinsdorf is destroying the franchise.
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6 hours ago, greg775 said:
This was another really bad loss. What'd we get four hits this time? What the heck is goin on? The spark the Sox had during the 8-6 run has worn off. Looks like our lineup is totally anemic like it was pre-Pham, Ramos and Mendick. Jays are yet another team to save their season by mopping up on the Sox. Last two losses suggest the team has already thrown in the towel. Can u imagine the Sox clubhouse the last 2 seasons? Must be funeral-like in there. Absolutely no hope when the team shows up,
Maybe these clowns should look at themselves in the mirror, especially guys like Vaughn, Benintendi and ILOY.
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Grifol is a horrible manager but it doesn’t matter because this is one of the worst baseball teams I have ever seen, a roster made up of AAA players, castoffs and losers, no manager could win with these bums. What’s hilarious is that Getz thought that this team could compete.
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8 minutes ago, oldsox said:
How could he hate Fox?
Among other things Jimmy thought Nellie was a crybaby when guys slid into second base with the spikes a little on the high side, much different game in those days.
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12 minutes ago, Stinky Stanky said:
Was going to bat Nellie Fox second but he’s not on the roster.
And Eddie Stanky leading off, he once walked 7 times in a row and had a great lifetime OBP of .410.
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1 hour ago, Dick Allen said:
You want to be entertained watching a Sox game? There are a few on youtube with Harry and Jimmy. Just classic. Ripping all the bad, stupid plays.
I was friends with Jimmy back in my tennis days in Wheaton, Jimmy and I belonged to the same club and talked White Sox baseball all the time in person and on the phone. Only thing that bothered me is that he hated my boyhood hero, the Mighty Mite, Nellie Fox but he also despised Tony LaRussa.
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I could never root against the Sox but these last 2 years are trying my patience and am so close to giving up and just make the Rays my team, the Rays will never be in my DNA like the Sox have been for me since 1952 but Reinsdorf is destoying the franchise to what end I don’t know. His miserly ways down through the years has given us inept GMs, inept managers, inept players, an inept farm system with horrible scouting and development along with horrible analytics. I just don’t see any light at the end of the tunnel as long as JR is the owner of the franchise.
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6 hours ago, nrockway said:
I think you guys are mad at Schriffen for the wrong reasons. It's his fuckin job to be the Sox hype man, do you expect him to be as depressed and miserable as we are? Why? You know what the job duties are. He seems realistic about how bad the team is too, he talks about it every game. Bigger issues with Schriffen, but "home team announcer likes the home team" is not a criticism. I'm genuinely surprised that it apparently is. What do you expect him to say on air? Seriously, let's hear a script of what the Sox PBP commentator should be saying. What would you be saying if it was your job?
Harry Caray and Jimmy Piersall broadcast some lousy Sox teams in their years on the Southside and were honest and critical, I wonder what they would be saying if they had to broadcast a team that was as bad as the 2024 White Sox, it would probably be hilarious.
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Good riddance to the worst umpire I’ve ever seen, this guy was a joke.
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On 5/24/2024 at 12:32 PM, Lip Man 1 said:
In DVS's Sun-Times story last night Grifol said he is going to keep playing him but in a month or two (direct quote) he may have to reevaluate.
I don’t want Grifol still manager in a month or two.
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Bottom line is that we have a very bad team, a very bad manager, a very bad GM and a very bad owner, I guess that is why we have a very bad record with a recipe for disaster.
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9 hours ago, Lightly Folded said:
The only thing that is wrong with guaranteed rate Field is where it’s located. The bigger problem is that the state of Illinois can no longer afford to pay Jerry to stay there and therefore a renewal (or extension) is impossible. The state does not make money on guaranteed rate field, but rather loses money. Jerry will never agree to a deal whereby he would have to pay the state to continue to play at guaranteed rate field. Nor would a new owner.
You put GRF at 78 facing northeast with great views of the skyline and it automatically becomes one of the better parks in MLB.
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11 minutes ago, WBWSF said:
I saw my heavy duty White Sox contact Friday.He said they are definitely not renewing the lease at the present stadium.A new White Sox stadium will be built in the Chicagoland area. And it might not be in the South Loop. It should be worked out by the end of the year. We shall see.
Didn’t Reinsdorf buy some land near the United Center, maybe it will be built there. I still think 78 is the better place.
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9 minutes ago, nrockway said:
05/23/24 Seattle Mariners designated LHP Sammy Peralta for assignment. 05/23/24 Seattle Mariners signed free agent LHP Dallas Keuchel to a minor league contract. you mean we could've had Keuchel?!!?
OMG.
I hope MLB isn’t seriously considering expansion, there aren’t enough good pitchers to go around right now, it would be a joke if they went ahead with expansion.
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29 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:
Waivers from Mariners.
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On 5/24/2024 at 4:54 PM, southsider2k5 said:
MLB cares about money, and there is a LOT more of it in Chicago than anywhere else left to put a baseball team, especially if we are talking about a couple of billion for an expansion team. With Vegas off of the map, it isn't like there is some huge market waiting for a team. Chicago is just under a 10 million person metro area. That is like 3 million if you even carve it down to 1/3 of the market. Every single market of that size already has a team in the US. The closest is Charlotte at 2.8 million. Nashville and Indianapolis are like 2 million people. Portland is 2.5 million. Salt Lake City is 1.2 million people. No where else nearly that small has a team in MLB today. Remember there will two expansion teams, and the odds are if the team moved, it would be to one of those markets, so essentially that means Chicago has a HUGE size edge on anyone else. It's not about emotions, it is about dollars, and Chicago has more of them, even divided up, than any other market place left.
The big problem is the White Sox year by year are becoming less and less relevant in the Chicago Metropolitan area and their share of the market is becoming less and less. Places like NW Indiana and SW Michigan were once home to many White Sox fans but are now Cubs country. The Sox have never been popular in Illinois south of Chicago as that is Cubs and Cardinal country. We will in our lifetimes never see the Sox as popular as the Cubs, the only hope is new ownership along with a new stadium at the 78 property which will help with out of towners and the local casual fan who won’t travel to 35th and Shields but would make the trip to the South Loop to catch a Sox game. All my acquaintances that I’ve known in my years in Florida and have visited Chicago never took in a game at the new park but of course saw a Cubs game at Wrigley, a few old timers did visit old Comiskey in the 1950s and 60s.
I’m old enough to remember when Chicago had 2 NFL teams, in fact I went to the second to last Cardinal game in 1959. I remember the NBA Packers/Zephyrs who lasted 2 years in Chicago and moved to Baltimore and are now the Washington Wizards, went to a few of their games when they played at the Amphitheater. This notion that MLB will never let the White Sox leave Chicago is a bunch of baloney, money talks, bull s%*# walks. Don’t ever forget that MLB let the Dodgers and Giants leave New York City after the 1957 season, who would have predicted that. The next couple of years on and off the field will tell a lot about the future of the Sox in Chicago, keep your fingers crossed.-
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56 minutes ago, oldsox said:
At end of season MLB should execute a Contraction of the White Sox, sell off all players on the roster, give Jerry his money, and then create a new expansion team in Chicago with new owners.
Sounds good but that would never happen.
JR has to sell, tax savings or not, does he not realize he is scum in the minds of Sox fans and probably the most hated man in Chicago, oh wait, Cub fans probably love him.
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.283 winning percentage, Sox are sliding down to 1962 NY Mets suckage. I’ve never been so depressed in my 72 years as a Sox fan, I’ve lived and died with this team and lost countless hours of sleep through the decades. I was born a hop, skip and a jump from Comiskey Park but I’m so close to giving up and not caring anymore. This is what the detestable Jerry Reinsdorf had done to us Sox fans, I’ve never been a fair weather fan and supported this team through thick and thin since 1952 but what Reinsdork and his other clowns have given us this year is a crime. I’ve already given up with the Blackhawks and am a huge TB Lightning fan so it wouldn’t be hard to devote all my energy with the Rays but they really stink this year. I will probably wait until the off-season and see if they spend some money and try to improve the team, if not then it will be good-bye
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On 5/24/2024 at 2:10 PM, JoeC said:
To be fair, I don't think the Sox counted on anyone having to round 3rd base .
One of the things they didn’t work on in ST.
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June 1 game thread Sox @Milwaukee 3:10 first pitch
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