The Mighty Mite

Agree, it’s horrible that we have such a hard time developing players. This whole organization is in shambles and won’t be fixed until Reinsdorf is gone one way or the other.

He had us excited for awhile.

I read an article this AM about Colas and it said they are working on the same thing that plagues just about everybody else on the Sox roster, pitch selection. I forgot where I read it. He has his OPS up to around .850 so that’s a good sign. One thing I noticed about Sheets in the Marlins series is that his swing is awful loopy, not swinging on plane.

If that’s true about TA, well screw him, he’s being paid millions to play to the best of his abilities, he’s a piece of dog crap and without a doubt the cancer on the team.

You should have seen the backlash when the Sox traded Minnie Minoso in 1958, 2 of my best friends immediately became Cub fans but not me, Minnie was a favorite of mine but we still had Nellie, Looie and Billy and the Sox were already in my DNA.

I was born 1946 at the old St. Luke’s hospital at 14th and Michigan and lived at 18th and Wabash among many Greek and Italian immigrants. We lived there until I was 5 years old and then moved to Lake View 3 blocks from Wrigley Field and then to Rogers Park in 1954. My mother’s family were all Sox fans including my favorite uncle who really was the driving force in me becoming a die hard Sox fan. He didn’t take me to my first Sox as that was with the Cub Scouts in 1955 but took me to so many other Sox games including the second game of the 1959 World Series. He worked for the Sun Times and had all kinds of connections and was always coming up with tickets to everything, even came up with 2 tickets to see The Beatles at the International Amphitheater on Sept 5, 1964 on their first US tour. I took my high school sweetheart to see the concert, she thought I was the greatest thing since sliced bread for taking her to see The Beatles. My father was not that much of a baseball fan as he was into boxing and also liked to make frequent trips to the various horse racing tracks in the Chicago area, he went to one baseball game in 1962 with my mother who loved the Sox and my sister who became a Cub fan.

Got a hunch that TA is on his way out.

You just know the Sox will phone it in in the bottom of the 9th.

Now catchers interference.

Trying to give the game away.

TA doesn’t make that play.

Just let the Marlins back in the game, all of a sudden our bullpen stinks.

Talk about a good glove-no hit guy, he is it.

Not behind the plate.

But neither are the Sox.

It’s hard to believe that 6 teams in the AL have struck out more than the Sox. What is easy to believe is that only the Royals have a lower OBP than our guys

Why did the Twins trade Arraez?

We continue to swing at anything though 2 of the Ks were called strike 3s. This team will continue to struggle with the bat as pitchers will keep throwing the ball out of the zone knowing our guys will swing at anything.

No homers and 1 RBI, he was hitting the crap out of the ball in Charlotte.

In his short time here Frazier hasn’t shown me much.

Showers are ending but cool and windy the rest of the day.

Win today along with the series and yesterday is a bad memory

Those were wonderful years including an AL pennant in 1959 and growing up with those teams make it so much harder to be a fan of the White Sox since then. I never experienced a losing season until I was 22 years old. Poor ownership has plagued the franchise down through the years, I don’t know how cheap the Old Roman was but the Black Sox scandal hurt the franchise for 30 years. Chuck Comiskey did a great job in the 50s especially with the hiring of Frank Lane, Paul Richards and Al Lopez, the Sox had a great farm system in those years and made some great trades also. Bill Veeck set the Sox back a bit trading away some very good young players in 1960. Arthur Allyn was owner when the Sox put together their 3 best consecutive seasons in history winning 94, 98 and 95 games in the mid 60s. After the 67 near miss with a pennant things went downhill drastically and Arthur sold the club to his brother John who just didn’t have the money to compete even though Dick Allen and company came close to a division title in 1972. Bill Veeck came back again in 1976 but just could not compete especially with free agency. Veeck sold to Reinsdorf and Einhorn in 1981 and when they brought Carlton Fisk aboard and then won the division in 1983 most Sox fans thought that the franchise was on its way to becoming a premier franchise for decades to come, we couldn’t have been more wrong.

I wonder if he might have rushed things a bit.

Without a doubt the Chicago White Sox are a horrible and dysfunctional franchise especially for a team in a Major Market. Reinsdorf is the worst owner in professional sports and runs the White Sox like a small market team. In his 42 years as owner he has continuously alienated White Sox fans, from basically forcing Harry Caray to jump to the Cubs, to hiring Hawk as GM, to threatening a move to Florida to building a monstrosity of a stadium to the 1994 strike to the White Flag trade to the Ventura and TLR hirings and so many more too numerous to mention. We have people in positions with the franchise that aren’t doing the job and probably not even qualified as Reinsdorf never hires the best people, look at the track record with managers and GMs, look who is running the minor league system, Chris Getz for crying out loud. Look at the free agent signings through the years. I’m 77 and guessing we will never see another World Championship with Reinsdorf around and the more I think about it, 2005 was probably a fluke. I feel it in my old bones and no one should be shocked that the last stab in the back for White Sox fans will be that this colossal jerk sells the team to someone from another city.