The Mighty Mite

Exactly.

Definitely yes but he’s also injury prone, that and Getz also said there are no untouchables. Don’t get me wrong, I would like Robert to stay heathy and patrol CF for the Sox for the rest of his career but if they could actually improve the club by trading Robert, I would do the trade.

Right now Kopech isn’t any good as a starter or a closer.

I agree 100% but how do you trade him and his fat contract.

Don’t be surprised if they trade him, don’t forget according to Getz there are no untouchables on this team. I have mixed feelings on Robert, he has all the talent in the world but there is something missing with him, like Moncada I’d like to see some emotion once in awhile from them, to me it seems like they just don’t care, scream at the umpire once in awhile, break a bat over your knee, kick the water cooler but these guys strikeout and walk back to the dugout like they’re out for a stroll in the park. I watch all the Rays games and the difference is like night and day between the 2 teams as far as emotion, caring and doing everything to win ballgames.

It’s refreshing that he knows the problems instead of feeding us a bunch of BS, letting TA go was a good start but there is so much more to do. I agree there are no untouchables and if it improves the club where they can pick up 2 or 3 guys who can make the team better then I’m OK with trading Robert.

2024 could be a very pivotal year for the White Sox franchise, I can never remember Sox fans being this depressed with the Sox, if JR doesn’t step up and spend some real money on premier free agents I think Sox fans will abandon the team and by the time the lease is up on Sox Park they won’t be drawing flies to the games and will be on their way to Nashville or some other city where there will be a lot more support. I don’t expect them to sign Ohtani but they need to think real hard about guys like Bellinger and a few more, signing guys like Whit Merrifield ain’t going to hack it. They also need to think seriously about replacing Grifol, it would go a long way towards Sox fans thinking that the franchise is serious about winning and competing as soon as possible, who gets that feeling with this buffoon that we had as manager last season.

Both Sosa and Colas were disappointing last season but going into 2024 for some reason I feel better about Sosa than Colas.

I’ll be 78 soon, I don’t want to wait that long either.

Tommy Pham is one of the most intense players I’ve ever seen since I became a Sox fan in 1952, I’m OK with him on the team, the thing is I don’t understand why he can’t stay anywhere very long.

I like Sosa better at second base, if he works out that will be his position going forward anyway as Montgomery should be ready in 2025.

If they decide to do a complete rebuild then they have to trade Robert, Vaughn and Cease, there is no one else that anybody wants.

I’d like to know what their game plan really is, this mess cannot be fixed in this off-season. We have no rightfielder, we have no SS, we have no second baseman, we have no catcher, we have one reliable starter, the bullpen is a wreck, the DH and third basemen can’t stay healthy and are overpaid, the manager is a jerk and a joke and the team right now would have trouble beating a lot of AAA teams but otherwise things are great.

But his attitude isn’t fine.

I don’t want them to rush Montgomery so since we are probably going to be shitty again in 2024 I’d bring back Elvis for one more year.

Exactly, he was part of the problem.

I agree that he should have been traded last season but I’m glad he’s gone.

So far nothing the franchise has done since the hiring of Getz has improved the situation one iota. Addition by subtraction would have worked by sending Grifol out the door and of course hiring Getz was probably a big mistake.

I’m one of those who think that Al Lopez was the best Sox manager in the club’s history, he made one mistake in his time with the Sox and that was not giving Billy Pierce a start in the 1959 World Series.

I did check it out, I thought they said over 200 million dollars. GRF original cost IIRC was 137 million.

The Sox would also need to tear down the top level of suites also then they could design a new upper deck that wouldn’t be as steep as the present one, don’t know what the cost would be, maybe a new stadium would be more feasible.

Would love to see all that happen.

But the poor fellow would have all that tax to pay.

Remember it well but it was a different day and age with no long term guaranteed contracts plus we had a sharp GM in Roland Hemond and a very good manager in Chuck Tanner, look at what we have now with a no experience GM and a complete asshat as manager. It will be extremely hard to duplicate what the Sox did in 2 years in the early 70s. Another thing to remember is that it went downhill pretty fast and by 1975 the Sox were horrible again as John Allyn was almost broke and the franchise came close to moving to Seattle but Veeck came in at the last minute and bought the team and kept them in Chicago. Johnny Morris with his Save our Sox campaign (SOS) and Mayor Richard J. Daley did their part and did great jobs that helped to keep the team in Chicago