The Mighty Mite

He's a jerk, watched a lot of his BS when he was with the Rays.

Cardinals moving back to Chicago would be cool. I was a Cardinal fan as I associated them with the Sox because they played their home games at Comiskey. I went to the second to last Cardinal home game in Chicago in 1959 and oddly enough it was at Soldier Field as the Cards for their last season in the city decided to leave Comiskey for the lakefront stadium.

Never heard that one but the again we have been in Florida since 1993. I'm not sure how I feel about a stadium near United Center, just west of the loop would be better where working people and hotel visitors could walk to the ballpark.

I grew up in the 50s and 60s and we outdrew the Cubs just about every year until the late 60s, the riots of 1968 really hurt the franchise but we bounced back in the Dick Allen days and until 1984 things were about even, the Sox were the first team to draw 2 million in 1983 but when the Cubs won in 1984 things really turned around. Harry Caray moving to the Cubs along with the Tribune buying them was huge, they marketed Wrigley Field like it was watching a game in heaven. When WGN became a Super Station, people all over the country saw games at Wrigley on TV and put a visit to Chicago and Wrigley Field on their bucket list. Wrigley in the daytime looked so good on TV, almost like the Garden of Eden. The Sox could come close with a new stadium near Downtown or somewhere in the western suburbs in the middle of the metro area, I think just west of Hillside or close to Oak Brook would be ideal, not hard to get to from any of the northern or southern burbs by expressway and an extension of the Eisenhower CTA line would help getting people from the city to the park. It was a huge mistake to build new Comiskey at 35th and Shields but when the Addison deal was voted down the Sox had no choice, there are just too many people in the area that won't take in a game on the Southside of Chicago. It's sort of sad and though we came close in 1991 and again in 2006, the Sox are only 1 of a few teams in MLB that have never drawn 3 million to Sox Park

He was limping around late last season.

I'm sure I could look it up but won't, I don't know. I'm going to take a real way out stab, Andy Messerschmitt?

True but still.... I remember when Ted Williams being the first 100,000 ballplayer, my dad was making about 10 grand a year so for comparison sake it would take him 10 years to amass 100K.

Can you imagine a guy with a real good job who makes 100,000 a year would have to work 5000 years to amass 500 million dollars.

Soto will eventually wind up on the Yankees or Dodgers, who else will give him 500 million, that's a half billion dollars, gadzooks.

Not the dreaded loss column, the important loss column.

I was the one that mentioned moving Robert to right field, I still think it's a good idea, Engel in CF would make us much better defensively and he's improved a lot as a hitter than when he first came up from the Minors.

Just one bizarre thing after another with the Sox this year, it would make a good episode on The Twilight Zone.

You can put that on the board.

The Sox will probably win 2 out of the next 3, get to .500 with a nice road trip but lose all their mojo because of the break.

It's a little too early to plan a playoff rotation but Cueto has been one hell of signing, I don't think he's had a bad outing with us. As of right now they have to consider bringing him back unless they have other free agent pitchers they want to sign, again a little too early.

Hoping for 3 wins, 2 will be OK but won't be surprised if only 1.

Good analysis, I for one has never been on Hahn's case because I know that he works for JR but I won't get started on that because I've despised JR for most of the 41 years he has been the chairman.

It's just been such a frustrating season and I might have let my emotions get the best of me but for some reason our guys are not performing to the best of their abilities, just about everyone agrees that there have a quite a few instances of lack of hustle and not too smart baseball like our guys running into that triple play last week. Last night some here were on Anderson for some bonehead play, I didn't watch the game so I wasn't sure what transpired. As they say, things can only get better.

60 day IL or just shut him down and hope he comes back healthy next year but you can't fix stupid and laziness.

Just shut him down for the year.

If the Sox decide to go for it and are buyers, they have to find a legitimate rightfielder who can hit, it has to be the highest priority. Forget about Eloy in leftfield, he's useless besides being stupid and lazy. Stick with Pollock in left and let the chips fall with him. Vaughn can DH with trading places with Abreu when Jose needs a rest in the field. If there's a real tough righthanded facing us, Sheets can DH and also give Jose some rest at first base but please no AV, Sheets or Eloy in the outfield.

So what else is new.

Not true, I like him but not in right field period.

There is one guy in charge of hiring and firing and at 86 years old is probably as mentally challenged as the guy he hired to manage this mess.

That too.