The Mighty Mite

Cut him or use him as a mop up guy but then you take up a spot on the roster. The answer is to cut him.

I'm 76 and go back to the early 50's and the GO GO SOX and 17 years of winning baseball, what I'm watching right now is extremely painful with lots of heartache. I've seen some bad White Sox baseball down through the years especially with the 68,69 and 70 teams who were as bad as can be but didn't have anywhere near the talent of the 2022 team. I thought that with 2 playoff appearances in a row we were on our way to some great baseball on the Southside with a good chance of a World Series Championship in the near future. We were all taken in by a great first half last year but since then it's been like someone turned off a switch and the Sox turned into a bad team that forgot how to play the game. Our hitters have no clue, can't work a count if their life depended on it, last night a perfect example with 3 hits and 1 lousy walk. The defense hasn't been good either and usually is caused by a lack of concentration and sometimes laziness. Living in Florida I watch a lot of Rays games and the difference is like night and day between the 2 clubs starting with the manager and the attitude of the players and their approch to the game. It's still early and there's still a chance to turn this around, maybe once everyone is healthy and with a little attitude adjustment the team can get back to winning baseball. We are in the worst division in MLB and if they don't dig themselves too big of a hole they can come back and get back to the playoffs.

$181,660,000.00

Picking him up was a typical JR move, trying to win on the cheap.

He'll probably be patrolling left field for the Sox next year, we have coaches that can fix guys.

Because they are in a division of AAA teams. The trouble is the last 8 games the Sox look like an AA team.

That makes too much sense.

Hard not to do when you have a team with a bunch of DH's on it.

I don't want him at first base anymore but once the weather warms up I expect Jose to start hitting again.

I remember 1968 well, my first losing season as Sox fan and I followed them from the other side of the World while in Vietnam. They did lose their first 10 games and Eddie Stanky was fired around mid-season.

My guess is I'm a lot older than you as I became a Sox fan in 1952 and was spoiled with all those winning seasons of the GO-GO SOX through 1967. 2005 is still the best Sox season ever but the 1959 AL Pennant winners are still my favorite Sox team, something about boyhood heroes.

The Go Go era gave us 17 straight winning seasons and until 1960 was under the ownership of Grace and her son Chuck Comiskey. Grace died around 1957 and Chuck and sister Dorothy had a family feud with Veeck picking up the pieces in 59. We just happened to play runner up all the time to those great Yankee teams with Mantle, Berra, Ford, Skowron and Maris. At least we made to the WS in 59. Veeck was a huckster who never had enough money plus he traded away a bunch of promising youngsters after 1959, Callison Romano, Battey and Mincher were gone and in came veterans like Sievers, Freese and Minnie Minoso who gave us hope but that's all. The owner who had very good success was Arthur Allyn, the 3 best consecutive years in Sox history were in 63, 64, and 65 when the Sox rang up 94, 98 and 95 wins. We also almost won the pennant in 1967. Arthur sold to brother John and he ran out of money and we almost lost the Sox to Seattle in 1975 but Veeck came in at the last minute to keep the team in Chicago. Veeck and his syndicate barely had a pot to piss in and when free agency came around they couldn't compete with the big spenders. At least we had 1977 which as much fun as ever on the Southside. 1981 came around and brought us JR.

You hit the nail right on the head with JR, some give him a pass for 2005 and if the Sox hadn't won the World Series, JR would go down as the worst owner in the teams history. The man has alienated Sox fans on so many different occasions it's amazing that so many of us stuck have with the team.

No doubt that injuries have hurt but I have bigger issues with TLR. The man should have never been hired, I was against the signing from the get go. I'm not sure at his age if he man can relate to our guys, I'd love to see a younger guy at the helm. I'm also wondering if at 86 years old J.R might be losing it and running a baseball franchise is too much for him. What his thought process was in the hiring TLR would be interesing. The team since the mid point of 2021 is basically a .500 team and was a flop in the Playoffs as we watched TLR make a lot of bungling moves which had all of us scratching our heads. Living in Florida I watch a lot of Rays and Marlins games along with the Sox and to me when I watch the Sox there is something missing, I see a lot of bad fundamentals, I see dumb baseball and I see a team with no sense of urgency, I'm not sure these guys are as good as everyone and themselves think. A team just doesn't start playing winning baseball at the flip of a switch, you have to work at it and sometimes I wonder if the work ethic is there with them.

The Sox won thier last 10 games but could only pick up 3 games on the Yankees and finished 1 game out. I remember a glorious 4 game sweep over the Yankees in August, a Monday through Thursday series and old Comiskey was rocking.

Horlen was one of the best Sox pitchers ever but was number 1 in hard luck losses. I thought when he pitched the no hitter in September of 67 the Sox were on their way to the A. L. Pennant.

Outstanding pitching in 1967, led the league in ERA. If the Sox just had some hitting they would have won the pennant and still might have but in the last week the Sox lost 5 straight to the 2 worst teams in the league, the A's and Senators.

Had to be in 68 or 69, only 2 years they played together on the Sox. His best years were in 63 and 64, right after the Aparicio trade with the Orioles that brought him to the Sox, then the accident in 1965 that I mentioned in an earlier post hampered the rest of his career.

One of my favorites. A shame his career was never the same after sustaining back and neck injuries in an accident after a Blackhawk-Canadiens playoff game in April of 1965.

We pass by you when we go to the beach on Boca Grande.

I've been a White Sox fan since 1952 and forgotten more about the Sox than you will ever know and at 76 years old I have remarkable memory.

Exactly, maybe they're thinking Burger can handle 2B with Harrison on board as an insurance policy.

Robert is only going to get better. Question, taking hitting out of the equation, who is the better centerfielder, Engle or Robert?