The Mighty Mite

Why am I torturing myself watching this crap.

Bad start.

The Cardinals were almost an afterthought in their last years in Chicago, never sold out unless they were playing the Bears plus Papa Bear Halas did everything he could to make life miserable for the Cardinals as he was the unofficial Commissioner of the NFL for many years. The Sox aren’t an afterthought in Chicago but are nowhere close to Chicago becoming a Sox town, the last place Cubs drew 40,000 yesterday and 38,000 today, the Sox tonight will probably draw around 20,000. BTW Cubs Strohman pitched a great complete game today, shut out the Rays on 1 hit.

I’m going on 78 and running out of time, so far in 71 years of fandom I’ve seen them in 2 World Series and to be honest and sad about it the odds are I won’t see another one.

A long time for me is back in the 50s and 60s with Paul Richards, Al Lopez and Eddie Stanky who were all great managers especially Lopez who is the best Sox manager of all time. Chuck Tanner in the early 70s was pretty good also.

Good for him, on a pace for 3 for the year.

Because the last hiiting coach wanted them to hit singles and not swing for the fences. Could be one of the reasons that Abreu only hit 15 homers last year and has none for the Astros this year.

Hawk hired Jim Fregosi who was experienced and was a good baseball man but had bad players. Jeff Torberg was also a good hire. Firing Renteria and bringing in TLR was one of the biggest blunders in White Sox history.

Our hitting coach was a career minor leaguer for 14 years and never made to the Major Leauges.

The Tigers will score in the bottom of the 10th, trust me.

Kelly deserves better.

Best player on the field screws up.

Just terrible, you can’t let that ball get by you.

It’s tougher to hit a homer in left field there than it was at an old Comiskey with the original dimensions pre 1982.

Burger was robbed.

Any talk of Moncada at second and Burger at third has to stop, I’ve never been a Yoan fan but he’s an excellent third sacker. I would rotate Burger, Sheets and Vaughn at first base and DH while living with Eloy in RF.

Hey Jason, Nellie Fox went over 700 games without a day off and then there was Ripken and Gehrig.

So how’s the all righty lineup against a lefty pitcher working out.

What’s there to like, the whole franchise is unlikeable from the jerk owner to the incompetent general manager to a bunch of stiffs on the field and everybody else in between.

Some ace of the staff.

Between Gio on Thursday and Cease today I’ve seen enough walks to last the season.

This ump has missed a lot of calls on both sides.

Exactly these rest days are driving me nuts. Does the manager realize this team is 10 games under .500 and to get back to .500 and contend for the division you have to put the A-team out there unless they are injured or just worn out. Right now I don’t think anyone on the team is worn out, win now and worry about rest later in the season.

A sobering thought, since after the 2021 All Star game the Sox are basically a .500 club except they threw that 10 game losing streak into the equation. So for this team getting back to .500 and beyond just might be something that you don’t want to call your bookie about unless he gives you overwhelming odds and you have some mad money to blow. Am I giving up? Not yet, I’ve been following baseball for 7 decades and I’ve seen a lot of crazy things so anything can happen especially with 4 months to go.

Game over, win tomorrow.