The Mighty Mite

Jerry Reinsdorf should also be re-assigned.

I really don't know what to expect, they've let us down time after time so far this season but have yet to have a real hot streak so maybe just maybe this is the start of a nice stretch of winning baseball.

Going into today's game the Sox led the AL in hits and 2nd in BA.

Watched the whole thing, Rassmussen was great for 8 innings.

Oops, even tougher.

If they win today it will be 11-8 for the 19 games and exactly what I predicted. This coming week could really make or break our chances of making the post-season, 3 against the Astros and 3 against the Guards. My heart tells me we need and it would be great to go 4-2 but my brain tells me 3-3 would be great but not help in winning the division or a WC spot. They're running out of time, will they step it up and exceed expectations?

So far we are 9-8 on the 19 game easy part of the schedule, they need to win tonight and tomorrow to reach my prediction of 11-8. We could also lose the next 2 and wind up 9-10 which would really be depressing and lead me to believe that it's time to forget about the post season.

TLR is such an asshat for pulling Kopech.

Any idea what the attendance was, not shown in any box scores.

Send it fly'in to the Ryan?

Is that possible?

Frank Lane, Charles Comiskey the grandson, Hank Greenberg and Ed Short were the GMs during the 17 straight years of Go Go Sox winning baseball on the Southside, that's all I knew growing up in the 50's and 60's until it all came crumbling down with 3 horrible years in 68,69 and 70.

We've been harping about the offense for 4 months now, these guys aren't all of a sudden aren't going to turn into Babe Ruth's and Willie Mays and start hitting 5 home runs a game. We do have 4 guys who are around .300 or better which is one good thing. TA is in a slump and Mighty Moncada is back to the Mendoza line.

Sounds like we're fucked.

Exactly, once you make the playoffs anything can happen especially with a short series.

This.

The only way to get rid of Moncada is to package him with TA in a trade, the sooner the better.

I'm surprised the 1977 team didn't make the list which would have been during Hemond's term and surprised the 1966 team made the list as they were only 83-79.

You can put in on the board YES!!!

He's batting .313 but it's a weak .313 with 5 Homer's and only 25 RBI, I know he's the leadoff guy but still it's pretty putrid. Then there's his fielding and base running, again pretty weak. Someone needs to have a chat with him with the season on the line.

IRCC he hit one over some shortstops outstretched arm and it wound up in the first row of the leftfield stands at Comiskey, talk about a frozen rope.....

I'm right on also but it should have been 6-2 instead of 5-3 but we blew that last game in Colorado.

Good, I hope he retires.

Good work on that list. My favorite was Frank Lane who built the GO GO Sox. He was quite a character who once thought of trading the whole team when he took over the Cardinals and he traded managers when he was with the Indians. He also traded Indian favorite Rocky Colovito to Detroit for Harvey Kueen which almost led to riots in Cleveland I also liked Ed Short who made the Luis Aparcio trade that brought us Hoyt Wilhelm, Pete Ward, Ron Hansen and Dave Nicholson after the 62 season, The Sox had their 3 best consecutive seasons in their history in 63, 64 and 65 winning 94, 98 and 95 games in those 3 seasons, and came close to winning the pennant in 67 with a great pitching but a horrible hitting team. I think we all know what happened in the last week of the 67 season.

I've been following them since 1952 and have managed to keep my sanity. This season has tested everyone's sanity and I say they have to do all they can to win the division because you never know what can happen in a short series, that being said we aren't close to to being real World Series contenders like the Yankees, Dodgers and Astros. Let's hope they win the Division but in the off season the Front Office is going to have to do a re-tool. I think Abreu has 1 more year in the tank but he should be used as DH a lot more next year, this way Vaughn can play his natural posistion at first base. Moncada is becoming a lost cause, he's just about back to the Mendoza line again but he's got that contract, somehow the F.O.has to find another team to take him off our hands. Rightfield, second base and catcher are positions that need to be addressed, give Burger a shot at 3rd. Harrison has done a pretty good job after a terrible few months of the season, I think he would make a very good utility guy and can be a late inning defensive replacement for Burger. It looks like Grandal has lost his power and is not a good catcher, he's another guy that somehow has to be moved and a decent catcher picked up. Lastly somehow JR has to come to his senses and send TLR packing. What would be even better is if JR sold the club.