Everything posted by The Mighty Mite
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Venable named new Sox Manager-per Merkin
Just can’t get exited about anything about the White Sox as long as JR owns the team, remember Getz has said that the payroll will be lower in 2025. Hopefully things will change if and when JR sells.
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Sox looking at building in South Loop
It took awhile but the record for me was the night in 1997 when the Marlins won the World Series, it took forever to get out of the Joe Robbie Stadium parking lot and then we had a 95 mile ride back to Naples on Alligator Alley.
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Managerial “Search”
Ricky never should have been fired, this team went south because of the hiring of TLR, the worst move in a long list of bad moves by JR, along with players who never really lived up to expectations like Eloy, Moncada and even Robert, then there was Tim Anderson who completely lost his game, they also rushed Vaughn while never filling gaping holes at second base and right field.
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Sox looking at building in South Loop
Been there but stayed to the end and it was an 11 inning game back in 2009 when extra inning games were really extra inning games.
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Sox looking at building in South Loop
Agree but the Sox have always had a bit of a problem drawing at 35th and Shields, the casual fan for whatever reasons will not venture there not to mention out of towners. Since I became a fan in the early 50s I’m pretty sure the only year they have led the American League in attendance was 1960.
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Sox looking at building in South Loop
Went to a couple hundred games from 1955-1990 and I probably sat up there more than other part of the park along with the right-outfield upper deck. Let’s face it, if fans want great skyline views, they need a new park at 78.
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Sox looking at building in South Loop
You would have a nice view of the trees in Armour Park. If you sat in the upper deck on the first base side you did have a view of the skyline, not great but a view.
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Jerry Reinsdorf open to selling the White Sox per Britt Ghiroli
Agree.
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Jerry Reinsdorf open to selling the White Sox per Britt Ghiroli
Exactly.
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Jerry Reinsdorf open to selling the White Sox per Britt Ghiroli
Same here, I don’t want groups led by so and so, I want a guy or gal who has tons of money and isn’t afraid to spend it while keeping them in Chicago.
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Sox looking at building in South Loop
If I was going to build a stadium in the burbs I think the best place would be around where the Eisenhower and 294 meet, it’s almost smack dab in the middle of the metro area and the CTA line that runs up and down the Ike could be extended. My second choice would be at “78”.
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Good or Bad
Our franchise is a disaster, JR refuses to hire good scouts and the best people around to develop our players at both the Major and Minor league levels but to tell you the truth I thought Kopech was a lost cause but because he went to an organization that does everything right in order to win they were able to turn MK around to the pitcher we thought he was always going to be. f*** JR and his cheap and antiquated ways that have just about destroyed the White Sox franchise while becoming the laughing stock of MLB.
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Hurricane Milton.
Well with 31 years in Florida we survived another hurricane, actually 2 of them 2 weeks apart with Helene and Milton. With Helene and living in Port Charlotte and even though Helene was about 100 miles out in the Gulf we still had about 60 MPH winds but what was scary was receiving Tornado warnings every 15 minutes for about 5 hours as we were on the side of the feeder bands which produce Tornadoes, fortunately none came close to us. Helene then made it north as far as Ashville NC and everyone knows what happened there, that was as sad as I’ve ever seen in the aftermath of a natural disaster. Milton hit us Wednesday night and we had gusts up to 100 MPH, we lost power and cell service was very spotty. Power was back on at 5PM yesterday which surprised me as I was expecting 3 days until we would have power again. No tornadoes as they were again in the feeder bands mostly on the Atlantic side, last I heard there were at least 40 of them with tons and tons of damage. Other areas here in Charlotte County did not fare as well as us especially if you were near the water, areas along the coast and Charlotte Harbor had severe storm surge with many losing their homes. Downtown Punta Gorda flooded during both storms. Last night I was watching a report and there was a couple living in Charlotte Park in Punta Gorda who were nearing their 90s and they lost their home to water damage, they were such a nice sweet couple and they had no family and no where to go so they were going to sleep on wet mattresses in their garage until they could figure out where to go. I’m sure everyone like me were crying like babies including the reporter who was in tears watching and hearing this sad story. We have a widow lady in our church who lost her home in Englewood during Helene and 2 couples who had mandatory evacuations for Milton, haven’t heard if they still have a home. As Milton headed north and made landfall in Siesta Key which wasn’t good for those people but if it had gone further north like original predictions and hit Tampa Bay the storm surge in the Bay itself would have been catastrophic for the city of Tampa. Still can’t believe that the Trop lost it’s dome after 40 years and countless hurricanes. Like I said we’ve been in Florida 31 years, we still love living here but if anyone has plans of moving to southwest Florida I would advise to look to homes east of interstate 75 away from the Gulf and Bays and make sure you are not in a flood zone, we have had 4 homes in our years here and never lived west of 75.
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Andrew Vaughn
Maybe 45.
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Andrew Vaughn
He actually played 3 games at second base in 2022 and never made an error, still think it was a mistake to trade him, his 29 homers might have won a few more games this past year.
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Andrew Vaughn
One of the problems of the last rebuild was the lack of a true right fielder and a second baseman, instead we had AV and Sheets playing right field, surprised they didn’t try AV at second.
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Terry Francona reportedly hired by Reds
My guess is we wind up with Schumaker or they bring back Sizemore, I’m OK with either guy.
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Schriffen speaks...
Schriffen was between a rock and a hard place, first year on the Job and doing play by play for one of the worst teams of all time, you can’t put lipstick on a pig which he tried to do on many occasions.
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19 Bally RSN's going bankrupt, 14 MLB teams potentially affected
I was one of the 20,000, hated the idea but I loved my White Sox.
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Andrew Vaughn
If he went to a contender surrounded by better players he’d probably be an .800 OPS guy.
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Benetti speaks...
I wonder if Tiger fans have gotten use to Tiger Math yet, my prayers are with them.
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Dear Sox fans
Action please, not words.
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last game thread - Sox @ Tigers, 9/29
If you had to live in Detroit you’d be booing too.
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last game thread - Sox @ Tigers, 9/29
No, 2 are worse, the 1916 A’s and the 1962 Mets, we beat out the Mets by percentage points even though we had I more loss.
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Getz asks for "patience"...
He thought he was doing the right thing but he was dead wrong in just about every move, he’s the wrong guy for the job.