The Mighty Mite

I’ll never forget my boyhood heroes especially Nellie and Billy. Tribune has one of the pictures wrong, that’s Early Wynn not Big Klu, Early who won the Cy Young award in 1959 but him holding a bat in the picture is not all that funny as he was a very good hitter. 3 sad things, Minnie Minoso was not with the Sox in 1959, he was traded after the 1957 to Cleveland for Early Wynn and Al Smith, we got him back in 1960 and in first game back on opening day he hit 2 homers including a walk off. Billy Pierce did not start a game in the World Series which pissed off all his teammates and every Sox fan in the country, bad blood between manager Al Lopez might have been one of the reasons but no one knows for sure. We lost the Series in 6 games and IMHO game 2 which I attended might have been the turning point. After winning game one, 11-0 we were trailing 3-1 in the 8th, we had a nice rally going, with no outs and Landis on 2nd and Lollar on first, Smith doubled to left center with Landis scoring easily but Lollar was out by a mile at home plate, why 3rd base coach Tony Cuccinello sent the slowest runner in the league trying to score the tying run remains a huge mystery. The rally came to a screeching halt and it carried over to the games in the LA Coliseum, we lost the next 2 but managed to squeak out a 1-0 victory in game 5. The Series returned to Comiskey for game 6 but Lopez gave Wynn the start on 2 days rest, he was gassed at the Dodgers were World Champs, Lopez messed up and should have started Pierce saving Wynn for game 7.

The only thing I’m sorry about is that Jerry Reinsdorf still owns the White Sox and has done a great job of just about destroying the franchise, right now IMHO the franchise is on life support.

It just keeps getting uglier and uglier, who is going to be able to fix this mess.

Wrigley Field sits in the middle of a huge populated area, I remember reading an article many years ago about how many people are a short walking distance from Wrigley, I can’t remember the number but it was quite substantial. When I was in kindergarten and first grade in the early 50s we lived on Dakin and Sheridan and remember walking to Wrigley with my parents to see of all things, a Rodeo with the Star attraction being the Cisco Kid and Pancho. I went to LeMoyne elementary school on Addison and Fremont, 2 blocks from the ballpark.

Benintendi has come around also, he’s healthy and we’re seeing what we thought what kind of a player he was but defensively he’s another Ralph Garr, worst arm I’ve ever seen for an outfielder.

A Series win, get the confetti out, parade on State Street tomorrow.

Most of the guys are playing themselves off the team, the only position guy that will be here next year is probably Benintendi because of his contract, maybe Lee but he has really regressed as the year progressed. Fletcher might be around as 4th outfielder. Robert will probably be traded as well as Vaughn, the rest are DFA candidates.

No chance at all.

Sheets didn’t help with a bad throw on a tailor made DP ball.

Hey Creep, just sell the team, 43 years is enough.

The pathetic numbers are just plain mind boggling with this team.

This is one crazy inning.

Guards look like the Sox this inning.

Andrew Vaughn is an idiot, all he had to do was tag the runner. I wish MLB could somehow fine JR for putting a MLB team this bad on the field, just an utter disgrace. I know it won’t happen but it should.

I doubt if JR has friends.

Jerry Reinsdorf, a name that will live in infamy.

This clown said the roster he put together at the beginning of the year was going to be competitive, competitive teams don’t lose 100+ games.

Agree, I’m not sure if Schumacher is the guy, like you said, they need to conduct a thorough search and wind up with the best guy available, if Schumacher is the guy then go with him.

The Sox would have to give him a 5 year contract.

Those are my thoughts also. Maybe they decide to keep Robert, they can then move him to RF, prolong his career by cutting down on all the running in CF.

Nice job by Flexen today.

Damn I keep looking at the standings and say to myself how can an MLB team be this bad then I come to me senses, this is a minor league team put together by a idiot for a GM who was hired by the worst owner in Professional Sports.

Me too, I think they gave up on him way too soon yet we give guys like Sosa forever to figure it out and they never do.