The Mighty Mite

Sign premier free agents but we know that the wretched owner won’t do that, only hope is new ownership and damn soon.

Anyone with half a brain can see that he has plain out quit, Grifol who has a quarter brain can see it and probably benched him, 2 Ks and 2 at bats and not even going through the motions. Just about everyone on this team needs to look into the mirror and start acting like professionals, they’ve living a dream and making great money, someone needs to chew their asses out and read these stiffs the riot act.

Randy Arozarena in a cool thing is walking in the walkway behind Randyland and shaking hands with his fans and thanking them for their support, how great is that, still can’t believe the Rays traded him.

3 scenes, the first is from The Natural when Roy Hobbs is bleeding from his mid-section while at bat and hits the game winning walk off homer and the Knights win the pennant. The second is manager Dutch Schnell’s clubhouse speech to his NY Mammoths played by the great character actor Vincent Gardenia in Bang The Drum Slowly. Also from that movie is when Piney Woods sings the title song in the clubhouse during a rain delay, every time I watch that scene, tears come to my eyes.

Exactly.

Easier said than done but I do like the potential of the starting staff but they have to keep Crochet and Fedde and sign them to extensions. The starting lineup is anyone’s guess, Quero, Lee, Montgomery, Ramos and Baldwin are going have to fill their potential. I have no idea what to do with Robert, everybody else needs to go, Vaughn has turned out to be a major disappointment.

As a pretty ardent follower of the Rays this shocked the hell out me. Arozorena was very popular with Rays fans. He got off to a bad start this year but he’s been on fire since June 1st. They’re going to have to rename Randyland out in the left field seats at the Trop.

Maybe he’s demented and his family should put him in a home, what else can explain this disaster. Has he shown his face in public at all this year. I have read that hoarders can have Dementia and we know that JR loves hoarding money.

But he won’t.

What, no Senzel.

Just doesn’t seem like he cares and, shows no emotion, doesn’t seem like he enjoys playing the game, has he ever smiled.

I’m tired of his act, hits a homer now and then but otherwise he is just about useless with a shitty attitude, hope someone will overpay for him.

3 so far today going for the Golden Sombrero.

What was the point of bringing Baldwin up, they should have let Sosa finish the season with the big club even though he botched up a few plays at second base. Every move Getz makes blows up in his face except for Crochet and Fedde.

Correct on the original Sportsvision hookup, it was an abomination with the signal not all that great, we were living in Wheaton at the time and maybe being in the far west burbs was an issue. Sportsvision was the first bad move by JR with so many bad moves in his 43 years of ownership of the Sox which has led to Chicago becoming a Cubs town, it’s not even close anymore. JR and EE bring in pay TV to watch the Sox while the Cubs are televising all their games on free WGN with Harry Caray leading the way. WGN was soon to become a Super Station and the Cubs become not only Chicago’s team but also America’s team.

In answer to the question, I never ever want the Sox to lose a game, every loss is like a small paper cut. What I want is new ownership who will run the White Sox like the big market franchise that they are instead of like the Reds, Pirates, and Royals. What Reinsdorf has given us this year is an absolute nightmare with a horrible GM who is in over his head, the worst manager in the history of the franchise and a roster full of bad players who are either castoffs or failed minor leaguers who have no business being in the Majors. The hitting is atrocious with guys with clueless at bats, does this team not look at tapes and see what they are doing wrong and maybe trying something different, what the f*** is the hitting coach doing, probably just stealing money. Right now they would probably be better off replacing everyone except for a few guys with the Birmingham Barons, it couldn’t be any worse.

Same ratio as last year, had 38 homers and only 80 ribbies.

Delong looks like he’s disinterested.

Pham with a bomb after Luis and Benintendi had terrible ABs.

I’ve been a fan since 1952 and have so many memories so I have to start with my boyhood heroes of the 1950s, the GO GO SOX years which led to the Sox winning the 1959 American League Pennant and as a 13 year old I was lucky to attend game 2 of the World Series with my favorite uncle and my mother, we lost a 4-3 heartbreaker after winning game 1, 11-0, the Dodgers went on to beat us in 6 games and what still pisses me off is manager Al Lopez not giving Billy Pierce a start in the Series. Lopez IMHO was the best Sox manager of all time but he screwed up with not giving Pierce a start. The last 64 years have brought some wonderful memories starting with 1962 when at 16 years old I snagged a job as a vendor at Comiskey and Wrigley, the Cubs were horrible in those days and couldn’t draw flies to Wrigley so I made all my money at Sox Park. I stopped working Cub games in early July and was still able to go back to my Caddy job at Edgewater Golf Club in Rogers Park when the Cubs were in town. The Sox continued playing winning baseball in the 60s and we came close to winning the 1967 Pennant with amazing pitching but horrible hitting. Things went south in 68 as I experienced my first losing season as a Sox fan, 16 years of winning exciting baseball, it was a rude awakening for me and things got worse in 69 and 70. Roland Hemond and Chuck Tanner came aboard in 1971 and things started to turn around. In 1972 Dick Allen came to the Sox and the team fought pretty hard but came up short against the A’s, if Bill Melton hadn’t hurt his back in June, I think the Sox probably would have won the Division. The next few years were tough but then the 1977 Southside Hitmen brought us the most fun filled summer that I can remember but we came up short again. If I had to pick the best game I ever went at Comiskey I’d have to pick the first game of a Sunday DH against the Royals on July 31, 1977, It was a 4 game series and the Sox won on Friday and Saturday, on Sunday old Comiskey was packed to the rafters with over 50,000 on hand, the game was tied after 9 at 2-2, the Royals took the lead 4-2 in the top of the 10th but with the fans cheering them on, the Sox as they were never out of a game with the offense like something we have never seen before came back and won the game 5-4 with single by Ralph Garr in the bottom of the 10th. I’ve been to hundreds of games at old Comiskey but never were the fans so delirious with joy as we were that day, the Old Palace was literally shaking from the rafters from the all the cheering, screaming and yelling going on, I thought the old ballpark was going to come tumbling down, never experienced anything like that at a ballgame, it was unbelievable with the cheering going on for over 10 minutes. I attended many Blackhawk games at the great Chicago Stadium and that place was as loud as it got but for that one Sox game in 1977, it was louder. lm pretty sure the Sox now had a 6.5 game lead on the Royals and Twins but unfortunately the Royals came back and won the nightcap and the Sox came back to earth and only played around .500 the last 2 months of the season as the Royals won the Division and we wound up 3rd but that summer was amazing while it lasted. The 80s and 90s gave us a couple of post season trips with the 83 team playing the best 4 months of baseball I’ve ever seen the Sox play, they were just unbeatable from late May to seasons end and they won the division by 20 games only to lose to the Orioles in the playoff series, I will never forget Britt Burns pitching his heart out in game 4 only to lose on a homer by Tito Landrum in the 10th inning, Burns was in tears as he left the mound after being relieved. We finally put it all together in the great season of 2005 with a World Championship with an unbelievable post season as the Sox went 11-1. Another division win in 2008 was exciting with the Blackout Game. Since then the Sox have been pretty bad with this season being an absolute nightmare. I could be here all day with memories but with a lot more heartache so I’ll stop now. EDIT: Sorry about the gaps as I kept hitting the return button on my I Pad. I started my post early this morning but had a 7:15 tee time so I posted some memories but after lunch I added a few more.

I’m not holding my breath on a new stadium but I’m all for it and really hope it happens. If what you say is true and no money will be spent on free agents then we are in for at least a few more 100 loss seasons, the only hope is that things change and the farm system starts to produce true Major League ballplayers.

He has some value and will bring back something but not a haul.

I agree, this isn’t like the last rebuild where we had some players that we traded and at the time brought us what we thought were going to be huge stars, If this team is to improve JR is going have to spend some of that money that he’s piled up in the last 43 years. The only guy that can bring something of value is of course Crochet and maybe Fedde.

This.

These bums have flat out quit, no pride at all, f*** them and shame on them.