The Mighty Mite

We’ve been in Florida 30 years and yes when I do return to visit relatives I’ve noticed that the Cubs get most of the air time. It’s not new and I remember it was that way in the starting in 1982 when the Tribune bought the Cubs and Harry Caray became the Cubs TV play by play guy however the Sox did become the first Chicago baseball team to draw 2 million in 1983. The Sox became a little bit more relevant in the early 90s with the new stadium and good teams but except for 1991 the Cubs have out drawn the Sox 99% of the time even in 2005 and 2006. Trouble with the Sox down through the years was never being able to sustain long periods of great teams unless you go back to the 17 straight winning seasons in the GO GO era and even then because of the Yankees they only made it to the World Series one time in 1959.

The summer sports segment on the news on the local Chicago stations would be 99% about Ohtani and the Cubs with the remaining 1% the score of the Sox game, maybe.

Yeah, but the odds are in our favor, we’re due for an owner who has deep pockets and cares about the fans.

Hicks never got much of a chance with the Sox, played a few games in 59 and 60 then was picked by the Angels in the 1960 Expansion Draft who a short time later traded him to the new Washington Senators, the other new expansion team for the 1961season.

I was never a big fan of Veeck going back to his first stint as Sox owner but he had more class in his baby finger than Reinsdorf and Einhorn would ever hope to have.

They’re putting the fan base in fits of depression where it gets so bad that the base won’t give 2 ***** if the Sox move to Nashville or wherever, in fact we will probably welcome it and there is always the possibility that the Sox leave town before the lease on Sox Park expires, leases can be broken. So far this off season has been a complete bust with not one iota to get even half way excited about. IMHO this is being done with an objective in mind.

They have a new deal, the new stadium is going to be very close to where the Trop is which I think is a terrible decision but it’s all the Rays could get. The new park will be part of a fairly large entertainment area like the Braves have near Atlanta, maybe it will work but a huge segment of the metro area still lives in Tampa and it’s a real pain for fans to drive down to St. Pete, besides fans who live east of the Bay itself, they have to go way out of the way to get to the Trop.

Right now the White Sox are 1A and the Rays 1B so it would be easy to make the Rays 1A but I want the Sox to remain in the city of my birth forever, it would break my heart if they left Chicago and ceded the city to the Flubs. BTW the Lightning have been 1A in my heart for awhile now with the Blackhawks hardly on my radar anymore.

Billy was IMHO the most likable of them all, a great guy and a class act.

He might be able to fix his mechanics but it’s his head that’s the problem.

Based on his career stats it’s not even a gamble, it’s more like hoping for a miracle, am I missing something.

The Road Runner was Ralph Garr, not Claudell Washington. I never had a problem with Garr, he wasn’t the greatest left fielder but he was usually around .300 and never dogged it.

Part of 1978, all of 1979 and part of 1980. Had the tools but the joke about him was “Washington Slept Here”. The word hustle was alien to him.

Any White Sox Hall of Shame list must include Claudell Washington.

You trade them if the deals are overwhelmingly in our favor where the Sox get pieces that can make the team competitive without going through another rebuild. I’m not sure if that is possible as Cease isn’t exactly Nolan Ryan, Robert should be able to bring in a nice haul. The Rays have figured out how to make trades like this, can Getz figure it out.

I’m torn on Robert, he has the potential to be a 5 tool superstar but he needs to want it, I see him being a little lackadaisical with some work needed in his approach in the batters box. I see a lot of Moncada in him and not in good way.

The White Sox franchise has needed a lot of saving in it’s history, wouldn’t it be nice for once if we had an owner who had tons of money and was willing to spend it.

I definitely had tears in my eyes when I heard that my boyhood hero died, I idolized Little Nell and the first thing I would do when looking at White Sox box scores in the 50s and 60s is how many hits Nellie had in a game, if the Sox lost a game it was bad and if Nellie didn’t get any hits it was really bad, if the Sox won and Nellie had 2 or 3 hits, life was good and I was on cloud 9. I never heard that some thought that Aparicio might have made the difference and the Sox might have won the Division in 1972, yeah we could have used someone better than Alvarado, Richard and Morales at short in 72 but then no Andrews to play second and most believe as I do that losing Melton in June with a back injury was why the Sox came up 5 games short in 72.

I’ve been a big fan of Joey Wendle going back to his early days with the Rays, I always hoped he would be a member of the White Sox but doesn’t look like that will ever happen.

Former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has died at age 100. Quite a resume in his time serving his country with some controversy but IMHO he was a pretty good Secretary of State.

Have a nice cruise.

We are cruising next week also on the Sky Princess, what ship are you on?

I agree on Grifol, how this Bozo kept his job is a huge mystery.

That’s funny being too young, I’m 78 and yes I do remember Bevington and his being a joke of a manager but I still think Grifol is worse.