The Mighty Mite

Exactly, he was part of the problem.

I agree that he should have been traded last season but I’m glad he’s gone.

So far nothing the franchise has done since the hiring of Getz has improved the situation one iota. Addition by subtraction would have worked by sending Grifol out the door and of course hiring Getz was probably a big mistake.

I’m one of those who think that Al Lopez was the best Sox manager in the club’s history, he made one mistake in his time with the Sox and that was not giving Billy Pierce a start in the 1959 World Series.

I did check it out, I thought they said over 200 million dollars. GRF original cost IIRC was 137 million.

The Sox would also need to tear down the top level of suites also then they could design a new upper deck that wouldn’t be as steep as the present one, don’t know what the cost would be, maybe a new stadium would be more feasible.

Would love to see all that happen.

But the poor fellow would have all that tax to pay.

Remember it well but it was a different day and age with no long term guaranteed contracts plus we had a sharp GM in Roland Hemond and a very good manager in Chuck Tanner, look at what we have now with a no experience GM and a complete asshat as manager. It will be extremely hard to duplicate what the Sox did in 2 years in the early 70s. Another thing to remember is that it went downhill pretty fast and by 1975 the Sox were horrible again as John Allyn was almost broke and the franchise came close to moving to Seattle but Veeck came in at the last minute and bought the team and kept them in Chicago. Johnny Morris with his Save our Sox campaign (SOS) and Mayor Richard J. Daley did their part and did great jobs that helped to keep the team in Chicago

The difference in ballparks has to be the reason they rated 1977 first, I didn’t know they used that in the calculation but based on just plain numbers I’ll still go with the 2000 team as the best hitting Sox team I have ever seen.

I don’t know how they came to those conclusions but just comparing the 1977 and 2000 team the 2000 team led 978 runs to 844 runs, had 216 home runs to 192 and team batting average was .286 to .278. Despite those stats I will agree that the first 4 months of 1977 was the most fun I’ve ever witnessed by a Sox team, old Comiskey was really rocking that summer but unfortunately that team had only fair pitching and the defense wasn’t great either. I wonder how the 2006 isn’t on that list either.

Probably the best hitting Sox team in my lifetime.

This day in White Sox fan history, yours truly married Mrs. Mighty Mite 54 years ago in 1969.

I’m sort of ancient and old school and still look at BA, Homers and Ribbies, lead the league in all 3 and you win the Triple Crown, I had to look up wRC+ and I’m still not sure what it means.

I’d stay with Vaughn and hope he gets better, he’s wasn’t horrible with 21 homers and 80 RBI, I was disappointed that he never figured out to lay off the low and away pitch, Robert early in the year was constantly striking out on the same pitch but he figured things out. As for Eloy, it’s time to say goodbye.

The whole organization is a mess, what does it say about things when Robert didn’t even know who the bench coach was, how does something like that happen.

My guess by the lousy job he did year is they wouldn’t want him back.

The more this jerk opens his mouth the more it confirms what an utter buffoon he is. If Getz only does one thing, it has to be getting rid of this cretin. I’ve never despised a White Sox manager as much as this guy.

One thing is that JR isn’t getting any younger and probably doesn’t want a full rebuild so maybe he will surprise us and sign the best free agents he can except of course for Ohtani, he won’t open up the checkbook that much.

Agree but how can this team get better, they only have a couple of players any other team would want, we might have to trade Robert where some team would overpay with good ballplayers to get him. The other solution is the signing of premier free agents but from what I’ve read there are slim pickings in the free agent market this year.

Not sure but one funny thing I remember is when Leo Durocher was hired by the Cubs in 1965 after the Cubs finished in 8th place that year, at his press conference when hired Leo stated that the Cubs were not at 8th place ball club, he was right on the money as the Cubs in 1966 finished in 10th and dead last in the NL with a record of 59-103.

It’s a start but keeping Grifol is a huge mistake.

Definitely something wrong and it makes you wonder if the hitting coach picked up on it.

I attended game 2 of the 1959 World Series with my favorite uncle who managed to get the tickets and my mother, to this day I can't figure out what possessed Cucinello to wave Lollar home especially as there were no outs, that was a huge game and I've always felt if the Sox had won that game they would have gone and won the Series.

I'm OK with Elvis but as only a backup, he finished pretty strong with a nice second half and one of the few players who busted his butt and showed like he cared.