The Mighty Mite

Roland Hemond and Chuck Tanner did a great job bringing the Sox back to respectability in 1971 and almost winning the division in 1972. I don’t think Getz can repeat what happened in the early 70s as we are in a different era contract wise, much harder to move players who have high paying long term contracts. JR is the guy who needs to step it up and start spending money on better free agents plus building up the farm system which is in shambles.

Just a horrible pitching staff and an embarrassment, I'm sure some other MLB teams have AAA teams with better pitching staffs than the Sox at the Major league level have right now. It will take a miracle if the Sox are contenders next year as JR and Getz think the Sox can be, the Sox roster is in the worst shape I've ever seen with just a few Major League players on the roster, even worse than the 1970 team.

Not really, the Guardians and Tigers are 10 games under .500 so 81 wins would probably win the pathetic Central division by 5 games.

All I remember was him and his wife sitting in the bleachers at Wrigley Field after he sold the Sox. This article states what I posted earlier. https://interactive.wttw.com/playlist/2021/03/30/bill-veeck#:~:text=His chosen successor was rejected,never went to Comiskey again.

There was only one player on the 1959 team and World Series roster that Veeck brought in and that was Ted Kluzewski and though he had a great World Series he didn’t help much in the stretch run, again Veeck inherited that team much the way Reinsdorf inherited Michael Jordan and the Bulls. One thing I give Barnum Bill credit for is that he never set foot in Comiskey Park again after he realized what scum they were when he sold the team to in JR and EE.

There is no way that credit is to be given to Bill Veeck for the 1959 AL Champion White Sox, that team was built by Frank Lane and Chuck Comiskey, Veeck inherited that team when Dorothy sold her share of the Sox to Veeck in February of 1959, right before Spring Training.

I won’t watch the documentary because I don't need to revisit Disco Demolition night along with never being a fan of Bill Veeck going back to 1959 when he bought controlling interest of the Sox from Dorothy Comiskey Rigney. It was a shame that Chuck Comiskey and his sister couldn’t come to some kind of agreement that would have kept the Sox under Comiskey family ownership. Eventually when free agency came around Chuck probably would have had to sell the club but being that he was a native Chicagoan and loved the Sox I’m sure he would have found owners that also loved Chicago and the White Sox. You have to wonder what would have happened to the franchise if all those things happened and Bill Veeck, the Allyn brothers, Veeck again and eventually JR had never come upon the scene.

8-4 against the hated Red Sox and Yankees, pretty good except we were 3-16 against the rest of the East

I hate anything Boston so a series win would be great not to mention winning the season series.

Of those 3 locations the United Center area would be the best and Soldier Field shouldn’t even be in the mix.

We went to a game there back in 1978 and I’ve never understood the fascination with that stupid ballpark, some horrible sight lines, cramped seating and nothing beautiful about it, it’s old so I guess that makes it special, Wrigley Field is a much better ballpark.

Nice victory today, I’m one who doesn’t want to see 100 losses. We’ve had enough embarrassment this year and losing 100 games is embarrassing as it gets.

Radar right now showing rain all over the northeast, I don’t see a game being played in Boston today.

Only Benintendi and Grandal have more walks than AV, this is a team refuses to take walks while constantly swinging at balls outside the zone, it’s last in the league in BBs and last in OBP.

The way this season has gone it seems like it would be more like 12 games.

The Brewers just scored 12 runs in the second inning against the Marlins, how many games does it take our Sox to score 12 runs.

Kopech had a cyst removed from his knee and is now on the IL, hopefully we will never see him again in a Sox uniform.

9-22-59, A very special day in my youth, I almost hit the ceiling in our living room as my parents and I were watching the game on WGN when Little Looie fielded a Vic Power grounder stepped on second and threw to Big Klu for the double play and my boyhood heroes had won the 1959 American League Pennant. A few minutes later the air raid sirens went off all across the city, this 13 year old knew exactly why they were going off but thousands and thousands of Chicagoans were scared out of their minds thinking that we were going to get nuked by the Russians. I even knew that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was visiting the USA at the time and there was no way the USSR was going to nuke the country, IIRC Khrushchev had visited Disneyland in California that afternoon. 10 days later my favorite uncle was able to get tickets to game 2 of the World Series and took my mother and me to the game in which the Sox lost a 4-3 heartbreaker to the Dodgers

I’d go with your first 3 but send Eloy packing, he’s not even a good DH and can’t play the outfield, Kopech Is a head case and should be traded, let some other team put up with his issues. I also think Benintendi will bounce back next year with a a healthy wrist, I’ve had golf related wrist injuries and they take quite a time to heal. Back to DH, I like how the Rays rotate just about the whole lineup with athletic type players at DH, of course they all can hit. That is the model the Sox should be looking at and I like what Getz said a couple weeks ago about the Sox needing to be more athletic which also means faster.

There are a lot more things worse than that with this bunch but Benintendi has been a big disappointment.

I wish they’d shut him down so we don’t have to see his lame act in a Sox uniform any longer.

Harry had the Sunshine Boys figured out after only 1 year. It took me until 1983.

Harry and Jimmy would have raked TA over the coals and it would have been well deserved, no one has called out anybody on this team and someone should have. I know we here at Soxtalk have spent countless hours analyzing the horrific play of the 2023 White Sox but damn it’s unbelievable that this team can be this bad, day after day we are seeing stuff that I didn’t think we would ever see from a Major League team.

Ugly game so far with Anderson and Moncada making errors. Nats up 4-1. Please trade TA in the off-season. Will this season ever end.

Let’s hope he has an epiphany.