The Mighty Mite

It’s almost bizarre how screwed up this organization is right now, almost like they’re screwing it up on purpose.

With all these coaching changes, poor Luis Robert is going to have a hard time figuring out who is who.

Hopefully an all around bad year, the guy did win a Gold Glove in 2021. We better hope it was an off year as he has 4 more years left with us.

IMHO I think Benintendi comes back and has a pretty good year, he was hampered by a bad wrist this past season and speaking from experience wrist injuries take forever to heal. As far as Moncada, somehow someway they have to get rid of him, the guy can’t be counted on and just seems like he doesn’t care, it was more than TA that was a cancer on the team and Moncada is a suspect in my book.

Here’s the thing, JR is 10 years older than me and he said he’s not in on another rebuild but we all know he won’t spend the really big bucks on free agents so just what is his solution to this mess.

If 2024 doesn’t matter then then we will see the worst Sox team in their pathetic history, maybe as bad as the 1962 expansion NY Mets. I don’t think most Sox fans are all in on another rebuild and will probably say enough is enough with this franchise, at 78 years old I’m hanging with them but have lived in Florida for 30 years and it would be no big deal for me to switch my allegiance to the Rays as I watch just about all their games now, if I still lived in Chicago, I don’t know what I would do.

Right now our starting staff has to be the worst I’ve seen since I became a Sox fan in 1952, I don’t see how we can trade Cease at this time unless there are plans to sign some decent free agent pitchers. I also wouldn’t be unhappy if they brought back Giolitio, he wasn’t that bad with the Sox in 2023 with a .500 record and a 3.74 ERA. He stunk the rest of the year after we traded him, depending on what he wants and for how long I think he ‘s worth a shot.

Yep, that was bad especially as we probably would have won the division for 2 years in a row. It’s amazing that there are any White Sox fans left at all as JR has crapped all over us for 42 years.

If ever there was a complete housecleaning job needed, this is it. You could see it on the players faces last season, they hated being a member of the White Sox while probably hating each other and the GM hates them too. I’d love to really know exactly how things deteriorated to this level. I would bet that every player is praying that they get traded and I’m joining in on the prayers, I can’t think of one guy that it would bother me if he was traded.

I agree, I was going to mention that but it was a little earlier than the All Star break but then again I guess it left a bad taste about TLR among the players, it sure didn’t help and then Yermin was sent down to the minors later on.

Exactly unless JR is planning on spending a fortune on free agents which ain’t going to happen.

All Good points and makes sense but I’m going to add that maybe these clowns weren’t wild about the firing of Renteria and being replaced by a guy who was past his prime and was just about brain dead in LaRussa. Not that it matters but I was incensed when JR hired TLR, JR has made tons of bad decisions in his 42 years as owner but the hiring LaRuusa is right up there as maybe the worst.

Something happened with the TLR hiring, I’m not sure what but things were never the same after the All Star break in 2021, after a really good first half they played .500 ball the rest of the way and then lost badly in the playoffs to Houston and played .500 again in 2022 and of course it really crashed and burned this year.

Right, remember when the new ones came out every year and you had to check on your name and number, brings back memories of the move “The Jerk”.

One thing I agree with JR on, I didn’t find Bennetti funny either. I hope this is the end of Sox Math also.

True story, it was 1975 and there were rumors that Harry Caray was going to move on after the season was over so after the last game I actually called the Ambassador East Hotel where Harry spent the season and asked the switchboard operator to connect me to Harry’s room and lo and behold he answered. We talked for 5 minutes and I told him how much Sox fans loved him we all hoped he stayed on. Bill Veeck bought the Sox that winter and he and Harry agreed on him staying with the Sox. Harry was as nice as could be and thanked me and appreciated the call. We all know he stayed on until 1982 when he had enough of JR and EE. BTW I also have a nice picture from 1979 at Comiskey that I took of Harry with my wife and son.

It’s been for 42 years anything but a class organization, neither JR or the late EE have no idea what the word class means.

Great announcers like Harry Caray, Ernie Harrell and Bob Prince could put fannies in the seats, Bennetti didn’t.

I won’t miss him and his silliness.

On a team loaded with unlikables Grifol is about as likable as Root Canal with a case of swollen hemorrhoids thrown in.

As a Floridian I’m shocked by this but then again we’re not talking about a substantial number here, if it was something like a million White Sox plates I’d feel a lot better but still why are the Sox leading.

In August of 1960 Trader Frank also swapped managers sending Joe Gordon to the Tigers with Cleveland getting Jimmy Dykes in return. Who could we get for Grifol? And yes, Indian fans went insane with fury when the Colivito for Kuenn trade was announced while the whole Baseball world was stunned with the trade while scratching their heads, 63 years ago and I’m still scratching my head over that trade. The 1967 White Sox who came close to winning the pennant with great pitching but pitiful hitting picked up Colovito after the All Star game but in 60 games he had only 3 homers and 29 ribbies, didn’t help much at all.

Exactly.

Definitely yes but he’s also injury prone, that and Getz also said there are no untouchables. Don’t get me wrong, I would like Robert to stay heathy and patrol CF for the Sox for the rest of his career but if they could actually improve the club by trading Robert, I would do the trade.

Right now Kopech isn’t any good as a starter or a closer.