Fire Chris Getz

[77 Hitmen]

1 hour ago, spiderman said:

He's just a team mouthpiece. Tries way too hard to be overly optimistic about a team that is historically bad. It comes across as phony and some odd sell job of a team that still appears to be years away from being competitive.

Schriffen symbolizes all that is wrong with this franchise and how it's being run into the ground by Jerry Reinsdorf.

No, he doesn't affect on the field performance and I could live with a bad announcer if the team were on their way to winning 95 games, but he is a perfect reflection of how Uncle Jerry has run this team over the last 15-20 years.  

[spiderman]

8 minutes ago, 77 Hitmen said:

Schriffen symbolizes all that is wrong with this franchise and how it's being run into the ground by Jerry Reinsdorf.

No, he doesn't affect on the field performance and I could live with a bad announcer if the team were on their way to winning 95 games, but he is a perfect reflection of how Uncle Jerry has run this team over the last 15-20 years.  

It's such a stupid thing too. Most people probably hear him the way we do if you watch enough. To me, you don't need him to be ultra negative about everything, just don't attempt to spin everything as somehow positive when we're watching the same thing. Tone it down a notch or two.

[southsider2k5]

1 hour ago, spiderman said:

It's such a stupid thing too. Most people probably hear him the way we do if you watch enough. To me, you don't need him to be ultra negative about everything, just don't attempt to spin everything as somehow positive when we're watching the same thing. Tone it down a notch or two.

Look, Hawk was known as a homers homer, but he at least knew when to shut up.  He wouldn't say much negative, but he also wouldn't just make up s%*# to be positive about.  He would literally just be quiet.

[T R U]

45 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

Look, Hawk was known as a homers homer, but he at least knew when to shut up.  He wouldn't say much negative, but he also wouldn't just make up s%*# to be positive about.  He would literally just be quiet.

Hawk called games as a passionate fan of the White Sox. Schriffen sounds like a guy who is artificially trying to be an over the top fan about everything positive that happens.

I get that he can't just sit there and bad mouth the White Sox the whole broadcast but I also don't need to constantly hear about how good something is going right now when in reality, its not. I mean just yesterday we had to listen to him glazing Altavilla and his changeup mere moments before he lost the game. 

[kitekrazy]

3 hours ago, 77 Hitmen said:

Schriffen symbolizes all that is wrong with this franchise and how it's being run into the ground by Jerry Reinsdorf.

No, he doesn't affect on the field performance and I could live with a bad announcer if the team were on their way to winning 95 games, but he is a perfect reflection of how Uncle Jerry has run this team over the last 15-20 years.  

We would probably like him if the Sox were winning 95 games

[Dick Allen]

13 minutes ago, kitekrazy said:

We would probably like him if the Sox were winning 95 games

You're probably right. I always have thought his South Side, stand up would have been great for a decent team. But now he's been exposed, and he has no credibility with a large portion of the fanbase. I really think they are grooming McKnight to take over next year. 

Edited June 20 by Dick Allen

[Lip Man 1]

36 minutes ago, Dick Allen said:

You're probably right. I always have thought his South Side, stand up would have been great for a decent team. But now he's been exposed, and he has no credibility with a large portion of the fanbase. I really think they are grooming McKnight to take over next year. 

I would hope that would happen but I'd be very surprised if it took place.

Was told by a high ranking front office employee that the Sox think Schriffen and Stone have never sounded better and are working together very well. This person also said they thought the Sox have the best broadcasting team in baseball on the all-access Friday night telecasts. They were also very enthused about what McKnight and the female reporter (sorry I don't remember her name) are doing and contributing.   

[77 Hitmen]

2 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:

Look, Hawk was known as a homers homer, but he at least knew when to shut up.  He wouldn't say much negative, but he also wouldn't just make up s%*# to be positive about.  He would literally just be quiet.

And Hawk did have some credibility of actually knowing what he was talking about.  Not that I bought every line of BS that Hawk fed to us, but he did have some insight into the league being a former player and having a track record as an announcer before coming to the White Sox.  

Also, later-years Hawk is what we all probably remember.  He was much better as an announcer in his earlier years with the team.  The Hawk and Wimpy era was great - no comparison to Schriffen and Stone.

I think a more appropriate comparison is between Schriffen and Bennetti....the guy JR didn't like and helped send out of town.   I'll take Jason any day of the week - and it's not even close.

[77 Hitmen]

13 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:

I would hope that would happen but I'd be very surprised if it took place.

Was told by a high ranking front office employee that the Sox think Schriffen and Stone have never sounded better and are working together very well. This person also said they thought the Sox have the best broadcasting team in baseball on the all-access Friday night telecasts. They were also very enthused about what McKnight and the female reporter (sorry I don't remember her name) are doing and contributing.   

I do not doubt this at all.  This level of delusion is why this team is on pace for 112 losses this year and why that number of losses would actually mean a 9 game improvement.

[chitownsportsfan]

21 minutes ago, 77 Hitmen said:

And Hawk did have some credibility of actually knowing what he was talking about.  Not that I bought every line of BS that Hawk fed to us, but he did have some insight into the league being a former player and having a track record as an announcer before coming to the White Sox.  

Also, later-years Hawk is what we all probably remember.  He was much better as an announcer in his earlier years with the team.  The Hawk and Wimpy era was great - no comparison to Schriffen and Stone.

I think a more appropriate comparison is between Schriffen and Bennetti....the guy JR didn't like and helped send out of town.   I'll take Jason any day of the week - and it's not even close.

Hawk was an ELITE play by play guy until around 2010. Then he declined rapidly and hung on too long. People mostly just remember the silly things he said at the end of his career but Hawk knew baseball and he had an air of authority that Jason and John never will. Jason at least wants to learn and obviously has an excuse for never playing himself. 

John claims he was a scholarship pitcher that blew him arm out and never played again. That is 100% BS. Nobody that played DIII let alone was on a scholarship would know so little about the game. John calls the game like an alien. He doesn't get anything about baseball.

[caulfield12]

2 hours ago, Lip Man 1 said:

I would hope that would happen but I'd be very surprised if it took place.

Was told by a high ranking front office employee that the Sox think Schriffen and Stone have never sounded better and are working together very well. This person also said they thought the Sox have the best broadcasting team in baseball on the all-access Friday night telecasts. They were also very enthused about what McKnight and the female reporter (sorry I don't remember her name) are doing and contributing.   

Brooke Fletcher

[Snopek]

3 hours ago, kitekrazy said:

We would probably like him if the Sox were winning 95 games

Sure, because constantly hearing positive things about a 95 win team is based in reality and not trying to sell a shitty product.

[ptatc]

5 hours ago, Lip Man 1 said:

I would hope that would happen but I'd be very surprised if it took place.

Was told by a high ranking front office employee that the Sox think Schriffen and Stone have never sounded better and are working together very well. This person also said they thought the Sox have the best broadcasting team in baseball on the all-access Friday night telecasts. They were also very enthused about what McKnight and the female reporter (sorry I don't remember her name) are doing and contributing.   

How do you not remember Scotty Fletchers daughter? A good name from the past.

[wegner]

1 hour ago, ptatc said:

How do you not remember Scotty Fletchers daughter? A good name from the past.

Holy crap I thought you were joking... she really is his daughter. And her brother in law is Gordon Beckham.

[kitekrazy]

4 hours ago, Snopek said:

Sure, because constantly hearing positive things about a 95 win team is based in reality and not trying to sell a shitty product.

Send that to Reinsdorf

[Snopek]

2 hours ago, kitekrazy said:

Send that to Reinsdorf

He does not care

[T R U]

15 hours ago, kitekrazy said:

We would probably like him if the Sox were winning 95 games

Disagree. I still didn’t like Benetti even when the Sox were winning. Honestly, it feels like Schriffen would be even more annoying if the Sox were good but at least you could deal with it. 

[Kyyle23]

15 hours ago, Lip Man 1 said:

I would hope that would happen but I'd be very surprised if it took place.

Was told by a high ranking front office employee that the Sox think Schriffen and Stone have never sounded better and are working together very well. This person also said they thought the Sox have the best broadcasting team in baseball on the all-access Friday night telecasts. They were also very enthused about what McKnight and the female reporter (sorry I don't remember her name) are doing and contributing.   

The people that hired him while dumping Benetti have to maintain that everything is good and getting better.  If they admit at all that he sounds like a out-of-his-depth cheerleader,  then it’s all downhill for Schriffen starting immediately 

[T R U]

46 minutes ago, Kyyle23 said:

The people that hired him while dumping Benetti have to maintain that everything is good and getting better.  If they admit at all that he sounds like a out-of-his-depth cheerleader,  then it’s all downhill for Schriffen starting immediately 

An out of his depth cheerleader is a perfect description, well done. 

[77 Hitmen]

23 hours ago, kitekrazy said:

We would probably like him if the Sox were winning 95 games

Dear Sox fans, if we weren't fielding a shitty team, you'd love our shitty announcer.   White Sox Fever.....CATCH IT!

[Lip Man 1]

https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2025/06/21/chris-getz-white-sox-rebuild-luis-robert-colson-montgomery

[Quin]

On 6/21/2025 at 7:51 AM, Kyyle23 said:

The people that hired him while dumping Benetti have to maintain that everything is good and getting better.  If they admit at all that he sounds like a out-of-his-depth cheerleader,  then it’s all downhill for Schriffen starting immediately 

Cracks me up that Reinsdorf could have had what amounts to essentially free advertising in both Benetti and Adam Amin as they both rise in national prominence / call bigger and bigger profile games.

Of course it wouldn't make a significant amount of people tune in more, but having Mike Breen calling the NBA Finals is good advertising for him as a product, and as a result, what MSG puts out.

Then there are situations where it works out. Bill Walton only happens cause Jason worked well with him in the past. That broadcast got watched by a ton of non-Sox fans. It would be horrendous with Schriffen.

[GreenSox]

I think Schriffen calls an okay game, until he gets excited:  then he sounds like a 15 year-old kid in a locker room.

Getz was on the front office show on MLB network.  Did his best to upsell Robert.  Asked him about C Montgomery and he said that he has certain things to work on. Really the most interesting comment was that he was surprised Boston included Montgomery in the Crochet deal, intimating that he'd have done the deal without him.

 

[Falstaff]

Getz was 40? when he took over the GM role. I would like to see a before and after picture of him

Before: Looked like a college senior planning a Florida Spring Break vacation.

After (currently): Ready for Sunny Acres Retirement Village.

[chitownsportsfan]

It's crazy that Baldwin languishes in AAA on a night that a competent OF probably makes it a 50/50 game instead of a 75/25 one. A key hit instead of Taylor's DP and who knows. Or, maybe Baldwin in right as a good athlete that has shown versatility making a pinch start (you know, when you need that) makes a play.