I wonder if the Sox are on plan B or C or D right now. Didn't someone write an announcement was expected a couple of weeks ago? Either they are getting rebuffed or want to make it look like they scorched all ends of the earth and realized the best replacement is the cheapest in Connor McKnight. 

10 minutes ago, Dick Allen said:

I wonder if the Sox are on plan B or C or D right now. Didn't someone write an announcement was expected a couple of weeks ago? Either they are getting rebuffed or want to make it look like they scorched all ends of the earth and realized the best replacement is the cheapest in Connor McKnight. 

Maybe for a normal organization, but these schmoes have shown they don’t really care about those optics when it comes to hires.

14 minutes ago, Dick Allen said:

I wonder if the Sox are on plan B or C or D right now. Didn't someone write an announcement was expected a couple of weeks ago? Either they are getting rebuffed or want to make it look like they scorched all ends of the earth and realized the best replacement is the cheapest in Connor McKnight. 

Seems Monaco didn't come as easily as expected...McKnight or Beckham would be demoralizing in different ways.

McKnight being too peppy in the face of a miserable season....Beckham too cocksure and every other sentence being about those professional at-bats that he could never even come up with as a player.

20 minutes ago, Dick Allen said:

I wonder if the Sox are on plan B or C or D right now.

Plan 9 from outer space.

Just now, Timmy U said:

Plan 9 from outer space.

Bill Walton/Johnny Depp

26 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

Seems Monaco didn't come as easily as expected...McKnight or Beckham would be demoralizing in different ways.

McKnight being too peppy in the face of a miserable season....Beckham too cocksure and every other sentence being about those professional at-bats that he could never even come up with as a player.

Beckham is an analyst. It’s not even the same job 

Your what hurts?

 

50 minutes ago, Y2Jimmy0 said:

Beckham is an analyst. It’s not even the same job 

You can't give McKnight the job.  He's not ready...even for a team nobody's going to pay attention to.

And there's no way Stone is going to survive for more than one more season of Grifol Ball.

Beckham will get a  JB eventually...he won't rock the boat, just like Getz.

I’d hire Pat Foley to capture a likable quality broadcaster people know during the painful upcoming seasons.

 

In some industries it is not uncommon for someone being interviewed for a job to discuss the job with their predecessor if possible. Wonder what Bennetti is telling the industry.

13 hours ago, Timmy U said:

Plan 9 from outer space.

Ed Wood in the dugout to replace Pedro. Just might work. 

Too bad Kasper wants radio only. He’s better at TV, IMO. 

Edited December 17, 20232 yr by Stinky Stanky

2 hours ago, Stinky Stanky said:

Ed Wood in the dugout to replace Pedro. Just might work. 

Too bad Kasper wants radio only. He’s better at TV, IMO. 

Pull zee strings!!!, Eddie...

5 hours ago, Stinky Stanky said:

Ed Wood in the dugout to replace Pedro. Just might work. 

Too bad Kasper wants radio only. He’s better at TV, IMO. 

No, I only have radio (even bars mostly have Sox games on mute with music) and love the Len and DJ pairing.

They have more leeway telling it like it is with Jerry owning CSN but not WMVP. They still can’t go Jimmy and Harry, since Jerry has final say each year. DJ went ballistic that May 5th Reds game when TLR didn’t know the rules.

We lost Len too many radio broadcasts with Jason and even some Stone vacation days last year. Several games there was just Len, with DJ off with I believe a medical issue near the end of the season.

I hope whoever they get on TV covers most of the season, so we get to keep Len Kasper. His voice took to getting used to, but got into his broadcasts after a brief adjustment and very happy he left Marquee (like CSN, seemingly another workplace to avoid) to work for the Sox. Hope he doesn’t also flee for Detroit, his hometown club.

Len on Bass, Matt Speigel with vocals.

https://sonic45.bandcamp.com/track/pills

Edited December 17, 20232 yr by South Side Hit Men

21 hours ago, Dick Allen said:

I wonder if the Sox are on plan B or C or D right now. Didn't someone write an announcement was expected a couple of weeks ago? Either they are getting rebuffed or want to make it look like they scorched all ends of the earth and realized the best replacement is the cheapest in Connor McKnight. 

This wouldn’t surprise me. The org can’t walk and chew gum at the same time without tripping over their own feet. 

At this point I wouldn’t expect an announcement until late January or early February right before pitchers & catchers report. Give fans less time to be upset before baseball starts up again. Not that they give a s%*# about making fans happy. 

Didn't see this posted. Zach covers the Cubs Pre/Post Game for the Score. He did Bears work over the years, not sure if he is still involved on that end.

 

 

 

PATHETIC...I guess if you offer to work for free or even pay them, like an internship, you've gotta shot at this gig.

8 hours ago, South Side Hit Men said:

Didn't see this posted. Zach covers the Cubs Pre/Post Game for the Score. He did Bears work over the years, not sure if he is still involved on that end.

 

 

 

In related news, the Sox have confirmed that they are in negotiations with wfmt to be their new radio affiliate.

Zaidman would be such a bad hire.

53 minutes ago, Chicago White Sox said:

Zaidman would be such a bad hire.

He was so awful doing DePaul games 

Ugh that would be brutal. There has got to be more talent than this around. Some of our minor league affiliates have better guys than Zaidman.

Zaidman is like that viral clip a decade ago from John Mayer of a man whose never watched baseball announcing the action.

Brooks is looking for his Pedro Grifol, They can suck at their job as long as they bow down.

It's uncanny

37 minutes ago, bmags said:

Zaidman is like that viral clip a decade ago from John Mayer of a man whose never watched baseball announcing the action.

Yeah, I don't think he's actually an announcer. He just fills in for like an inning for Pat Hughes.

It would be like if Chuck started calling innings/games.

Whatever search they are doing for the new TV PBP job, it would be such a classic white sox organizational move to sign the new individual to only a one year contract ( coinciding with 2024 being the final year of the team’s deal with NBC Sports Chicago), then decide in 2025 that the television broadcast will be a simulcast of the radio broadcast.

I do hope Len isn’t the next one to bolt, whether to Detroit or elsewhere, including the northside team whenever Pat retires. I only wish he would adapt more to radio style PBP, especially with repeating the count ahead of the next pitch (i.e. “here’s the 2 and 1 pitch to Vaughn” instead of his habit formed “the pitch”). That aside, I do like Len’s overall call of the game on the ESPN 1000 Hardrock Casino whitesox Network.

Edited December 26, 20232 yr by WhiteAnkleSox