After starting to read his autobiography I thought differently about him. I realized all the bulls*** he put up with in his life. I mean for starters, the guys father died when Sammy was very young. In addition he was so poor that the man shined shoes for a living for about .10 a shoe set. He eventually got work and at age 14 began baseball. It was just natural, and Omar Minaya, then GM of the Rangers signed him to a 3,500 dollar contract after Sammy had been rejected by NYY, NYM, Philadelphia Phillies, and Cincinatti Reds. It took him a little while, but under a span of 2 years the man was in the big leagues, where he struggled but since Texas kept faith in him, he stayed up with the rest of the young stars:

Palmer

Rodriguez

Gonzalez

He got traded for Baines, which was unpopular with us, but it worked. Truth be told I found out a lot about our organization of how:

1.) The managers decide who gets called up and sent down.

2.) We are sleezy son of b****es.

3.) How only certain GM's know how to run the team. Aka ex GM (Larry Himes)

I finally realized that even back then Reinsdorf was cheap. He wanted the Cubs to be up for 3 million left on George Bells contract. Cheap ass.

Bottom Line: One of the worst deals in White Sox history.

Ya but Beastly, where do you think your "boy" Maggs would be if Corky were still here???? Most defenilty not the Sox.

Possibly the Sox but playing in LF, I bet the Sox still would have put him there...

Im sure the Jr would pay Sosa and Maggs there desired salieres.   But when you look at it, the entire team would be differnt, just based on the way you draft, $, who knows, Mark, Garland, C.Lee, None of them might not be here if Sosa was around now.

So true, yet I couldn't help to wonder what it may have been like