The Future of the White Sox TV Broadcast Team

[WBWSF]

3 hours ago, greg775 said:

Not to be a jerk but how do some of us remain Sox fans?

Pathetic product with the only highlights the past few years the play of Colson and Robert maybe his first year. The staff of so many great names (Mark, Hoyt, Bobby, Peters, Horlen, Wilhelm, Sale, Wood, Garland, Pierce, Lyons, Walsh, Faber, Thiggy, McDowell, Cease de resistance, need I go on?) turns to a staff where I can't name one starter (I forget the name of the flamethrower who has looked good at times). ... And finally if u do watch a game, u have to suffer with poor Schiff and Gordo (don't like his accent sadly; love Stoney) or Stoney.

Ah for the days of the aforementioned pitchers and Harry. Our team certainly has been at its low ebb with Schiff at the mike. I know $$ rules all but how can Stoney keep signing to broadcast this wretched club.

I find it easy being a White Sox fan. I renew my season tickets every year and go to the games and just hope for the best.

[Lip Man 1]

50 minutes ago, WBWSF said:

I find it easy being a White Sox fan. I renew my season tickets every year and go to the games and just hope for the best.

You bring up an interesting dilemma, you have to appreciate your fandome and loyalty but at the same time "hoping" for the best for a team in a major market with major advantages over the others in their division also seems counter productive to me. 

It like all those years the Cubs kept selling out with garbage teams, what motivation was there for the front office to actually try?

Kind of the same situation with JR although I realize his sweetheart lease also is a big factor, if less fans show up he actually wins not having to pay the state anything, even getting them to have to pay him making up the difference to a certain limit.

(Don't know who on the state side said OK to those terms but they should have been fired on the spot)

Just a dynamic that seems to put fans between a rock and a hard place while JR laughs all the way to the bank.  

[caulfield12]

10 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:

You bring up an interesting dilemma, you have to appreciate your fandome and loyalty but at the same time "hoping" for the best for a team in a major market with major advantages over the others in their division also seems counter productive to me. 

It like all those years the Cubs kept selling out with garbage teams, what motivation was there for the front office to actually try?

Kind of the same situation with JR although I realize his sweetheart lease also is a big factor, if less fans show up he actually wins not having to pay the state anything, even getting them to have to pay him making up the difference to a certain limit.

(Don't know who on the state side said OK to those terms but they should have been fired on the spot)

Just a dynamic that seems to put fans between a rock and a hard place while JR laughs all the way to the bank.  

That's over 2 million fans and under 800,000...taxes and subsidies.

Neither are likely to impact them unless they're still not competitive three years from now and have to again rebuild after a strike with no new stadium in sight.

That would be worst case bleak.

[fathom]

Crazy how much better Schriffen is doing basketball games

Edited November 10 by fathom

[Lip Man 1]

1 hour ago, fathom said:

Crazy how much better Schriffen is doing basketball games

That is his sport. Baseball simply isn't it he still has very little feel for the rhythm and history of it.  

[WhiteSox2023]

11 hours ago, Lip Man 1 said:

That is his sport. Baseball simply isn't it he still has very little feel for the rhythm and history of it.  

Yep.  Baseball is his job but it’s obvious that he loves basketball.

[southsider2k5]

13 hours ago, fathom said:

Crazy how much better Schriffen is doing basketball games

I get it.  I do football games, but don't see football the same way I do basketball.  Being a bit of a perfectionist, I KNOW it comes out in my technical reading of it when I call a football game.  There are intricacies that are missed, 100%, and it is obvious to a baseball fan when it happens.

[Falstaff]

On 11/7/2025 at 1:37 PM, greg775 said:

 

When you want to get something off your chest go ahead and post because you are a Sox lifer just like all of us on this board.

41-121, bring it on I'm still here.   I don't need a "Croix de Candlestick" pin as a badge of honor or some fake Cub fan woe is me.

Edited November 11 by Falstaff

[greg775]

12 hours ago, Falstaff said:

When you want to get something off your chest go ahead and post because you are a Sox lifer just like all of us on this board.

41-121, bring it on I'm still here.   I don't need a "Croix de Candlestick" pin as a badge of honor or some fake Cub fan woe is me.

Sometime I'll tell a story here about my dad, a lifelong Sox fan, and how I prevented a travesty at his viewing/funeral. Rest in peace to a tru Sox fan.

[southsider2k5]

7 hours ago, greg775 said:

Sometime I'll tell a story here about my dad, a lifelong Sox fan, and how I prevented a travesty at his viewing/funeral. Rest in peace to a tru Sox fan.

You took your Cubs hat off before you entered?

[spiderman]

If he was the play by play announcer for a basketball team, he may be better at it than baseball, but it would still have a similar outcome/reaction if he decides to cheerlead for the team.

[greg775]

7 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:

You took your Cubs hat off before you entered?

Good line, but please stop teasing me about being a Cub fan. I swear on a stack of Bibles and I am a practicing Mass-goer that I am not a Cub fan and in fact didn't even follow them at all in this year's playoffs.

Now I was a Sox and Cub fan as a 10-11 year old when gramps took me to some Cub games as I was a kid who loved baseball and he was our sole relative except for my rich uncle who liked the Cubs. So he needed someone to go with. Not sure why he stopped taking me to games after one or two summers. Maybe he thought my dad would get mad at indoctrinating Cubs.

I am a true Sox fan. My story is good but it will take a while to explain and it'd probably bore people in a day and age of quick hot takes and people yawning at story telling. Go Bro Rice!

We should take an offseason poll in a day and age where all we hear about are the polls in politics: Is greg a Cub fan?

Edited November 12 by greg775

[southsider2k5]

5 minutes ago, greg775 said:

Good line, but please stop teasing me about being a Cub fan. I swear on a stack of Bibles and I am a practicing Mass-goer that I am not a Cub fan and in fact didn't even follow them at all in this year's playoffs.

Now I was a Sox and Cub fan as a 10-11 year old when gramps took me to some Cub games as I was a kid who loved baseball and he was our sole relative except for my rich uncle who liked the Cubs. So he needed someone to go with. Not sure why he stopped taking me to games after one or two summers. Maybe he thought my dad would get mad at indoctrinating Cubs.

I am a true Sox fan. My story is good but it will take a while to explain and it'd probably bore people in a day and age of quick hot takes and people yawning at story telling. Go Bro Rice!

We should take an offseason poll in a day and age where all we hear about are the polls in politics: Is greg a Cub fan?

The same one who keep trying to talk Sox fans out of being Sox fans.  Sure buddy.

[greg775]

26 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

The same one who keep trying to talk Sox fans out of being Sox fans.  Sure buddy.

I never said I wasn't an ANGRY Sox fan. Why the bleep would I root for the Cubs? I told you I remain a Sox fan although I'm close to abandoning baseball because of our failed tank/rebuild jobs.

I am a PLAYOFF ONLY fan of the Bears, Blackhawks and Bulls as all three have lost me since their years of ineptitude have turned me into a fair weather of those teams. There are a lot of fairweather fans out there, why not me. Notice no Cubs on that list. I'm not even a playoff Cub fan. Me no likey the Cubs. Ask Fathom. When the Sox were good I would freak whenever the Cub beat us in the season series. I am not a fan of the Chiefs, Royals or Cub. I am a tru southsider. Give me italian beef and tavern pizza and i'm a happy southsider. Also a Schlitz, Falstaff, Old Style, Olympia. Your disdain for greg is remarkable.

Edited November 12 by greg775

[soxrwhite]

1 hour ago, greg775 said:

I never said I wasn't an ANGRY Sox fan. Why the bleep would I root for the Cubs? I told you I remain a Sox fan although I'm close to abandoning baseball because of our failed tank/rebuild jobs.

I am a PLAYOFF ONLY fan of the Bears, Blackhawks and Bulls as all three have lost me since their years of ineptitude have turned me into a fair weather of those teams. There are a lot of fairweather fans out there, why not me. Notice no Cubs on that list. I'm not even a playoff Cub fan. Me no likey the Cubs. Ask Fathom. When the Sox were good I would freak whenever the Cub beat us in the season series. I am not a fan of the Chiefs, Royals or Cub. I am a tru southsider. Give me italian beef and tavern pizza and i'm a happy southsider. Also a Schlitz, Falstaff, Old Style, Olympia. Your disdain for greg is remarkable.

I smell Cub stink

[southsider2k5]

1 hour ago, greg775 said:

I never said I wasn't an ANGRY Sox fan. Why the bleep would I root for the Cubs? I told you I remain a Sox fan although I'm close to abandoning baseball because of our failed tank/rebuild jobs.

I am a PLAYOFF ONLY fan of the Bears, Blackhawks and Bulls as all three have lost me since their years of ineptitude have turned me into a fair weather of those teams. There are a lot of fairweather fans out there, why not me. Notice no Cubs on that list. I'm not even a playoff Cub fan. Me no likey the Cubs. Ask Fathom. When the Sox were good I would freak whenever the Cub beat us in the season series. I am not a fan of the Chiefs, Royals or Cub. I am a tru southsider. Give me italian beef and tavern pizza and i'm a happy southsider. Also a Schlitz, Falstaff, Old Style, Olympia. Your disdain for greg is remarkable.

Nah, my distain for trolling is normal.

[caulfield12]

On 7/20/2025 at 10:14 PM, Chicago White Sox said:

So what’s the controversial reason Jerry & Brooks approve of Schifren?

The way he eats.

NYC/Dartmouth background.

More "athletic" than Benetti.  Taller.

[greg775]

8 hours ago, soxrwhite said:

I smell Cub stink

Geez. Frustrating for me to be thought of as a Cub lover when I wouldn't go to a game if u gave me free tickets in the fourth row behind the dugout. Maybe I'd go if they were playing da Sox.

[soxrwhite]

3 hours ago, greg775 said:

Geez. Frustrating for me to be thought of as a Cub lover when I wouldn't go to a game if u gave me free tickets in the fourth row behind the dugout. Maybe I'd go if they were playing da Sox.

Its ok man, just go ahead and be a sox fan. You dont need to prove anything to anyone here. To thine own self be true.

[greg775]

7 hours ago, soxrwhite said:

Its ok man, just go ahead and be a sox fan. You dont need to prove anything to anyone here. To thine own self be true.

Thank u. It's just frustrating to be on the board so long and post so much stuff about past Sox players to have my fandom questioned. How many people know of Tommy McCraw, Bill Nahorodny, Luis Alvarado, Tommie Agee, JC Martin, Ralph Garr, Dave Nicholson, Sandy Alomar, Bobby Knopp et. all? Just cause the Sox have angered me the last two years doesn't mean I didn't grow up a huge Sox fan. Sox deserve all the scorn guys like me give them on the board. 

Edited November 13 by greg775

[WhiteSox2023]

Jason Benetti is so much better than Schriffen it’s not even funny.  Benetti is announcing the Oregon / Minnesota game tonight on FOX.

[nrockway]

On 11/12/2025 at 4:20 PM, greg775 said:

I never said I wasn't an ANGRY Sox fan. Why the bleep would I root for the Cubs? I told you I remain a Sox fan although I'm close to abandoning baseball because of our failed tank/rebuild jobs.

I am a PLAYOFF ONLY fan of the Bears, Blackhawks and Bulls as all three have lost me since their years of ineptitude have turned me into a fair weather of those teams. There are a lot of fairweather fans out there, why not me. Notice no Cubs on that list. I'm not even a playoff Cub fan. Me no likey the Cubs. Ask Fathom. When the Sox were good I would freak whenever the Cub beat us in the season series. I am not a fan of the Chiefs, Royals or Cub. I am a tru southsider. Give me italian beef and tavern pizza and i'm a happy southsider. Also a Schlitz, Falstaff, Old Style, Olympia. Your disdain for greg is remarkable.

hmm....sounds like something a cubs fan would say

[nrockway]

3 hours ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

Jason Benetti is so much better than Schriffen it’s not even funny.  Benetti is announcing the Oregon / Minnesota game tonight on FOX.

see i was watching this game thinking (go gophers) that benetti should stick to football and basketball because the second he has to fill dead air (or however many hours of dead air are in a baseball game) he sounds like a two-bit comedian enrolled in an improv workshop at second city. not to say schriffen is any good, but man benetti's bit got tired.

Edited November 15 by nrockway

[caulfield12]

4 hours ago, nrockway said:

see i was watching this game thinking (go gophers) that benetti should stick to football and basketball because the second he has to fill dead air (or however many hours of dead air are in a baseball game) he sounds like a two-bit comedian enrolled in an improv workshop at second city. not to say schriffen is any good, but man benetti's bit got tired.

He was excellent with Bill Raftery on the Wake Michigan OT game this week.

[JoeC]

On 11/15/2025 at 5:27 PM, nrockway said:

see i was watching this game thinking (go gophers) that benetti should stick to football and basketball because the second he has to fill dead air (or however many hours of dead air are in a baseball game) he sounds like a two-bit comedian enrolled in an improv workshop at second city. not to say schriffen is any good, but man benetti's bit got tired.

He’s certainly no Jim Brockmire; that’s for sure.