Joel Goodson
- dawgville
Jerry is the best
2024 Chicago White Sox
splitter
- and not Nebraska
I took my daughter to the Sox game today. It looked like they would pull it off for a while. Then Fedde left the game. When we got there we could see the wind blowing in from LF and towards the RF foul line. I said if they hit home runs, they will be to right. Anytime I get to spend the day with my little girl is a great day. We've been doing Daddy-daughter Sox games since she was a freshman in college. That's more than 20 years.
We were 19 rows behind home plate. That was a first for her. My 3rd time in 4 different ball parks.
We were 19 rows behind home plate. That was a first for her. My 3rd time in 4 different ball parks.
splitter
- and not Nebraska
i miss Comiskey but it was falling down. The Rate/Cel is a nice park but only great compared to one farther north. If you are thinking Milwaukee, you are thinking too far north. Imagine one like in St Louis with Sears Tower in left field instead of the Arch like in the second rendition of the 78. Get it done Jerry. Get something done with this team first.
Wait, you mean to tell me that Drake LaRoche was a clubhouse leader after all these years?:
It is simply amazing what competent baseball franchise management can accomplish. Competent baseball management that is... which is not what Sox Nation has had to put up with since Bill Veeck sold the team.
Baltimore a couple years ago was awful. They did a full re-build... but unlike the Sox the O's did it right. What was the difference? You already know the answer to that one.
The Sox quest for making team history this season marches on. And not a history that any Sox fan wants.
Yet another low point for the White Sox season as they lose four straight games at home to the Orioles.
Sox were no-hit through 7. New O’s pitcher comes in and promptly allows the Sox a home run. But that was it. Anemic Sox offense gets one lonely hit in 27 mostly feeble at-bats.
Sox provide help to Baltimore in the O’s Pennant Race.
Harry Caray used to tout ‘Fun at the Old Ball Park’. Well, the only people having fun today for Sox Nation beyond the food and friends together there were the Orioles... and the Sox players when they get their next big pay checks. And also, a guy named Jerry who scored another pay day as well.
Sox were no-hit through 7. New O’s pitcher comes in and promptly allows the Sox a home run. But that was it. Anemic Sox offense gets one lonely hit in 27 mostly feeble at-bats.
Sox provide help to Baltimore in the O’s Pennant Race.
Harry Caray used to tout ‘Fun at the Old Ball Park’. Well, the only people having fun today for Sox Nation beyond the food and friends together there were the Orioles... and the Sox players when they get their next big pay checks. And also, a guy named Jerry who scored another pay day as well.
White Sox History Watch
The 1932 Season for the White Sox is so far the worst single season for the franchise.
Finishing 49-102 for a winning (?) percentage of .325.
Here’s how the 2024 White Sox compare to that dreadful 1932 team...
After 55 Games
1932 – 20 wins, 35 losses
2024 – 15 wins, 40 losses
So the current White Sox at this point in the Season are 5 games worse than the worst Sox team of all time.
The 1932 Season for the White Sox is so far the worst single season for the franchise.
Finishing 49-102 for a winning (?) percentage of .325.
Here’s how the 2024 White Sox compare to that dreadful 1932 team...
After 55 Games
1932 – 20 wins, 35 losses
2024 – 15 wins, 40 losses
So the current White Sox at this point in the Season are 5 games worse than the worst Sox team of all time.
Time for a change ... lots of changes ... but i can't look away. Been a Sox fan since 1958.
You are fortunate to have seen one of the great eras in Sox history from 1958 through 1967. Truly the best stretch of seasons in Sox history. It's too bad the franchise descended into hell beginning in 1968 and which in many ways has still never recovered.
Little Looey and Nellie and the great Sox pitching staffs. The magical defense played by the Sox... especially the center fielders. The ball park packed on warm Summer nights and filled with hard working South Siders who worked long hard days in the great industrial sites on the South Side.
Sox fans of later generations have no idea just how good the Sox used to play and be and how the Sox were THE team in Chicagoland. Nothing like how things are these days. The only year that gave a taste of this era was 2005. One single season since 1968. It's a miracle that Sox Nation remains so strong in face of such franchise incompetence.
If only the Sox could have built on that great momentum they had from 1951 to 1967. But they let it all slip away... or be swept away by New Yorkers who belong more in corporate tax accounting offices in Manhattan than they do owning a precious Chicago institution.
Just goes to prove that just because you may have money doesn't mean you have any clue about what you're doing. A lesson Sox fans see being played out every day since 1968.
splitter
- and not Nebraska
Only got to listen to those teams on the radio. Most of the Saturday game of the week on tv were Yankees or Dodgers. First Sox games on tv i saw started with the Southside Hitmen. Fond memories of sitting on the porch listening to Bob Elson and the games.
In the Sixties the Sox were often on WGN-TV Channel 9 in Chicago as WGN split time between the Sox and That Other Team. Sox fans had to put up with Jack Brickhouse -- openly a much greater fan of That Other Team. WGN would mostly broadcast whichever ball team was home in Chicago are they rarely ever did a road game.
Bob Elson was great. He had a journalistic style to his broadcasts and not the cartoonish rah-rah of Brickhouse.
And the South SIde Hitmen were one great season of guys. I remember Sox Park getting so loud at some games it was like being at a Bulls game in packed Chicago Stadium from which my ears are still ringing. If only the 1977 team had better pitching and defense.
And if only Bill Veeck had the money to back up his baseball wisdom. The Sox would be ruling the AL right now.
splitter
- and not Nebraska
i met Bill and Mary Frances Veeck at the state high school tournament at the Assembly Hall a year or two before he died. They were sitting a few rows in front of us and were signing programs and talking to people during the games. They were both very gracious and probably didn't see much of the games. i went to meet him between the quarters and told him that i didn't recognize him with a shirt on. Bill looked around and said that there didn't seem to be a shower around. She said thank goodness and they both laughed. I told him that i was a fan from both times he owned the Sox and that i had read his book 'Thirty Tons A Day" about his adventures in owning racehorses. He said oh you are the one who bought it. Saw a lot of great games and teams at those tournaments but getting to shake Bill Veeck's hand is my fondest memory.
I had a similar experience but it was with Coach Henson after he left the Illini. I ran into him in Las Cruces, New Mexico during the time he had returned there to coach NMSU. He and I were standing at the counter of a Popeye's Chicken place in Las Cruces close to the NMSU campus and he was there to pick up a big chicken order for some function he was having at the University. I thanked him for his great years of coaching and in particular the Flyin' Illini that we all love so much. He too was gracious and thanked me for recognizing his efforts.
It's a great thing when you meet someone who has known fame and achievement and still remains a warm and friendly and grounded person. Sadly, many who achieve fame are not that way.
Though he was born in Oklahoma, much of Coach Henson's life was centered in Las Cruces. The Illini were fortunate to have him in the Prairie State for those years and the great winning tradition he established with Our Beloved.
White Sox have now lost 11 games in a row.
The Sagging Sox Season record has now leveled-off at a nice and even .250 winning (?) percentage and Win-Loss record of 15 and 45. Just a mere 24-1/2 games behind the Division-leading Clevelanders. But it’s still early, right?!
The Sox have also now lost 15 of their last 16 games.
Yes the Sox have injuries. But the franchise has also been gutted of talent. And they are doing almost nothing to make things better right now.
And just as a thought experiment... If you were trying to run a franchise out of town... is there a better way to do it than all this? Get the fans angry... disgusted... and then not caring at all?
And why would anyone deliberately want to run a franchise out of city like Chicago? Maybe there is a New Yorker around who is quickly taking a liking to Country Music who might be able to tell you?
“Your cheatin' heart
Will make you weep
You'll cry and cry
And try to sleep
But sleep won't come
The whole night through
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you...”
The Sagging Sox Season record has now leveled-off at a nice and even .250 winning (?) percentage and Win-Loss record of 15 and 45. Just a mere 24-1/2 games behind the Division-leading Clevelanders. But it’s still early, right?!
The Sox have also now lost 15 of their last 16 games.
Yes the Sox have injuries. But the franchise has also been gutted of talent. And they are doing almost nothing to make things better right now.
And just as a thought experiment... If you were trying to run a franchise out of town... is there a better way to do it than all this? Get the fans angry... disgusted... and then not caring at all?
And why would anyone deliberately want to run a franchise out of city like Chicago? Maybe there is a New Yorker around who is quickly taking a liking to Country Music who might be able to tell you?
“Your cheatin' heart
Will make you weep
You'll cry and cry
And try to sleep
But sleep won't come
The whole night through
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you...”