Joel Goodson
- dawgville
can an owner fire himself?
Into the sun, preferably.can an owner fire himself?
can an owner fire himself?
Baseball was my favorite sport growing up and the White Sox (through my dad) became my clear cut favorite team. I was in my first fantasy baseball league alongside my dad at age 10. I played high school varsity baseball in the suburbs. I should not be a fan they ever lose.
The last decade or so of the white Sox inept ownership has done worse than make me hate the team, it’s just made me stop caring about the White Sox and baseball. I check the score and another loss with non major league players playing without an end in sight. As a Chicago sports fan, At this point, I’d rank them behind Illini basketball, bears, blackhawks, Illini football, and only slightly ahead of the bulls.
Can’t help but think im one of many going through the same thing and it’s just sad.
At least McMahon was taking hits.He is as cursed with injuries as Jim McMahon was
My season expectations were so so low. At this point, all you can do is laugh.And now that St. Louis has been abused TWICE by the NFL by moving teams away... much of the St. Louis area now hates the NFL.
But the Spring football league game yesterday drew over 40,000 to the place that Kroenke hated. So it wasn't that St. Louis didn't love football. It's that the ChinaMart man had no love for St. Louis.
As for the Sox... their starting lineup today has these great hitters:
.000 - Grossman
.067 - Maldonado
.094 - Benintendi
.111 - Fletcher
.167 - Lopez
.179 - Vaughn
One-third of your starting lineup hitting under .100. And the next three 'best' guys all hitting under .179.
So when do tryouts start for the White Sox? There are guys playing in parks on the South Side right now who can hit better than these guys.
Bring back Frank. He looks pretty fit in those commercials.And now that St. Louis has been abused TWICE by the NFL by moving teams away... much of the St. Louis area now hates the NFL.
But the Spring football league game yesterday drew over 40,000 to the place that Kroenke hated. So it wasn't that St. Louis didn't love football. It's that the ChinaMart man had no love for St. Louis.
As for the Sox... their starting lineup today has these great hitters:
.000 - Grossman
.067 - Maldonado
.094 - Benintendi
.111 - Fletcher
.167 - Lopez
.179 - Vaughn
One-third of your starting lineup hitting under .100. And the next three 'best' guys all hitting under .179.
So when do tryouts start for the White Sox? There are guys playing in parks on the South Side right now who can hit better than these guys.
Already been shut out 4 times in the first 10 games
Time to get these guys healthy and unload em.Lenyn Sosa hit 3rd today…let that sink in
Moncada goes down. It’s mind blowing the injuries to this core group.
Time to get these guys healthy and unload em.
Add in the team “culture”. Whatever it is, it ain’t right.there is something not right with the White Sox trainer/medical team. I dont believe in curses
Add in the team “culture”. Whatever it is, it ain’t right.
1983 was pretty special for us diehards.It’s a simple measuring stick to use. Some franchises have high expectations and the dedication to work at greatness. Think teams like the Yankees and Red Sox and Cardinals and Braves and Dodgers. The teams themselves expect a lot from each other all the time (success) as do the fan bases.
And then there are other franchises that just have no culture of success and that do little to nothing to develop one. That has been the White Sox culture. A culture of expected failure.
It was not always this way. Our elders remember the Sox of the 1950s through to 1967. These teams were winners and always gave the mighty Yanks run for the money as the Sox did get one Pennant and barely missed on a couple others. This Sox culture was one of being winners with exciting players like Little Luis and Nellie and Jim Landis and Ken Berry and Tommy Agee and awesome pitching and defense.
And then, 1968 happened and everything with the Sox went straight to hell. And except for one miracle year of 2005... the Sox have embodied failure and low expectations and really pathetic ownership and management. With the only great thing about the Sox being we Sox fans who have tried to overlook their failures and try to continue to love them throughout all the painful losing.
The Sox not only need new, fresh ownership. They need a new and fresh culture. A culture that returns them to the White Sox Spirit of 1959 and even to greater heights.
That spirit still lives along 35th Street. And if you overlook the grit and grime and tears and listen really closely, you can feel it.