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Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Bo Knows Comebacks: White Sox Home Opener Pinch Hit HR
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Opening Day MLB 2024 White Sox
The White Sox open at the stadium FKA Comiskey Park this afternoon at 3:10 p.m. The Sox open against Al Central rival Detroit. After losing over 100 games last year and a bit of house cleaning near the end of the season that continued over the winter not very much is expected in GM Chris Getz's first full season in his new position. Pedro Grifol is in his second season as manager for the southsiders and I believe he will be given a long leash this season to get the team back on the winning track.
Opening Day starting line up for the Sox. (Players in Bold are making White Sox Debut)
1 Andrew Bentendi LF
2 Yoan Moncada 3 B
3 Luis Robert Jr CF
4,Eloy Jimenez DH
5. Andrew Vaughn 1B
6. Paul Dejong SS
7. Kevin Pillar RF
8. Martin Maldonado C
9. Nicky Lopez 2B
This is obviously the first starting line-up for the White Sox this year.
The starting pitcher for the White Sox is Garret Crochet. This is Crochet's first major league start. He is only the 2nd White Sox player to ever have their first major league start on Opening Day. The first happened some 123 years ago when Roy Patterson pitched for the Chi Sox in the first ever American League opener. Crochet has been converted into a starter and was named the opening day starter after Dylan Cease, who had already been assigned to start Opening Day was traded to the Padres earlier this month.
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Friday, February 23, 2024
Jesse Chavez lists All The MLB teammates he's been on.
Jesse Chavez the most traded player in the history of Major League Baseball has made his way to White Sox Spring training by signing a minor league contract with the Chicago American League team, While not officially with the Sox yet, the 40 year old pitcher talked about all his former teams in this video.
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Tim Anderson Signs With Miami Marlins
On June 10th 2016 Tim Anderson made his Major League Debut for the Chicago White Sox. Last year On As of September 30th 2023 TA batted .288 with a .317 while playing home games for the South Siders. On the road he batted .276 with a .308 OBA. For his career so far Anderson has a .282 Batting average, an OBA of .312 and a slugging percentage of .422.
2023 was a regrettable/forgettable year for bot the White Sox and Anderson in particular. Anderson In 123 games Anderson hit only.245 lowering his career batting average 6 points from the end of 2022. Anderson only hit 21 extra base hits last year with only 1 home run, dropping his career slugging percentage 20 points in the process.
At The end of the dismal season the White Sox, declined on Anderson's 14 million dollar contract option for the 2024 season, buying it out instead for $1,000,000.00. After becoming a free agent in November of 2023 Anderson was signed in February by The Miami Marlins and have agreed on a 5 million dollar contract for the season.
Sunday, November 5, 2023
60 Years in 60 Days: 1977
1977: The Year I Led The Packers in Sacks
I was not always the physical specimen that blogs before you. In Jr. High, I was a 6'1 stick figure of a kid whose social awkwardness was matched only by his lack of physical coordination. I was in Jr. high in the 70's when bullying was not only not frowned upon but was an elective in many school districts. I was teased quite a bit for many things but in the Fall of 1977 and 1978 I got teased on Monday's for what someone else did on Sunday. That someone just happened to share my name.
Football in the 1970's was a pretty big thing. The biggest football rivalry in my area was that of the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers. In 1977 Walter Payton the Bears running Back was having a breakout year and was voted MVP of the league by the Associated Press. Payton led the Bears to a 9-5 record that year and their first playoff appearance in my lifetime. The Pack went 4-10 but had one player with a familiar name who helped lead the defense.
His name was familiar to me at least, as his name was Dave Roller. And as Robin might say Holy John Jacob Jingelheimer Schmidt Batman, that's my name too
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When some of my fellow students at Elk Grove Jr. High heard my name on their televisions on Sunday afternoons, they would let me know about it on Mondays. It was always funny to them how different a professional football player and a gawky kid could be even if they had the same name. It wasn't a big deal but it did become a bit of a ritual in the Falls of 78 and 79. There were always a couple of kids in my math class who would comment about how well I played the day before.
In reality Roller played pretty well for the Packers. He led them in 1977 with 8 sacks was once carried off by the fans after a Packer victory and I believe was one of the first players in the NFL to celebrate after a tackle with a sack dance.
I have never met the former NFL player who shares a name with me and my father. In Jr. High it was just one of many things to be teased about. But when I think about it now, it's cool to share with your name with someone who achieved excellence in their field. Even if it's just Lambeau Field.
Monday, October 16, 2023
Monday, May 22, 2023
Reason To Be (Somewhat) Optimistic On The South Side
Happy Monday Baseball Fans.
The White Sox are 19-29 after 48 games and are in 4th place in the A.L central 6.5 games out of first place. This is not great news for a team that was expected to compete for the division this year and possibly cash in on their World Series window.
But if you look at the stats there are some gleams of optimism shining through an otherwise storm start to the year.
The White Sox are 10 games below .500 but they were also 10 games below .500 (an unimpressive 7-17) 24 games ago. This means that the White Sox have gone 12-12 in their last 24 games. They have also won 6 of their last 8 games. In essence they have stopped the bleeding and perhaps have made themselves a stepping stone for success.
After their successful homestand the Sox are just one game below 500 at the former U.S. Cellular Field which used to be called Comiskey Park prior to that. They now go on a very important road trip with 7 games against the 2nd and 3rd place teams in their division (Cleveland Guardians and Detroit Tigers ). The Sox are a lowly 7-16 on the road and only 9-7 against their division so they have their work cut out for them if they want to inch their way back into contention.
Sunday, May 14, 2023
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Jim Kaat Full Baseball Hall of Fame Enshrinement Speech and Jim Kaat on Dick Allen
Thursday, December 29, 2022
Thursday, October 20, 2022
Friday, September 23, 2022
27 years ago today ... Lance Johnson Triples Three Times in Six-Hit Game
Monday, June 27, 2022
What Jim Edmonds Greatest Career Catches has to do with my ADD
Monday, June 20, 2022
"A Song About Baseball"
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Streaks are over! White Sox Lose to Guardians in 11, Cubs beat Padres .
I've been waiting for the last few hours for the White Sox to win their 7th game in a row. It did not happen after having a comfortable 4 run lead the Sox allowed 11 of the 12 Cleveland Guardian Runs after the 9th inning and failed to score winning runs in the 9th and the 10th. Losses like this at home are always hard to take, but when ever you are on a plus 5 game winning streak you know it has to end at sometime. It is frustrating that this is the 4th loss in a row to the Cleveland Guardians. They have not beat Cleveland since they changed team names. The best thing to do in this situation is shake it off and come back the next game and start a new winning streak.
While the Sox were losing in extra's the Cubs stopped a 5 game losing streak by shutting out the Padres 6-0. Jason Heyward put 20 points on his batting average by going 2 for 4 tonight bringing it to .232. Even so, his average at the end of April was .270 and previous to tonight's performance, he had only 1 hit in 17 at bats in the month of May. Hopefully the Cubs and Heyward will enjoy tonight's success and build on itf
At the beginning of the Cubs Sox series last week they both owned a record 9 wins and 13 losses. The Sox went 5-1 since then and are now 14-14. The Cubs went the other way with 1 win and 5 losses putting them at 10-18. The Cubs next 5 games are on the road with the Padres and Diamondbacks. The White Sox play 6 more games on their current homestand, 2 more with the Guardians and 4 against the Yankees.
Saturday, May 7, 2022
2022 A to Z Challenge Reflection
The aforementioned Rod Carew is listed 3rd with a batting average of .328. I wont put in the screen shot but from 1976 to 1987 he also batted .328 and was 4th place on the list. He was a consistent hit machine but not a power hitter only hitting 92 homeruns out of 9315 career at bats. I will be making an index of the homerun hitters I did include this year and will be making some lists of who I left out.
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
V is for Vladimir, Vladimir and Voice
I know this guy Vladimir
He is a true friend ,very dear
His name in Russian means swan
I would like to go on
But a limerick's lengths very clear
For more A to Z challenge click here.
Saturday, April 23, 2022
T is for Tupelo, Thomas & Tower
Good evening and welcome to day 20 of the A to Z challenge. This year I chose 3 themes for the challenge: Limericks, MLB sluggers in my lifetime, and A to Z wordles. For more information about these themes click here.
If I spent the day in Tupelo
Where it's 14 above not below
While water would still freeze
28 more degrees
Would increase by old get up and go
From my Facebook account in the winter of 2014
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Monday, April 18, 2022
O is for Orange, Oliva, and Overt
Good morning and welcome to day 15 of the A to Z challenge. This year I chose 3 themes for the challenge: Limericks, MLB sluggers in my lifetime, and A to Z wordles. For more information about these themes click here.
Orange, is a wonderful fruit.
And has vitamin C to boot.
While it's no crime,
That it has no good rhyme.
It does make me want to say "shoot!"
Thursday, April 14, 2022
L is for Lima Beans, (E)L Caballo and Llama
Good morning and welcome to day 12 of the A to Z challenge. This year I chose 3 themes for the challenge: Limericks, MLB sluggers in my lifetime, and A to Z wordles. For more information about these themes click here.
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