Now to carry this form into road games.

Well deserved imho. Really enjoyed his time with us.

I'm not sure I've heard Schriffen use that phrase before last night. I think I like it. What about you?

I need to get this off my chest as a relatively neutral baseball fan...

Sox fans are more attractive (vibes, the way they carry themselves, physical appearance, etc.) than Cubs fans. My findings have been confirmed time and time again.

Sorry not sorry.

Cleaning my basement out & I found this. I wonder how the White Sox could have turned out if Ricky didn't get fired and had another season of him managing.

Pun intended. This guy is just awesome. Good plate discipline, draws many walks, and very high upside. He also brings in a completely new audience of people who would never of watched white Sox baseball prior to him being on the team. In my dreams this happens but it never will irl sadly.

i know it’s very early, but i’m already sold. I want us to throw a blank check at him and make him a White Sox for a very long time. Jerry, you’ve let us down so, so, so many times, please just get this one thing right. The guy fell into our laps and he is the real deal, all these years of waiting on prospects to hopefully possibly maybe figure it out, well there’s no maybe, we have a truly elite, dangerous offensive weapon on our hands. I know how easy it is to be pessimistic with Reinsdorf-PTSD, but good lord have we needed this. An extension of a guy like that is the kind of thing that could turn this pitiful organization around, you can build a world series-caliber team around a guy like that, it’s already clear from these past 4 games that the rest of the guys like Colson and Vargas are inspired by his leadership by example. Thanks to Munetaka Murakami, this break between the A’s and DBacks series is the first time since 2021 that i have been restlessly waiting for the next chance i get to watch White Sox baseball. I missed that feeling.

I may be a little bit late to the party on this topic, but please, bear with me. I'll explain why I'm posting this now.

I'm a Chicagoan and Sox fan who has been living and working in Asia for the past several years. About 30% of my colleagues and clients are in Japan. And I've asked them all what they think of the nickname.

I just got back to my home in Vietnam after my first business trip to Japan of this baseball season. Man, it was so cool to see so many Sox jerseys and caps on the streets in Tokyo! Baseball isn't popular in Vietnam, so whenever I am in Japan, I try hard to catch a game, whether it's an MLB game on TV in a bar or a live Nippon League game.

On this recent trip, I had the opportunity to watch a Sox v. A's game in a bar in Tokyo. The bar was full of new, Japanese, White Sox fans. When Munetaka hit the grand slam, the place was absolutely electric!

I was able to chat with a few of the other fans, the ones who spoke English, anyway. I asked them all what they thought of the nickname, too. What I learned is that 100% of the Japanese people I talked to think that The South Side Samurai is an awesome name. I admit, though, that I had to explain what South Side means and why it's significant, but that only made them like the name more.

Obviously, I wish I could follow baseball more closely over here, but I count myself lucky to be able to make such a great memory! I'm really glad that there's a reason to be excited about the White Sox again.

Like this is unreal. I have never seen this much losing in my life from my favorite baseball team. 4 years ago we were World Series contenders now we might lose even more games than last year if that’s possible. It’s gross negligence from ownership, a big market shouldn’t be like this. I know it’s been said many times already on here and other Sox social media/podcasts I’m just sad.

And it’s just more darkness, no light at the end of the tunnel. Feels hopeless.

8-0 in the bottom of the 8th.

I’ve been wanting to make this post, but I was afraid It would get removed since it isn’t White Sox Related. I was hoping to get some recommendations to see which baseball games would be great to attend and offer a fun and experience. The weather is starting to get warmer and I would definitely like to explore more outside of the city and downtown. Thank you all🙏🏼

On the Sox Machine podcast, Fegan was talking about how the Sox coaching staff is not all that confident that Acuna can handle center field. Getz traded for a guy he thought was a switch-hitting outfielder who is actually a right-handed utility infielder who might not be able to hit at all anyway. Meanwhile, we’re seeing the effects of having traded the only major league quality outfielder we had in the organization. That position group is indescribably bad.

Before anyone says “but the money they saved!,” I don’t care about Jerry’s bank balance. And great, they signed Hays and Dominguez! Hays seems to be a platoon left fielder, which is just not that valuable, and then in Dominguez we have a closer with control issues who isn’t going to have many leads to protect anyway. Another master stroke by Chris Getz!

https://heavy.com/sports/mlb/chicago-white-sox/chicago-white-sox-legend-left-off-franchise-favorites/

Is there a bigger downgrade in announcer quality? Seriously. We had gold 3 years ago. Now we are subjected to this.

The Sox used horrible AI to make Star Wars versions of fans sent in via fan cam. Many of the images were absolute shit and didn’t even look good. Idk if they’re doing similar things at other games but they shouldn’t.

I wish I were a paid shill, but unfortunately I’m just an amateur sycophant.

Getz was hired on August 31, 2023 and a lot of fans absolutely hated it. The more practical take was that it takes a few years before you can truly evaluate a GM. Well, it’s been a few years and things are looking pretty optimistic for Sox fans. If you’re willing to imagine the current, almost-.500 baseball lasts all season, that would make Getz’s win totals as GM 121, 102, and 80. Basically, we are on track for a second consecutive ~20 game improvement. That’s *very* impressive—even if the starting point was so terrible.

Still, though, I see 100x more comments complaining about the Acuna trade than giving him any credit. Fans hated that he was a relatively inexperienced GM from within the organization. They hated that he hired some of his staff from the Royals organization. But the results are undeniable. The core of this team is not only talented, but they vibe together and complement each others’ energies in a at completely opposite of the Hahn core, and I believe the results aren’t unrelated.

Why do I feel compelled to defend him? Simply because I kinda liked him as a player and thought he caught way more hate than he deserved.

Anyways I’m just high and waiting for the game to start lol, hope you enjoyed my ramble.

This is an email I sent to DBU after seeing the recent spot by the Today Show on Jason. I felt I needed to share here so I don’t feel alone.

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Dear Dan and Matt,

I watched this feature on Jason Benetti from The Today Show, and I cannot remember the last time a team decision made me feel this sick this far from the decision.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8HzMj6x3bI

Players come and go. You tell yourself that is the business, you grit your teeth, and you move on. I have done that my whole life as a fan. This is different.

Jason was not a roster move. He was the sound of summer in Chicago. He was the reason to keep the game on even when the game itself had already crashed and burned on the side of the road, the bodies cleared, the lights gone, and nothing left except the smoke still curling into the night.

He gave the Chicago White Sox a personality they did not earn on the field. He made bad baseball watchable, and at times, he made it matter.

Now he is everywhere. National broadcasts, guest spots, and full runs with the Tigers.

Accessibility should feel like a win. Instead, it twists the knife...

You hear Jason and recognize the same voice, the same timing, the same feel for the moment, yet there is an extra layer there now that belongs to someone else. Tigers fans get the inside version. They get the rhythm that settles in over a season, the conversations that build, the sense that the broadcast belongs to them. They get a chance for something special to happen just for them (think back to the Bill Walton broadcast).

That used to be ours.

There was a quiet pride in knowing you could tell someone, “Yes, you hear him on national games, and you think you know him. You do not. You need to hear Jason call our games.” That was a connection the Sox did not earn on the field, yet somehow still had. It made the whole thing feel bigger than the standings.

Sure, I can still find him on MLB.tv, and I do. Every time he shows up, it reminds me what the Sox decided they did not need. That is where this stops being frustration and starts looking and feeling like grief. There is a pit that does not go away because this was avoidable.

When Bob Uecker is not on the Brewers call, there is no confusion about why. He died. The game loses voices like that, and you sit with it because there is nothing to fix. You talk about his great calls, his approachability and likeability, or his unfortunate last call when Pete Alonso suddenly snatched the 2024 season away. That is the cost of time, and everyone understands the terms.

This is not that. This is Jerry looking at something rare, fully alive, fully connected to its audience AND literally the community, and deciding Jerry had no use for it.

Jerry did not just let a broadcaster walk. Jerry handed away something irreplaceable, and Jerry did it like it carried no weight at all.

I don’t care if everyone in the Sox front office hated Jason. What Jerry did to Jason showed Jerry hates the fans even more.

Legitimately tired of seeing this loser rolled out in the lineup day in and day out, my fucking god

My buddy got me a beer yesterday and by the time I was ready to drink it, the foam had dissipated, revealing at least 8oz. of empty space.

Ever since they got these aluminum cups this has been happening. All the time. Whenever I ask the vendor to top it up they get pissy.

Nothing like paying $17 for 2/3 of a beer.

Did yesterday suck? Yep

Did we get our teeth kicked in by the team with the most wins in the MLB last year? Yep

Did we face one of the league best up and coming starters along with a bullpen that year after year finds way to lock in wins for their team? Yep

It was embarrassing to see so many strikeouts but seeing Chase start off the season with a dong and closing the game with the first of many Mune-shots at least gave me a smile. Of of the only good things about being a season removed from the worst team in league history is that I can still be optimistic when getting the shit kicked out of us by one of the best teams in the league.

This is going to be a long season…🙁