CHICAGO SPORTS SUCK! NO OTHER WAY TO PUT IT.
I am so sick & tired of Chicago baseball on both sides of town. The south side bangs the drum every year and convinces us the division title is in their grasp and 8 miles north, they bamboozle the fans with yet another rebuild after dumping the core in 2021. Both teams currently have a 10% chance of making the playoffs. I will take that wager.
So we welcome the month of June but say adios to the White Sox as they are now closer to last place than first place and are the model of inconsistency. NOW I HOPE THEY PROVE ME WRONG BUT this team has no chance to win the worst division in the American League where the 1st place team is just one game above .500 and that is so sad because the Sox have talent (and I normally save this for the north side) BUT they have no heart and no leaders in the club house. They don't have a single player hitting over .270 and the last time they caught anything, it was a cold. Just terrible.
It's time to back up the truck and start dismissing personnel because we all know that JERRY REINSDORF won't sell the team so you have to start just below him and dump GM RICK HAHN and VP KENNY WILLIAMS, who have accomplished NOTHING during their time as administrators.
You keep position players GAVIN SHEETS, ELOI JIMENEZ, TIM ANDERSON ANDREW VAUGHAN, ANDREW BENINTENDI, LUIS ROBERT and JAKE BURGER and dump the rest of these mutts.
Pitchers??? Give LANCE LYNN directions to the nearest all-you-can-eat buffet and you'll never see him again. HE STINKS! Tell mental midget MICHAEL KOPECH to catch a bus and also waive public relations disaster and over the hill weirdo MIKE CLEVENGER.
You keep LIAM HENDRICKS, LUCAS GIOLITO, DYLAN CEASE, MIDDLETON, SANTOS, CROCHET, LAMBERT, KELLY and dump the rest.
DONE. FINISHED. FINAL. OVERPAID UNDERACHIEVERS.
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And it doesn't get any better on the north side where they are in last place while playing in the worst National League division. They have 5 position players who would qualify as major leaguers in HOERNER, SUZUKI, HAPP, BELLINGER and SWANSON. And don't campaign for Patrick Wisdom because he's a 31 year old career minor leaguer who's a .220 hitter who hits homers every once in a while. And that's it. make a big trade with the other 9 on the roster and PLEASE get rid of high school cheerleader Christopher Morel.
Pitchers? This is easy. Just remember the letter 'S' and keep SMYLY, STROMAN and STEELE and flush the rest of the crap.
The front office sold cub fans a bill of goods in 2021 when they traded all the stars because "it was time to retool this team so we can compete again." Still waiting................while owner Tom Ricketts continues to count his money because all of the boot lickers keep buying tickets and packing the Clark street bars.....and he OWNS most of that including all of the roof tops. Not to mention all cub sycophants paying ten bucks a month for the much maligned MARQEE NETWORK, A.K.A. 'rerun city'. Exactly how many times can you watch '15 best 2nd basemen of all time'???
But I digress. They, too, are an embarrassment to the city of Chicago.
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Explain this to me. Why is it that the YANKEES, DODGERS, BRAVES, RAYS, ASTROS & MILWAUKEE are fighting for division titles EVERY FREAKIN YEAR??? and the JAYS, RED SOX, METS, CARDINALS are also normally there. EVERY YEAR.
White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf once said, "When you win, fans expect it every year but if you finish second or third, their optimism stays high but their expectations low." And this guy owns two of our major teams in Chicago. Wonderful.
But it COULD BE WORSE. The Oakland A's are 11-45 and averaging 8,800 fans with only two players ranked as 'major league ready' and they are currently on pace to lose 117 games. The major league record is 120 by the 1962 New York Mets. Ouch.
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Now let's move to the Bears, who have almost everyone drinking the Kool-aid but not old Uncle Dan. Let's see what we have so far.
One defensive back refusing camp unless he gets a new deal and one wide receiver who was a major disappointment already injured. They have no edge rushers which means the other QB has all day to throw passes and the DB's can only cover for so long. And today they said they're going to highlite running the football in a pass crazy league. Perfect.
But here is the cherry on top.....LAS VEGAS HAS SET THE WIN TOTAL AT 7.5 and the last time I checked, Vegas was not in the habit of giving away money so figure 7-10 or 8-9 and that doesn't look like playoffs to me.
History Lesson---last year, Vegas set the number at 6.5 and the Bears won 3. So with all the supposed improvements, sin city moved the Bears ONE GAME up from last year.
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The Blackhawks got lucky in the draft and will chose wunderkind CONNOR BEDARD with the #1 pick. Now all they need is 19 more players...........the good thing is that ticket sales for the downtrodden Hawks have skyrocketed. Money is good.
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I have to get some fresh air. Bye for now.
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