01-05-2009, 06:02 PM
<!--quoteo(post=9111:date=Jan 5 2009, 03:25 PM:name=cherp)-->QUOTE (cherp @ Jan 5 2009, 03:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=9099:date=Jan 5 2009, 02:44 PM:name=BT)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BT @ Jan 5 2009, 02:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->If you want to start feeling better about yourselves, try doing this for the White Sox. I've put no thought at all into it, but I'm pretty sure their collection of talent is worse than ours.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I figure it is appropriate if I take a quick swing. Working all time. It's more sad if we just look at guys in my lifetime - but also equally sad that the Sox had no great 1B or RF that played the game prior to this generation.
Chicago baseball, on both sides of town, has been fairly awful for...well... a long long long time. Each team has had a few bright spots, and a few great players, but it is truly amazing at the crap we have had also.
C - Fisk, Lollar, Schalk
1B - Thomas, Konerko and a lot of junk
2B - Collins, Fox, Durham
SS - Aparicio, Appling and Guillen (Guillen way behind the other two)
3B - Ventura, Melton
RF - Baines, Ordonez
CF - Loads of junk (Landis/Johnson) the best of the worst
LF - Joe Jackson, Minnie Minoso and Lee
SP Walsh, Ciccote, Wood, Lyons, Pierce
RP - Thigpen, Wilhelm, Jenks
The Sox have had significantly worse ownership and management than the Cubs over many of the years also. For all my dislike of the Trib and what they have done to the Cubs, most ownerships on the South side prior to Mr. Reinsdorf have been fairly weak.
And to the best of my memory, there has been no manager in this town worse than Terry Bevington. None at all. I'd take the "College of Coaches" any day over Bevington.
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It's better than I thought, but what really stands out is the lack of guys after 1940 or so.
I figure it is appropriate if I take a quick swing. Working all time. It's more sad if we just look at guys in my lifetime - but also equally sad that the Sox had no great 1B or RF that played the game prior to this generation.
Chicago baseball, on both sides of town, has been fairly awful for...well... a long long long time. Each team has had a few bright spots, and a few great players, but it is truly amazing at the crap we have had also.
C - Fisk, Lollar, Schalk
1B - Thomas, Konerko and a lot of junk
2B - Collins, Fox, Durham
SS - Aparicio, Appling and Guillen (Guillen way behind the other two)
3B - Ventura, Melton
RF - Baines, Ordonez
CF - Loads of junk (Landis/Johnson) the best of the worst
LF - Joe Jackson, Minnie Minoso and Lee
SP Walsh, Ciccote, Wood, Lyons, Pierce
RP - Thigpen, Wilhelm, Jenks
The Sox have had significantly worse ownership and management than the Cubs over many of the years also. For all my dislike of the Trib and what they have done to the Cubs, most ownerships on the South side prior to Mr. Reinsdorf have been fairly weak.
And to the best of my memory, there has been no manager in this town worse than Terry Bevington. None at all. I'd take the "College of Coaches" any day over Bevington.
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It's better than I thought, but what really stands out is the lack of guys after 1940 or so.
I wish that I believed in Fate. I wish I didn't sleep so late. I used to be carried in the arms of cheerleaders.