Chicago White Sox Plans For 2008 Season

Posted by admin on October 19th, 2007 filed in White Sox Tickets, Baseball, Sports

Have you ever attended any MLB team organizational meetings? Even if the answer is no, it is quite easy to imagine how the proceedings might actually play out.

Let us picture the 2-day affair that ended this past Monday in Arizona. With the Chicago White Sox coming off their 1st 90-loss season in eighteen years, the average club fan could almost hear the angry frustration expressed by Jerry Reinsdorf team chairman.

One could also envision Greg Walker, the team’s hitting coach, bending the ear of Ken Williams general manager to go after a promising free agent like Torii Hunter. Meanwhile Don Cooper perhaps made his case for money to be allocated to bullpen help that is so much needed.

The meetings were very lively as when the team was coming off their first World Series title in almost 92 years back. However, in scope they were much more general as compared to the past years.

Don Cooper stated, rather categorically, how it would be impossible to judge the return of some particular pitchers, when a couple of names were broached to him. Neither Don Cooper nor Greg Walker really made any sort of pitches to Ken Williams for specific additions, despite of the fact that the shortcomings became quite obvious in each respective discipline of the coach during the 72-90 performance.

According to Don Cooper, this was a horrible year, although in 2005 and 2006, the things seemed to bounce their way. The 2007 season was the exact opposite. If it could go wrong, in any form, pitching, hitting, defense, it really did go wrong.