Alright, I’ve thought a little further about the whole Javier Vazquez trade, and the one thing i’m worried about is what’ll be happening to Brandon McCarthy. McCarthy was kind of the poster boy for this site and I still have high hopes for him, but it looks like for now he’s the odd man out. What I really hope Ozzie Guillen does is put him in the pen so he gets some quality innings at the major league level. I don’t think sending him back to AAA will do him any good and in addition, you have your sixth starter on the roster in case of an emergency.
The other thing I wanted to mention was the “state of the blog.” I’ve had a lot of fun and I’m coming up on a year since I started blogging about the White Sox. What turned out as being a hobby for an out of towner (I live in Northern Michigan and currently work in Nebraska) has turned into something a little more, and I really look forward to writing about the White Sox. I’m sure it didn’t hurt that they won it all this year either.
So sometime in early 2006, I’m going to move the site to it’s own domain and I’ll probably be using a platform that’s different then blogger. I’ll be sure to let everyone know what the RSS feed is so hopefully it’ll be a smooth transition and everyone will be able to find me. I’ll of course post the new domain here and I’ll keep the blogger site open for a while so people can track down the new URL.
I also have some historical pieces planned and a major project that goes along with it. I plan on switching between the Frank Thomas retros and the season lookbacks until the 1906 World Series team and then I’m going to stop for a while. I then plan on doing some more detailed bios of players on the 1906 team, and this will lead up to my big project in April.
If you’ve ever been to Tigerblog, he’s done day by day diaries of the 1984 Tigers, 1935 Tigers and the 1975 Reds (at Reds Cutting Edge). I’m going to take a stab at doing the same thing for the 1906 team seeing as it’s their 100th anniversary. So you’ll be able to relive the days of Fielder Jones, George Davis, Frank Isbell and one of the finest pitching staffs the White sox have ever fielded. I think it’ll be a lot of fun, and you’ll really get to see how games went during the dead ball era.
So I’m excited, and I hope you are too. If it’s successful, I’ll most likely do a 1917 White Sox diary to commemorate the 90 year anniversary of that team. So stayed tuned and thanks for stopping by.
