The Beast

With $141 billion in unfunded pension liabilities and several members of my family being teachers, I’d rather their retirement be figured out instead of taxpayer funded stadiums.

But what happens if the hotel tax revenue is short and the Sox and or Bears stadium relies on that revenue? I have to think taxes will be coming from the infrastructure that would be needed unless that came from the capital projects law Pritzker signed.

Even the White Sox got roasted in a NFL Draft Meeting!

Wish it could be a retractable roof. Meh, it’s cool. But it’s not worth the taxpayer dollars given the financial situation of the state and Chicago. Yes. Budget gimmicks. They might have mentioned how at the press conference today, but I haven’t seen the financials yet.

Especially when there is nothing wrong with the facility they have aside from not maximizing profits with a neighborhood around the stadium.

Then the Sox should be prepared to not have fans in the middle class attend games either on a regular basis or at all. Those tailgating lots and parking spots make all of the difference for affordability to go to games. If they went to the loop and didn’t have much parking, they would need to ensure more fans attend games and that richer fans/more corporate types made going to Sox games a regular thing. Cubs fans have seen the record but there’s no need to be condescending. It’s clear the Sox suck and we have a crappy owner. I think the Cubs and Sox rivalry over the years has kind of died down now that both franchises have won a World Series. There will be taxes of some kind. They haven’t even approached the state or had anything voted on yet.

Better hope it is just an expansion team.

I hope you are all right and that anyone who thinks JR or the new owner will move the team are wrong. I have thought about if the Sox moved if I would need to be a Cubs fan by default to enjoy some baseball. I would not get the same attachment to them as I did the White Sox. There is no family history on the north side (except for my wife who is a Cubs fan) and my family grew up on the south side. I couldn’t do it. Parking at GRF is one of the easy things about going to the game. I can park and tailgate there and then go to a game for an affordable price. I can’t say the same at Wrigley. Wrigley’s concourse is a b**** to get around as well.

At least Mendick was hitting.

Low calls missed. But Kopech and Wilson bombs did this one in.

I wonder what a buyer thinks of Guaranteed Rate Field and doesn’t think their current home works for the White Sox and fans. I also wonder if a buyer would move them out of the state, or if we should be more concerned with JR threatening moving out of the state.

He may have, but this would only be a tentative agreement. I would have to go back to the Sox stadium thread for the financials, but what we know is they still owe on Soldier Field, Pritzker is not warming on the idea to financing anything but infrastructure to the new stadium and they were using an existing tax to try and get funding for the new stadium. The Bears and Sox both were supposed to provide proposals for public funding so how would this agreement with the city impact the Sox? Lots of questions remain unanswered…and nothing is set in stone until the ink dries and construction begins. Have teams forfeited picks to other teams or have they just forfeited picks and foregone their draft position? The latter is what I was thinking.

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And that because he was old he needed a quick turnaround?

Given their inability to score runs, is it a bad idea to literally get someone on, bunt someone over and use two outs to try and manufacture one run? Then again they need people to get on without an out or get on period… Every single game I turn on the at bats are brutal. I think I saw a swing by Fletcher where he was way late with his swing last night. At least when DeJong is up I feel better about him actually getting a hit worth a damn.

I just did not understand the rationale for trading Burger. Is it that they were risking him becoming injury prone again or that his power hitting was going away? Was it just that he was getting too old and they needed to get starting pitching? Or that they wanted to have a fire sale to replenish the farm?

At least Soroka wasn’t all bad tonight. I keep wanting to call him Sirotka.

Looks like the Texans voided the last few years of Diggs’ deal and paid him some additional salary this year to try and give him an incentive to play for a new contract.

Are Leone or Garcia worth a damn or are they going to be DFA candidates?

Exactly, or at least they will need starting pitchers. They can’t just start relievers. He doesn’t start though. The rotation is basically dog s%*# and they need more than just a few guys with starting experience. They also need to build a starting rotation in the coming years. I have been wanting another starting pitcher, it didn’t have to be Clevinger though.

We have gone to the DuPage Children’s Museum in Naperville. If you ever go, go early to avoid the crowds.

Sign Carl Edwards Jr. to the active roster and have him pitch behind Crochet or the number 5 starter as relief for the opener. Then trade him at the deadline if he’s worth anything or release him if he sucks.

I saw the note about the season ticket holders and thought that there were tickets on StubHub. I thought it might be a unique place to take my wife for a Sox game. The Club Level is awesome for when the weather sucks and from a viewing experience. I’ll go to the upper deck behind the plate on the lower rows so you can see everything. Otherwise I’ll search for good priced tickets by the dugout or in the outfield.