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that $125 million payroll was them trying to "win" yet they lost badly.

both those clubs had bad contracts for a while in the first phase of each rebuild. the cubs had alfonso soriano until 2014. the sox were lucky enough to move team friendly contracts for prospects quickly, and used a dumpster find (kahnle) to move the real bad paper (robertson and fraizer). big difference when the "dump salary mode" i less than a calendar year. as for the attendance and ratings? they still draw less than 2013, which was a dumpster fire, but when your team is slighly better than dogshit for the first time in a few years and the sox keep offering flash sales and ballpark passes, you draw a little better. i mean, they were offering summer weekend games for $7.04! in the lower deck!

that was a completely different time and place. the way teams were built (and bought) and postseason alignment was radically different then. The yankees were able to sign ANYONE of value and if they needed depth, they just went to their farm team the Kansas city athletics and poached what they wanted. If there was a two division format then, the sox would have made several ALCS type playoff rounds.

they got jim thome at a discount. philly wanted ryan howard as their full time 1B, and were willing to give the sox $22 million to move thome to get it done.

no terms announced, but the ownership stake is larger and i doubt they would have kept the same deal financially, seeing as the network is now in a dispute with dish and directv.

they were losing badly with a 125 million dollar payroll. now they are losing with a 70 million dollar payroll. but attendanc eis actually up and tv ratings on the station they part own are up. do the math.

at one point in the 2006 season, SEVEN out of nine starters in the sox lineup were hitting better than .275. the two that were WELL under? Juan uribe and brian anderson. now which player was criticized by the manager for not hitting and replaced by rob fucking mackowiak? it wasn't the guy who made a hot dog play in the world series and eventually had his fat ass immortalized on a gate 4 plaza relief, i can tell you that. never mind that the rookie was an above average outfielder and you just traded for a guy that effectively replaced the production of both your 2005 DH combo AND your 2005 center fielder. i'm tired of this anderson 2006 bullshit. juan uribe sucked that year, but his buddy ozzie never talked about about his fat ass and horrible defense. you DON'T NEED your number 9 hitter to be a batting champ in the american league! and let's be honest, rowand was overrated. people liked him because he was a bears fan and ran into walls. look at his giants tenure for proof.

because it's CHEAPER! the sox got three cost controlled prospects AND 60 million dollars in bonus payments and penalties for three years of a cost controlled chris sale from the red sox. the sox get a pass from the national and local media for cost cutting during a "rebuild" because the recent evidence (2015-2017 WS winners) makes them "smart" not cheap. The payroll has drastically dropped the last three years, and the sox were able to trade most of their bad paper for cheaper prospects. meanwhile, ticket prices went up 12% as the sox now charge you tax above the ticket face value, and the tv deal was re-upped at a significant increase. the "investors" are quite happy with their returns.

it may have gotten better as the one guy died. i listened once years ago and almost chopped my fingers off to dull the pain of listening.

hawk was nowhere near the cream of the crap.

He’s on track to pass the jerry loyalty test. So yes, his number will get retired. And a statue.

He has a young family and he doesn’t “need” the paycheck. The fox gigs fit him nicely. Maybe in 5-10 years, when his kids are older, you see him here.

I like Jason, but even his haters would have to admit there is some horrible announcing around the league. Seattle comes to mind.

Singleton took a tv analyst role when he left the Sox. He’s all over the ocho’s baseball broadacasts. Doing occasional radio games is part of that. Jason is a part time play by play guy. For guys like him, a local gig is the dream. It pays more in the long term. Dave wills LOVED doing pre and post for the Sox, but he left for a play by play gig. He said in an old WSI interview (before he left for Tampa), that was always the goal. Play by play. If the Sox gig opened, he would have loved it, but at the time Rooney was going nowhere. Jason is going nowhere. If anything, you may see a part time broadcast crew(which is not unusual now) fill in the gaps if espn has him do more baseball

Thank Christ.

I agreed to his point. Your comment was not needed or wanted.

No.

Tatis was worth 27 million dollars of James shields’ salary and getting Erik Johnson the hell out of dodge. Thats all jerry cares about. The jones trade clears payroll to increase profit. Losing the international pool money is nothing to him. Because that “free money” isn’t free. It’s mlb telling teams what they are looked to spend as international signing bonuses.

No excuse. But the Sox have a reason they won’t spend. It’s called jerry reinsdorf.

You should read before you post. And not just my reply.

That’s exactly what happened in San Diego and Philadelphia. The two teams with the largest increase in attendance from 2018 to 2019.

The Sox had severe international pool penalties for signing Robert. They cannot exceed a certain amount of international bonus pool money in 2018 2019 and 2020. They are trading gift cards for restaurants that are in another town for a coupon for one in their town. Jones salary was picked up by tejas. The pool money was just a cherry on top.

I have a question. Why would the white Sox, who TRADED sale three years ago for kopech, moncada, basabe, AND 60 million dollars(Boston paid for moncada’s bonus and penalty), want to trade any top prospect for an older and beat up Chris sale that is owed 150 million dollars over the next five years?

Not at all. Not with this front office.

Good for you.