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Absolutely. And while I’m grateful for the season (and playoff win), there’s a feeling that the Bears may be in store for a huge letdown next year. I can only hope the coaches and Poles feel similarity. The “magic” of the late game comebacks and defensive turnover abilities masked a lot of issues. I understand the clutchness and will to win from Williams - but that completion percentage needs work. I believe he even acknowledged it yesterday. We’ll also need to spend a significant amount of draft capital on the defense. No one expected the Bears to be winning a Super Bowl this season. But the path was there to make an unexpected run.

I was thinking Lase Meidrosa, but that sounds awfully sultry.

Hello Cashman. You can have Luis Robert for 1-year and $22 million of 2-years and $40 million.

They're interviewing Bienemy because Nagy's contract is up.

Pretty confident that Nagy is getting a HC job lol

I thought that losing wouldn't hurt after last week, but the fact they had a miracle play to tie it and were 15 yards away from possibly winning it in OT stings a lot. This really felt like a special team with how they came back in games. I think the future is bright for the team, but we might never experience the level of magic this team had again.

My thoughts exactly. If we can somehow get a 3rd for DJ, Poles should do it. It saves us about 16.5 million in cap space. The WR free agency class is pretty weak outside of Pickens. But he's probably gonna get franchise tagged. The draft isn't loaded at WR either, especially at where the Bills pick. The top 3 guys are probably all gone by the time the Bills pick in the 20s.

A part of a long interview I did with Wilbur in 2005: ML: The White Sox fell on miserable times in the late 60's and 1970. I think they lost more games in that three-year period than at any other time in franchise history. The Sox lost 106 games in 1970 alone, it had to be agony going to the park every day. I don’t know how you guys kept your sanity! WW: “It was awful. I’ll tell you how bad it was. The only games that I ever wanted to come into were games where I could pick up a save. I never wanted to go into games where the score was tied because I knew and everybody on the team knew, that we’d find some way to lose the game. We had no chance. The pitchers knew it and the position players knew it.” ML: Your teammate Joe Horlen told me about his 1971 spring training injury which caused him to miss most of the season. But that’s only half of the story because as a direct result of his injury, Chuck Tanner began considering the option of making you a starting pitcher. I have heard you were against the move but for the sake of the team decided to give it a try. Why the initial opposition? WW: “That was a strange situation because even before the injury I was almost traded. It’s true...the Sox had a deal in place with Washington. I was going to be traded for Darold Knowles. But I was holding out that year, I was fighting for more money and I never signed a contract. So the trade was null and void. It was pretty apparent that Chuck (Tanner) didn’t want me in the bullpen. He wanted hard throwing guys and we had players like Terry Forster and “Goose” Gossage coming up so I became a starter. Roland Hemond said this one time and it’s true, “Sometimes the best trades are the ones you don’t make.”

A Christmas miracle. Caulfield is going to have so much pent-up caulfield-ness when he returns. That will be a day of reckoning.

Officially three weeks until pitchers and catchers report. Anybody have any data on how this years FA compares to prior years? Seems every offseason we slide more and more towards extremely late signings. I'm not a "the economics are broken" guy but it can't be healthy for the sport as a whole to have so many late signings. An arbitrary deadline will never happen but this is probably the result of only a half dozen or so of the (usually) same teams swimming in that top FA tier. As the Yankees just did in @WestEddy post these teams have the leverage to wait and not engage in back and forths -- as suitors are limited.

Amazing. I never thought I'd see the day where a ban bet was enforced here. I won a few back in the day that didn't get enforced. Greg better think twice about betting his house on here anymore.

losing bieniemy would be huge

are the bears seriously moving to another state, how could that even happen

January 19, 1909 - Sox owner Charles Comiskey purchased a piece of land on the corner of 35th and Shields from Roxanna Bowen. The site would be used to build the original Comiskey Park on, starting in March 1910. In only four months the steel and concrete stadium would be opened and ready for use. January 19, 1972 - Early Wynn, who helped the White Sox to the 1959 pennant, was elected to the Hall of Fame with 76 per cent of the vote. Wynn made it on his fourth ballot, slowly working his way up the vote count before crossing the 75 per cent threshold. He’d win exactly 300 games in his long career and in 1959 the year the White Sox won the pennant, he captured the Cy Young Award on the basis of 22 wins, an ERA of 3.17 and over 255 innings pitched. He played five years with the club winning 64 games.

Yes. On Christmas. Never forget.

Precisely

No worries. Caulfield will be back on the first day of Spring Training — February 20th. It’s just a month away.

Did caulfield lose a ban bet and get temporarily banned?

Sox Machine with a nice recap of Wood's career: https://soxmachine.com/2026/01/wilbur-woods-workload-will-continue-to-astound By the way it's embarrassing that the Sox own website has a very generic story on him written by someone who only gives the basics of his career very little insight. And the Sun-Times is even worse, story written by someone who clearly knows very little about him.

The Tribune's Brad Biggs 10 points from the game has a terrific and honest look at the entire Bears stadium situation. It is point 10 in his long story: "Here’s what I know: There has been frustration at Halas Hall that the stadium project has not already started. There’s more optimism inside the building than there has been for some time that actual progress might not be far off. Here’s what I think: Indiana is moving quickly because the best chance the Hoosier state has is to play ball and prove the obstacles to a stadium in Illinois do not exist across the border. The Bears, whose leadership and lobbyists haven’t been savvy enough to get traction in Springfield on their own, are now going to use maximum leverage on folks in Illinois. “This is not about leverage,” President/CEO Kevin Warren wrote in a letter to fans last month. Phooey." He writes a lot more about the situation: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/19/chicago-bears-brad-biggs-10-thoughts-rams-playoffs/

With caulfield gone, we’re finding ourselves tempted to post like caulfield. Is this Stockholm syndrome? Is this a new psychological condition, first incubated on soxtalk.com? Caulfield syndrome?

This is a well done story on the Dodgers and the upcoming labor situation: "The league needs a system that further incentivizes the low-payroll teams to spend. Give them more money, but force them to spend it on players. That sounds great in theory, but if owners raise the floor, they will want to lower the ceiling. That is a salary cap, and there’s no indication it will ever happen. The players stood firm against a cap in 1994, striking that August before the owners could unilaterally impose one. The standoff cancelled the World Series and delayed the next season. The lesson: insisting on a salary cap is a warhead so dangerous it should never be deployed again. You can’t win a war by destroying the planet." https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6981877/2026/01/19/los-angeles-dodgers-mlb-free-agency-economics/?source=dailyemail&campaign=601983&userId=602876&source=dailyemail

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6982047/2026/01/18/wilbur-wood-knuckleball-white-sox-death/?source=athletic_thewindup_newsletter&campaign=16499593&userId=602876

And if you had told Johnson that they’d hold the Rams to 17 through four quarters, he probably takes that fucking field goal. But it was a hell of a season. And I don’t think anyone’s beating Seattle.