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Interesting you bring up Atlanta. Wouldn't that be the blueprint for an Arlington Heights development in the suburbs? They left the city. We could also mention the Rangers who went suburban.

I think what Getz did best at the deadline was hanging on to key players. He swung and missed on some gambles. I'm trying to remember the last GM to leave the Sox and get hired anywhere. Their career exit is usually toes before nose. If Getz was fired today I believe he'd be hired quickly.

The Battery in Atlanta has been so wildly successful that other teams are racing to create their own stadium districts. The Baseball Village in St. Louis has also been a huge success. Downtown St. Louis is pretty dead other than the Arch and the Busch Stadium/Baseball Village development as far as I could tell, but that's not the fault of the stadium development and the Baseball Village has been a big success for the Cardinals nonetheless.

Chase is a gold glove candidate at second base. Antonacci is one of the best hitters so he has to be in the line-up. Sam has said that he does not want to DH on a regular basis so where else, other than LF, would he play? So...OF - Sam in LF, Doyle in CF, Peters in RF....because Tristan is a better fielder and hitter than Braden IMO. Braden becomes the 4th outfielder. Infield stays the same, unless one of the SS prospects blows everyone away in Spring Training. At this point, that seems unlikely, IMO.

Ishbia mentioned at the conference the other day how they took the NBA Suns off cable TV and put them on free TV. I wonder if that's the game plan for the White Sox in the future. Free TV would reach more fans than cable.

I wonder how many of the "ballpark as a center piece for development" plans have worked out. It didn't in San Antonio so they are heading back downtown.

Poor guys, how will they survive until they can pluck the top free agents to make another run at it?

It's great to hear all of this, plus plans for entire neighborhoods, instead of just a ballpark.

The Brewers trade players all of the time.

you're right, I was watching a Just Baseball podcast and I could've sworn they said his K rate went up but it indeed did go down, 29% in A+ to 25% in AA, either way 25% in AA could translate to 30+ in the big leagues, I hope they have people in place to make him a more well rounded hitter rather than into another Colson Montgomery or Murakami

I am no longer an Illinois taxpayer so I'll keep this more general. Taxpayers funds recreational facilities throughout their community. People fund dog parks who don't own dogs. National parks they never visit. Historic sites they don't understand. So I'm not always against tax payers funding a stadium. Soon San Antonio will have three stadiums standing that the Spurs have all called home. They will all continue to exist and host events. The city who gladly finance a football or baseball stadium of the leagues would vote to expand to San Antonio.

Similarly, this part about how the Ishbia brothers decided to put initial prioritization on growing the team fanbase, as opposed to maximizing funds, stood out to me: So it would seem Justin is very much interested in both growing the target audience of the White Sox with a new stadium while also ensuring that us existing fans have the accessibility to continue to support the team and watch/attend games. Wonderful.

Yeah, I guess Dodgers fans will have to cry over the 3 WS trophies that team won in this decade alone.....matching the total WS titles for the Sox in 120+ years.....when they realize the Sox won more playoff games this postseason.

It almost seems too good to be true that the Sox have an owner-in-waiting who is serious about building a privately-financed new ballpark and is putting many things in motion to make it happen. It would be such a White Sox thing if this effort fails and we spend the next 30 years arguing that the existing ballpark is not that bad and that the current location is not that bad if only people would give it a chance, blah blah blah. Yeah, it'll be very disappointing.....but as a Sox fan I'm conditioned to expect that we can't have nice things. So while I'm cautiously optimistic, I won't believe it's happening until there are shovels in the ground. The A's, Rays, and Royals are all getting new ballparks. Kroenke is buying the Angels and I expect him to either massively overhaul their stadium or build a new one at the current site. After that, if the Sox stay at Rate Field long-term, it'll likely be ranked 29th or 30th when ballpark rankings come out. Now cue the hyperbolic outrage and personal attacks in 3....2....1.....

Fair enough, was hoping that was a significant contributor. His approach needs to improve obviously, but if he had a disc issue, I’d be more confident that could be fixed.

Bummer… herniated disc could be more easily addressed

the mental illness of trade frenzy. Trade players which we think will be of full value. This is what small market habitual losing organizations do. They are not the Brewers. Yet our crystal ball says Roch is a sure thing but we seem to forget this sport is also plagued with injuries. Sports are full of a "sure thing" but it doesn't always work that way. I love it when lower picks turn out. I always wondered what it is like to be a fan of a large market. We talk trades, they talk signings. We have a lot more in common with A's fans than Dodger's fans.

112 mph exit velocity. The guy is a beast. Quit rooting for his failure and join the bandwagon @southsider2k5

Isn't that often the case when they leave the organization? Somewhere guys that don't pan out can be backup players or be searching the waiver wire for the next Andrus. I get it if players aren't ready. The AFL is a really small sample size. You have A pitchers working on a single pitch. It's also a rehab environment. It bums me the 'great savior" Roch can't be there. Given his short sample size we fall into the foolishness of this being a predictable sport.

How is Bonemer looking in CF? I'm not sure he has the speed to stick there. I know they are trying to find a spot for him with alot of the corners clogged but it doesn't seem like a defensive fit.

Meh… they’ll still have a $350 million dollar payroll and be in the playoffs again next season.

So far technology has stalled the middle class who are working longer hours for lower standards of living. Capitalism doesn't reward altruism. Companies will start offering 32 hour work weeks without benefits, the Walmart model with lower and lower standards of living. One party celebrated closing government offices and putting people out of work. Are they really going to celebrate shorter work weeks for the same pay?

This Sox on 35th write up is rather lengthy (it says a 16 minutes read time at the top) but an interesting read. It discusses how Shore Capital operates: So, it sounds like their business model is not simply to buy up businesses, suck them dry, and sell off the husk of what remains as I've heard countless times on Soxtalk. Imagine that. This was an interesting statement: I'm all for that! I doubt that'll ever happen in this country and the current "work until you drop dead" philosophy, but that's the first time I heard a billionaire envision that. Usually their vision of the future is people being tied in to work for even longer hours during the week thanks to technology.

I think his struggles started with the back problems in June. Then he fouled off 2 pitches off his leg in a week in July. I'm sure those things didn't help, but I don't know if they had much to do with how bad he was in August and September. The late season struggles seemed far more mental than physical.

That's a very good discussion by Josh Nelson about the current status of the South Loop, how it compares to the growth in the West Loop, and Ishbia's grand vision for the South Loop beyond just a baseball stadium. I also found the discussion about Lot G (beginning at around 23:10) very interesting. So, ISFA might not own all of Lot G as part of it might belong to Union Pacific/Amtrak? He brings up a very good point of where Amtrak employees at the facility would park with Lot G being the most obvious answer. As he says, that could impact parking availability for Sox fans. Though, I suppose most Amtrak workers would be there during regular weekday work hours, which rarely conflicts with Sox games. It'll be a 24/7 facility, but after hours would be for emergency repairs and it wouldn't be fully staffed on weekends or at night.