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Yea! The White Sox make Jeff Passan's "Winning the Offseason" list. Those banners hang forever!! MLB free agency: Offseason winners, teams in need of a move - ESPN

I'm sure Ishbia knows this. It's probably why he dropped his Twins bid when the chance to buy the Sox came up.

LIke I said before, I have no doubt Indiana will whore itself out in order to try to win this. Really it is up to Illinois to how deep they want to dig.

There must be accountability or else the integrity of ban bets will be in question.

Yeah he seems like he’s just a placeholder until Cole and Rodon come back.

Despite the big velo, Weathers has never done much for me. Every team thinks they can get more out of him, but he's just not very good.

Detroit has spent more money than the Sox, but Cleveland, KC and Min are in the bottom 6 in spending so far.

He chose to be nicer to everyone else

If the goal is to get satisfaction out of telling the Bears to "kiss our ass" and they move to Indiana and build their privately-funded stadium across the state line, Illinois will still owe $500M on the Soldier Field renovations. Do I think the Bears should make some concessions? Yes. But if all the state wants to do is tell the McCaskeys to kiss their asses because they're billionaires, that's a sure fire way to get a stadium built in Hammond. At least Pritzker is sounding like he's open to negotiations. All the previous talk about IL not even considering a Bears stadium deal for at least another year, if not longer (until IL solves all crime, poverty, and fills all potholes) is a good way to drive businesses out of state. That doesn't mean I agree with giving everything the Bears want, but it sounds like some state officials aren't even interested in negotiating. They just want to be able to tell people they told the Bears to go to hell.

A nicer guy would have taken the W and allowed him to continue posting. 🤣

Looking at this roster, I still think the Sox end up trading both Sosa & Lee before Opening Day. Mead certainly sucked last year, but offers a similar hitting profile to Sosa, is a better defender, and has more years of control. Given that Mead is out of options and Sosa should theoretically have some trade value after last season, I could Getz cashing in and giving the limited bench role to Mead instead. The Lee situation is pretty obvious. If you keep both Teel & Quero, there is simply not enough playing time for him and he becomes nothing but an insurance policy against in-game injury (which is a poor use of a bench spot). He won’t return a ton, but there is zero chance he slips through waivers and must be traded if you don’t plan on putting him on the OD roster. I fully expect a trade to happen at some point, although it’s possible the Sox hold into spring to hedge against injury.

It’s much less two way conversation over there.

Harder to post random crap over there though, so probably not getting the same fulfillment as he does here. Feel bad for the guy as he means well, but a bet is a bet and there are real consequences to losing.

Do the Bears, the state or do taxpayers owe that money on the Soldier Field renovations?

Flipping topics here, I heard (not sure how true) on radio that Indiana will pay for the Bears stadium. The radio conversation was that the Bears make billions so they should not move. I still am of the thought that the McCaskey family has wealth from owning the Bears but it is mostly on paper. Yes they have money but not enough to walk away from the offer. Indiana knows what it is doing. They can build for $2B what will cost Illinois $3B. Tie it in with Hard Rock Casino. It's closer to me than Arlington Heights.

He gawn from Cards. They just made room for JJ Weatherholt.

Right now showing it’s gonna be like 8 degrees. Hopefully they can pressure him and make it a all around bad day

Except he has the power of his army of 15 daughters wishing him well before the game and willing him victory. He’s going the Philip Rivers route.

what year do you think this is? 1992? this area is boug as f***.

Different set of circumstances with tax payers up in arms, the country in (pick an adjective that applies) and politicians no longer willing to stick their necks out rightly or wrongly to support billionaire owners, at least in Illinois. Just my opinion but the Bears, like JR (with his desire for a new stadium) if they would make an offer to help in this debt they'd probably get political will to start gravitating to their side. One of two things I think will happen. Politicians will cave or politicians and citizens will tell the Bears to in essence 'kiss their ass' and feel free to move to Indiana, Timbuktu, Sydney, Moscow, Greenland or Mars.

Interesting that you think the state should be able to totally change the original agged upon deal for the stadium.

As well they should in my opinion until the Bears come up with the money to pay for the first renovation of Soldier Field. To my knowledge they haven't even offered anything to help pay some of the debt down.

Respect the hell out of MJ for that stance.