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Ding ding ding. Billionaires hate actually losing money but love losing money on paper. They dont own things from the former.

TV deals and equal revenue sharing would be the most obvious and logical start. The Dodgers spend the way they do simply because of the lucrative tv deal they have and the revenue they generate from it. A salary cap is a non-starter with the MLBPA, so they need to look for alternate ways to eliminate the disparity between the big and small market teams. Moving to a collectively shared tv rights package like the NFL pretty much eliminates the entire advantage the Dodgers have and would solve a lot of the disparity we see between big and small market clubs. Teams shouldn't be allowed to negotiate their own tv deals, it should be a league-wide effort so all 30 teams receive an equal share before any additional tickets sales, marketing deals, concession sales, etc. It levels the playing floor almost immediately, and you'd still be able to operate without a hard CAP to keep the players happy.

I see a team with about 6 established, major league average positional starters (Monty, Teel, Vargas, Quero, Meidroth and Baldwin (a stretch, I know)), and interesting prospect experiments at 3 positions (Acuña, Pereira/Kelenic, Murakami). Starting pitching was at least serviceable last season, Shane Smith and Davis Martin may be primed to settle in or even progress a bit. The bullpen is more thought out. If there's any setbacks, you have Antonacci, Hagen Smith, Schultz, McDougal, Davitt, Tristan Peters, Dustin Harris and Braden Montgomery in the pipeline. We would be buried in laughing emojis if we suggested that this team was 3 solid moves away from being competitive. People are still talking like another 100-loss season is practically guaranteed because they don't recognize every name on the roster, yet, everybody in the front office failed for not giving them confidence by hiking the payroll to the top of the league, while also arguing that JR is a horrible businessman that hobbled himself with his short-sighted parsimony. There's an entire range of outcomes for the 2026 season that go from 80+ wins down to 50. Only the numbers above 62 are treated as fanciful.

This is way too simplistic of an analysis. There are other operating costs other than payroll and to some degree those are more fixed in nature. As such, those fixed will reflect a greater portion of total revenue for small market clubs than large market clubs.

Not sure what you see but some fans see an improved team from last season for a number of reasons inc., - a better, deeper bullpen with a possible legitimate Closer. - possible improvements in hitting and power numbers from Colson Montgomery, Vargas and Lenyn Sosa. - Murakami - White Sox fan enthusiasm which was stoked with the Murakami signing. I know, positivity is not a metric that can be gleaned from this website.

Loved the Gooch.

Which means the Sox have passed on him at least twice.

This dude is making the rounds… Yankees designated INF/OF Marco Luciano for assignment. Luciano was on the Yankees for four days. Since the end of the season, Luciano has been on the Giants, Pirates, Orioles, and Yankees. It remains to be seen where the former top prospect ends up, but he’s just 24 years old, so there may still be a chance for him to establish himself as an MLB regular.

I think this revenue sharing will be a primary focus during the CBA talks and lockout in 2027. I doubt the players go gor a cap/floor but enhanced revenue sharing/luxury tax may work.

I think a big issue that cabal needs to address is local TV revenues. Many, mostly smaller market teams, have seen their RSNs go belly up and as a result a huge source of revenue dried up. On the other hand, teams with massive, national fan bases like the Dodgers, Cubs, and Yankees can still make good money off of TV revenue. This has made the competitive balance issue worse. This wasn't nearly as much of an issue 10 or 15 years ago when the RSN gravy train was doing just fine. I want to say that the Cardinals had a $1B RSN deal a while back. Those days are long gone.

Not that it matters but isn't the topic title wrong? Isn't it second to last? I'm shocked/confused how the Sox revenue can be lower than everyone except Oakland.

I didn't tell you anything.

It's just as easy to say you are only seeing what you want to see. Be positive, no one cares. Don't tell me what to think.

Let's just say you aren't trying real hard to see some of the positives.

If you as the wrong question, Boyer will put you on his naughty list and mean mug you the rest of the night.

Living in reality doesn’t mean wallowing in self pity. As it stands right now I don’t really see this team being appreciably better than it was last season. I’m not wallowing in that, it’s just what I see.

Either way, I am not paying money to the White Sox organization to do the job of people who should be doing this things themselves. That's gaslighting.

It's silly to blame any club for any action when it's all CBA anyways. If the cabal doesn't like how the other cabal members are operating change the rules, you know the rules you all agreed to last time.

I don't know. Bing's AI bot tells me this:

Pal, I'm waiting for your receipts. I never said anything of the sorts. I said it was a league average system with a last place team.

Still at it

Is the open Q&A even a thing anymore? I thought I remembered reading it was not done anymore.

I wouldn’t count on any for longer than that. I’ve pretty much given up all hope…

Ask it at SoxFest.