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Personally I watched maybe 5-6 innings across a couple games, didn't watch last night had Bulls on. Baseball is just a very regional sport and my fandom certainly isn't high enough after 170 or so Sox games to tune in nightly in late October. That said, happy for the Brewers, they have a class org and it's nice to see Yelich get a ring.

It reads as Hintz making that part up to add stakes. The politicians against this know they can’t make get their way if this blows up into a legal issue. Mike Quigley even said as much when speaking to residents with Lee, Mendoza, Pappas, and others, something along the lines of, “We will not win this if it goes to the courts,” which is a telling statement. Lawyering up would waste a lot of money and only serve to prolong death.

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Again, the owner WANT TO GIVE IT TO THEM. There isn't a real fight here.

GarPax and Hahn both had the same PR mumbo jumbo of "flexibility". As if "flexibility" has ever won a single championship, or for that matter, a lack of it preventing a roster shuffle. There's almost no contract that can't be traded with the right incentives, JR teams just rarely utilize those.

Yeah, I don't get that last line from the article. "Lawyer up" against what? Against the Constitution's Interstate Commerce Clause and a railroad's ability to build on land that has been railroad property for over a century? There isn't even any eminent domain arguments here. This will all be on what is now Union Pacific property.

This could essentially be 2 2nd round picks if the Bears do what they can do the next two years before Caleb's hit goes close to 9 figures.

Good add on paper. Guess we'll see what he can do.

The only people who will win if this end up in court are the railroads and the lawyers. Anyone else is pissing away their money.

Why not both? Yyyyes!

Played a good team close. Can’t fault that.

Bernstein calling someone an ahole. Pot meet kettle.

I thought it was an exciting World Series. Any series that doesn't include the Cubs, Red Sox or Yankees is fine by me.

I'm always in favor of hiring as many excellent, intelligent baseball people from winning organizations as possible. White Sox hiring Matt Roffe from Brewers to lead scouting...The White Sox have cited the Brewers as an organization to emulate, and their actions are backing up their words. The morning after the Brewers won their first World Series title in franchise history,https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2026/10/29/white-sox-hiring-matt-roffe-away-from-brewers-to-fill-open-amateur-scouting-director-role

So are you fer it or again it? And if those were his numbers then yes they probably would not be getting other starting pitching unless you were to count Fedde or maybe Newcomb in that mix.

Oh yeah if he was a FA this would be stupid unless they immediately extended him and even then it’d be an overpay.

More like Daniel Pooper, amirite? But seriously, he's kind of right, but also sort of misses the point. We're all on the same page. This IS to win the Super Bowl. That's why you make the move. Nothing is ever guaranteed in sports, but you can either try and make the playoffs every year and hope for the best, or push the chips in a theoretically give yourself a better chance to win it all. The question then becomes "There is a very real world where 5 years from now, you look back at the 2026-2027 roster and say "God they had so many pieces, how did they not try harder to go for it?" and do you want to do that, or do you want to try to maximize the window you have now, with your 24 year old ascending QB on his rookie deal? If Simmons stays healthy and continues his play over the next two years, it's not an overpay based on the team needs and makeup of the Bears. And the trade isn't failure if they make the next two NFC Championship games. I want my GM to not only build a good foundation for a team, but I want them to have the balls to make the moves necessary to take you to the next level, to go from good to great. Good isn't the expectation, I want them to be great.

New Crain's article about both the Bears and Sox stadium efforts. Greg Hinz: The Bears stadium deal is suddenly looking real. Here’s why. https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics-policy/ccb-chicago-bears-white-sox-stadium-hinz-20261029/ From the article: "Sources in the know tell me the Bears are close to a deal that would keep them in Illinois. Sorry, Hammond. The Sox face a tougher road, with neighborhood opposition threatening plans for a new stadium that could deliver a major economic boost to the South Loop." "Insiders tell me the recent involvement of Bears minority owner Pat Ryan has made a big difference. The insurance billionaire has a reputation for getting things done and arguably has better relationships with the billionaires who really run the National Football League than the McCaskey family does. He also has strong ties to Pritzker and Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch, whom he knows through their shared involvement in Northwestern athletics." ...and about the Sox: "However, inward-looking, bungalowed Bridgeport never has been interested in such around-the-clock excitement. Local Ald. Nicole Lee, 11th, tells me she’s willing to talk about some development to keep a team that’s called the neighborhood home for more than a century. Growing the 35th Street corridor already is a priority for her, she says. However, she notably adds, “There’s a lot of space between what we have and what the Ricketts have (done) in Wrigleyville.” So, maybe there’s some room to maneuver there. But it’s doubtful that even some development around Rate Field could provide more than a small fraction of the synergy and pop of building a new Sox stadium next to or just across the river from the new stadium that Morningstar’s Joe Mansueto is building for his Chicago Fire soccer team on The 78 property at Roosevelt Road and the river." "My bet: Amtrak and its partner, Ishbia, get final federal environmental approval and move ahead. Everybody will lawyer up. And a potential new mayor will face a real test of whether he or she is up to the task of managing a tough city."

Seems like a good add.

https://www.instagram.com/p/De17omeINgQ/?rpxt=bHh2YzhheHZwZDA5

That looks like it was Kevin Fishbain wrote the article, but it is Daniel Popper

https://www.southsidesox.com/chicago-white-sox-news/137848/white-sox-turn-to-milwaukees-matt-roffe-to-lead-amateur-scouting Roffe spent the past five seasons with Milwaukee, working his way through scouting operations before reaching his most recent position. The Brewers’ 2023 media guide listed him as their scouting operations coordinator. His résumé includes experience across several areas of baseball operations. Before returning to Milwaukee, Roffe worked as an analyst in player personnel and pro scouting for the Arizona Diamondbacks from November 2019 through October 2021. That followed a baseball operations internship with the Brewers in 2019 and a baseball research and development internship with the San Diego Padres in 2018. While attending college, he also interned in MLB’s Statcast and labor relations departments. Together, those stops give Roffe a background spanning research, technology and player evaluation. How he applies that experience to Chicago’s scouting department will be one of the more interesting parts of the eventual announcement. 2018 Wash University St Louis grad, so probably only 30-31 years old