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I would absolutely root for the franchise to fail if they moved to Nashville

He’s not open to selling. It’s a media plant to further threaten to move the Nashville so he can further his attempt to extort the taxpayers for public funding on a new stadium.

To really dump my raw thoughts: It'd be so fucking Reinsdorfian to f*** over fans in a city that has given him everything: He paid a pittance for the Sox and Bulls and got 7 rings, a stadium, and 2 billion dollar franchises. In return he broke up a the 90s Bulls and has strung along two fanbases cause he doesn't want to invest and cause computers are hard. And all because Hawk had to have the worst single fucking season by a GM in the history of baseball when you consider the ramifications, fans have to deal with Reinsdorf blowing up the latest rebuild by hiring TLR, then hiring Getz on TLR's recommendation and now, if they sell to Stewart, it'll surely be with TLR's blessing. f*** Jerry and f*** TLR.

Stewart's involvement has me wary.

You're such a bootlicker that King George could have taxed you 100% for tea and you'd tell fellow colonists "at least we have tea!"

I’m done with baseball if the Sox move. This sucks all around

Sounds like a s%*# ploy to try and get a new stadium subsidized one way or another.

If he sells to a guy intending to move it to Nashville, well that would not be ideal

Mark Cuban.....pick up the phone please

If you count 1/3 of Chicago as a market, it is bigger than pretty much any real expansion market out there, especially if you account for two expansion teams on top of it.

Call the bluff. If he goes through with it and Stewart moves the team to Nashville, that's good. Now they can deal with this cursed fucking franchise. And it would let us start fresh. Give us a new expansion team with an ambitious owner and give them the opportunity to do the 78 project and do it right. I think I could get over losing the name and history of the White Sox if it meant a better future. As long as there is a team on the southside that hates the Cubs, I would be happy.

This group also tried buying the Rays and Marlins. They failed both times because they don't have the money and no billionaire backer. Almost seems like a scam, but one Jerry can use for leverage I guess.

Reinsdorf found the one person on Earth who'd be a worse owner than himself. Interesting.

Dave Stewart is the guy leading the charge on an expansion team in Nashville. To me, this is a plant to try to force public opinion and politicians. Call his bluff.

Actually I've said that the odds were remote due to JR's own comments as well as the tax hit. Before either of us says, "I told you so" let's wait and see how this shakes out shall we? As I posted this smells totally like a ploy by JR. We'll find out soon enough.

Counterpoint: Chicago’s market is a goldmine for another team despite it being the second team. It was just Jerry owned.

There are plenty of reasons. I’m a fan of the White Sox, not the owner. Jerry Reinsdorf isn’t the White Sox. And at this point, I’m not ready to let Jerry make me root for another franchise. If he decides to actually sell the team to an owner that has no interest in keeping the Sox in Chicago, then I’ll feel OK moving on.

f***’em, move the team. End of us this misery. Do I want an actual owner who is interested in fielding a competitive team in Chicago? Of course, but that seems like such an impossible ask at this point, I’d be fine with them moving and let me be a true “fan free agent”

At this point it would not be hard for me to switch allegiances to the cubs if the sox left. They have just done everything possible to ruin baseball, to the point that the only game I'd like to go to next year in that stadium is a harlem globetrotters game basically. The only redeeming thing JR could do at this point is to have a public funeral so I could piss on his casket.

or they're selling the minority shares to a new group who will help finance the new stadium.

No expansion team will come if the Sox move. You’re so half-crazed with hate for the owner that you want the team gone? Not my thing and I honestly don’t get the mentality of people who feel that, and that’s the nicest way I can put it. Still, you do whatever makes you happy. But don’t expect another team to come in to fill in where the Sox failed.

This is just our cheapskate owner trying to get his new stadium funded by throwing out threats like a little child.

This is crazy talk to me. Zero guarantee this happens.

I'd be fine with that. Same franchise, same history, just a new owner. It would suck to not have a team for a minute but long term that would be the best thing for us fans imo. Just clear the entire JR stink out.

If they move I would be done with baseball forever. It’d be heartbreaking.

Just need to be clear though, was reading this article about Jerry Reinsdorf making plans to sell a billion dollar franchise elder abuse or is it ok?

I don't know I read this and it just seems like Jerry running his 1980s playbook to extort the city of chicago. "Oooh give me what I want or I'll sell to the guy trying to get a franchise in Nashville!"

Same here, I don’t want groups led by so and so, I want a guy or gal who has tons of money and isn’t afraid to spend it while keeping them in Chicago.

OH MY GOD!

The soil prevents antenna expansion.

Just get an antenna and shut the hell up! 🧌 🤣

Especially POSERS who claim to live by the park

I'm trying to figure out what's so hard to understand that people have different preferences as consumers. Some people prefer to go exclusively with cable or satellite. Some people prefer to go exclusively web-based. Some people don't have a problem watching things with an over-the-air antenna. Some people don't have a problem VPNing and watching pirated broadcasts. I'm not sure why people get angry at other people's preferences for how to watch baseball. Can someone please explain this anger to me, logically?

I already pay for it Tray ps I love when you get mad and go and laugh at all of my responses 😂😂😂🤭

Looking forward to AJ Ellis asking to see our scouting reports and seeing "don't chase the tough stuff" "this guys a meatball bopper"

Yeah I haven't really dug deeply into the connections. I know that Clayton McCullough's dad is a longtime pro scout for the Royals and he also came up with Indians, played with Sizemore in minors and managed for Mark Shapiro in Toronto I don't believe so but three of his ex-coaches are on White Sox staff currently I guess I don't really have a preference. Skip Schumaker seems obvious but I'd be fine with any of Lombard, Descalso, McCullough or Venable honestly. It's so hard to know who will be good or not. I don't know why people think this. I agree with you but they did this last time and landed on Pedro Grifol.

Let him try and fail.

Okay so doing some digging I am pretty damn confident that this is a ploy by Reinsdorf for stadium money. Either that or I'm in the cope stage. This Stewart group is an absolute fraud. As a Nashville outlet said a few months ago: "Most media outlets in Nashville never seem to ask this crucial question when reporting on the baseball effort: Where is the money going to come from? Music City Baseball has been looking for a general partner, aka an owner with deep pockets, for five years." I doubt they found one suddenly. They made laughable attempts to buy the both the Marlins and Rays. Seem you may not even call them attempts. Both franchises were happy to leverage their "interest" into other things. From the Stewart perspective, it seems the plan is that this "interest" somehow legitimizes them. Which brings us as to why Dave Stewart? He has no meaningful money. It appears their plan is to wait it out for expansion and be given a franchise on the relatively cheap while hiding behind "minority-led" group by bullying MLB that they need minority ownership. Of course a lot of the people in the group are not minorities so you can't make them the face. I doubt even this plan works but for the potential ROI, I guess it's worth a shot for them. As the above article states, they do have a lot of cool branding and marketing scheme, just no money to their names. Now hopefully this post doesn't age horribly.

I'm thinking it's either a stadium ploy (considering his past history) or a public notice for the "serious" bidders to come calling.

Zero good news will come if this happens. Sox have a trend of going from Bad to worse as of late…. We downgraded coaches going from Ricky to Tony to Pedo We downgraded GMs going from Hahn to Getz It would be the cherry on top of it all downgrading ownership from Jerry to Dave Stewart which drives the team out of town.

Don't worry, they'll keep them in chicago for 2 years, then claim the city can't support the team, THEN get rubber stamped to move them to nashville.

Yea if they move I'm not following them. Would probably just become a Mets fan, a very half assed casual one.

Why would this be good news? Either they move or their owner is just as stupid as Jerry.

I definitely could not have a rooting interest in a baseball organization outside of Chicago. The only hopes for me staying a baseball fan would be if they brought in a 2nd franchise. Just couldn’t take the son to Wrigley and surely wouldn’t make a drive to Nashville to see this team

Unfortunately, I don’t think anyone will care this time around, not with politics today and how the team has underperformed in historic fashion.

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I don't get it either. Having an OTA option is great. But OTA being virtually the only option on launch is ridiculous in 2024. It's not as if the powers behind this haven't had plenty of time to iron out the kinks.

Because right now the Bulls are available only on one of those options. It would seem silly and dumb to launch a network with only one of those options available in the regular season of a major sports team in one of the largest cities in the USA, but saying that this is dumb is an attack on the people who made the decisions that led to it happening, which means it is an attack on Reinsdorf and Reinsdorf must be defended.

They did interview a number of people last time and are interviewing a lot of people this time but the people doing the interviewing this time is very different and unlike last time they are narrowing the list down to 4-5 candidates and doing a second round of interviews with others joining the interviews. They have a much better chance of hiring the right guy this time than they did the last time.

Look, I pay already for my plan. Everything was paid for, Jerry decided to jump to his own station. Said it would be set up, we would get our own dedicated station, then didn’t come to an agreement with the local carriers. I’m not buying an antenna. I’m just not. Not interested in putting up something that this channel can wipe out immediately by reducing the coverage area(which definitely happens). I’m glad you are happy with an antenna. There are plenty of people who are not, and don’t want to go buy one. There are bulls Blackhawks and Sox fans outside the antenna range. This is how you lose fans. but I’m happy you spent your hundred on an antenna