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This isn't a haiku nor any other type of poem. I feel robbed.

They have already seem to have given up on Fletcher.

Not to mention he thought Pham was his "bro" but in the end Tommy made fun of him upon leaving for always hanging around the players/clubhouse.

Or now he can concentrate on learning either Korean or Japanese. He is going to need it.

I'd suggest looking up the Braves 10K's, it's all public knowledge. You'll need to wait until roughly 3/31/25 to see 2024 numbers. It's common knowledge that the White Sox have $200M+/yr without selling one ticket/parking pass/beer, ect.

They’re also an easy target… they’ve earned it.

All those calls are embarrassing. When you have a 42-win team, cmon, as much as you want to get excited, the team has prevented that. Any attempt at being 'overly' positive is ridiculous. You have to treat each game as its own but the big picture of team suckiness can never be ignored. South Side Stand Up is so bad. The haters and losers thing is counterproductive. And the final two are not worth commenting on they are so bad.

Elias broke the Haiku engine.

The White Sox are a pretty unknown team, at least at ESPN.

And I hope people note that this is just one part of revenue sharing — luxury tax distribution. It has nothing to do with other shared earnings for MLB.TV, etc. Jerry and his other fellow loser owners will never pay luxury tax but will reap the benefits from the teams that actually want to win. Jerry cashes checks left and right without even doing anything. This is another reason that a salary cap isn’t the ultimate solution.

Can’t wait to visit the Hangout and see what Sportsguy has to say. Last I saw he felt that giving up Mountcastle for Luis Castillo was too much, so my guess is they aren’t going to be happy now that all the free agents are off the market.

Yea man - I remember the Advanced Media sale to Disney. Insane how much money is in baseball now compared to when we were growing up… You even more so… you likely have distant memories of when this country actually promised hope.

Who has suggested that Fletcher would share RF with Slater? I’m not even sure he makes the OD roster. At least with Vargas, he put really good numbers in AAA. Fletcher was legit terrible everyone and physically doesn’t look someone capable of impacting a baseball.

I am tired of letting people play long into their suckitude. Sure, if they hit. But Fletcher was not a highly-ranked prospect, plus, he was bad in the majors and worse in AAA than either Colas or DeLoach. Vargas was a good prospect but he has not made the jump. And he was so bad last year, I find it hard to believe he’ll have more than half a year to prove himself.

Vargas sure, why not Fletcher should have to earn his playing time. There’s still a small part of me that would rather see Colas honestly. And not like Fletcher has significantly better pedigree than DeLoach either. Hopefully 1 of those 3 can step up and earn playing time in RF and we don’t see too much of Tauchman and Slater

Nothing has to be anything with this team.

While the comments against him by others in the Chicago media may have been unfair (personally I don't think so) there is no way you win in that situation by responding publicly, and making it worse was that it was on the broadcast itself as opposed to say on social media. It was unprofessional and childish and that comes from someone who has been in broadcasting since 1978.

They also had around $150 million of expenses not related to players, because their last numbers show they lost 28 million on $288m in revenue with $187m described as players expenses.

Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, has died at age 100. He lived longer than any other POTUS and also had the longest post-presidency (which would have been 44 years in a few weeks). And he certainly made the most of his life after leaving the White House. https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/jimmy-carter-death-news-12-29-24/index.html

From Paul Sullivan's sports year wrap up column on Sunday: Top 5 Schriff-isms The most memorable calls of first-year Sox broadcaster John Schriffen: “For all the haters …” “South Side, stand up!” “Radio losers” “We ain’t takin’ that.” “I need this win.”

I'm certain the Sox are a revenue sharing team maybe just not for the luxury tax money. All owners contribute a pecentage of their local revenues which is redistributed to lower revenue teams. What the Sox get from revenue sharing and where they are on that totem poll would be good to know. The Sox are somewhere among the teams that would receive less since they are considered a big market team which is why they aren't among the 15 teams that do get luxury tax money . So they get some revenue sharing money but so does every team but the Sox probably are in the group just below those teams receiving the least amount. Some funds may be distributed equally and some there is a pecking order.

The Orioles obsession is getting a little weird…

Sounds like Baltimore made a big offer to Burnes but he simply wanted to stay in Arizona.

Under, by a lot.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/43082037/dodgers-mets-yankees-top-mlb-record-9-luxury-tax-offenders For the 15 or so revenue sharing teams that’s about a $10 million check this year.

Dude was the very definition of a homer. Only Orioles prospects ever pan out 100% of the time. Meanwhile, Cease, Crochet, etc. we’re just mediocre pitchers unworthy of trading top prospects for. Over time, we all learn that prospects are great and exciting but you never know when or if they will pan out. I would venture to guess that the majority of time, the team acquiring the established player wins the trade.

I don’t see any sort of financial rationalization for moving them to a smaller market when the league is already thinking about expansion. The potential of Chicago is far greater than other market without a team currently.

They are talking about trading for Cease again

I'm guessing somewhere in the 34-38 range.

They can’t though.

I just don't see how they get to 50 wins. The pitching staff is bad, the offense is bad, and they haven't done anything to improve the worst roster in baseball history. Sportsbooks aren't making the over/under 49.5 if its going to be really hard for them to win less than 50 games, that's not how it works.

Good list. I think you are too aggressive on Wikelman Gonzalez (I think they have said he is going to be in AA). Also, a little aggressive on Batista. I bet he spends the first half in that jam-packed W-S rotation. I bet they sign some AAAA guy for rotation depth in Charlotte. But this is a very good list. Kanny’s rotation is a real head scratcher. I think Reyes could see time there as well as Oppor, LaCombe, etc., plus I will be interested to see whether Yohemy Nolasco is back.

I honestly don't think JR is that motivated by his "legacy" when you are as wealthy as he is, "legacy" has very little meaning. The bank account means a lot more.

Even though Jerry is unbelievably cheap you'd think even he would be thoroughly embarrassed and actually ashamed of himself to put such a horrible product on the field. I guess his legacy with the Bulls six titles is so great he thinks his legacy is assured to be positive and he continues to let his baseball team be the laughingstock of all of sports. He fooled people in 05 thinking he wanted to win.