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For the love of God, no more shitty utility players on 3/4 million dollar contracts blocking kids from playing.

Wikelman has good stuff

He should bring in quite a haul at the deadline next season.

Cubs passed on him for Jordan Wicks btw

Pretty damn good company

I hate the Cubs. Yet as long as the Cubs are ahead of us in the standings and overall development of the roster and organizational support systems, it’s difficult to take a lot of schadenfreudesque cuts at them.

In general, I get the sentiment, I really do. But with the Sox last five years, it is really easy to see otherwise. #1, COVID blew up revenue streams in both 2020 and 2021. Not only was the ballpark somewhere between closed and limited for most of those two seasons, they also missed the buzz of the fan base getting to live in person through the first back to back playoff appearances in the history of the franchise. #2, As Sox payroll began to climb in 2021 and onwards, the teams finances did NOT follow. The teams 2021 attendance was actually at the time the lowest attendance in the 21st century by the Sox. While the 2022 attendance did pick back up, in 2022, the excitement behind the team was already starting to fade in 2021, as the team that did finish in 1st and 24 games over .500, essentially played a .500 second half, then followed it up with a full season of .500 in 2022, and saw attendance drop by 300k fans from 22 to 23. #3 Sox payroll spiked during this time period, even as the fans were ebbing, peaking at $193 million in 2022, and only dropping slightly (about 7%) in 2023 to $181 million, with attendance falling by 15% from 22 to 23. #4 obviously the attendance crash continued into 2024, with Sox turnstyles down about 35% from its peak in 2022. I would be willing to bet that for as much as attendance fell, so did outside advertising dollars and parking revenues. #5, The Sox played a large chunk of 2025 without essentially any TV money. Sure they might have made a few bucks from streaming themselves, and the advertising dollars they kept directly, instead of dollar flowing through a TV deal, but it was a tiny sliver of what they were used to coming in. #6, Forbes has shown the team with loses since 2020. #7, The Ishbia deal expressly said that he was paying down debt accumulated by the team. Since this team isn't making a mortgage payment on a stadium, literally it has to be operations debt, which agrees with all of the rest of the above points. I am about 90% certain, Jerry doesn't make this deal if he isn't personally losing money, because there is no other reason for him to want to sell the team before his death when the tax conditions are the most ideal.

When he does it again next year... at least for me.

William Bergolla 5-5 with 2 doubles, hitting above league average at Birmingham with plus shortstop defense, a below 5% strikeout rate and 37/48 in stolen bases, all before turning 21. Even with a complete lack of power he's a real prospect.

Perez lucky he didn’t give up 10 runs today. He did well this year but they shouldn’t consider bringing him back.

BALDWIN D SUCKS!, Beni would have made that play!

Fringe top 100 in my book

Best GM at signing players that easily clear waivers.

They also get a lot more draft picks than the Sox thanks to those stupid competitive balance picks that help out small markets like Detroit and the St. Louis Cardinals. Also, both Cleveland and Minnesota have had insane luck in the stupid draft lottery when they haven’t been tanking. Cleveland has had one moderately down year in the last 5 and they got the first overall pick. Thankfully, it looks like they got a good player not a great player, but still…

15 whiffs for Shane last night after 14 each in his previous two starts. Good to see.

If the Ricketts, even with owning a team that always draws well, has a huge fan base, and plays at a popular location that already had a lot of things around it, decided that they needed to spend a ton of money to develop the land around Wrigley to generate more money, what are the Ishbias intending to do with the White Sox who have NONE of those things? Whether they stay at the current park or move to the 78, I can't imagine the new owners intend to keep the status quo of current ballpark surrounded by acres of parking lots. Those fans who think that the Ishbias will spend their fortune on $300M payrolls forever more once they own the Sox without enough money coming in to sustain that kind of expenditure are in for disappointment. With a change in ownership (eventually) coming, don't expect the new guys, rich as they are, to go into this planning to operate at a loss indefinitely. And for those fans who think all they need to do is win and fans will come, the real world is not that simple or easy. Over the last 30 years, even when the Sox were fielding competitive teams, the only time they've been higher than 15th in attendance is the year after they won the World Series. And winning pennants are easier said that done. Teams like the Mets and Padres have been spending a ton of money on their payroll for years now and how many pennants have they won in the last 20 years?

You may not like what they have done, but that stuff is making money hand over fist. Again, terrible people, but the stuff they are doing as owners for the success of the team is undeniable. Having that money to spend because of what they have done with their investment is not a bad thing, and I think all of us would be pretty fucking pleased if Jerry did 1/5th of the stuff around the park that the Ricketts have done

I just cannot get with this idea that the Ricketts are worse -owners-. They have spent to compete, they have massively upgraded the stadium, everything around the stadium for entertainment, the minor leagues, the staff, and they are no longer the loveable losers, they expect to compete every season now. I don’t like the Ricketts as people but they run laps around the Reinsdorfs in the actual owner category

In the first two months of his first season, Colson Montgomery has matched or exceeded the second-best single-season HR totals of Eloy Jimenez (18), Yoan Moncada (17) and Luis Robert (14).

And that’s the first time they have ever won 6 in a row where all 6 were comeback wins.

If he can get the contact rate up and stay healthy, at that point, he legit looks like a bonafide MVP type candidate. That said - until I see a more sustained contact rate I’ll continue to want to see this play out over a more extended sample size.

Colson isn't the kind of player I would ever say "he is who he is" too. Development, adapting and evolving his game to the league is a skill and it's one I think he has. He's really been closer to a 250 hitter this year without the bad batted ball luck. The kid hits tanks left and right. I don't need to see anything again to be a believer. I'm a believer 10000%, and if anything I think we're just seeing the surface being scratched with him. He's probably still a couple thousands AB's behind his southern and west coast peers.

Folks, my wife and I just watched the Torborg documentary. Jeff was a friend but even I didn't know some of the stories that came out in the production. What a good, honorable man he was and you don't see many of those around anymore. Highly recommend this for all baseball fans and they have a good portion of the film on his days with the White Sox.

Just because lol

Only facing a top 3 pitcher in the league.

Multiple sports-bro accounts are encouraging people to dox her and reveling in how her life's gonna be hell on Monday. I wonder if any of these sports bros, when they win some big parlay, if they give that money to a child in the neighborhood. Or when they win some online sports bet with another sports bro for a steak dinner, let a child they don't know have that steak dinner.

Dad didn’t look great either. Again, it’s a ball. I doubt homegirl was gonna do that though. Dad seems autistic honestly. Not saying that to be mean.

Twas a fun run

I swear half of scheiffen' stories are bullshit

SUCK IT BALDWIN D HATERS! Beni doesn't make that play

The Sox only trade pitchers at the height of their value....for position players, they wait until they have no value. It is a complicated model.

Sox fans are smarter than this. The Cubs draw a 3 million a year fan base with almost zero surface parking.

The good news is we haven't given up on winning this type of game. That's a huge improvement from where we were.

If this lineup can get to Skubal I'll be quite impressed. Not getting my hopes up though.

If we beat Skubal we are going to a World Series

Rookie WARriors

Yep, we Sox fans should be the last people to poke fun at the crosstown rivals skipping over someone we picked later. We picked Nick Madrigal at #3 and the Cubs took Nico Hoerner at #24. Ouch. And how about that guy we picked just ahead of Ian Happ? Woof!

You notice when she was listing off the Chicago teams that suck she didn't mention the Bears? Cuz Seth Rollins is a Bears fan. I am so happy to see AJ Lee is back. One of the original pioneers of divas wrestling in that era.

Wasn't the theory at the time that Jerry handed out that huge contract to Belle to spite the other owners for not sticking to their guns enough during that 1994 strike? And JR was very smart in giving Belle an out clause after 2 seasons, which made it very likely that he wouldn't be on the hook for the entire contract - which is indeed what happened.

If I win the powerball I’ll raise a group to take over the Sox.

How bout those White Sox?? The offense is resembling '77, baby. Run after run against the AL Central. We need those new owners to take over now, buy some talent to go with Colson the Magnificent and win some pennants. Go Sox! Go Bro Rice!

This kid is winning...and winning is fung.

Yeah I'd be happy to be .500 next season.

Yes, Sox fans don't have a 45 year long history to think of, and sure not the present. But the future.... I am sure everything will be perfect.

I'm with you, Pal

I kinda think 220/280/520 is just who he is. Pair that with solid work at SS defensively and while not quite a super star, certainly in today's game a star and valuable player. If he can improve to something like 250/320/550 he's a super star. The metrics think he's been a bit unlucky on BABIP, we'll see how it trends over his career.

SHUT YOUR DAMN MOUTH.....