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Oh please, try 3 hours a day every day for 162!

Another year off my life and I'm good with it

Imagine spending two and a half hours being miserable during a W, every week lol

How do you delete a post?

Pal you literally said in a post one month ago that he was a part of your vision if a 70+ win team next year.

Trade the Mets Benintendi or Robert.

I thought the purpose of not trading him at the deadline was because they were gonna tender him and keep him around another season

One more win and the Bears have a winning season. Pretty remarkable all things considered.

You definitely don't want to attract unwanted attention.

The funny thing is by touting how Hill Pereira and Murray are so strong defensively...doesn't that also make you wonder why the Sox internally havent been able to draft/identify, coach up or prioritze defense over the years? Most famously, Semien and Narvaez both had to first leave the organization to reach their full potential on that side of the ball.

Absolutely no one wants Benintendi, including Sox fans.

Why would the Mets want Benintendi? How much money are you willing to send along with him?

Yes please. Edit: I guess Sosa is no longer a fit there

He could build a new stadium on the north side of 35th St. on the site of Old Comiskey. Does ISFA own that land? If so, he'd have to buy the land from them and also tear down the existing ramps, bar, and gift shop structure while Rate Field is still open to build a new stadium there. IMO, if he's going to build a new stadium, it's either going to build it at the 78 or the site of Old Comiskey. If he does choose the Old Comiskey site, it does make me wonder why he'd spend $1B+ to build at the exact same location that has somewhat problematic for the Sox for decades. Sure, it would erase all the oft-discussed design flaws of the current stadium, but you are still stuck with the nagging issue of a location where there isn't much else for fans to do before and after games. He'd have to build an entertainment district built along with the new park. That would be costly and he'd have to be confident that building an entertainment district from scratch there will actually succeed since the businesses will have to draw people the 280 days each year when the Sox aren't playing at home.

5 of those 10 losses were within a FG. They had some poor execution and bad luck down the stretch, where as they completely flipped the script in those same situations this year.

We Chicago fans love self-flagellation. We are all sadomasochists.

Just skip watching next week’s game. 🤣

Defense came up huge

lucky sobs lol

they're so bad

Terrible call to pass there

How do you not call a timeout before the delay of game?

26 has been awesome today

bears fans lead the league in mm/Hg

Bump

Here come the s%*# takes!

Steelers are better and healthier. Look at incoming schedule, reality is heading our way.

He’s avoid the disaster plays so well this year…that was brutal

After Ishbia spoke, it's pretty clear that he's getting a new stadium built. Shouldn't that all but solidify the Sox are inevitably moving away from 35th and shields? The ISFA owns Rate Field, which means Ishbia can't just tear the thing down and build new. Unless He purchases it from ISFA I guess and then proceeds to demolish Rate Field and build new, but that all sounds a lot more expensive than just building on empty land somewhere like the 78.

Well, Shomon can cuss like Don Cooper/Ozzie.

Nice SoxMachine piece on Shomon. https://soxmachine.com/2025/11/derek-shomon-wants-to-bring-relentless-energy-to-a-hopefully-relentless-white-sox-offense

One hitter... who could end up as a another Vaughn or Madrigal for all we know, is enough of a reason to suspend spending? There still are at least six starters missing from their next playoff team. By mid-summer 2026, the Sox MIGHT be down to just 3-4 spots left to go. MIGHT being the key word. Montgomery's Teel/Quero combo #1 draft pick Bonemer (at least one more year in the minors, probably 1 1/2) or Antonacci Not to mention 2-3 starting pitchers and almost an entire bullpen.

I thought Booser was a good pickup, and he turned out to not be. A player not living up to expectations doesn't really change my worldview. I thought Hill would be expendable, turns out, the Sox are keeping him as insurance. Wow, I guess I must turn on Chris Getz and start calling for his firing, huh? LOL. Tauchman - I didn't think he was part of next year's team. The clear reasoning behind not trading him at the deadline has been talked to death. No real mystery there. He had one year of control left. Big deal. I haven't changed any opinions on players, I didn't say the Sox would be a 70 win team next year that Tauchman would be an integral part of. Not sure how my opinions have "eb and weave"ed. Please, make it make sense.

I'd be pretty happy if they signed him. I honestly think he may end up being the better hitter than Murakami.

Getz really sucks at this

I'd rather the new guy Pereira play CF. Supposedly he's "slowed down" but still has the range to play the position. Hill seems worthless.

Why in the name of all that is holy would they tender Derek Hill?

HOLY WATER FOR EVERYONE!!!

Ok

Won't the Popemobile take up at least two spaces? Up charge!

Because fans want to go to an MLB stadium where loud jets fly overhead every few minutes?

Have you talked to Caulfield before? This is who he has been for the better part of 20 years now.

“That’ll be $27 dollars your eminency.”

It is what it is. Just build the foundation and opening the avenues for acquistions home and abroad and with more open paths for talent acquisition in the DR and perhaps Asia too, then results for those efforts will start bearing fruit in a few years. By the time the Ishbia's take over there should be trickles of higher end talent from the DR making its way through the farm system. This never was going to be a fast rebuild. JR provided enough money for Getz to build a better foundation and infrastructure and a winning culture in the minors. That's the complete opposite of all his other years as owner when the focus was on the 26 man roster. Maybe that will translate to being much more competive in the division once theres also money to spend on the 26. There's no reason that the Sox can't make the playoffs on a more consistent basis in a division filled with small market teams with the Ishbias than they did under JR's miserly ownership. It's difficult for the fans because we cheer for the 26 man roster. We don't cheer for new coaches or minor leagues championships, new computers and software ,new scouts and front office personnel , slo mo cameras, new DR facilities. and Trajekt machines. The Sox haved shared those plans with the fanbase and it gets a collective sigh of "Yeah right we've heard BS like this before." Unless the changes result in consistent appearances in the playoffs we're arent interested because we have no idea how long just 1 playoff appearance will take. All we want to hear about is how big is the player payroll going to be. What else could they possibly share with the fans that's not obvious already ? Do you really think they'd hold a press conference to say the Sox aren't ever going to add any significant amount of money to player payroll while JR is still the owner.

We have no idea if anyone is ace quality until it happens. We also have no idea if any of the hitting prospects will last as quality MLB hitters. As I have already stated its nearly impossible to field a successful team with just prospects without money which the Sox arent going to get from JR, without competitive balance help, which they dont qualify for , and to top it all off they will need either a new stadium or a new lease on the Rate. The Sox can't operate like a small market team because they aren't one. They don't get the same benefits as them. Getz' only job now is to pave the runway for the ownership change and not f*** things up. Just help the prospects develop and that's what he's trying to do. So far he's been able to get some results with Colson Montgomery ,Shane Smith , the Crochet trade ,made some good draft picks. He's garbage picking other arms and bats looking to develop talent lost in roster shuffles . After bottoming out as he was feeling his way through the mess I wonder if he had talks with Ishbia as well as JR about a prudent course of action to do as well as possible without much financial help. The Ishbia's seem like they want to be the next owners of the Sox but JR seems like he is calling the shots making sure his sons reap as much of a windfall as possible and leaving the Ishbia's with a stripped down franchise. But they accepted the terms so it would be great if they just let it play out and they eventually become the new owners. In the meantime nothing much happens while we all keep our eyes on the prospects. Anothe year like last year with guys like Colson , Shane Smith, Teel, Quero, Meidroth , Vasil, Vargas, Sosa Baldwin, Burke, Grant Taylor and Wikelman Gonzalez all having varying degrees of success when many had given up some of them for dead would go a long way toward fielding a team that can play more competitve baseball . Further improvement from the guys mentioned above and significant development of others could lead to another 10-20 game improvement. 75-80 wins may not seem like much but its not going backwards and brings us another year closer to new ownership and more prospects making their way up the ladder. We should get another top prospect no matter how the draft lottery shakes out in July. As much as people don't like veterans taking playing time from young players it appears to have worked well in 2025. Just eased some of them in without much pressure . Veterans performing adequately and providing an example of how to be good team mates and support each other made for a good culture in the clubhouse. Robert and Montgomery seemed to have a good bond. Lots of good stuff going on when you want to open your eyes to it. Hope is better than despair isn't it ? It's not exactly life and death . No reason for anyone to have to make up stuff to try to make everything about the Sox seem incompetent and support that narrative. Not every trades holds any significance no matter how you dissect it immediately.Things constantly change . Colson went from a great hope to a great disappointment to a great hope again. Some of us were right then wrong then right again. And we could still end up wrong again. We couldnt even speculate on Shane Smith's development because he was a Brewer prospect until he was a Rule 5 pick who became our All-Star representative while he was faltering only to rise again. This is one crazy wild , rollercoaster ride isn't it ? Sosa, Vargas, Noah Schultz, Hagen Smith, Grant Taylor, Meidroth all have seen their share of time on that ride too.

Soldier Field is in an AWFUL location. It can't be overstated how bad the experience is getting in and out of there.

There is no way they are gonna put a Sox stadium on the soldier field site. Bonds or no bonds. And honestly they need to just concentrate on it being a historical building/site, have some international soccer games there, have their high school football games and playoffs there, and college football. Chicago Park district can f*** off, they wanted to control it all, now they can. I don’t want the Sox to be involved in that at all

It’s kinda wild that our owners are telling the pope of future white sox plans, lmao. I’m not a religious fella but I understand the meaning and importance of the pope and having one with a direct connection to Chicago is crazy, and to see the overall reaction to him has been equally as crazy.

+1 to this. Unless a Sox prospect or Sosa/Vargas both become big time sluggers (and absolutely can't learn LF) and force the issue, I don't see any point in giving up on the Teel/Quero/Lee depth.

This is a fantasy thread.