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I love that I got a marketing "hype" email about this as if it's something I should be happy and excited about.

Carl Mutherfuckin Everett.

It is very nice to see the pundits start to acknowledge this kid. Hopefully he can carry this success into the high minors.

At least it isn't a giant red, down-pointing arrow.

Keith Law just had a pretty glowing write-up on Hagen Smith. Towards the end of the season, he looked like the guy from Arkansas. Noah Schultz was pitching injured all year. Both still have top of the rotation upside and should be in the majors by Juneish. Tanner McDougal has ridiculous stuff and he's basically big league ready as well. Christian Oppor isn't far behind. The Sox also have back end options throughout the system and Ky Bush, Mason Adams, Drew Thorpe should all be options by midseason. They'll likely need to spend on pitching at some point but they have some pretty high upside dudes. It's a big year for them.

This isn't true at all.

Thanks, I hate it.

Keith Law now has Caleb Bonemer up to 44 in his Top 100 prospect list and now the below. We may have gotten this one right!! Elijah Evans from @futuresox with some stats breakdown. https://x.com/i/status/2015891206606319718

What's Pritzker getting built by the state?

Is this town prepared for two elite Caleb's?!? Kids got a lot of helium, let's keep that balloon full!

Corrected…

The team might be somewhat better but as long as Reinsdork remains owner they will never be close to being contenders.

Yeah because he’s a shortstop and he’ll play every day. Shortstops like this don’t end up in college.

Your ruling is death. Six feet under it is…

Everyone celebrate Jerry and the board getting some money!!! YEAH 💓 Until they spend whatever it is they just brought in, color me disinterested.

We HAVE to get Schultz and Smith back on track to get it fixed. Those are two huge pieces of this puzzle that could literally move the timeline forward or backward based on what they do in the near future.

Looks like he was the #3 prospect in the Rockies farm system in 2024 and #6 in 2025. Would be an obvious claim if he could play CF but it looks like he’s a RF. Swingitis and perhaps lack of contact is his issue but his minor league numbers still look pretty good and he has youth on his side. He just turned 23 — New Year’s baby. I propose we make him this year’s Canario and talk about him until Getz finally claims him… or doesn’t, and he goes to play in Japan.

Was just talking about this with my dad a few days ago. I remember being at a wedding a few years ago, talking to some old friends from high school I hadn't seen in a long time. We were all big sports guys, and I asked him if he still follows the teams like we used to. He said not as much, and I said the same thing, which was true. Then this Bears season came along and reminded me how much I still do care, how much I enjoyed thinking about each game throughout the week, making sure I was in front of the TV at kickoff. And even in the last week, the discussions continuing about what they do in the offseason, etc. My "big three" teams are the Sox-Hawks-Bears. Combined, those franchises have given us very few things to get excited about over. Before the Bears beat Green Bay, the last time I saw a team I root for advance in the playoffs was during the 2014-2015 Blackhawks season. (Bulls are actually in the exact same spot, their last playoff series win was in 2014-2015 as well.) The "optimists" here are convinced those that are critical of the Sox just want to be miserable, which simply isn't true. Just give us something to be hopeful about.

Congratulations, you just described the last 5 years under Jerry... and we still didn't spend.

Tier, by definition, is more than one team. Trying to make the Sox look better, by pointing strays at teams in much smaller markets just makes the point of how bad the Sox have been. Even their biggest contract of the winter (a massive 40 billion, no wait, million) almost didn't happen until the front office went into Jerry’s office and begged him into signing a deal somewhere around 15 to 20% of initial expectations. This is one of last remaining teams in MLB to not have a single nine figure deal, again, bottom tier. Feel optimism all you like, but don't gaslight the obvious.

Considering the White Sox payroll has decreased from its peak of $193 million in 2022 to currently $77 million (after the signing of Seranthony Dominguez) over the past 4 seasons, @Kyyle23 is spot on. Do you really need to even make a comparison to other teams in the AL Central to realize that this is true? This article and excerpt below is from last week, prior to the Dominguez signing. You don’t decrease your team payroll from its peak to one of the lowest in baseball over 4 years by signing mostly higher tier free agents in that time span.

How would you describe the tier of free agents that the white Sox have signed on our run of 100 loss seasons.

When I listen, aside from just never really getting over her being so dumb about that proposed Cease trade, they just sound like what happens when it's and imitation of an imitation. The farther we get from the originals that sounded refreshing when bringing snark and cynicism into the free flowing sports radio, the more it's just reflexive snark that isn't a response to anything. It's just 'let me assume this is stupid because that is the default way you should sound on sports radio', and you can't hide from there being no substance actually there for 4 hrs.

It was interesting to me too how much livelier Bernstein has been post re-birth. I could not stand him post Boers, he was all the sharp parts and none of goofier ones. Add to that - just zero chemistry with his partners. Hearing old boers and bernstein clips had me splitting my side. I assumed my tastes had just changed, forgot how hard that show could make me laugh.

If I'm not mistaken, it's been reported that the most any professional sports team pays in property taxes is $9M for SoFi Stadium. It's crazy to think the Bears would agree to pay $200M in property taxes for an Arlington Park stadium when all other teams are paying a fraction of that. One question for IL lawmakers is how much tax money would they get from that property if the Bears do indeed move to NW Indiana and the land gets developed into a bunch of townhomes and strip malls? I would think the bigger deal to lawmakers is the $850M tab for infrastructure costs for building the stadium. That's a huge amount.

Literally no one said this

With all due respect: you're comparing an international teen signing that was like a consensus back end top 40 guy to a college JR consensus 1/1 entering the cycle with terms like "quasi generational draft prospect" by the cynical Law thrown around on them? Cholo is a really, really, really good prospect with what (at this data point in time) appears to have a "solid regular" floor. Salas never had "solid regular" as anything more than a median case outcome, at any point in his prospect pedigree.

I’m thinking 3B or outfield is more likely than 2B for Bonemer.

Who is this in reference to? I do think Cholowsky is the best college shortstop since Tulowitzki.

God I hate this miserable owner.

Bonemer OPSed .859 as a 19-year-old in low-A Carolina League. He only had 44 PAs in high-A. Vargas OPSed .864 as a 19-year-old in his 323 PA's in low-A Midwest league. Miguel Vargas Cuban & Minor Leagues Statistics | Baseball-Reference.com Caleb Bonemer Minor Leagues Statistics | Baseball-Reference.com

I wonder how the Indianapolis Colts feel about their state forking over billions to the pride and joy of Illinois

It is what it is, they'll still be the Chicago Bears.

When Carl Everertt dies, it can double as his memorial patch.

Like I said, Indiana will back up a brinks truck to get the Bears.

It's done. Forget about it. He's a reliever, it's over.

I am pretty sure notstevecishek could have pitched as well as the real thing.

2? The one on the Bears is 32nd in the NFL in completion percentage...(I know he is a comeback king)

Does anyone know when this was recorded? Getz mentions a significant reliever at around the 23 second mark. I’m assuming that’s in reference to Domínguez but not sure.

I joined this board to discuss White Sox prospects when the system was headlined by Daniel Hudson, Jared Mitchell and Tyler Flowers. They had to beat the optimism out of me.

You give me an 80 win team and I'll best-case-scenario my way to 92 wins in a heart beat. You give me a 63 win team and I cant take you seriously or waste my time investing the time into watching.

This. If it costs $100-150m to run a team at all, then many markets can't just spend 70%+ of revenue on payroll and stay afloat. And going by these numbers, the Dodgers' payroll is higher than the total revenue of all but NYY and BOS. So every other team could spend every dollar of revenue on players, in a magical world with no other operating costs, and still couldn't afford the Dodgers' payroll.

.500 is just beyond that horizon.....be that guy, again

I am just observing year four of signing bottom tier free agents with the intention of flipping them, a suspect pitching staff, and a young and unproven lineup. You are free to believe that they are gonna be a lot better. I don’t

When I used to read Boers’ column in the Sun Times, I didn’t like him - mostly because he always ripped the teams I liked (Bears, Bulls, Sox, ND). He was especially hard on ND and Lou Holtz when they were good in the late 80s/early 90s. I eventually felt that he was correct, and though I’m still fond of those ND teams, his assessment of Lou Holtz was spot on IMO. After college, I had a job that allowed me to listen to the radio all day. I’d start with Stern and Brandmeier, then North and Jiggets, then Heavy Fuel Cruel until the Score signed off. Made my days fly by. HFC embraced “Who You Crappin?” and made it a sometimes hilarious segment rather than the hosts being embarrassed that Ditka essentially called Boers out for flip flopping on Ditka showing emotions on the sidelines. The ability to give and take criticism was what made the early Score great. I felt like Boers & Bernstein didn’t have the same ability to take criticism, so I stopped listening and moved the ESPN with McNeil. But I always remained a Boers fan. Now, I rarely listen to sports talk radio. I feel like when someone passes, so does a part of me. It’s been 30ish years since I listened to him regularly, but I’m forever fond and grateful to Boers for the countless hours he entertained me in print and radio. RIP. Edited to add that I saw one of the commenters on twitter say all these years later he thinks he remembers the theme song word for word. I’ll give it a try: “We’re happy for ya we speak our mind we won’t ignore ya or what you find you call up with acumen we’ll be here waiting looking for a friend the afternoon guys here on the score the afternoon guys McNeil and Boers”

Indiana tax payers 🤣

And a large portion of it happens if the Sox are there or not, so honestly, it makes more sense to have two teams there to justify the costs for something like 100 nights a year, instead of just the soccer schedule.