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They’ll save plenty of money on Roch to overslot the next few rounds

f*** ! Fuller fixes fast !

26 hours!

Thanks, Lip Man. Love these posts, glad you're doing them. Get a little wiser every day reading them.

FWIW re: sponsorships, in addition to that reported "third party" interest in helping with the clubhouse bidet situation, Boyer has already been to court sponsors, distribution partners, etc. in Japan and talked about a goal of "expanding the brand" there. Peaking into Japanese baseball Twitter/media gives a bit of insight into how popular Mune is, and having the Sox logo next to his face on newspaper front pages is an asset that's easy to see the value of. The short term deal made sense for both sides with how the market shook out, but if his game translates to MLB then I do think a good faith effort to extend him is likelier than not.

I love EQ. Like you said, really smart and dedicated. Comes across as so mature for someone not yet 23. I really value the game/pitcher management side of catching and I rate him over Teel there, so he'd get the bulk of games at C if it were up to me. But I won't complain about being a bit spoiled at the position. When it comes to ABS challenges, the MiLB data shows that catchers are comfortably the most accurate with challenges, batters are a bit worse, and pitchers are pretty terrible. Quero was good with them from both sides of the plate in AAA due to his plus zone recognition. Thought it was interesting he said he'd value them more as a catcher than a batter.

This is for anyone getting itchy to see some White Sox home runs.

And no amount of sad little laugh reacts to substitute for lack of substance changes that. There are plenty of pros and cons to be discussed for all projects, but some of this just wanders in the personal and bizarre.

Great explanation, but it doesn't matter because the same poster is going to continue to throw tantrums and stomp his feet over the 78 site just has he has since news broke about a possible stadium there more than 2 years ago. It's amazing that he's so angry that the 78 is being discussed on a thread about the 78. Others have provided valid points against the Sox moving to the 78, but his comments sound unhinged and this thread would be many pages shorter without needing to respond to his nonsensical rants.

Which goes back to your original Kvetch about projects cancelling and why nothing has ever happened there. For a site that requires additional expensive remediation, it drives up the needed economic and financial impact of what happens there. For a site that is going to cost 8/9 figures to clean up, you aren't going to justify a 2500 square foot single family dwelling going there. It's why they are looking for 9/10 figure projects to build there, so that the ends justify the means. There aren't that many huge projects to go around, and huge projects are notoriously difficult to get off the ground and finance. Again, how many times have there been projects for the tallest, or 2nd tallest skyscraper in Chicago that have failed. Hell, the hole from the Spire still sits on the northern end of downtown. It isn't because the site required remediation, it was because the economics didn't make sense, and definitely not because of some conspiracy involving arms dealers. Block 37 went through a ton of iterations over decades before finally seeing that mall get off the ground. As I have said previous, this isn't nearly as complex as you want to make it out to be, and you could probably seek your own advice about repeating your own opinion ad naseum if you are sick of seeing the same responses to it.

Always love these spring training interviews and this is probably my favorite one. Huge fan of Edgar. Seems like a really smart dude, dedicated to improving and taking the right steps to do so, and I'm also really impressed by his English. No judgment to players who don't learn English, but doing a 20 minute interview in a second language with no translator is no small feat. What stuck out to me is Chuck talking about "light at the end of the tunnel", an idiomatic expression that doesn't exactly translate, and Edgar not missing a beat. I hate that my two favorite players on this team play the same position and there isn't necessarily an alternative position for them. Thought an extra interesting insight to this interview is that Sox pitchers aren't going to be calling for ABS reviews, that the catchers will. That may be standard across the league, but I think both of our catchers have shown an excellent command of the strike zone. It's gonna be a fun year watching those guys compete for the starting catcher job. Teel was the better framer, Quero is picking off guys like a motherfucker. Teel was a better hitter his rookie season, but Quero looks like he'll inevitably figure it out.

February 18, 1998 – Former White Sox broadcaster Harry Caray (born Harry Carabina), died in Rancho Mirage, California at age 83. It was four days after he suffered a stroke during his Valentine’s Day dinner, and two weeks short of his birthday and the beginning of his 54th season in the majors. Caray was born in St. Louis, was a terrific prep ballplayer, and while playing semipro baseball in the city he wrote to KMOX radio, insisting he could do a better job broadcasting than the current analysts. After brief stops in Peoria and Kalamazoo covering sports, he hooked on broadcasting the Cardinals and Browns in 1945. A hallmark of Harry’s style was his sprightly rapport with fans, as he often was broadcasting solo, with no color man. And often to his detriment with ownership, Caray was willing to criticize the play on the field, including that of his own team. After his long tenure in St. Louis and one year in Oakland, the White Sox hired Caray for TV and radio. He worked for the team from 1971-81 before skipping the South Side for the Cubs, with whom he’d finish his career. The Sox offered Caray more money to stay for the 1982 season than the Cubs but Caray had an acrimonious relationship with new owners Jerry Reinsdorf and Eddie Einhorn and wanted no part of the ill-fated SportsVision experiment. In addition to his many years broadcasting baseball, Caray also broadcast St. Louis Flyers hockey, University of Missouri football, St. Louis University and Western Michigan University college basketball, the Boston Celtics and St. Louis Hawks of the NBA and eight Cotton Bowl games (1958–64, 1966) on network radio.

https://www.mlb.com/news/new-pitchers-ready-for-marlins-to-call-pitches-from-dugout The Marlins will be calling games from the dugout this season, and the Giants and Rockies might follow suit. Kinda surprised there's not more consternation about it. Also wonder what it does to the trade value of pitchers/catchers who end up with no experience calling games. They can't use Pitchcom for it (yet?) so perhaps a savvy opposing team can find ways to quickly relay the calls to batters.

Maybe Illinois can get a rebate on the money sent to federal government that is then sent Indiana's way?

I doubt they negotiate with anyone. They’ll try and reach a deal with Roch or they’ll just take him anyway. He’s not going back to school.

Trying not to be hyperbolic but Fuller might be the most important hire the Sox have made in some time. Hope he stays for a long time, and hope the Sox let him add more people under him.

The Bears are a for profit business. Why in the hell wouldn't they shop for the best deal?

Is that in reference to the Rodon draft? Lots of errors at the top in recent years with the Hollidays (maybe), Bazzana,Condon, Andruw Jones' kid etc.

As long as their mantra isn’t that coming in second place is great. 😌

Yeah, constantly using the laugh emoji against everyone is pretty weak and sad. In another thread he even gave a laugh emoji when I said I enjoyed bringing my kids to the Fundamentals area at Sox Park when they were growing up. That's uncalled for and border-line creepy. He's on my ignore list now. It's the first time I've used the feature because I am not here to shut out people who have differing opinions, but I draw the line at personal attacks. This thread has obviously morphed into a catch-all discuss on stadium issues - including the Bears and other MLB and NFL teams and I'm not going to be bullied into not participating in it. In fact, the personal attacks make me want to post here even more. 🙂

Give it another year or two, most of those guys will be selling real estate.

Their residents tax dollars.

Billions of dollars.

Oh, I'm saying Kevin Warren is an absolute shitheel. Them having to drop/modify the fight song is a small, but hilarious detail.

-The Chicago White Sox game day experience is documented as one of the worst in baseball. That isn't just one rando's opinion on a message board, but the opinion of pretty much anyone who partakes baseball on a multi-team level, as the Sox routinely rank in the bottom 3 or 4 in MLB in these categories. -If you have any kind of crowd at Sox Park, they do restrict access to the lower level, so no, you can't just "walk around" the whole park unless the circumstances are right, or you pay for a more expensive ticket. Also I yearn for the day when the Sox game is important enough to stay in your seat for, versus paying that kind of money to wander around the ballpark. -The whole line about "fans who want to continue drinking... can just get in their car" is a wild statement in a day and age of OWI laws. The whole idea is to NOT have to drive drunk. -We have been over the remediation stuff a million times, so I am not sure why it keeps coming up, but all of this stuff has been known, literally since this site shutdown. I have no idea why you treat it like some kind of earth shattering occurrence, but within a city like Chicago, there are so many Superfund and Brownfield sites, it would make your head spin. Remediation of these sites isn't an abnormal thing, and environmentally it is a really good thing that it is happening, as it keeps that crap from leaching into the water table, Chicago River, and everything else around the site. Everyone knew it would be expensive and extensive, and STILL people have made plans to build there, so it obviously isn't a deal breaker to everyone. -Its the same thing with traffic patterns. We keep getting told how horrible it will be, but again, they know what they are up against on this site. Plus there are more things that can be done with public transit to access the site, as many major transportation hubs are much closer to here than 35th and Shields. There is no reason that public transit can take on the lions share of what is basically a local fan base. They do this at Wrigley Field with zero parking literally 81 times a year. The New York teams handle this as well. Ever notice there isn't a single parking garage around Madison Square Garden? There will be WAY more parking here than any NYC based stadium. This has all been factored in.

Chatbot famous for riddling answers with errors says consensus top prospect in the draft is not a consensus top-5.

You are welcome.

Its still about leverage both ways. Until it's done no one really knows.

Like I said at the beginning, Indiana will sacrifice pretty much anything to win this

Now that the Bears sound like they're officially going to Hammond, while I never thought entertainment districts around a football stadium made much sense, it makes even less sense in Hammond.

1950's style in the folk rock era. Maybe was a Nat King Cole or Sam Cooke guy. I like it ! Could be a Platters guy and liked the classic Smoke gets In Your Eyes.

Nope, kid is fucking cooked. If you ain’t fixed before your first full minor league season as a prep pick then it’s officially game over man.

I like the misuse of the apostrophe for pluralizing mantra. That's a pure red flag for me, Makes me very concerned about who's behind the account. Russian bots? Has a very definite "while you post about the White Sox, your wife flirts with Twin fans on TikTok" feel to it.

He's going to be in the minors for like 4 years. They have time to fix the swing.

Stuff like this is so exhausting. Just doom and gloom crap.

They literally cannot by law. The last renovation is why they still owe money, not because they weren't paying the payments. The pandemic crushed expected revenues is the other problem.

Fegan's interview with Mune is really worth a read. Here's an especially fun bit: https://soxmachine.com/2026/02/munetaka-murakami-wants-everyone-to-see-my-game Vengeance tour starts Friday:

This sure is a safe space where mindless drones who think alike continue to talk about the same stuff and stick to the mantra. The difference of opinion is half the fin about sports talk.

Ha! Of course I meant good start but maybe I was guided to GOD start.

I will also note one aspect that isn't talked about is if both the Bears and the Sox do something that doesn't involve the ISFA, that is a whole lot of tax money that all of the sudden can be redirected for something else. We will see if they both happen, but I think Illinois becomes more open to negotiations on other things if they can redirect those ticket taxes to something else.

Did they just replace the word white Sox with the word Mets for an article used over the last 4 years?

Dick Allen slo jam...unique singing voice

Now for their next trick, Jacob Gonzalez will surely have a 20-20 season... Ah for the days when Wilson Betemit and Ryan Sweeney were ST heroes... Did Meidroth even have more than 3-4 hits all spring last year?