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Let's get crazy and built it across/spanning the river! ;)

I know it's still a process and we are likely years away from breaking ground. However, this should hopefully put an end to the "moving to Nashville" speculative nonsense. I can't wait to see new renderings if and when they become available. I also can't wait for Ishbia to officially take over this franchise.

The man with 5 1/2 billion dollars can make things happen if he wants to. I am glad he is the next owner in charge.

Road game is free on MLBtv, home game on local radio

It was an interesting read, but damn I am ready for the day where I don't have to read crap like this. Come on man. $40 million for a free agent is like 5% of the top contract of all time. GMAB.

FIFY

The line up isn't good, but it looks like an all-star team compared to the pitching.

And that is unfortunate for a team that has assembled a pretty decent line-up. Also, losing Batman was a blow to our bullpen and to the vibe in the clubhouse and out in the bullpen. One of my favorite players on the team and a really nice guy.

Hays ground rule double to extend his hit streak to 11. Can't have asked for a much better spring from him, only one game where he failed to reach base. Meidroth knocks him in with a double, 4-2 Sox. Second time they brought in a fresh arm to face him and he welcomed them with a hit.

Sheets revenge HR ties the game 3-3

Will is managing the Padres game, presumably to help inform some decisions.

Looking at the comments, Josh Nelson believes there is no room at the 78 for another stadium because of the surface lots and retention pond that are in the Fire's plan. The Sox apparently don't agree with him since Boyer is still talking about the 78 site as the team's primary focus and I find it hard to believe that surface lots and a retention pond are going to stop someone from building on the south portion of the site. But, I usually take what Nelson says with a grain of salt. He is right, though, that the Alderwoman does not support a Sox stadium there and there will be more community pushback if the Sox announce they will build there.

And after that “massive” Murakami contract, Getz had to dump Robert to make additional moves. Obviously things won’t be changing in free agency until Jerry is no longer the owner.

Agreed. It’s funny. I don’t mind looking at the lineup at all. But I cringe a bit looking at that rotation.

And the key to this season is continued growth and most importantly HEALTH. You can't have another spate of UCL's. You can't have Colson's back going out again. You can't have knee problems for Schultz. The future is still years away for this group, so continuing to figure out who is going to be here when the team is good again is the biggest thing. How the pieces move across the chessboard starts to determine how far down the horizon we are actually looking at.

@Sleepy Harold Here's a little more from Brooks Boyer in this NBC 5 interview. He says at 62 acres, "certainly there's room" for a Sox stadium on the 78 site and says the Amtrak site and the 78 could create an "amazing sports district". He said any talk about financing was above his pay grade.

And most importantly, the man whose fortune ISN'T tied up in owning two sports franchises and has the liquidity to other big things.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWCzjRbj4zM/?igsh=ZTRoYWNvYzlnMzlm FWIW, Brooks publicly stating that they're still focused on building at the 78.

Thank you for this response. My thought about this acquisition is that it may in fact have been motivated by a desire to address some of the issues that would be exacerbated by having both the Fire and the White Sox stadiums on the 78. The Amtrak site is plenty large enough for the medical center plus surface parking for the stadiums. A bridge over the river would be the obvious way to connect the 78 to parking and other improvements at the Amtrak site. Another huge advantage would be eliminating the view of the railroad boneyard across the river. Apparently Mansueto either never thought of this or felt it wasn't worth the millions to purchase and develop another large parcel. As it is, he must be creaming in his pants about this. As to your thought about the Amtrak site probably being too narrow to locate a baseball stadium, I agree. That is one reason why I was wondering if the adjacent BNSF site might be Ishbia's next target. At this point, absent further land acquisition, the Amtrak site would provide a lot of surface parking and additional points of ingress. Also, as I mentioned, developing that land would drastically improve the aesthetic on the West bank of the river. You know, in any of the fancy architectural renderings of the Fire stadium, they always eliminated that Westerly view.

Regarding your first paragraph, I guess we will have to see. I already said that Robert is injury-prone and he could easily get hurt regardless of any of this early Spring Training protection. However, regarding your second paragraph, the Sox pulled the same nonsense of playing guys that were still injured with not just their franchise player but a veteran in Tauchman as well, and that was as recently as last season. In both cases, it led to further time on the IR for both players. How often was it mentioned that the Sox would keep injured players on their active roster instead of calling a healthy player up and still choose to either play the banged up player or simply play games a man down? The Sox have been pretty bad at injury and roster management for years.

Is the bolded not dependent on whether or not it bears fruit? The season is a week away and he has 11 ABs and 23 innings in the field. I assume he's getting reps in the backfields or cages somewhere, but how much caution keeps him from being ramped up and ready for an everyday starting role next week, given that his last game will have been a full 6 months prior? And if that caution is an all season thing, how big is the benefit of getting 100-110 games of him "on purpose" instead of by accident/circumstance? But I agree that he played through injuries regularly here, in part due to carrying the mantle of being a "cornerstone" in a way he won't have to in NY. The staff needs to protect guys from themselves when necessary, but I do think he took after Abreu a bit (who famously wouldn't sit for anything...except a send off from the fans apparently) which is why I've never liked implications that he was lazy or didn't care.

Thank you for requesting my opinion as you know I am very familiar with this area of Chicago and the Chicago White Sox. My family, friends and I started going to games at the historic Comiskey Park over 50 years ago. We have long standing ties with the White Sox, the Bridgeport/ Armor Square neighborhood, and IIT. I have made my opinion very clear about abandoning the historic home of the White Sox and you are free to disagree with that. As far as any plan by Ishbia to move the White Sox - I realize that a Billionaire can do anything. Reference a recent statement from our President "I can do whatever I want" i.e., bulldoze the West Wing of the White House, build a garish ballroom, build an imposing arch in D.C. or, in the case of Ishbia and his wife, try to swap some Sheridan Rd property with the Winnetka Park District for a southern portion of Centennial Beach in order to expand his $77 million lakefront estate. No, the power of billionaires isn't a political statement, rather, it is a reality in our country. I would be happy to comment on the acquisition of the 42 acre parcel (The "79"?) if that is what you are asking. I would like to see the site plan before I cast any opinions about it. Preliminarily, do Shore/Ishbia have any plans to also acquire the BNSF yard which would extend the 42 acre parcel (the Metra yard) West to Canal ? As far as your sarcasm about soil conditions, ingress/egress/ parking at the "78", it seems to me that the proposed site West of the river may not have the same issues. In fact, the proposed acquisition appears to have been motivated because of some of the issues at the 78.

Because the new owner of the Rays is from Florida and didn't buy the team to move them to Montreal. He was also previously part of a group that was trying to bring an expansion team to Orlando before he bought the Rays instead. I should amend my post - they'd move to Orlando if the city/county provides a huge chunk of public money toward a new stadium. They aren't moving to any city unless there's a boatload of public money for a stadium waiting for them. Unless Montreal is going to put up close to $1B in public money for a new stadium, MLB is not going back there. The only cities/states that I know of that are offering public money for a new MLB stadium are Portland ($800M) and Salt Lake City/Utah ($900M). One of those cities will likely get an expansion team.

Unfortunately likely. That rotation is UGLY.

Now comes the part when a Vaccine Babe just starts making stuff up because they're out of talking points. A vaccine prepares the immune system by introducing a pathogen so your body can learn to recognize and fight it before encountering the real thing. The mRNA vaccines do just that. The twist is they give your DNA an order to temporarily produce a certain protein that coats the coronavirus, it does, then eliminates it. The mRNA order does not alter anybody's DNA, so no, it's not gene therapy. Perhaps that's why you're confused. You've been misinformed for as many as 5 years about this stuff. Can you tell us about this "slightly different process" that mRNA vaccines (that meet the medical definition of "vaccine") must go through? As far as Prescribing Information, full PI on the Pfizer vaccine was available on August 23, 2021, and on January 31, 2022 for the Moderna. Consumers and doctors had all practical information they needed about the vaccines upon release. The EUA's contained all dosing and safety information needed for consumers to make decisions and doctors to administer. The fact that you're making up a purely fictional not-vaccine process of approval tells me that immediate release of PIs wouldn't have mattered to you or others making the same arguments. They're 20-40 page documents that would be meaningless to you. They're not written for laypeople. The side effects and mortality numbers have not been played down. I'm coming to understand that you don't have the capacity to understand what those numbers mean in the grand scheme. You downplay 8100 people dying every single day like that's a joke, while making hay over people having a sore arm and fatigue for a day, like that was a genocide.

Tampa Bay hasn't supported a team, Miami hasn't supported a team. Why move them to another Florida location where they won't be supported?

Having a ballpark on the river would be amazing

The Amtrak land could be an aesthetically better site for a ballpark. The view of downtown is more aligned with left-center field, rather than down the third base line. They might even be able to design it so that home runs to right field land in the river.

So in summary. -The Sox still want to be in the 78 -If the Sox do go into the 78, this probably becomes the ballpark village concept -If the Sox don't go into the 78, this becomes the ballpark. -The Sox now have two scenarios to leave Bridgeport in. -I almost have to wonder out loud if the Sox could actually landswap with Amtrak to aid in getting something done.

The number of people who died with any link to the vaccines number in the "dozens". About half of those stemmed from the J&J vaccine. This is of the 260-270 million Americans who were vaccinated. I find it weird that the Vaccine Babes who shrug off 8100 people dying from COVID every single day try to play up the 20 or so people who died from blood clots or myocarditis (over the last 6 years) due to the various vaccines - as not being worth the risk. Mass vaccinations were effective. The daily death toll from COVID dropped from a peak of around 8100 daily to somewhere between 1500-2500 daily at the peak of Omicron over the winter of 2021/2022. It wasn't until Paxlovid became accepted as a treatment that the numbers dropped off precipitously to under 100 a day. I get vaccinated twice a year due to my own health issues. COVID does not inspire a strong, lasting immune response, and neither do the various vaccines. However, 6 months out of my last COVID shot, my anti-bodies were as high as somebody who had recently had COVID. Anecdotal, I know, but just throwing that out for info. mRNA technology has been with us over 30 years and has been thoroughly tested. Nobody credible believes mRNA is "failed". And vaguely referring to "the data" detracts from your argument rather than supports. mRNA tech is being used in the development of next generation cancer and rare disease therapies.

I wonder if he would build the ballpark there or leave the park in the 78 and build the "village" and parking in the land he just bought. I wish JR would just give him total control right now under the premise of can't waste 4 or 5 years. JR should understand that.

Justin Ishbia set to buy massive South Loop rail yard for...The future White Sox owner could take control of a valuable tract of land across the river from where current Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf wants to build a new ballpark.

I deserve to be tarred and feathered, sure… but being drawn and quartered is taking it a bit too far

Sincere congratulations to your son. Tell him we Rice grads are so happy we got a coveted state title thanks in large part to the linemen. How far a drive is Norbert's from your house? Will u drive to many games? Keep us posted on his progress. Is Norbert's known for good football?

Jack Drees and Bud Kelly. Brings back childhood memories.

Right? What did people expect Brooks to say in an interview - "yeah, we tried to give Nancy a hint that it was time for her to go"? I don't want to get this thread totally sidetracked about the Nancy Faust situation since there's a lot more speculation involved there, but it's totally reflective of how this organization has driven away talented individuals who aren't total loyalists for 4+ decades now. This shitshow isn't going to end for us until there is a change in ownership.

I put up with Jack Dees so I can handle any current or future White Sox announcer.

https://www.amazon.com/Cardboard-Gods-All-American-Through-Baseball/dp/1934734160 Read this book and tell me if you think Schiffren actually loves baseball, is at heart something he’s obsessed with or if it’s something he’s just grown to appreciate as part of his job? You have to enjoy the sport AND be good at the art of broadcasting to be truly great. Otherwise it can come across as disingenuous…like all the “beefs” we’ve had to put up with the last two years. As far as privilege goes…that’s a tough one. Maybe fortunate is the better word. Obama, for example, lost a parent, grew up in a third world country to an extent, but also had a grandparent who invested her savings and belief in him attending the elite Punahou School in Hawaii. Without that, he wouldn’t have been able to attend Occidental, Columbia and eventually HLS. So perhaps having 1-2 family members believing in you and supporting you all along the way is another definition of privilege. (When I taught in Colombia, we agreed it was having a US passport and the ability to go anywhere in the world as a traveler/tourist.) And, to be honest, have watched so few Sox games the last two years (usually radio because of Wi-Fi speeds) that it didn’t even come across my thinking that he was bi-racial, which is/was my mistake.

Yeah I was considering elaborating on my thoughts, but the first thought was that many kids get nice scholarships (if not full rides) to these sorts of schools without being privileged, especially if he played ball in high school, did extracurriculars, got good grades. I don't know Schriffen's life (I don't really care), but there are many routes to such an institution without ponying up that kind of money. The other thought was that it seems interesting to call the only current black PBP television guy in baseball 'privileged'. You could look up just about any of these guys doing the job and see how they got a 'connection' into the industry. Don't get me wrong, I think Schriffen is bad at his job, but 'privileged' is not an idea that comes to my mind. 'Bad' is the idea that comes to my mind. I hope he's better this year, maybe it's an adjustment period.

He was also (Schiffren) privileged enough to attend Dartmouth or a similarly elite East Coast school...

This new de is part of the reason they let him go. His real goal is to do national broadcasts. He will do less and less local broadcasts. The Sox wanted him to do the local broadcasts and not really have a two team broadcast schedule with Bennetti only doing partial seasons.

It's time for Pritzker to slash taxes on billionaires so we can steal all the billionaires from the other states. This is awesome.