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I'm gonna put you down as a maybe.

Lift the entire stadium up and rotate it so there's a view of downtown from behind home plate.

Sure but likewise if you take the people in KC that haven't been murdered out of the equation, then the murder rate there is 100%. Pretty scary.

Guaranteed Wait ™️

Every bartender is a Tony impersonator.

Kansas City has a higher per capita murder rate than Chicago.

To expand on this, add a Hawk Harrelson soundboard to the goose. Home run call? The goose is belching fire and yelling "PUT IT ON THE BOARD!" "YOU'VE GOTTA BE BLEEPING ME" after a bad review. "A Kansas City special" whenever Pedro Grifol appears on the field, the Royals do anything, or a ball sneaks through, even if it they're not facing the Royals. Another feature: The Kaskade Hotbox A room filled with edibles and joints. Playing non-stop Kaskade to remind us of the brief shining moment in White Sox history. Leury Garcia is found here.

i'm sorry I can't joke about something this serious. Bring back the goose.

Clearly not enough people have been subjected to Royals broadcasts to truly appreciate Jason and Steve

Since they had the LaRussa Lounge after the DUI, I fully expect the Clevinger Day Care Center to be next

One-way traffic only on the concourse. No exceptions.

In the dugout. Controlled by fan vote.

I'm so extremely bummed. I'm out on AKME. I hate not having good basketball in chicago. And what's worse, I was apathetic when we had good albeit not championship level ball. I don't even really understand how to build a good team in the nba without extreme luck. I don't get why the raptors are so bad. I don't get even why the bulls are. We celebrated when bulls knicks tried and now want them to tear it down. The bulls/magic went into rebuilds, got zero lottery luck, entered decade of hell. The Grizzlies went into a rebuild, got incredible lottery luck, are entering a decade of dominance. The Suns went into a rebuild, were largely idiots, had incredible lottery luck, tried and became dominant, it lasted for like 2 years and is facing hell. It's really kinda hard for me to get into basketball as much. It seems way too random to build a team. It sucks.

f*** it. Sign me up

I really don’t care about the White Sox losing money through this stupidity on their part, I already laughed at the fact that Hahn guaranteed him $4 million against suspension with his stupid buyout and option. I would care more about taking the money from the suspension out of Clevinger’s accounts. He got that contract by keeping an abuse case quiet, a penalty would be nice.

Pretty sure that was sarcasm judging by the hand on the face emoji

I'd imagine that's exactly right. I doubt he's going to spend a full year at AA in 2023 and a full year at AAA in 2024 and then not get called up. Far more likely IMO is that he's the opening day shortstop in 2024.

That's a fair point. I restored the non-political parts of the convo. But again, regrettably, if we keep this thread, let's talk about White Sox f*** Up #____

How is that related to Mike Clevinger spitting tobacco juice on an infant?

That is mind-blowing considering how much people dunk on Chicago.

If you remove certain data points, you can get any answer you want. Like, if we just count Frank Thomas' stats from 2001 onward, is he really a Hall of Famer with a .262/.376/.884 slash line, no All-Star appearances and only 38 games played at first base? Probably not.

Exactly. Didn't realize I posted a riddle. Seemed like a pretty obvious comment about them being so close that Clevinger also picked up on Bauer's terrible behavior and how he treats women.

I meant to add an etc., but no one would ever beat Frank. They'd just get pummeled and then given free 500 level tickets for life with mandatory attendance.

1. Dig a moat in front of the Cuban Comet stand. You have to board a raft and float across the moat to get your sandwich. 2. Move the shower from the concourse to outside Gate D for the locals. 3. Somehow manage to get even older beer in the KraftKave. 9 month old IPAs are good but are still slightly tolerable. Not sure it is possible but we can try. 4. Ron Kittle is stationed at a random bathroom and when someone tries to enter via the exit door to jump the line, Ron intercepts him and traps him in a 10 minute conversation with lots of touching. 5. M&M George has to get a jacket with the new non-binary M&Ms. 6. The ushers pretend to be frozen all game and only come to life so they can vibe during Tim Anderson walk-up songs like those street performers that only move after you tip them (this only applies to those few ushers that already don't practice this). 7. Elon Musk boring tunnel under the tracks so we don't have to get scared by firecrackers under the overpass while walking to Lot G. 8. White sitting in Section 506 you have to wear VR Goggles which just broadcast a first person view from a live Darryl Boston cam. 9. Lot F is renamed Lot TLR and it allows camping and/or just sleeping it off in your car. 10. Wider seats to accommodate them XXXL thick boys and girls. 11. Ticket taker scanners say "Yes!" in hawk voice instead of just beeping while checking tickets. 12. The gates open early for batting practice. 13. Concession Stand point of sale systems offer if you want to tip 15%, 20% or a friendly critique of their 4 inch neon finger nails that they dug into your Beggars. 14, Scout Section is renamed Snout Section where all patrons must wear an elephant trunk mask. 15. On Family Sundays the kids race Jason Benetti around the bases. 16. Anytime there is boo'ing, a giant Steve Stone fathead pops out of the seat in front of you BLOCKING your view of the game because you are a bad fan. 17. Elvis Night and Pride Night moved to the same date and renamed "Facebook Comments Night". 18. Leury Legend Statue.

There is a story out there that the Bulls are asking 2 1sts for Caruso. Shoot, if that is the going rate, back up the truck and dump everyone.

But…..I actually LOVE this, in a non-joking manner.

I don't need to be careful or worried. In fact I wish for a new owner more than ever now. It's kind of hilarious you would be even hint that new owner could be worse than the POS Reinsdorf. If indeed you are supporting Reinsdorf and implying a new owner could possibly be worse than Reinsdorf, then you clearly have not been following closely the demise of this team.

I would set all of my Sox merch ablaze outside Gate 5 then defecate on the smoldering ashes if that happened.

White Sox and never addressing the lack of depth. Feels like we’ve seen this movie before.

I think he cleared waivers. But he would have been an interesting guy to pick up;

That's the Sox way... sit on your hands or make dumb trades that siphon off the future.

They're both shitty but I think that the second one is worse.

The Sox should eat whatever money they have to and let this guy go.

Sure, but it still beats 162 games of Beckham.

What about Beckham???

This is the best news in over 2 years! So glad to see Jason back, he's the future of broadcasting.

I'm pretty sure it's just a birds of a feather thing.

A lot of guys I grew up watching in the "good old days" have passed or are now. Memories.

Ok, I will be careful when I wish for Reinsdorf to sell the team

It isn't his job per se, but in his position, you ARE responsible for what happens underneath you. That's why Hahn gets generic blame here from people. Yes people understand that it isn't Hahn himself out sleuthing each player, but someone under his should be doing it and reporting back to him. If it isn't happening, that means Hahn isn't doing his job by making sure he has all of the information he needs to make good decisions.

This stuff has been out there about Clevenger for a while but Hahn chose to ignore it because he got a player he's always wanted at a price they could afford. I really hope they can't get out of paying him because they need to be punished for being so F'ing stupid.

It’s now even more obvious that one of these options need to happen fire Hahn fire Hahn and Williams The least likely scenario JR sells the team boycott, hit them in the wallet.

Good god is this a disaster. So to summarize, this off-season we have lost the following: 3.9 fWAR 1B 2.4 fWAR SP 1.6 fWAR CL 1.4 fWAR UT And assuming Clevinger is ultimately released, the only external addition of any significance is a non-power hitting LF. I won’t blame Hahn for the Hendriks situation or this latest nightmare, but it does highlight how much Hahn sucks at being a major league GM. Literally if anything else goes wrong from this point forward we are completely fucked because there isn’t a semblance of depth anywear except 1B/DH. When you stop augmenting the roster and instead bank on 100% health & luck you reap what you fucking sow. Can’t wait for the day this organization is finally free of the incompetence that is Rick Hahn.

If you were being hired for an upper management position at a large company or firm you can bet you're ass their doing a background check on you, and something like this may or may not be relevant to them. It's called character and a large firm wouldn't take a chance on getting their name tarnish by a suspected abuser and skirt chaser. We know it's not relevant with the Chicago White Sox, that's why we're in this situation. A better signing would have been Jameson Taillon if the Sox were serious about winning.

Daryl Boston can share a few stories no doubt, speaking of, as long as the Sox continue to employ him, maybe it's JR's character that should be questioned. After all he employed a two time DUI offender and a coach suspected of participating in rape with a group of players.

Another example of how this organization is inept, dysfunctional and incompetent. And until the owner is no longer around the baseball gods are going to keep dumping on it.

I'm all for nasty assholes on my team... every winning team has one. But once you start laying hands on women or kids then I'm done with you.

Seems accurate to me.

Jerry owns 20%. His influence isn't as much as one of the owners, it's as the Chairman. He doesn't have to sell, he could retire and allow a successor to take over.