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I used to think this, but seeing what the similar teams who did spend and build franchise value are worth these days, it is very clear to me that Jerry literally left billions on the table with his cheap ways in the overall franchise value. This could easily be a 4 to 5 billion franchise if he had invested hard into it. He didn't, and it is worth about half of that.

Excitement isn't a commodity to be sold to the public. You can't be the same excited about a 40 win team as a playoff team, or no one believes you. You have to respect your audience knows what their watching.

Again...to each his own...but to me Scriffen's "passion" seemed incredibly forced...and intentionally theatric! Benetti's excitement seemed genuine to me...showed it when it was real! Agree though...he ain't coming back which makes me look forward to Sox TV again!

He's not wrong. Chicago leaders are casting a $900M federal/private investment in rail infrastructure upgrade....and a proposal to privately-finance a stadium for the Sox as a shady real estate deal. This is all money not coming from state and city taxpayers and yet the city reacts with vitriol because the developer would actually benefit from this. And yes, Amtrak should be having discussions with residents over their concerns about the new facility. But are they doing anything than just shouting? Amtrak holds all the cards here, is there a more constructive way to engage with them?

This year's success is all the reason for Jerry to not spend money. He probably thinks you can have this success with this low of a payroll every year.

The park I really want to see is: The Railyards, I will buy Tray a ticket as a guest.

Anyone who thinks we could have caught Cleveland is crazy.

Now I don't have to hate watch the World Series, nice.

I just think stuff like that is difficult to correct in season. How has the Orioles offense been since they fired Fuller? I love what the Sox are doing throughout the org on the hitting side. They hit 211 homers, led the AL in walks and runs scored. I'm glad that Getz isn't making any changes.

Maybe he thought Castillo was a switch pitcher and didnt see any thing wrong with the imaging on his left shoulder.

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Perfectly Fine Field.

I think you missed the joke based on an infamous Jerry quote. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Flag_Trade

Very happy to see the eventual downfall of the Guardians who proved very hateable. They obviously have some very talented baseball ops people and despicable ownership holding them back. We can only hope that ownership continues to refuse investing in payroll or that the talented front office proves not so good on figuring out which veteran players are worth spending money on (which IMO is quite possibly a different skill than the amateur acquisition and development skills they are clearly good at). I don't think there's all that much to learn from comparing stats between the two series, there are so few games involved you can hardly call them hot and cold streaks. DeLauter made some loud outs against the Sox that probably held his numbers down. I certainly felt more afraid of him than most anyone else in their lineup. I found it weird watching Cleveland how they went from a team that had good starting pitching to a team that seemed to believe it only had two starters. Griffin actually did fairly well in the postseason but they used him like a reliever, seemingly because they thought (maybe accurately) that he would get beat up without his matchups being carefully managed. Bibee had been bad down the stretch so that made sense I guess. Cantillo was handled even more carefully than Griffin but he kind of earned it by struggling mightily to throw strikes; of course maybe he's at home thinking his issues were due to his atypical usage. Messick proved beatable when you don't chase his changeup. Williams was a monster but in his last inning of the ALCS he had lost nearly 4mph on his fastball which makes me think he hit a wall with fatigue (or worse, that he got hurt). I wasn't even clear that Cleveland was going to use him in a Game 7. On offense, Cleveland lived by success on slappy balls in play and died by it as well. May they rest in peace! I also want to note that Detroit has some really interesting young players, starting with McGonigle who may be just one of those guys who is among the best players in the game for years. Dingler has been great even if I'm sure their fans are worried about his trajectory at the end of the season. Riley Greene is a good young hitter. Max Clark has big potential. I'm not sure if they will have pitching but that's always harder to project. Same goes for Kansas City. Bobby Witt is Bobby Witt. Carter Jensen seems like a real strong player that maybe flew a tick under the radar. The sky is the limit for Caglianone and he's managed to not be a 35% K rate guy. Not sure what exactly Maikel Garcia will be but the 2025 version was a problem and he's at worst a solid regular on the cheap. Pasquatch is also a rock solid guy IMO. I'm not sure if they have enough reinforcements on the way though. I'm not as enthused about the Twins going forward but they basically sold the whole org for parts in 2025 and still hung around in 2026, so I can't ignore that.

The garbage Tribe finally eliminated. Another year of no titles in Cleveland. And to add insult to injury, they have to live in Cleveland. f*** em. Good riddance and good to see their fraudulent bullshit end.

Rays win game 5, back to St. Pete to try to close it out.

Similarly, this part about how the Ishbia brothers decided to put initial prioritization on growing the team fanbase, as opposed to maximizing funds, stood out to me: So it would seem Justin is very much interested in both growing the target audience of the White Sox with a new stadium while also ensuring that us existing fans have the accessibility to continue to support the team and watch/attend games. Wonderful.

Yeah, I guess Dodgers fans will have to cry over the 3 WS trophies that team won in this decade alone.....matching the total WS titles for the Sox in 120+ years.....when they realize the Sox won more playoff games this postseason.

Thanks, I find it hard not to be giddy about the potential for all of this and what it could mean for the franchise with the more I see about it.

Perhaps another team will SHOW SCHRIFF THE MUNE and you’ll be able to continue listening to him. But I wouldn’t put my own MUNE on it happening.

I’m guessing they decided he was gone much earlier in the year.

That one takes the cake, though I’m a fan of this one: Ah yes, the erroneous and biased information that we’re spreading by quoting Crain’s articles.

6 pages later, same stupid s%*#.

Interesting that he says "a lot of residential developers" have reached out to him about redeveloping the 80 acres that Rate Field sits on. If the Sox move, I doubt that land is just going to remain an empty stadium as Ald. Lee suggests. I also found this interesting from the article: “To my knowledge, there’s been no controlling owner, steward of a major league franchise who has ever given the opportunity to the next steward to be involved with the decision making of a a stadium or that process. So, I’m so appreciative of that opportunity,” Ishbia said of his owner-in-waiting arrangement." Does that mean there's more behind the scenes coordination between Reinsdorf and Ishbia on new stadium planning than is being let on in public?

I am of the belief the Schriff should not be back. But to use this as an excuse would be more than lame. You gave him the PTO, he has other gigs, this was most likely set up weeks in advance. How was he supposed to know the Sox would clinch that day? It has seemed apparent to most he unlikely wasn’t coming back next year any way, if he blows off the Vegas thing, maybe he is out there as well. When it’s time to announce it, just keep it classy, it isn’t very hard.

If you know anything about transportation and rails, Chicago is a MASSIVE bottleneck in national train traffic because the infrastructure hasn't been updated in like a century in some cases. This is moreso on the freight side than the people side, but those both affect each other for sure. I have no idea if THIS particular facility will make much of a difference or not, but this IS a problem.

One can only hope.

Just the 2004 Red Sox.

Excellent summary of the true nature of our current owner. Best post you’ve had on this site IMO.

Give it Thome Roch Hard

At least he's not arrogant.

Hitler?

I think AJ nailed it, and it’s not a surprise. I’m more surprised that some people seem to think Jerry is going to allow Getz to go on a spending spree, lockout or no lockout.

Problematically, there is more than offense to a baseball team, and the amount of time their window is open. Ryan Fuller is the simplistic retort. The Orioles squandered that time their window was open by not making decisive moves to keep it open. If the Sox don't do a lot of work around their pitching staff (sound familiar so far?) and so far their pitching development has been a massive failure on the front end. All of the teams top pitching prospects have failed at being to stick as a starter so far. Obviously some of these guys will go back and try again, but Taylor seems to be done as a starter, and the whisper campaign around Hagen has already started. Shane Smith completely bombed out this year, Schultz and McDougal both didn't contribute anything to the rotation. The Sox need a LOT of work on the starting pitching if they want to be back here next year.

And still no explanation.

This has been said so so so many times and I’ve never heard one explanation as to what it actually means. Is he a dork because he wears glasses? Because he makes references?

Why isn't Peters part of the core? Played an excellent CF with offensive numbers similar to Meidroth. He's also fast and could steal more than he does. I get the sense that there is a concern that his 2026 production was luck-induced; that could be true, but it's not like he had some gaudy batting average propping things up. His walk rate could use improvement (for this regime; it would be top tier in prior regimes).

If you graduate from Law School you do have a law degree. But to be a practicing attorney you need to pass the bar. Sorry, I couldn't let that one pass.

Getz should get a F- for the deadline. Douchebag cost us the division and a playoff series ( at least one ). A more competent deadline and we’re still dreaming on a potential World Series birth. Disgusting. Edit: After reading further, it looks like the imaging was after he had thrown with the Sox… so he gets a solid F. Wow.

Hell, look at what Vargas had to go through before he turned into anything. A lot of the board was completely done with him and now he’s the best player on a playoff team. I’m not saying Braden (or Colson for that matter), will have a similar experience, but we gotta relax on who’s a bust and who’s a future star.

Don't worry. We're going to rub it in SS2K5's stupid idiot face when Bonemer comes up here and dominates.

This is one way to respond to somebody proving your points wrong.

The link I posted with Foul Territory talking with Josh Nelson has a lot of the info you are looking for. Nelson broke down the strikeouts against high speed fastballs.

Yeah, more short-sighted or "penny wise, dollar foolish" than anything. History has shown he's willing to increase the payroll after more money starts rolling in thanks to increased attendance after a winning season. But, he always stops just short of really putting this franchise over the top. Their big "All In" move (which became their advertising slogan that year) that I can think of was to sign the one-dimensional, 32-year old Adam Dunn to a four-year contract. Even with the infamous Hahn rebuild where "the money will be spent", he wouldn't commit to Machado or Harper and instead the Sox spread all that payroll space they had on B-level free agents like Keuchel and Grandal plus trying to outsmart the market by signing their young, unproven talent to extensions. Not to mention that this has taken place on top of not investing enough in scouting, player development, international scouting, etc. Look at the Padres. Yeah, they have no WS titles or pennants to show for their actions, but they now draw 3M a year and were sold for nearly $4B thanks to fielding exciting teams and developing a top-notch ballpark.

For some Sox fans, yes.

Colson had 11 HRs across 96 games in A-AA as a 20 year old (mostly in A and A+). Bonemer had 37 homeruns in 132 games across A+-AA. He's hitting for WAY more power. .154 ISO vs a .300 ISO.

He’s more greedy than stupid

Loved seeing Ramirez be the reason they lost tonight. Also after seeing the Rays get dominated by CLE pitching, we should be less critical of our guys. The Rays have looked bad the last two nights.

Your Dad was Moises Alou?