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Well it's not like your high school can just up and move to Nashville if they piss off everyone in their area.

She may not be the best option, may not be good enough for many teams, but she is 10 times more qualified than anyone the Sox have hired in the 21st century. Our bar is set a little lower, and she clears it easily.

Any reason to believe JR is bitter towards her? I've heard him talk about her multiple times and was nothing but positive. Same for her about JR.

Nobody believes Getz is a "Sole decision Maker". He has a boss (JR) that he reports to, who can and will overrule any decision Getz makes that he disagrees with. The Sox haven't had a sole decision maker in the GM role for 50 years at least. JR naming Ng President and saying she is taking over some of his oversight role as he is 87 years old makes sense and doesn't change Getz's responsibilities or role in the least, and kind of makes sense.

Well...if you can say one thing for the White Sox is that they are consistent year to year. No instability here, we all know what to expect on an ongoing basis.

Men committing physical violence against women is wrong. Only exception is self defense and only to the degree necessary to avoid injury to self. If a woman is so f***ed up mentally that she requests you choke her out, or punch her, walk away. If a homeless person on the street offered to let you kick them in the face for $10, would you consider that OK as well. After all, they offered, right?

Just because a woman asks you to commit violent acts against her doesn't make the man committing those acts any less disgusting of a human being. He had the option to say no. Instead he did it because he took pleasure in almost killing a woman for sexual gratification. Her devious motives only exposed Bauer, didn't make him any less of a piece of s%*#.

I said their intentions were correct. Obviously the execution of those intentions was not.

I would assume the fact that Mike's son ended up working for the Sox would indicate fences mended between Reinsdorf and the Veeck family. Einhorn's comment was stupid and insensitive. But the Sox did need to start acting like a Major League ballclub, their intentions were correct. Should have shut up and just made the changes everyone knew were necessary.

The story of Mike Veeck and his family makes it worth watching, even if not a fan of Bill. Bill's story and the story of Disco Demolition are mere background to Mike's remarkable and somewhat tragic story, and the way he recovered his life and used his life lessons to help others recover their lives transcends the Sox related stuff.

The Polo Grounds sucked the first time around, no need to replicate it here. Good luck signing power hitters with 420 foot power alleys, good luck getting MLB to approve 290 foul lines, good luck dealing with the sun in day games facing due north, good luck selling lots of outfield seats that appear to be 600 feet or more from home plate. There is a reason this wasn't taken seriously and none of the next 20 or so ballparks built took inspiration from this plan. As I recall, he also advocated no parking lots whatsoever.

How about Hillside? Easy access from 88,290,294. Blue line and Metra.near. Very central to entire area.

I doubt the 20% number, the CTA doesn't even run anywhere near enough trains to handle 4000 people before and after games. Anyway even if true it would be easily replaced by those who are suddenly only 15-30 minutes away from the park. Lots of people in the suburbs don't want to battle the rush hour traffic on the expressways for an 60-80 minute slog to 35th St.

The whole "southside" team issue is based on a decision the Sox made over 120 years ago. Their fanbase hasn't been there for decades now. Move out to the west/ southwest suburbs and make the drive 30 minutes or so for a huge number of potential ticket buyers and watch attendance soar. The Soldier Field thing is nuts. Even assuming they tear it down and build a new park there it would be so inaccessible to the majority of the Chicagoland area it would be horrible. Many Sox fans would see their travel time increase 15 minutes or so, and it sucks now. Put it in the middle of the Chicagoland population to minimize travel time, not on the east edge of it.

We need all Sox fans to stop complaining about Sal Perez. The way JR has been acting the last few years he may demand Getz acquire him simply to stick it to us again. We should be demanding the Sox acquire him at ANY cost.

Seems to me that telling over 50% of the market to go screw yourselves, we don't want your business, isn't exactly a genius move either.

Probably in a garbage can near the concourse.

He was actually wearing a Cubs hat when he entered the field, but it fell off quickly. You could see it on the warning track in the background during the attack.

I thought it was the other woman, the one who sustained the minor wound, that was thought to have had the gun. Her wound supposedly looked like a burn wound from the gun discharging.

I would guess that the concept is if someone is promoted it is because they deserve it. Probably something that happens sometimes in other organizations.

The rule still exists but was modified a while ago. They can promote Getz without any other interviews, but they would need to fill his old spot with a "diverse" candidate in exchange, or provide evidence of why that is not possible. Change was made to try to cut back on fake interviews when an internal promotion is already decided on.

CPD could have shut down the event if they so chose, the Sox wouldn't have had a choice to continue. That's basically what happened at the LiL Durk UC concert. I wonder if the gun shot wound was identified as self inflicted by CPD, and they considered the threat over when she left the building? Still lots of questions.

I'd love that- plus it cuts the infrastructure costs in half. Not being an AH resident I can't speak toward how they would feel having an additional 81 events, but I would assume it could be worked in a manner that doesn't disrupt their lives. Nothing against the southside, but I really don't think enough tickets are being sold to those within easy walking or rapid transit distance. I see the people walking back and forth to the 35th street red line, doesn't seem like many compared to the parking lots.

Has anyone questioned Vanilla Ice?

Nobody saw a weapon in the ballpark. If this was an active shooter in the park someone, anyone would have seen the weapon. So send 20000 from a secured area with metal detectors with no indication of a weapon into a completely unsecured area which was possibly where the shooter was based. They moved family members because they could be moved to a more secure area. I would assume MLB has specific rules for player families. There is no area in GRF more secure that holds 20000. Certainly not the parking lots and street around the park.