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Frank is/was amazing (his batting eye especially and overall hitting of course) but this Montgomery has the SWING. Smooth, explosive, BOOM.

He's so good that you have to believe the Sox have their own superstar. His potential is unlimited.

Montgomery, no hyperbole, is our best prospect maybe ever. That swing on the homer is as smooth yet forceful as anybody who has worn a Sox jersey. Whoever is responsible for drafting him must be a genius. 22nd overall pick? How could all those teams pass up this natural talent? When is the hype machine gonna take off?? He is the Sox's Caitlin Clark. He is the Sox's Connor Bedard. He is the Sox's versus of the Bulls' Mxxxxxx Jxxxxx. OK I won't go that far yet.

ls the data correct though? Or it is Soros-sized

This has nothing to do with Chicago's numbers. I have no idea if they are accurate or not. ... BUT in D.C. did you see the officials were saying via numbers crime is down like 50 percent and lowest since the 1960s or something. Then somebody proved the numbers released were fake news. What a world but we don't know who to believe any more.

There are a lot of things stupid and unnecessary about sports, Lip. Taxes being used to pay for stadiums of billionaires is one of them but it's the norm. So you gotta do it. These salaries to play a kid's game also are stupid and unnecessary. I just wonder at what point fans stop going. Not sure where they get all the money to drive to games, park, eat, drink and watch the games. ... The new thing in college sports is having to pay a rental fee just to have your season ticket seat. The cost of the seat is in addition to how much you have to pay lump sum just to have right to the seat.

Chicago negatives: The accent from the deep southside; potholes. Positives: Deep dish, beef sandwiches, Chicago hot dogs, Giordanos thin slice, high school football and basketball. Are we gonna rally and beat the Guardians tonight?

Caiaphas sounds like a figure from the Bible's Old Testament.

Also hard to have pride in Chicago itself. I won't get political but living out of state, trust me, the nation's opinion of Chicago's financial situation and mayor's plan to increase taxes on businesses and crime stats dominate what we're told about Chicago. If it's fake news, fine, but nobody is proving it's fake news. To the average out of state joe, Chicago is a mess and it'd be insane to not move to suburbia if you were a sports owner of any team but the Cubs and their museum (park).

No retractable roofs in Chicago for baseball please unless you wanna hold Final Fours in there. Otherwise the Bears should have a retractable roof even though it's sexy to play playoff football when it's 20 below zero. Sexy but dumb. It's not football at that point.

Interesting. Well then the Bears will get the complex out at Arlington if they are smart IMO.

Cannon was throwing up B.P. Is he any good or does he stink? I pretty much only follow our everyday players in the box scores and mlb game summary. None of the pitchers are worth my attention in my opinion. But I like our bats. Sosa baby, et. all

The new owner would be wise to escape all the upcoming taxes, etc. Also like I said, Lip, there won't be a redeveloped Bridgeport. Do you see the new owners wanting to be in that area of the city? They'd be guaranteed a boon if they and the Bears joined forces and built a sports city out by the old Arlington. Why would the Sox stay at 35th and Shields with their brand new, rich owner? Luxury is what he'll want.

The area around Comiskey will never get redeveloped into a baseball zone. So move it to suburbia and make it a complex with the Bears. Make it a one of a kind destination area with roller coasters, etc. Maybe even renew the old dogtrack/racetrack concept out there too, or soccer.

Is Colson Montgomery going to be the best No. 22 overall pick in history? Proves there's no need to tank when you can get this talent at 22. My gawd he is amazing. That HR tonight was crushed.

No way. The Sox hat is perfect. The Sox logo is perfect. Just because our team has been an embarrassment has nothing to do with our hat and perfect jerseys. Changing the beautiful Sox logo would be the most ridiculous decision in Chicago sports history. That'd be like asking the Cubs to completely switch their logo. The Sox logo and uniform is in the top two in baseball with the Yankees. I do realize the Sox abandoned it with the block lettering Sox years ago when our unis looked like the Astros. But cmon. Don't mess with the traditional Sox uni.

If you are a GM in the small market Central Division it's unacceptable to not try to "win soon,"

Hey Harry and all the Rice grads: Is Bro Rice projected to be good this year in football and/or basketball? Special? Or will we revert back to mediocrity? Any additions on the recruiting/transfer trail? Thanks for the info. I actually may be in Chicagoland this year on a weekend in October but don't think I'll be able to make a game.

The good news is all pitchers in modern day MLB are about the same. Flamethrowers who get Tommy John surgery then return. Not sure why any team lets a starter go five. The analytics zealots certainly would tell you you'd be better off throwing max of 1.5 to 2 innings then move onto the next pitcher.

Ozzie was saying on the postgame show 20 mill is nothing nowadays. Jerry is so wrong for this line of work. The owners caused this salary escalation mess dating to when Steinbrenner had to have all the good players and upped the ante. If you can't pay the ridiculous salaries, sell Jerry, sell. 20 mill for Robert is pocket change nowadays.

This is alarming cause I thought we had pitching in the minors. As high as I am on the young additions to the everyday lineup, I still think the Sox need pitching. Jerry may have to spend.

Lineup is emerging as a decent one. Let's spend some cold hard cash and build a pitching staff. There are so few good relievers in baseball nowadays. Try to find a few and add 2 experienced starters. Work on the pitching since the lineup is contention worthy.

That's a joke about Getz right? He could be up for GM of the year if we continue to win the second half. The lesser knowns he acquired for this season turned out much better than the Lopez, Pham, DeBong's of last year. Also his no name pitching staff isn't the worst in all of baseball.

Angels stink; Sox are good; Getz will be declared a genius someday it appears. Go for the sweep.

I have to throw the advanced metric WAR stat out the window. My eye test tells me he was our all star this year if Tauchmann didn't have enuf at bats. A contender is dumb to not pick up Beni unless they concerned about his arm costing 'em games.