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Sixty bucks a shot when I go buy some bananas, paper towels, wheat thins, a deli sandwich, some breakfast rolls. Twenty bucks to fill just over a quarter of my tank. 12 to 16 bucks for a fast food run. Ouch. ... If this post isn't allowed, please kill it. I just felt like responding which is prolly my bad.

These contracts make no sense. Economy: Bad. Ticket prices: Already are too expensive for ordinary fans only going up. Baseball should be played in a studio cause only TV money is keeping it afloat. Good luck if these TV deals fall through some day cause of bankruptcy.

Was this true? Did he really go visit the Nashville mayor? Maybe Jerry in his later years has decided he hates Chicago and indeed will move the team. Jerry fails to realize he could have been an icon in Chicago history if the team actually built on the momentum gained from winning it all in 05. Instead, the team has been awful.

Scary thing is the Sox have until about Jan. 10 to drastically change the roster. After that spring training will be just around the corner. I bet the Sox will sell dozens of season tickets the next six weeks or so.

At least he's a body with a reasonable resume. Granted he hasn't done squat in the bigs and he's 30 but like everybody is saying it's worth the gamble. Not our money. I hope he does well as a 5 inning guy. Need to shore up that bullpen.

Fedde was great overseas. Maybe he's the next Phil Humber. Sign him.

Not really. I am a realist. We aren't gonna be winning anytime soon no matter what the course is.

Cmon folks, offseason is time to fleece a team of 5 prospects for Cease. In this day and age the guy can give a team 5 good innings and strike out minimum of 10 in those innings. Perfect modern day starter. A good pitching coach will make sure he cuts down on his walks. Maybe if he does that he can even go 6 innings .That said ... you give up a No. 2 starter like Cease in the offseason you bring in a haul. He can excite a fan base. Get 5 players for him; same with Eloy. That's 10 bodies, hopefully 6 prospects who are close to can't miss. Don't make pedestrian trades. Go for the jugular since we're not going to sign free agents. p.s. trade Nicky Lopez. He's not MLB caliber anymore folks. IMO.

I know this has been rehashed to death but losing Benetti, a lifelong Sox fan, just seems wrong. Not just a fan but perhaps the best young announcer out there. If we need a "sign" at how this franchise is "near" rock bottom, it's losing Benetti. And to do Tigers games? I know $$$ talks but no true Chicagoan wants to spend any time in Detroit. Geez. What a depressing town (just my opinion). I'll take Swirsky.

If he picks the Cubs, wow. The Sox really should move at that point. The Sox will have their 12,000 loyal fans (including all of us on here). The Cubs will own the city and he'll be the new Chicago sports icon (Hull, Banks, Minnie, Big Hurt, Butkus, Sayers, Payton). Not sir Michael though. He's forever in a class by himself. Sox should sell team and get Ohtani.

Not to derail the thread as I like Gio, but until the Sox get rid of Pedro they can't be taken seriously. How in the world can this team sell any tickets? Who would be dumb enough to pay baseball 2023 prices to go out to GRate and watch this team play baseball? There are minor league options, folks, though those prices have gone up,too. How in the world can they keep Pedro. What do they see in him? Geez.

it's amazing how teams are stuck getting rid of the nickle and dime employees while the only reason they are in this boat is what happened with salary escalation year after year of ballplayers. It never slowed down. Even now they are paid so much money when they are more brittle than ever. It's almost impossible for a pitcher to avoid serious arm surgery and players are on the DL all the time as we know too well. But keep cutting scouts and secretaries rather than ever face the real problem (ballplayer salaries are too late to fix; baseball will go broke before those salaries ever stop going up).

I'm not a big Bummer fan so the Sox at least got 5 players for him.

Any chance the Sox could change perception and sign this guy? He'd be great with Robert and his signing plus bringing in Salvy and Merrifield might bring out the best in Eloy, Timmy, Vaughn. Think about it. Signing one player would fix our everyday lineup in one day. If he can pitch again we'd have he and Cease. Sometimes you have to make a move dollars be damned that in one swoop could spark/cure a franchise and entire south side. I mean Jerry could tell Ohtani to wait, that he's selling the team and the new owners could bring him to town and fix this team. It's frankly sad that the Sox probably aren't in the discussion at all. Getting him would mean so much. I'm probably dreaming, The odds of getting Ohtani would be the same as an astronaut walking on the surface of the sun.

Tough crowd. I was noting in a horrid economy baseball apparently is exempt making $$$ no matter the fact u can't leave a grocery store without 60 bucks stripped from the wallet. Sports are immune.

Crazy to think the Sox will make money. I understand why they will (TV revenue, which baffles me. The economy is totally in the tank; have u walked out of a grocery story paying under 60 bucks just for some fruit, lunch meat, just a couple odds and ends like toothpaste?) yet somehow the networks can pay exorbitant amounts for a sport with low ratings. The Sox will be unwatchable next year yet the TV money piles in. Very strange stuff. ... Think of how bad this team is going to be. Nobody's gonna watch. That said ... get the biggest haul you can for Cease. The Sox aren't gonna contend for a while even if everybody wants that. We have to face reality. Try to get somebody as good a prospect as Robert. Throw TA in the deal and make it a blockbuster (even tho TA lost all power and is not very good anymore).

I'm sure if I watch games again I'll have him as a favorite. Doubles are good. Walk rate must improve obviously as u pointed out. Sox need to get rid of TA if he's one of the main 'problems' in the clubhouse. He's not that good to be a problem if indeed he is one. Ditto Moncada. Ditto Eloy. I wonder if Vaughn is a good clubhouse guy. I'd keep Vaughn and Robert and maybe Eloy and let the other position players take a hike. Maybe keep Elvis solely as a utility guy.

Very good question. My bad but it's probably cause i didn't watch any games after all star break and didn't fall in love with Robert despite all the homers. Plus isn't Robert an all or nothing guy too? HR or strikeout. I'm probably gonna be done with baseball soon cause there are too many things about the modern game I hate. Sad. I also loved Wilbur Wood. i was at the DH where he started both games. I think he mita got a no decision in both or lost one of em and no decision the other. Didn't wilbur get bunted out of baseball? after knee problems teams bunted it to the left and right of him and he couldn't make the plays anymore.

Same with me. First time in a long time I have had absolutely no favorite player on the Sox roster. I used to stand up for some guys on the board who I liked who got ripped a lot. Now I don't like any of 'em particularly. No pitchers for sure are on my like list. I was starting to like Burger.

Let us know when AJ has the episode about incidents this past season that he alluded to. Sox are a complete mess. Our favorite team has never had a worse outlook. Even Veeck who had no cash brought in a few stars that could carry a team to respectability like Zisk, Gamble, Soderholm, Spencer et all in 77 and a few others that failed like Bonds, Kessinger, Santo and Washington, etc. This team is void of the kind of talent it takes to win games and apparently has a bunch of losers in the clubhouse. Good luck Getz in fixing this mess of a team. I hesitate to say we need Salvy and some other clubhouse guys cause Abreu was a consummate pro and he couldn't fix it.

Good to hear ex Sox blast the team. More need to do it as well. Keeping Pedro is just plain awful. Along with Bevington the worst hire in Sox history probably.

That was a lazy comparison by Parkins. Why pick on Robert, our only good player? He coulda said Benetti is better broadcaster than Timmy is a SS or Vaughn is a 1Bman, etc. Robert like I said is the only good above average player on the team.

Wanker is a great word. When I think of wanker I think of a Steve Physioc who had such an awful nasal plastic announcers voice for the Royals many years. Give me the rare conversational voice like Hawk or Harry or even the Royals Denny Matthews. The game show host voice can be really annoying/maddening. My guess is the Sox go with a wanker even tho that's not been their history.

Jason did a nice job, but frankly I didn't miss he and Stoney when I stopped watching games after the all star break. Good luck to him. I bet you the Sox bring in somebody Stone will hate, some plastic Wink Martindale voice guy who is a total homer. Hopefully Stoney drives the new guy crazy by continuing to be critical of the pathetic product Jerry puts on the field. It has to be depressing working for the Sox right now as they appear to be mismanaged. The Sox are probably happy to get rid of Jason since he has many other things going on, not just sox baseball.

Pedro seems overmatched. Is there any way he could turn it around and become say, Al Lopez in a few years? My question is, despite my disdain for Pedro is there any hope he'll be top notch at some point?