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How about Stefan Urquelle for a nickname

Urquidy is so back

wow what a play

knock it off, sam

That was really funny

hudson's cooked

damn, if only we had that dude at 2nd instead of meidroth

Is it just me or has there been a total vibe shift between the Trib and the Times? Trib is unreadable these days and Sun Times is pretty good as far as newspapers go

Delayed thoughts on PCA walk-off: I think you have to pitch to him in that situation. PCA swings at everything whether or not it's in the zone and he's up against Hagen Smith who is unhittable but rarely throws strikes. Tip of the cap to PCA, his lame ass. Think the Sox are poised to tee up Gausman.

Cubs fan-coded interaction: hit the guy who’s supposed to be on your side when he’s not paying attention. Everything about that fanbase is slimy.

No but I wish I'd been there to help out our man.

Some fat Cubs fan started a fight by throwing a drink and then got his ass kicked. This is what we live for.

red line taking strays.

solo shots are pointless

they still don't make the playoffs

I'm gonna give you a wedgie, nerd.

I'm at your mom's house

This reminds me of how I saw some kid at a bar once wearing a Third Eye Blind t-shirt and I said something to him like, "hell yeah man, sick t-shirt" and he said, "yeah I love classic rock".

One that they don't share with a much more popular team and wealthier fanbase, with a city/state that will give them money to build a new park with. Definitely Nashville (I'd move there if there was a job, I looked) but it could be Montreal, Louisville, Vancouver, Salt Lake City, Orlando, a bunch of places. Not saying this is actually better business than staying in Chicago, I have no clue, but it really seems to me that our team's fanbase and payroll could be replicated pretty much anywhere with a market size around 2mil and a friendlier local government. The current fucking alderman can't wait for the Sox to leave (I think, she never replies to my emails, she supported that 78 deal hours after the team hinted at it despite it taking jobs and tax revenue out of her district), the state will give them nothing because it's a popular idea to voters who are stuck in the 1970s regardless of whether or not it's a financially savvy public investment.

I'm sure actual intelligent people tell him the best practices to preserve and grow his wealth and I bet he listens. What happens when those same savvy people tell him his baseball team is more profitable somewhere else than the South Side of Chicago?

oy vey dude

There's good reason to be skeptical of these types. The default point of view should be "this guy will be exactly the same as Reinsdorf" but many among us think there are going to be radical changes to the organization that will benefit the local fanbase. Perhaps that will happen, but I doubt it. I think the guy wants to make money the same as the rest of the owners. I'd be nervous about the team moving with any new ownership group. There are probably better geographic opportunities for a baseball team if the City and State are unwilling to play ball on an eventual new stadium; which I think they should. I think it's totally fair to be optimistic about anyone who isn't Reinsdorf though, things 'could' get better, but standard logic shouldn't completely go out the window. A guy who made his fortune by fucking people over on their mortgages is not some benevolent figure. He's not some lifelong Chicagoan, diehard Sox fan, he's a person from no where. Frankly, more than baseball, I'm more concerned about that land deal this guy did with Trump's administration that completely skirted the standard democratic process for taking ownership over public land. And considering the source of his wealth, I think he's a special kind of slimeball. I think if I was a Mets fan, I'd be just as critical of their criminal owner whose existence is predicated on fucking over the rest of us. I actually kinda like the Mets but it's very funny to see Cohen fail and it'd be even better if he went to prison for his various frauds. My own expectation is that it will be business as usual for the Chicago White Sox regardless of the owner. The team is what it is, its location is where it is, our team is not the Cubs; to quote our friend James Fegan, the club is an "indie rock one". Which I think is a good thing. The vibes of the fanbase are much better (even if everyone who posts on SoxTalk is bitter and rude). It's objectively a sexier and cooler fanbase than the Cubs. I think it's goofy and unreasonable for people on this forum to be like "you must just be jealous of how rich Ishbia is". I understand the hate for Reinsdorf runs deep especially for fans here that have being dealing with his bullshit for longer than I have been alive, I just wouldn't be so trusting that the grass is going to be greener on the other side. Yes, I did drink three beers before posting this.

I can assume who he's talking about and that's not the point being made, that "Reinsdorf is benevolent" or that Ishbia is "uniquely diabolical". Talk about a saccharine, overly-editorialized post that completely misses the point despite being well-written.

I still do. Turn the other cheek and such.

I used to pity you