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shut up

No one has said anything like that. You guys read what you want.

Jobe is a beast. I guess it's because he hasn't pitched much.

no

man, and i thought it was a shame that everyone made fun of you. i guess you deserve to be bullied.

benetti just called braden montgomery "the sox first round pick 2 years ago". braindead announcer.

Of course PE impacts all of our lives. I don't care if he buys a boat. I'm also not going to wash his balls and anoint a billionaire nepo baby a savior.

Still my desire that they do this. That's my piece of potential excitement for any new owner.

Yeah, but are tourists hanging around Bridgeport? If you're visiting San Diego, chances are good you're going to be in or around the Gaslamp Quarter. Even if you're not, I'd think you're more likely take a cab to downtown SD than you are to Bridgeport. A cab to the 78? I dunno, maybe, but one might think they would've already done something there if developers thought so.

It's a good point. I think with the Padres though, there's some outside factors affecting it that probably wouldn't relate to the Sox. Coastal California location is a big one, with a new ballpark part of a more comprehensive redevelopment of San Diego's downtown. SD's real estate market is going bonkers relative to Chicago, the Padres have a potentially wealthier clientele and more tourism to tap into than the Sox do on Chicago's South Side. A relative dearth of sports makes the Padres pretty much the only show in town too. I'm not sure a South Loop ballpark changes a ton in that regard, though it probably does attract more non-baseball fans to attend than a Bridgeport park. Intuitively, I'd bet the Sox best path toward valuation increase is by attracting foreign, specifically Japanese and Korean, stars and developing a new fanbase that isn't geographically-connected to the team. Of course, then it doesn't really matter if you're in Chicago or Nashville. I generally like this idea because it helps the team and it likely lines the owner's pockets. Boring prediction that seems likely to me is that Ishbia-led Sox operate like the Rubenstein Orioles. I think their fans were expecting a large influx of cash into the team, but so far the Orioles are bottom of the league in payroll and just traded a guy they'd likely have to pay big money to (right trade to make for baseball reasons still IMO). Rubenstein (read it like a portmanteau of rube and frankenstein) talked the talk when he bought the team but so far he just seems like...any other owner.

We've discussed this, professional sports is literally the safest and best performing investment a moneyed entity could make. Long gone are the days of it being a vanity purchase. There's no reason to believe Ishbia is any different from these entities, these dudes want to make money above anything else. If it's more profitable to move the team and never sign huge free agent contracts, that's almost certainly what he's gonna do.

tray seems hot, Jerry might.

a guy with a 6 era and the rule 5 guy who never even played for the sox?

I don’t think only scoring 8 runs was the issue.

this fucking thread, dude

take a breath you guys it's not that serious

it's very obviously not on purpose. if it was on purpose, martin would have to actually be able to locate his pitches.

throwing a fit and clearing the bench because the pitch is inside? get over it

Throw at him on purpose now

Reds are fucking clowns

team OPS vL: .720 (2% above average relative to league) vR: .724 (league average)

that's so unlucky. wait, i was delayed a minute, i take it back.

nice catch, kid

is this gonna be another one of those "why are they even starting this s%*#" game?