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I can see him (mayor) not favoring his city financially helping Nashville’s already established NFL team which is already bringing in revenue for business and tax monies. Improving the current Nashville NFL stadium or building a new nfl stadium may slightly increase overall local revenues as it is related to the Titans but bringing a whole new entity into Nashville (white sox) complete with a new baseball facility can be justified by the mayor as a greatly significant financial boon that did not exist before, saying the monies eventually earned (throughout) would justify the initial costs, tax incentives, etc.etc.

Right. He’ll say “don’t take this out on me or my Bulls. I didn’t move the team.”What the Hell…..this may very well be the dawning of a hopeless situation for us Sox fans.

With all the horror stories regarding moving to Nashville, the real fan base has been torn to shreds and will be in tatters going forward until Reinsdorf officially announces a deal/plan to keep them here. I not saying that day will come but this fan base is now officially deflated and can only be resurrected with an assured Chicago/Chicago area home. For the next few years Sox park will be the home of the living dead. We await a savior……that may not come.

The Chicago area will not be getting a new mlb franchise if the Sox move to Nashville. The Cubs can and would veto it with the (is it 250 miles) rule. Also, as someone who has been a longtime reader of this site whom just started posting I like to say to supposedly sox fans who want them to move to Nashville…..go to hell and move with them. My family has been Sox fans for four generations. It’s so easy to spot Cub fans posing as Sox fans.

Jerry wants to pummel us and grind us into the dirt before he eventually moves the team to Nashville or at least in his mind that’s what he thinks he’s doing. He hates us because we hate him. Jerry “Nero” Reinsdorf is pissed and he’s taking everyone down with him.

Steve Stone previously made an astute point. A new franchise would pay a $3 Billion new franchise fee to mlb which would be evenly distributed to each mlb team. Therefore the owners would prefer this payment as opposed to an established team moving to Nashville or Vegas or anywhere else whereby they get nothing.

9-14-23 Crains

Low attendance at White Sox games has resulted in the team “paying no ticket fees for over a decade to the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority,” the state agency that owns taxpayer-funded Guaranteed Rate Field, according to Sophie Rodgers of CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS. The management agreement between ISFA and the White Sox “requires the team to pay a base rent per season, plus net ticket fees if paid attendance exceeds 1.93 million tickets," with that "excluding 'comp' tickets." The team “hasn’t paid ticket fees since 2010,” when it drew nearly 2.2 million fans. Last year, the franchise brought in their highest attendance since then, 1.92 million fans -- “just missing the threshold needed to pay ISFA.” While ISFA does "not heavily rely on revenue from ticket fees to meet its bond obligations,” the “glaring issue is the White Sox’s ability to bring in fans” (CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS, 9/13).

Real Sox fans don’t want them to move. Anyone who claims they are a Sox fan but don’t care if the leave Illinois should cease following them completely and move on.

Strategically alienating Jason to prod his leaving, yearly cancelling sox fest, hiring Tony as manager, fielding an abhorrent team etc. etc. are all part of Jerry’s plan to deflate the fan base which deflates attendance and deflates overall fan interest which will be Jerry’s reason for moving…….”Chicago doesn’t support us so we have to leave” etc. etc.