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What did he do wrong? It was a 1 run loss and their starter crapped himself.

To me, that’s the most promising tidbit from this handshake agreement news with Braston Basker. The news was that the Sox are expected to sign Dominican shortstop prospect Basker for a $6 million bonus as early as January 15, 2030. As you mentioned, JR has never agreed with throwing millions at a “kid”. This seems to hint that Ishbia would be paying for this kid if Jerry agrees to sell the team to him in the first year of the agreement (2029).

Yes, I understand. Once again, I don’t care about the money either way. The guarantee I was referring to was expecting a 12 year old to be on the Sox in 10 years.

I was responding specifically to this quote, which sounds like a guarantee to me. ”But it'll probably be a lean few years but the new DR Academy is due to open in 2026 and some of you may be around in 10 years to see Braston Basker play in a White Sox uniform and recall that we 1st heard of him in 2025 . That's already a future $6M spent out of Isbias 2030 pocket !”

I gave him a D. Smith and Vasil raised him up from an F. Everything else was pretty bad and Colson Montgomery and Lenyn Sosa were Getz holdovers.

Of course it’s a strategy that should be employed by the Sox. My post didn’t criticize the Sox front office over the signing. My point was that it’s difficult enough to project sure-fire major leaguers out of the MLB Draft even in early rounds, much less a 12-year old international kid.

And then predicting that a 12-year old will be a sure-fire major leaguer in 10 years. Wow.

My buddy just ordered 3 tickets (300 level) off of Ticketmaster last night two take his two young sons to Game 4 tonight. Must have been close to $1000 bucks after the service fees and tax.

Haha, I guess everything is perspective. Now imagine being a fan of a team that has gone 162-324 over the last 3 seasons and doesn’t have a single player anywhere near as good as Jose Ramirez. Sox fans should get the entire Tribune and Sun Times to air their complaints, not just one page. 🤣

I believe teams can actually request to play more day games but it is ultimately up to the MLB to approve scheduling. It’s all in the CBA. Night games obviously make more money which is why they are the majority. But day games at The Rate are like a ghost town.

No one could say that with a straight face.

The Sox play night games because they don’t draw enough for more day games like the Cubs. It’s as simple as that. It’s not that Sox fans enjoy night games more. Jerry is all about the dollar. He’s not worried about what Sox fans want. If Jerry truly cared about what fans think, he wouldn’t be throwing a team out there that is almost perpetually rebuilding and that has lost 100+ games in 3 straight seasons. Like you said, “These billionaires are not foolish.” That includes Jerry.

The Sox are signing McClung out of retirement, along with bringing back Clevinger for the fourth straight year so that shareholder bro has buddies to party with.

The kids must also not be listening to our All-Star announcer. What a shame…

Didn’t realize he learned to hit and gained some power. Man, that Madrigal pick was so ass.

Here comes the historic comeback.

When did Brad Keller become good?

Was he in the Madrigal draft? Bunch of little slappies in that one.

Brad Keller didn’t get any outs for us, lol.

Looked like he could have.

Blown squeeze. Cubs played it perfectly.

Umps just saved Quintana.

To the guy who has been swinging at everything this post season. What a dumb pitch. Even my Cubs fan buddy said that was a moronic pitch to PCA.

Priester choking.

I remember posters on the board being interested in trading for him at that time because Vaughn was consistently mediocre to bad every year of his career.