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I feel like JR has enough sway with other owners he would just poison the well for ishbia to buy a team. Other owners wouldn't want to set that precedent from their minority owners.

Oh duh, sorry. Right, key paragraphs was the “letting the partners sell who held out for more in 2021”, was thinking they were both the same group this is talking about.

@Look at Ray Ray Run can you remind me about this again? How does it work where shares aren’t diluted? And what is benefit to Ishbia to buy into it now aside from maybe future promise of full sale? Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article described incorrectly the impact of a new investor on White Sox minority partners. Those partners’ shares will remain the same. They will not be diluted.

When this glorious day happens we need to have a board meetup.

This would be a good time to buy, but I don’t know. The collapse of regional sports networks and non nfl sports decline is tough. But these aren’t businesses they are buying but hobbies.

Both would be better (kidding) I actually squealed reading the news push tho.

Here is my silver lining take: I like that the Sox appear to want to use this tool to improve bat speed. Ideally, we can see if they were successful. If so, did it come at cost of anything else? If not successful, do they drop mentioning it at all or keep going? Problem with upgrades under Hahn was they seemed run by idiots who appeared to want to be modern but without any plan on what it was supposed to do. These tools, like anything, aren’t the solution in and of themselves.

Jesus I don’t remember being that jaded in 2016 this was a rough rough decade

Obviously shottenheimer sticks out, but shows what a great coaching cycle this was that even the team “left out” got the offensive playcaller for the Super Bowl champs (and 3x OC who is still young). Not all will be good, they never are, but damn good group. And schottenheimer.

I said it before but now i'm leaning toward KC won't let him go. But maybe they do a hard buffalo re-set

I’m nervous this pushes kc to re sign Trey smith

I always knew and thought Hahn was bad at crucial elements of his job. I never thought he was straight up clueless in the way AK is. I’ve never seen someone back themselves into a corner this stupid and also be totally cool with it. He seems extremely stupid in a way I have not seen since…jeeze I don’t have a reference for a sports exec this transparently dumb.

I actually think the board tracks pretty well, it's nice to get a random pop on things like Burke which largely must be happening out of view (or I checked out by sept). We already knew this but if you like keith law evaluations I would say the Braden Montgomery one is still probably stronger than consensus. It sucks but at least with pitchers they can kinda pop back onto the map in a hurry, and with Colson if he does turn it around we'd be believers pretty quick and just chalk it up to the back. Nastrini...i unno.

Which one of these would we have not said on this board?

Which was only likely because they kept him this long. Congrats you caught up.

They just attached picks with him

Man that is horrific. We didn’t trade lavine last year or in summer because it was too bad a package, wait a year, and win way too many games to where we are barely in running for a great pick…all to guarantee getting our pick back this year? I really apologize to Garpax. Doing nothing was better than Akmes do something at first then do nothing

Poor timing by us. If we knew how much he valued defense we could have given em Caruso for Doncic

I mean that’s where you have to give the lakers credit. They believe they are a star driven franchise. They have a reputation for getting them. So of course the mavs call them. They also have stars and not fake stars like lavine.

Among the craziest parts of this is it feels like the mavs were trying to limit their market to just LA

It’s amazing how an nba team just believing they are a premier franchise that has to be premier just falls into these deal constantly. Like if you are the Mavs, and you say “we are trading Luka, best offers only”…you are telling me you doing get Rudy gobert like trade back at least?

Well, he didn’t really show that it wasn’t just Reid as the reason for his strong offenses in KC while in Washington, then just had a miserable season in ucla. So I guess it just kind of validated that it was mostly Reid + talent.

One of the most telling things that happened was when a massive story (like 10k words) came out tracing how the nuggets methodically built a champion featured and named so many people from their front office…and AK wasn’t mentioned once. It takes a truly incompetent person like Michael reinsdorf to go to one of the best front offices in the game and identify the one lazy, inconsequential person to lead the team.

Well - i'm with you that spending shouldn't equal a great bullpen. There's been plenty of examples of that in mlb in last many years. But ZIPs doesn't necessarily favor that, anyway. It's been a really big scouting/pitching development issue for the sox since a while. Hahn didn't just pay a bunch for bullpen because that's the only stuff JR would let him pay for, though that is about 50% of it, but also because we just were not getting enough out of our own farm. Big time prospects like kopech/crochet and bummer kept them afloat. But just terrible success imo. This should be something that we can see change quickly though, always plenty of decent bullpen arms prop up for a year on waivers/cheap fa.

I'm also just in general, granted I don't watch nba right now, floored that Lavine was brought back to the bulls and it has been the best case scenario. He's played really well, he's been a good sport. And yet he is still apparently an absolute negative in the minds of every other NBA gm. I've seen so many borderline bad nba scorers still get passed around for decent hauls, but Lavine broke everyones back. The NBA found the guy they can't suffer to pay as a max.