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For a guy who thinks it is a waste of time, he is sure spending a lot of time on it.

Its like people don't pay any attention to reality and instead waste their times in their feelings. MLB is looking at a 3 BILLION dollar loss this year. If you put the Sox somewhere in the middle of the revenue pack, which this team usually is, that puts about us shouldering about the average of a $100,000,000 loss in revenues. The Sox were valued at $1.65 billion, so we are talking about a loss equal to something like 6% of the franchises total valuation. Digging even deeper, Forbes pegged the Sox with operating revenue of $285 million in 2019. Let's be generous and say between what's on the book, and what is off of the books, they really bring in $500 million a year. 20% of that revenue is gone, with no promise that it will be back in 2020. So you expect things to go on like normal with a minimum of a 20% hit to the bottom line? Hahn already tipped his cards to this winter, essentially saying they might have to wait and see how things develop this winter. Nothing about this off season will be normal. It also won't just be the White Sox. We are seeing team after team with much healthier bottom lines than the White Sox talking about cutting dollars this winter. The Yankees are talking about cutting payroll. That franchise put up almost $700 million in revenue according to Forbes last year. Add their off of the books stuff, they are easily over a billion. Get past your hurt feelings, and look at the new reality.

I don't know why this would be a surprise.

Hahn sounded like internal wasn't an option this time around.

Guesstimate as to how many? 3? 5? 10?

On the bright side we know the first guy deleting his account to devote his time to something way more important.

For the record, WGN dumped live sports and not the other way around. That said, that has absolutely zero to do with how many people tuned in to see two completely different teams not from Chicago. But nice stretch to bring JR into something that was absolutely nothing to do with Chicago baseball.

In a weird sort of way, it would be the Moneyball thing to do. Exploit an ineffeciency.

As opposed to Cohen who would muscle into the lemon market and squeeze the kid out of it so he could take over the lemon trade for the whole city.

No Frank Thomas mention, so I am taking greg points off.

It doesn't have to be international even, though that was the crux of the names that came up.

There have been early studies here that show that masks limit virus load and might be serving as a pseudo vaccine as it limits your exposure to a small enough load where many just get mild symptoms.

One of our absolute favorite things is there is a bar they put up at our beach about 5 years ago. It is on a rooftop about 100 yards from the water with perfect views of the lake, the lighthouse and Chicago skyline. We would take the kids up there, and let them play on the beach (where we could see them) and we'd have a couple while watching the sunset and hanging out with friends. Sadly the place never even opened this year, as most of the summer our beach was shutdown. It sucked. For me its been live sports. Even besides Sox games, I do a TON of stuff for our HS teams. I run scoreboard for football. I help out at basketball. I announce track meets. It has been so strange to have sports complete disappear until July, and even then to not be a regular part of life for me.

Yeah, it has been a long seven months. I didn't attend a live sporting event from March 9th until the middle of September. And even that one was running the scoreboard alone int he pressbox for a JV football game. I worked two other games this year. I haven't been to a barber since February. I haven't eaten a sitdown meal in a restaurant since early March I haven't done any out of state travel for almost exactly a year if you don't include Chicago. if you do, it since January when we saw the last Chicago showing of Hamilton the first weekend of 2020. We took our first overnight getaway from home since January last week. It took us a week to figure out, but we went to state park down state Indiana, and got a single family cabin, and spent two days hiking. We didn't even include any weekend days so that we wouldn't be around too many people hiking. We brought food and either made it ourselves, or ordered carryout for two meals. Our kids just went back to school in person on Monday, and we weren't sure we were even going to do that. We might still pull them back out for virtual if we don't feel good about it after a week or two. We haven't been indoors with either mine or my wifes parents since Feb. People are being less and less careful, so you know there is no reason for optimism. I get it for sure. Winter is going to suck.

We have two employees who have never seen our office. It is so weird, but we make it work. No one on the outside knows the difference,

Shared air supply in a place where the same people are for long periods of times are about every red flag possible for this.

None of these things are mutually exclusive. You can be upset about political situations in this country and still have the perspective on how much less important baseball is, while still being shitty about the Astros cheating. No one is putting it ahead of actual life or death situations here.

To further I really think the expectation that we will be spending big this winter might be optimistic. I know we have a lot coming off of the payroll, but we also have around $20 million in raises to give and a guy like Giolito going to arb for the first time.

It is an unprecedented opportunity for a team who is willing to make an investment here. I am sure there are plenty who don't want to leave who could be snatched up by a team willing to take them on. It is essentially a massive free agency for front office people.

I am included the quotes from the Cubs cuts, just because they are the most current ones, but the point is bigger. There is a metric f*ck ton of major league baseball talent being scattered to the winds across MLB because of the cost cutting due to COVID. Almost as much as I would like to see the Sox spend in free agency this winter, it would be even better to see the team spend a couple of million dollars to target the all stars of scouting and development around MLB who are now unemployed. Even if it means we don;t spent that couple of million on something like a back up catcher, bring me the guys who scouted people like Eloy and Gleyber. Expand and improve our ability to ID and sign cheap talent to later replaced talent that gets older and expensive. You want to keep a long sustained run going you need to have a source of young and cheap talent flowing into the big league club as other guys leave or start to fade.

Those are pretty specific numbers for not having hired the guy who is going to fill out the line up cards yet.

Vera getting work in

Well except when he was saying that China had this all under control and their dictator was doing a great job