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Wait, is this all because 2 private entities had private negotiations, and came together on a private agreement? Wild.

It's true, he does.

You can hold whatever opinions you like, but you insult everyone's intelligence by pretending like that this isn't exactly how Jerry and company got rich themselves. Hell he even used OPM for 80% of the purchase price of the White Sox, not in a corporation or loan, but quite literally private equity from unidentified and undisclosed private investors on behalf of which he acts to this day. It's a duck bro. You are quacking at a duck to protect another duck.

Which is why having a 3rd rate ballpark in a neighborhood with a poor reputation (fair or not, it exists) is a fair topic here.

Outside of 2024, this is the Sox lowest single season attendance since last century. Adding 41,000 people to the worst in the 2000's isn't really a reason to brag about prices and giveaways.

This isn't about "different perspectives" It is about a factual statement completely ignored and misrepresented. Again. Which is exactly why I bowed out before the inevitable meltdown, again.

Especially because Jerry got rich by the 1970s and 1980s version of private equity.

Uh huh, right.

Williams with some time, plus a minimal running game is a good QB.

I literally said the SP 500. It closed at 130.24 on the date that Jerry bought the White Sox. It closed at 6664.34 on Friday. That's a return of 5116.95%.

EmSeeing this link, That's not at all what I said. I am bowing out before Ithe inevitable again.

There are trillion dollar valuations out there. That is basically the valuation of 500 White Sox's. I posted about Return on Investment in the past and the Sox valuation increase since Jerry took over is remarkablely similar to the SP500. I promise you in that same period that collective SP dividends are much higher than the White Sox or Twins over that period of time just judging by their operations debts.

And couldn't find a buyer seems like the most important part there.

People buying shares of a money losing company happens literally millions of times every day.

Conner isn't good, but is stark how much better the broadcast is with him in the booth

Sure, but you have to start somewhere. And I would rather see this vs another over the hill utility guy or mediocre reliever.

Don't confuse operations with valuation.

If they took on so much operations debt they had to bring in the buyer early, that's enough of a red flag to me. I didn't really buy it before hand, but seeing this plus what happened with the Twins, it checks out. They have been bleeding cash for years now.

He's probably not wrong for all of the same reasons we have been talking about since they didn't trade Robert.

I think people really don't understand how much money this franchise lost since Covid.

No really, let's hear more about how the offers were too low...

Fair.

The Sox told him to look for a new deal and then told him to leave when he got it.

It's not. What experience did he have before he took this job that qualified him to be a major market PBP #1 guy?

Well there is it. A great reason for the Sox to NOT be at 35th and Shields.