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I think he is a smart enough business man to know that if he was really going to sell before he died, you will never see a better tax situation than he saw the last four years. He's in this until death at this stage, I really believe.

Its only 15 cases.

I appreciate the idea, and hopefully it happens, but this method costs A LOT more.

But this trend has even hit mediocre hitters with extreme tendencies. Mazara is a great example. The kids power was completely gone last year, he was hitting for garbage, and the defense is giving you a hit. Get on and turn over the line up. He finally swung the other way a couple of times late in the season, which is about as good.

The guy who thinks this isn't a big deal has 11 of the 44 posts in this thread.

You'd probably lose. You non-tender Mazara and try and sign him for a fraction of this former salary as a free agent, that is if you are even interested.

The entire structure of professional sports have gone in the same direction, as has television, yet you are so fixated on Jerry that you are trying to blame him for ruining baseball. You do realize that this World Series has been on free tv, right? Have you seen NBA playoffs ratings this century? Have you seen the multi decade downward trend? Did you see that this years finals set a new all time low ratings record? Did you ever stop and think that there might be some once in a century externality occurring that could be responsible for the record lows? Did Jerry cause that? Have you seen television ratings in general for this century? Do you realize that not a single television show this century ranks in the top rated shows of all time because of the splintering of television options. Is Jerry responsible for that too? Not sure if Jerry slept with your wife or what, but you are completely irrationally blaming this guy for things that are light years beyond him. Frankly its creepy the level of anger and obsession you have for this guy.

TLRs age isn't even as big of a deal as the fact that things have changed A LOT since he was last in the dugout. Hell he could lose half the team on day 1 with his anthem stance.

I know this has come up in relation to how Hinch should have handled himself, but

I am racking my brain, but I can't ever recall two players from the same team getting a nomination for the same position. That is wild.

This is a nice after result of how much the Sox improved in team defense.

Again, you are just grasping at anything here. Tell me what TLR has to do with TV contracts in 2020? Its like you just want to be bitter and will use whatever you can to do it.

I am in this camp. Leury will give you league average production and a plus glove. Engel will give you a gold glove and a crappy bat. That is enough to be a plus contribution.

Because the NBA is doing awful with a similar model. And then to attempt to credit this to a single ownership group in all of pro sports? Laughable. I mean these arguments might have been valid in 1989, but in 2020? The world has changed. Come join us. Let go of those feelings.

It is 2020. Do you really believe that if it wasn’t for JR that both Chicago teams would not be on cable? That somehow the monetization of television would have accelerated without Chicago? Also none of this changes that MLB makes billions on their TV contracts and the World Series is the anchor of that coverage... and that also has nothing to do with Jerry.

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.