southsider2k5

It is officially big arm day in the Sox farm system.

Jerry care

If there was any life to my fandom right now...

At least Clevinger got b**** slapped around again tonight.

Maybe Mike Sirotka.

I would settle for 1 real starter as a beginning point.

That is a really long name.

If nothing changed after changing a manager, it's probably not the manager.

And he played for long stretches while obviously injured.

The reporting is that he has had a minority share (~5%) for a number of years, and this just expanded his ownership position. He's not a new owner.

So when do we get Outman back? /obvious reply

Don't worry about him, he is getting all of his sads out with his passive aggressive laugh reacts.

Sure, but then we hit the "leave Chicago metro area" criteria.

Sox fans are obviously to dumb to do it, even though Cub fans have been for a century plus.

I have no idea what you are going on about now if you are trying to take a victory lap over the Sox blowing a game just like they have blown an untold number of games over the last couple of years in similar fashion, but somehow that is a victory because it was the kid we were playing out of position because we haven't developed an internal OF in something over a decade? Sure. Yes, I am definitely sick of it.

32 see improvement. 3 see no change. 2 see disimprovement. Yeah, this should be telling to anyone who is trying to sell tickets to a Sox game right now.

I think this is what happened to Yoan and TA. They just have none of the explosiveness and fast twitch that they had when they came into the game. I do wonder if it is because they played through injuries.

He's in his late 50s.

the ONLY thing that could go worse is if they leave the Chicago metro area. Everything else is already at levels about as low as it can go.

I personally believe that Jerry has two things on his mind. #1, minimize the tax hit for transfering the Sox and Bulls eventually. #2, personally pick his successor. As to #1 Keep in mind, and take this grain of salt, because so many of these reports have been completely wrong, but if he really wants to sell the Sox after his death, the ONLY way to minimize the tax hit to for them to be sold UPON his death. If they transfer to anyone else, the price resets, and a tax implication on gains starts to build. If it happens upon his death, then the estate only faces inheritance taxes on the gains, because then the price resets to the price upon inheritance, meaning no gains. So in other words on death he pays taxes based on a $19 million purchase price to say the $2 billion price of today. If immediately sold to someone else, they are still worth $2, and there are new gains. If Michael (or anyone else) takes ownership they start a new tax line at $2, and if they later sell, they again pay taxes on the new gains from $2 and up. Having a new purchaser in the queue upon his death is the single most important thing here if the historic reports on disposing of the team and saving on taxes as much as possible are true. On #2, we know Jerry is a power guy. He always has been. He has tried to pick each commissioner and takes a special pride in turning down owners he doesn't think are good for the game. There is zero chance he will leave his OWN franchise to chance. Not only are his wishes known, I would bet all of gregs houses that his plans are already underway, they are written down, and know to those who need to know them. If it is Ishbia, it is him. If it is Hodson, it is her. If it is someone we have no idea about, those people already know. It makes logical sense that the dude who is now up to 35% ownership IS the guy who is buying Jerry's shares upon his death (otherwise, why?), it does make sense that they also have a control succession plan. Whether that is death, or something sooner, who knows. We all know Jerry will absolutely lie to the media to control a narrative, and feed complete BS to his people to further whatever story he is telling at the time. I do vibe with the idea that Jerry is sticking around long enough to do the dirty work for the stadium and TV deal, but who knows what the truth actually is.

So your flex is that the worst team in baseball didn't hit, and committed a key error to lose a game they didn't have to lose and that is supposed to be some sort of in your face moment? Dude that is literally the reason everyone is so pissed off. People have been watching exactly that on the field for years and are sick of it. I think you finally discovered the point.

Right. There is an existing agreement which probably exists in perpetuity, even when those shares are transferred or sold.

Right, because this franchise is so stable right now with Jerry having the worst product in the history of MLB on the field, plus no TV or stadium deal off of it along with the lowest attendance in over 35 years. Jerry has destroyed this franchise all by himself.

All deals like this have a survivability clause for this reason.

Which would be stupid, because they then get taxed twice. Once on the inheritance and then again on the sale adjusted price.