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And it quite literally playing from the exact same playbook again 35 years later, but somehow this is different. It is so completely absurd.

You do realize that when a franchise is worth $2 billion, that any owner, by definition, will be a greedy billionaire owner, right?

Again, we can TALK about results all they want, but I want to SEE results. A great place to start would be our minor leaguers showing any amount of baseball IQ, or looking like they belong when they get here.

He should have been last year.

Yeah, look, things were going to be bad, we all saw that far ahead, but no one planned for the worst ever. That shouldn't be where the line is.

To be fair, ownership/management told the fan base that this was to prevent a rebuild, and that because we are in the AL Central, this would be easier. But sure. It's the fans. And if they were intentionally lying to us, this is the same group that is now telling us how great everyone they hired is, and that everything will be just fine, so you can see how we don't really believe them.

We just did that for 30's something middle relievers.

It is Jerry's unwillingness to hire someone who will challenge him and the status quo that stopped us from hiring an outside candidate, and not a potential change in ownership at some unknown point in time that prevented it causing them to settle for Getz. That is glaringly obvious to me.

So how did we get the guys below Getz to come here, if talent isn't willing to do so? Are they not talented?

If Jerry has destroyed this organization to the point where no one is willing to come work here, we have a whole other set of problems. The idea that it could be because of ownership change is laughable. There are exactly 30 of these opportunities available, and about half a dozen people out there who really have the ability to turn down one of them to wait for the next one.

Crazy thing if they get Worthy in 82, they almost certainly don't get MJ after that.

I still want to see that all of these amazing hires actually change something. The early results haven't been any different than what we just saw, and it seems like trades have been markedly worse.

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Jerry is one of the richest, most ruthless, and successful real estate developers in the history of Chicago, who parlayed that success into convincing other people to pay for a vast majority of the White Sox so he could operate them as his own vanity project. If a guy like Justin Ishbia has a playbook, it’s because a guy like Jerry wrote every page for him. If you demonize Ishbia, you accidentally demonize Jerry, because they are the same person, doing the same things to get and stay rich.

He may be the one person in this organization who needs to retire more than Chris Getz.

I will be the guy who states I have never watched a full Bond movie. The genre and the knock offs ever did anything for me.

You can go for the OG, or you can even start a clean 2025 version.

As opposed to those real-estate developers who are all about investing for the long haul, you know the guys who by definition make improvements to land and sell quickly?

For those out there wondering what to do: First off, if we are talking about your retirement funds, and you are more than 10 years from retirement, do nothing. You might not want to hear this, but the time to sell is passed. We might still have legs down to go, but the ability to guess market bottoms to buy back in at is notoriously impossible, and odds are you will be wrong and miss a large piece of the rebound and that return. Just sit tight and let it ride. Forget it is there. In general, if you are close to, or in retirement, you should already be largely in cash and bond type funds in order to protect your cash value. Don't change that. The more you depend on those funds, or the sooner it you will need it, the less market exposure and more cash you should have. If you are looking for investment opportunities with spare cash, look for industry leaders. Things which got beat up in these conditions, but have business models to survive these conditions. Banks, brokers, and exchanges are my typical favorites, but YMMV. There could still be volatility and big legs down, but if you are looking longer term to add to your portfolio, this is a good time. Blue chips first and foremost. As for day trading type stuff, this is a crazy dangerous times. The moves are wild, and predicting the next seconds moves is a fools errand. One tweet can blow up anything. That goes for stocks, options, bonds, crypto, etc.

And it definitely doesn't include the TJS crowd either.

If this is your retirement account don't look, as it just gives the temptation to do something stupid. The damage is done, walk away.

The Schultz/Smith/Taylor group has the potential to be one of the best in baseball if they can stay healthy. Past that, it's a franchise which really lacks star ceilings. A few guys you can dream on, but it is going to be brutal for the near to mid term.

They weren't.

You have to destroy something before you can fix it, or so I hear.