southsider2k5

For my job I could double to triple my salary if I were willing to go into an office every day in Chicago or especially NYC. I have plenty of house, a yard, I am a mile from Lake Michigan which I can park at any day for free and see a sunset in my favorite bar on the beach. There are reasons I never left. The no commute part is definitely worth giving up some money for, as is the housing vs any other market around those metro areas. There is a reason I never moved to Illinois despite commuting there for 15 years.

The anti-education, anti-most people, pro-prison, and pro-pollution standpoints are rough. In general, it is nice to be in a very low tax, low cost state. My property taxes this year are under $1000.

I have zero belief that if Tony tells Chris who to draft, that Chris will tell him no. Maybe it is oversimplifying to say it isn't Jerry, but the front offices previously have been too scared to tell Tony no, to the point of his being forced back in as manager, and I do not believe that this has changed. Why? Because he is STILL hanging around being an influence. A guy like that isn't involved if he say doesn't matter.

Honestly, yeah. It's a great state to live in for some reasons, but it is a horrible shithole for others.

Fun fact, you can still see the Chicago skyline from the entire Indiana shore line. It's also about half as long to Hammond as it is to Arlington Heights from the Bears current stadium.

"To advance" isn't to build.

It's not Jerry I worry about here, it's the corpse of Tony.

The more things change...

Yet here you are praising Jerry, when this is exactly how he got rich. Hell, he got other people to put up 80% of the purchase of the Chicago White Sox, and had other people build him, not one, but two baseball stadiums in the 1980s. The same guy who was absolutely ready to abandon Chicago for St Pete if he didn't get a stadium build for him by taxpayer funds.

You mean like working on buying the future site of the Chicago White Sox stadium? What's Jerry done with his money? Oh right, he only spends other people's money.

Secondary sale hasn't happened yet. We are doing a disney trip over NYE, plus I will have two kids in college this year, so I passed for now

Get off your ass and do something and quit being a welfare queen depending on others.

Implode isn't the word you are looking for.

Seriously. Until he starts showing success in the high minors, people need to pretend he doesn't exist.

Stop and think for just a tiny second. You have made not one, not two, and now three posts about you thinking someone is talking about YOU. No one tagged you, replied to you, mentioned you, quoted you, or anything else. The reason this topic is going is because YOU are so mad, you had to read into it and get hurt feelings. Again. So hurt, you have now drug three different sets of replies in to ruin the thread, great work there. Meanwhile you are out here calling people fragile. Trust me, of all people I have the urge to communicate on this board with, you can't hold a simple intelligent conversation with anyone if they dare to contradict you. It's like arguing religion with the state street preacher screaming into his microphone about people going to hell. You aren't winning that. It's why I tried to quit replying to you for years. It's not a conversation, its just you screaming at the clouds and telling everyone about the one time in 1947 you were right. One minute you are crying about labels and name calling, then the next you are calling people fascists because they dared to disagree with your opinion on a baseball message board years ago. You can salty all you want. It would just be nice if you had any consistency or self-awareness, at all.

Dude get the hint. I can't take your perpetual crying seriously. Quit ruining every, single, damned, thread with your crying. No one cares about you. meanwhile all you do is keep responding to me. Maybe then you can get some actual enjoyment instead of worry about what everyone else is saying.

This just in, they are working on a Weird Al musical for Broadway.

Which is obviously one that doesn't currently work on Soxtalk after the "upgrade".

Based on projections, they probably have an opportunity to get ahold of one of them, unless they can convince one to push other teams off with a bigger bonus to get picked lower with some savings from the #1 pick.

I would settle for a billionaire that isn't a paper billionaire and has some liquid assets they are willing to invest into the team. The Sox have never had someone whose primary source of wealth wasn't owning a professional franchise.

And Jerry is the King of Chicago gentrification. Why are we pretending that he got to be a billionaire in a not exploitive way, when the evidence is right there in front of us all?

Jose Canseco started before both of them IIRC.

I think no matter who they draft you are going to see the Hatfields and McCoy's develop for the next few years. If nothing else, we will learn a lot about the progress of this organization to see how they handle this draft and subsequent development of these guys.