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QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 26, 2015 -> 05:45 PM) Um, wow. The wife of Dolphins CB Brent Grimes went on a ridiculous anti-NFL Twitter rant. http://dailydolphin.blog.palmbeachpost.com.../#__federated=1 Wow.

Wilkins was the one guy I liked being higher.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 27, 2015 -> 10:03 AM) I would just like to point out that you are replying to a post from 2011 in which Soxbadger asked whomever "if they'd like to run in the negative." Had they done so starting at that point in time, the Sox would not have been able to have the offseason they did just under 4 years later. That's why you don't run in the negative. True. If they had spent, just to spend, they could have other contracts on the books currently which would have prevents the moves they made this year.

QUOTE (LDF @ Jan 27, 2015 -> 09:58 AM) but isn't that a subjective kind of a word. also is that the kind of blind loyalty the maybe the sox ownership wants.... not to question, not to expect anything more than what they want to field without question, just continue to spend money. It is subjective, and that is why these conversations end up stretching for pages and pages.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 27, 2015 -> 09:59 AM) No. Remember Ozzie couldn't work under a contract that was expiring. He would have fled. Why couldn't they file tampering charges after he was gone? Granted you released him from his contract, and received some sort of compensation, but couldn't you argue that due to the tampering, it made his staying not realistic? And Ozzie was contacted really the year before, and they didn't want him gone then. I wouldn't have risked my $3 million that he would have walked away after what he did to the Sox AND a tampering accusation. Who would have touched him at that point? That tells me there is a decent chance that Ozzie doesn't quit. Instead he plays chicken with the Sox to get fired and keep him $3 million.

QUOTE (LDF @ Jan 27, 2015 -> 09:15 AM) thinking back on this, Sale and Abreu are establish.... Balt wants prospects. The prospects that Baltimore was asking for were the type of package that gets you a superstar player. To translate it to a more transitive sense, I just replaced a couple of superstar players in there instead of the prospects, to drive home how much the Orioles were asking for.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 27, 2015 -> 09:46 AM) They would have received more quality in regards to compensation for Ozzie, had Loria just popped for a few Slurpies for JR,KW, RH. The Ozzie to Miami talk had been going on for a while and IMO definitely affecte the way Ozzie carried himself, and ultimately affected the White Sox. Tampering is tampering. If you want to call it out here, you should have called it out there. If they call it out, there is a good chance Ozzie stays and you either have him sabotaging the team for another year, or you have to pay him for a year after you fire him. They aren't going to shoot themselves in the foot at the price of $3 million out of spite.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 27, 2015 -> 08:30 AM) There was a more in depth article about this with dates, etc. JR isn't pursuing tampering charges because he considers Beeston his best friend in baseball. What I don't understand is how can he be up in arms over this, if he really is, and not be over the Ozzie to Miami move which was even more clearly, tampering? I think most of his anger is the workings behind Beeston's back rather than actually tampering. I'm sure every team, including the White Sox, has technically tampered at some point. They got compensation from Florida for Ozzie, plus I am about 90% sure they wanted rid of him anyway, so they just let it happen instead of complaining about it and potentially collapsing the teams get out of jail free card with Ozzie.

QUOTE (Armchair Hahn @ Jan 27, 2015 -> 08:44 AM) why would we burden ourselves with the financial health of the white sox? I watch baseball to enjoy a game, not to speculate on their profits. Leave that to the 'real world'. This usually happens when one side or the other gets unrealistic expectations about how much the Sox should/could/would be spending on payroll.

My lunch just exited my body through my mouth at that thought.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 26, 2015 -> 02:27 PM) From what I can tell, the lowest home attendance we had last year was 10,625 in the second game of the year. Can we say that that is a decent approximation of the season ticket base in 2014? If so, what's a realistic expectation for this year? That is probably pretty accurate. It is hard to peg an exact number because all of the partials have to be divided up according to their share (IE half season plan would be .5 people per game, 20 games would be .25 people per game, etc) and they might not be all on the same days. For example, I am sure the 7 game plans are heavier on weekends than Tuesday's just intuitively.

King of the enemies of grammar.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jan 26, 2015 -> 04:46 PM) And that's with the highest attendance (3.8 million) and nearly 47,000 per game, almost 3K per game higher than #2 (StL Cardinals). And with the biggest new local/regional media rights deal in baseball history (would have to check the Yankees and Red Sox numbers there, Boston has an extremely complicated, diverse and innovative/entrepreneurial revenue-driving strategy fwiw). http://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/dodg...0124-story.html Article about a Korean group wanting to invest $370 million for a partial/non-voting share in the Dodgers. Claims that number is at least $200 million too low, maybe low-balling in light of this recent season of financial losses as well as the local tv snafu? http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeozanian/20...at-2-5-billion/

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jan 26, 2015 -> 04:32 PM) Rodon #1 Gutsy guess.

I don't think anything here would need to be drastic. It could be accomplished by saying that you have to have two IF on each side of second base. Within that, there is still a lot of room to align defenders.

QUOTE (LDF @ Jan 26, 2015 -> 03:33 PM) do you know which team is raking it in now..... the dodgers. what a deal they got. The Dodgers lost the most money of any team in MLB, something like $80 or $90 million last year.

It is all because of Gage.

Good god people.

Damn it you guys ask too much of me.

b****es be screwin up this thread yo.

QUOTE (LDF @ Jan 26, 2015 -> 01:12 PM) this is Forbes 2015 mlb white sox. not all is being rpt as i mention the other income thru their other secondary companies. like chi sports serv, shared with the blawkhawks bismark corp. the sox can spend the money. they used to have salary in the 120-130 before. i am not saying have a payroll of the yanks bos or dodgers. but don't cry poor and go the cheap route when that is how they have done in the past. http://www.forbes.com/teams/chicago-white-sox/ How much bigger was the fan base at that time?

on greenberg @jon_greenberg · 1h 1 hour ago I wrote about White Sox marketing, ticket sales as they look optimistically to 2015. http://es.pn/1C7YWz1

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jan 26, 2015 -> 01:03 PM) What does he weigh now? He wouldn't say.

Apparently Garcia got as high as 270 last year. http://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/7/71/32...-get-speed-back

Andrew Marchand ‏@AndrewMarchand 20m20 minutes ago Sources: Yanks plan to block A-Rod bonuses http://es.pn/1CYX6Nv via @ESPNNewYork