southsider2k5

While plenty of people have been trained to be scared of big cities recently, the only drawback to NY is money. If you have a job making 10X the median salary in the US, NY would be a spectacular place to live.

Have you seen our offense? No he doesn't fit our timeline and payroll, but all the dude does it hit bombs.

Yeah, usually those are the ones that end up Arod/Griffey type status. Big difference between COULD be #1, and this kind of talk

6 foot and 185? You sure that's his kid?

This stuff usually plays itself out in the spring. The good news is, if the race is still that tight in June, the Sox can use it as a negotiation tactic.

Somewhere Tony just woke up.

Let the bowl fill back up before you s%*# in it.

Thank God.

Man, read the room.

#1, he is putting a ton of capital into this team. #2, he has already bought some unknown percentage of the White Sox, likely 8 to 9 figures worth. #3, Whose money do you think is going to be paying for a new stadium? Jerry? Don't make me laugh.

Harold brings it home!

Two hours ago, you thought Jerry still running things by himself and wondering why Ishbia wasn't. It works.

Jerry has been doing this for 45 years. He's also gotten multiple stadiums built in Chicago. Plus by having him play the evil guy, people who aren't paying attention think that the new guy didn't get his hands dirty until someone explains it to them.

Jerry said a lot of things that weren't true, such as Chris Getz was the quickest way to respectability.

JR is going to do the dirty work the next couple of years, that's why.

Based on the history of not trading him at his peak and trying to save face, it isn't the craziest thing that has happened here in the last few years.

And to get an OK return to justify not trading him at the deadline.

Well sort of. On this roster, there is no good reason why one of them couldn't be picking up a 1B glove to maximize their values both as a trade piece, and to the team.

Can we get the Pope to the draft as our good luck charm?

Then what are you mad about? That they didn't tell you?

The Sox refusal to move their catchers around to different positions with literally no one worth blocking on the roster is just bizarre. I get the Sox have some catching depth, but does the return justify the means? We have to get another starting position player back who has AT LEAST 5 years of control to justify any deal here, unless a prospect deal of similar value can be put together. This can't be another failed former top 100 prospect.

The title is just that, a title. Behind the scenes is almost certainly different. There is no billionaire on earth putting billions of dollars into a vanity project and staying quiet. This has all been worked out behind closed doors.

The Dodgers are about to play a closer a contract that will roughly equate to the Sox entire payroll for 2025.

It is incredibly obvious to me that there is a LOT happening behind the scenes that we won't know about until the big press conference. They are 100% working in the background on a new stadium. Ishbia's comments to the Pope confirm that much to me. I fully believe Jerry is still out front to be the asshole on the two big questions marks surrounding this franchise right now with the new stadium, and the upcoming labor fight. Jerry takes the bullets, Ishbia comes in clean, and Jerry gets PAID in return, but also with the flexibility that he hopes will allow this transaction to happen upon his death to avoid all of the double taxation nightmares.