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Well cross him off the list.

Huh.

The Sox own a $16.5 million option on 2025 and an $18.5m option on 2026. As of today, there is a near zero chance they are picked up. The guy is a career .275 hitter, with an .811 OPS as essentially a DH. Outside of what looks today like a fluky 2020, his OPS the last three years is .785 from a guy who has played in 259 of 486 possible games or about half of the teams games. There is no reason on god's green earth to extend this man as of today, unless he is willing to tear up those two option years AND take a large discount to do it.

I 100% believe that is who Jason is. It is a geeky, dorky nerd who realizes how lucky he is in life and enjoys every freaking second of it. Steve Stone is authentic all right. He's an authentic jerk. He's shown open professional contempt for each long term partner I have ever heard him with. He did it to Harry. He did it to Hawk and he did it to Jason.

Most of it is so over the top. MLB would control the move, including conditions of the move. If they wanted to hold open to territorial rights, they would make it part of the move conditions. The rest of it is some weird overreaction to fans being fans. At the end of the day, Sox park in Chicago provides a better market place than a new ballpark most other places. The rest of that is just hysterics.

I am sure that is what MLB wants, but at the same time, if Jerry found a better deal somewhere, someone else would love to be Chicago's team.

Like using government funds and agencies for exactly what they are intended to do is the biggest fraud in the history of fraud.

Not if MLB makes it a condition of the White Sox moving, but sure.

Holy overreacting Batman!

In a metro area of 10 million people, even a third of that market place is MUCH bigger than most of the expansion areas being talked about. Nashville metro is about 2 million. Salt Lake City is 1.2 million. Portland is 2.5 million. Charlotte is 2.7 million. If you were to rank 1/3 of Chicago as it's own market, there is no bigger metro area in the US which doesn't already have a MLB team.

MLB has been talking about expansion very recently. That is "who".

Again, if the Sox leave Chicago, Chicago shoots to #1 on the possible expansion location list.

a third (or more) of the Chicago market is going to be much more lucrative than most of the other places under discussion. Even more so if they were to come in and get the stadium and set up they wanted.

Being fully honest here? If Jerry decided to leave Chicago for Nashville the owners would 100% wave him down there. You know why? If someone is going to spend billions for a MLB franchise, you are damned right they would be thrilled to be the 2nd team in Chicago. My guess is they would Cleveland Browns the Sox and force them to leave the name and history behind for a "new" franchise.

So quiet, even I missed this one.

Honestly the most likely outcome is both teams get minimal to no output out of these guys.

Weird, there was a mention of Cease hitting 97 the other day and basically it went unnoticed.

If this article was written about literally anyone else but Mena, Sox fans would be blowing this off as spring training fluff.

I get the idea that some see red flags with Caleb. Maybe they do like Maye more and are just slow playing this. But I still can't see a scenario where passing up all three of the top players (Williams, Maye, Harrison) in this draft looks like a good idea three years from now. Heck they already blew missing out on the OSU QB last year, but got bailed out by getting the #1 pick again.

To have a generational predicted QB and a generational predicted WR on the board with the #1 pick, and to choose neither seems like borderline negligence, even with all of the picks. Not to mention Fields is about to get really expensive, really quickly, and building around a guy who still hasn't been healthy or broken out seems rife with a lot of downside.

Pretty sure $27 million a year for a utility player isn't a value proposition.

Plus a sales tax capture if the stories are right. But the tag line is no "new" taxes for sure Also a football stadium would not fit on this site.

Exactly. It isn't just the ballpark.

If some Sox fans are miserable, everyone else has to be miserable too.