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Hopefully the kid figures out his stuff and gets back to what was a great start to a career.

Boys and Girls can you spell collusion?

If they could figure out to package #9 and Fields to get #3 (Harrison) along with Williams #1, that is the dream.

OK, Sox park has been panned since it opened. Between the angle of the upper deck, it's extraordinary plainness, lack of a skyline view, distance from downtown, and (my personal favorite) the color of the seats, Sox fans hated this place since day 1. It consistently is rated as one one the bottom tier parks in baseball. Granted the remodel fixed some of the problems, but this park has always been looked down on pretty universally. In fact the vocal part of the Sox base has been bemoaning that we didn't do something Camden like until, quite literally, they unveiled a plan to do something Camden like. Weird, right? I definitely won't argue that the Bears managed to go under even Comiskey II's low standards, because they absolutely did, but that doesn't take away from how the base has viewed Sox Park since 1990.

Let's see, we have 115 years of history at 35th and Shields, or that Tray said so. Hmmmm.... Also, I see you are really working hard on not making it personal.

If he is tradeable, they might even be willing to pay up some of that money to get him out and get a return.

If it gets to the option, it gets declined. If Yoan has a good enough season to where his option could be picked up, I think the Sox trade him before the deadline so that they don't have to deal with it, and pick up whatever they can get for him.

Paul DeJong at a higher price than Tim Anderson. Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it.

Apparently Eric Hosmer retired. No truth to the rumor that it was to get out of signing with the Sox.

Nobody hates the Sox like Sox fans.

Highest Bidder Stadium

When people say worse than last year, I think there is no doubt we have less talent than the start of 2023, but I do think this team is better and significantly deeper than the end of 2023. The last two months were some of the worst baseball I have ever seen. There is a difference between being bad, which I think this team is, and being in a complete free fall, like we saw to end 2023.

So a man who wants no information on his team or activities out there leaked that he is asking for a billion dollars because why?

Why would Jerry leak his own ask to the general public with a figure of a billion dollars?

I wish I could care about the 2024 season even a fraction of the OP.

And I am here for it. So much irrational anger of absolutely nothing. I don't know that I have laughed harder on Soxtalk than reading someone taking artist renderings as some kind of biblical cannon to get big mad about.

Yeah my understanding was this would be a snug fit for a small MLB park, and not enough room for 2X-3X for football.

I think they are still more worried about insider support then they are votes.

This is Chicago we are talking about. When was the last time anyone asked permission for a public spending project of any kind? Hell this is the same place where the Mayor decided he didn't want an airport on Lake Michigan and fucking bulldozed it to make his point. Everything in this city of consequence is done behind closed doors and then they get rewarded with 80% of the vote. Even the super unpopular Olympics bid was done locally by the local pols and business community with about zero care of the taxpayer. Again Jerry Reinsdorf is literally the only person in Chicago to get a brand new stadium built in somewhere around the last 100 years, and he has done it twice.

This off season has given big time collusion vibes.

#1, whether the Sox build there or not, Illinois taxpayers will be paying for around the same amount of whatever project happens there. #2, the ISFA will be funding a ballpark no matter what location they pick, and again, this will be tax funded. #3 Sox fans aren't stupid. They will figure out how to travel the extra 2 miles to a game even if it means using [gasp] more public transit. #4, Neither site precludes the Sox from building whatever park they want. My guess is they ate more likely to get creative in the middle of a broader project like the 78, then in the middle of Bridgeport as it would be an anchor to bigger things, vs just being a ballpark in Bridgeport. Nothing has happened there in 125 years. Why would that change now?

Bauer Talk is over. Cease it all.

I am not doing anything and don't particularly care about it. I am more fascinated by the selective outrage than anything.

Funny you didn't mention Oakland or the LA Raiders... And also, why do you keep associating winning with a successful business project? This just sounds personal.

LA, SF, and California are loaded with TIF districts just like the rest of the country. Your statement is blatantly not true.