southsider2k5

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.

4 billion is the full project, including the other buildings.

That's part of that $900m that some writers have been including in the stadium ask to come up with the $2 billion number.

But wait, I was told that not being yelled at enough was why these guys didn't seem to care? Weird right.

He totally didn't have patience for him. It made for awful broadcasts at times.

Seemingly

The ISFA is already an existing structure within Chicago. It exists specifically for this task, just like any of the other taxing bodies being used in any of these types of deals. You can argue "fairness", but these bodies do exist, and companies are taking advantage of them.

It's Fanatics. They are a freaking disaster.

At the very least there are like half a dozen different college's located down there within walking distance, plus the south Loop crowd on a daily basis.

I am just going to point out that this same group of players (for the most part) had no problem getting along and winning when Ricky was the manager.