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We can all hope, but until Jerry is gone, I am not convinced.

8 years is.... the first year that Ishbia can take over on his own.

The Sox have a chance to fix literally everything they screwed up in the late 80's. Stadium design, stadium location, activities around the stadium, stadium views, etc. Let's do this right.

ANNND they lost Billy Donovan anyway. Quality work there Bulls.

Forget lame "coattails" type of fan crap, If LAD offers him a Dodgers like contract, and the Sox offer him a Sox like contract, THAT should mean something to him.

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"Make them"? Why? They obviously don't want to be there.

Because Jerry won’t pay him. Are you new here?

It does change perspective when he is paying off debt AND buying the team AND paying for a stadium AND paying for a ballpark village...

Less than two years, hopefully. It means he was successful and we dealt him to load up.

The problem is the connected spaces in the loop are much smaller. I am pretty sure you would need to consolidate multiple blocks to make that happen. The only actual space I can think of is the old post office if they were willing to build on top of the overpass.

His health was always going to be the biggest argument against a big extension. Will be interesting to see how this plays out. His fastball speed has definitely dropped off, and he has moved off of his primary fastball in favor of a sinker.

A few things seem to be coming together. #1: The Sox want to build a new ballpark outside of Bridgeport. If they wanted to stay in BP, it would be really easy to come up with a plan in the old ballpark + parking footprint. #2: They seem to want to be as close to downtown as possible. They are very intensely working to create space south of the financial district, with Ishbia going to work acquiring an old rail yard with tons of work needed to do to get it to the state for a ballpark. #3: Because of the complexities of this deal, and the dance that needs to be taking place between Amtrak and the Sox, this is NOT going to be cheap. There was talk of Ishbia paying for a stadium, and undertaking a project like this with a ballpark at it's center seems to confirm that idea. Maybe they try to get some money for the state, but I have to image they would rather own this, and then create the ballpark village as the real profit center long term for the ownership group. #4: With the FIre across the river, the ballpark village concept makes more sense, as you now have another professional franchise in the area with all of those dates worth of people to come to the area for the village and games. #5: None of this will be done by the time the lease is up. Looking at the timeline, this could well be lining up with Ishbia taking over the Sox. I imagine they will sign a short term lease extension to get the park done, and then the village construction takes place after the opening of the park in the early to mid 2030's. Was the timeline for the ownership transition aligned to take place with the new ballpark? Stay tuned.

He averaged 95 to 96 during his Sox stint

Yes, if you delete things I said, you can change the meaning of the post. Congratulations on trying to pass that off as intellectually honest. It's also a classic SSS, which is why I added a full year sample to demonstrate better that there is a difference between "relievers" and "closers". Your statistic is wrong. A closer with a 60% save rate is not Average. They are among the worst in baseball. Even if you want to drop the threshold to 2 saves to capture more noise, the fact there are only 4 total, means there are 26 others who are above that mark. 4 of of 30 is 13.333th percentile. In no world is that "average". That is below far below 50th percentile. Your big flex literally reinforced my point. Thanks for the assist.

Can you read? Because nothing you said contradicted what I said. I even went back to the last full season of 2025 to further clarify the point. You are erroneously associating "relievers" with closers. Why is this an important distinction? Because only closers get a chance to actually save games, versus a non-closer who can blow saves, but gets very few actual saves.

The White Sox are dead last in MLB in total revenue. They trail the #29 team by about 20 percent. What doesn't make sense is to keep doing the same things they did to make them dead last.

AI is only as good as the prompt you give it. Judging by the answer you got, I am guessing how accurate the prompt was. Proof? Last year you have to go down to 30th in saves in MLB to find someone with a 60%, or worse, save percentage. Coincidentally, it was Leasure at 58.3%. I rest my case.

For "relievers". That's not closers. There are 20 player's with 3, or more, saves in MLB currently. Of them none have an equal, or worse, save rate than Anthony. He is dead last.

A thread about Peak Wood? They make a pill for that now. Call your doctor.

And strike out 200.

If he can figure out how to make more contact, he will be hige

Add that to "It's not that bad"

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