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If she had gotten to the ball first, literally no one would have said a word. No one also would have said a word if the dude ran over, got the ball and kept it for himself. This woman made herself the story when she ran up on, and put hands on, a complete stranger with his kid in a vulnerable position. If it had been another man who ran up on this dude and pulled the same stunt, he would have been just as rightly ridiculed for being entitled garbage.

It's just tropes at this point.

The #30, #29, and #28 teams all have the same odds at picking #1. The odds don't change for the Sox unless they hit #27. The Sox would need to fall two slots which is currently 8.5 games, in the last 18 games.

The Sox odds are the same in 30th, 29th, or 28th.

Who's to say she wasn't getting the ball to take to a Satanic ritual as a sacrifice? Who's to say the boy who got the ball first wasn't dying of cancer and getting a HR ball was his dying wish? Yeah, it's absurd. People keep talking about kid's these days being the participation trophy generation, but they learned that behavior from people like this who act entitled to everything, even when they didn't actually earn it.

I am glad to finally admitted this outloud. It's step one to getting past your fears. Don't let your life be occupied by fear tropes. The whole rest of the world is able to handle it being out in public in big scary cities, many way worse than Chicago. If Cubs fans can do it, so can you.

So explain to me Yankees and Mets fans, who again, can survive after dark without surface parking? Sox fans are smart enough to adjust.

Sox fans are smarter than this. The Cubs draw a 3 million a year fan base with almost zero surface parking.

Honestly she's kind of lucky the guy didn't come up swinging. You chase someone down like that and then put hands on them, you never know how people are going to react, especially if he feels his kid was threatened.

Sorry, I am here for the jokes.

Hahahaha

For the love of God, no more shitty utility players on 3/4 million dollar contracts blocking kids from playing.

This could absolutely be #8, Ishbia is willing to fund some portion of a stadium.

There are absolutely good owners in that some do what it takes to win. That's not the White Sox. Pointing out one in 45 year occurrences as some sort of "see it can happen!", just let me point to the other 44 and say the same thing.

Which is EXACTLY why 45 years of history weighs more than your feelings about the future . Jerry is still here.

Yet you mentioned none of that, only focusing on what might happen in the future, while completely pretending that the 45 previous years with the same guy running things don't exist. I would say that Those who don't learn from their history are doomed to repeat it is more accurate than calling someone a "caveman" for believing in the past when it comes to Jerry runs teams.

I mean you are gaslighting Sox fans for being pessimistic after 45 years of Jerry Reinsdorf. It's 100% about the owner, especially when he inserts himself into day to day decisions which affects the team on the field.

Yes, Sox fans don't have a 45 year long history to think of, and sure not the present. But the future.... I am sure everything will be perfect.

The Sox playing hurt players? That's unpossible!

This is what I was going to say. There are three legit playoff teams in front of them which they play six times. I would be SHOCKED if they go 3-3 in the division. I think it will be more like 1-5 or 2-4. The rest isn't easy either.

Nah, they are hot garbage because ownership just had a free to a good home sale at the ASB.

I think the counterpoint would be sports franchises have done nothing but go up, and I haven't seen a reason to think that is changing soon. If Jerry wasn't in a capital crunch, he has zero reason to take on outside interest. He could just wait for death and sell at whatever the price is at that point. Also if the owners think they will again break the union in negotiations, there is a lot more profit on the horizon, meaning it has to be bad for him to need capital that quickly. It means this wasn't a short term blip he can cash call over. FORGOT THE INHERITANCE PART: If you time this for death, the only time taxes are paid is the estate taxes, which pay taxes based on the gains of the asset, and then those assets are passed down to heirs with what is left to go through inheritance. If you don't time at it death, then you pay the gains taxes on the transaction, and then you pay taxes again on the estate's gains or losses before the inheritance taxes happen at the end.

In general, I get the sentiment, I really do. But with the Sox last five years, it is really easy to see otherwise. #1, COVID blew up revenue streams in both 2020 and 2021. Not only was the ballpark somewhere between closed and limited for most of those two seasons, they also missed the buzz of the fan base getting to live in person through the first back to back playoff appearances in the history of the franchise. #2, As Sox payroll began to climb in 2021 and onwards, the teams finances did NOT follow. The teams 2021 attendance was actually at the time the lowest attendance in the 21st century by the Sox. While the 2022 attendance did pick back up, in 2022, the excitement behind the team was already starting to fade in 2021, as the team that did finish in 1st and 24 games over .500, essentially played a .500 second half, then followed it up with a full season of .500 in 2022, and saw attendance drop by 300k fans from 22 to 23. #3 Sox payroll spiked during this time period, even as the fans were ebbing, peaking at $193 million in 2022, and only dropping slightly (about 7%) in 2023 to $181 million, with attendance falling by 15% from 22 to 23. #4 obviously the attendance crash continued into 2024, with Sox turnstyles down about 35% from its peak in 2022. I would be willing to bet that for as much as attendance fell, so did outside advertising dollars and parking revenues. #5, The Sox played a large chunk of 2025 without essentially any TV money. Sure they might have made a few bucks from streaming themselves, and the advertising dollars they kept directly, instead of dollar flowing through a TV deal, but it was a tiny sliver of what they were used to coming in. #6, Forbes has shown the team with loses since 2020. #7, The Ishbia deal expressly said that he was paying down debt accumulated by the team. Since this team isn't making a mortgage payment on a stadium, literally it has to be operations debt, which agrees with all of the rest of the above points. I am about 90% certain, Jerry doesn't make this deal if he isn't personally losing money, because there is no other reason for him to want to sell the team before his death when the tax conditions are the most ideal.

The Twins are hot garbage. The Sox SHOULD be beating them.