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And on 219 day. That's hilarious. Welp, hopefully the Chicago pols answer for it.

Which goes back to your original Kvetch about projects cancelling and why nothing has ever happened there. For a site that requires additional expensive remediation, it drives up the needed economic and financial impact of what happens there. For a site that is going to cost 8/9 figures to clean up, you aren't going to justify a 2500 square foot single family dwelling going there. It's why they are looking for 9/10 figure projects to build there, so that the ends justify the means. There aren't that many huge projects to go around, and huge projects are notoriously difficult to get off the ground and finance. Again, how many times have there been projects for the tallest, or 2nd tallest skyscraper in Chicago that have failed. Hell, the hole from the Spire still sits on the northern end of downtown. It isn't because the site required remediation, it was because the economics didn't make sense, and definitely not because of some conspiracy involving arms dealers. Block 37 went through a ton of iterations over decades before finally seeing that mall get off the ground. As I have said previous, this isn't nearly as complex as you want to make it out to be, and you could probably seek your own advice about repeating your own opinion ad naseum if you are sick of seeing the same responses to it.

If they stop it from happening, the Bears leave IL. It is that simple. It's probably a play to try to extract gains, but the Bears hold the cards here.

They literally cannot by law. The last renovation is why they still owe money, not because they weren't paying the payments. The pandemic crushed expected revenues is the other problem.

Pretty much this. Look, I know some people need a safe space where mindless drones all repeat the same mantra's, but that is half the beauty of the game in that we all don't need to be the same to enjoy what we do of the sport. The team still has a LOT of work to do, and years to get there, but as long as we aren't backsliding, it is moving forward, which is what you need right now.

I have hope for the Ishbia era based on their actions in Phoenix, but as long as Jerry is the chairman, Walter is in charge.

They COULD, but if Jerry is in charge, they won't. Hell they just had to go beg to get $40 million to sign this contract which was a fraction of what was expected. If the bidding adds a zero, do you expect the Sox to be involved? I sure don't.

Look, when Jeff Dunham does his show, he might keep changing puppets and personalities, but at the end of the day, it is still the same puppeteer running the characters. Until Jerry is out of the picture, I am going to assume the White Sox will operate the same way they have for the last 45 years.

This is a team coming off of it's 3rd straight 100 loss season. It is the definition of not a winning formula. Realistically, it should be in talent accumulation stage, and if Murakami is anywhere near the contract he thought he was getting before he came to MLB, it isn't going to come from the White Sox. Losing him for nothing isn't a winning formula either.

I will also note one aspect that isn't talked about is if both the Bears and the Sox do something that doesn't involve the ISFA, that is a whole lot of tax money that all of the sudden can be redirected for something else. We will see if they both happen, but I think Illinois becomes more open to negotiations on other things if they can redirect those ticket taxes to something else.

The public aspects of this are a lot less important if the park itself is self financed. All you need from the state is potentially infrastructure and/or a property tax negotiation.

I can't see Moore coming back.

And yet, as I said, here starts an expensive project doing just that, with the end goal of a stadium going up on this site, almost as if that it can be done on the 78 site.

Because if he is good, he is leaving in two years anyway, so you get what you can get for him.

Not to mention the less separation there is between the players, the most chance of negotiating some savings and pushing it out to multiple picks over the draft. You obviously take "your guy", but if you can save a couple of million in the process, that is an extra 2nd round pick's worth of money. It could allow you to push a pick in the 20's down to the 2nd round, and it could still leave you enough extra money from other savings to add another HS pick at the end of the draft or after round 11.

This is a good thing, despite the belief of some.

We rode Robert from a Ferrari to a 86 Toyota Corolla with 500,000 miles on it.

DRINK!

Then the world is probably ending.

Too bad we didn't do that in 2024 when we took Hagen Smith instead of Konnor Griffin.

SEE HE WAS RIGHT!!!

It's great to see I don't need to reply for days, and these same ridiculous arguments keep happening.

I actually ran into the guy randomly like twice. Once in the basement of the Hyatt Regency waiting to get into a Soxfest, and then about a year ago, he was on a plane to NYC with me.

Nice