Dick Allen

While I do find some of your comments off base, security is a growing concern, especially for a fanbase that looks for excuses not to go to games. Reality or not, Chicago has a reputation right now as being very dangerous. My company has a conference every year, and it's location is rotated. Every other year in Chicago, every other year, someplace else. Not anymore. People are afraid to come, so it won't be in Chicago for quite a while. Now lets not use any public money to hire the thousands of cops the city is short. No, give that money to Related and JR's heirs, they can really use it. They have this plot of land where everyone wants to party, yet can't get anything built unless you line their pockets..

the last couple of years, no translation necessary, Bummer.

Soler is inconsistent but i did see something cool. SF's park is a HR cemetery but all his HR's in 2023 would have cleared their fences.,

You get a pitcher who has some control issues, is only 2.5 years younger, and in AA. I get Burger will be 28 in April, but he's in his prime years, and they are going to be cheap. That should be right up the White sox alley.

This isn't a bad signing. Pitchers usually come back from capsule surgeries, and he's not rushed now.

At first glance, the line up doesn't look half bad, then you realize, Beni10d is a punch and judy guy now, Moncada and Eloy are sure to get hurt, Vaughn usually spends half the season sucking, Fletcher has a little more than 100 career ABs, and Lopez, DeJong and Maldonado cannot hit. I wouldn't throw Robert a strike until the others show they can put runs on the board.

I’m all for biking and protected bike lanes.Shouldnt be too much of a cost. I will say though, the asshole car drivers don’t necessarily outnumber the idiot bike riders in Chicago. There are problems on both sides.

of course not, but if anyone is buying anything that comes out of his mouth after the difference of what he said it would be and reality last year, needs help. You are too gullible for your own good.

I think the whole thing gets serious when the parties decide to talk about how it gets paid for. I know many are saying this will be an economic home run for the city, but really? People will just be spending money there that they would have been spending in another neighborhood. That's what just about every study of a publicly funded stadium has ever shown. There are 2 entities that get rich on it, Related and the White Sox.

3 teams have a 0% chance at the playoffs per BP. The White Sox are one of them. Merkin has enough Kool Aide in his systemd to say he's not giving up on 24. I know mlb.com team beat guy is an ass kiss job, but he should be embarrassed by that one.

Yaz and his agent probably told them his legs feel better than they have in years. He may have a hot stretch in him, but I'd bet a lot of money this will be his last contract.

They can draw these things up and make them as nice as they want to make them look, the problem is, they cost a ton of money. They are saying the 78 development has a $9 billion price tag. If they build the drawings, you could bet it would be a lot closer to double that. And how much would it cost to fix the stadium for the Fire? These are pipedreams unless some private fund rich person or persons step way up.

They want to build where the Lucas Museum was supposed to go. Just south of Soldier Field. It will never happen. Its Arlington Heights or bust.

If the ISFA is still in existence when this is built, I would like them to alter the rent agreement that now gives them a break when they suck, and have it tied into wins. The more you win, the lower your rent. JR would never go for it.

By the time they got that entire development built, the Sox would be crying about needing a new stadium.

All fine and dandy. Now the big question. Who pays for it?

I get Moncada being a disappointment. But I think McGuffy is taking it a bit far. He's put up over 14 WAR in 727 games as a Pale House. Its over 3.0 fWAR per 162, That's not even close to one of the biggest busts in team history.

PECOTA has the Sox at 65.5 wins. Glad they aren't wasting a year.

I think that's a good bet. They will be bad, but you almost have to try to lose 99 games. The only worry you have is Pedro is still the manager.

Who knows. It would be nice if the White Sox had too many good players, but that never happens. I suspect some of these guys will be duds. I also hope Getz trades Benintendi if he somehow is having a good enough year someone would take him for nothing. He might have a year or even two of being tolerable, but that contract is already ugly for a team as cheap as the White Sox.

If Getz and Barfield are both that wrong on this one, they should be fired. I think the smart money on how both of the trades will wind up years from now, is a bunch of nothing for a bunch of nothing. I guess I just like an OF who can catch the ball, and actually take a walk. All these way sub .300 OBP guys he's been acquiring make for very boring baseball games.

Getz would have to be wrong the opposite way he's been wrong, in thinking a guy is nothing, but he is indeed something. I guess the other thing is White Sox prospects generally don't work out. Especially ones, who, while in AAA at 20, were down the list a bit.

I think Getz wins both. The only way the Santos trade is bad is if he turns dominant. I can't see it, plus arm troubles. Both Getz and Barfield would have to be wrong for the AZ trade not to work.

Considering what Barfield and Getz used to do, if this trade bothers you, They should have as much info on both players possible.

People don't go to the bars around Wrigley all that much if there is no game. I read an article a couple of years ago about Goose Island who had an outpost there. They lost their lease. The landlord wanted to go month to month but they couldn't do it because if he pulled it right before the season started, they would lose a ton of money. A lot of turnover around there.