Dick Allen

What they can try is similar to what my siblings and I are trying to pull off right now. My dad has been in assisted living for a while and up until earlier this year we would pick him up and take him to his house and spend the daily with him. The house expenses were worth it. Now, he isn't going to be able to do that anymore so we want to sell the house. We are baking the Capital Gains tax into thr price of the house, and hopefully someone bites. These guys rhat but teams aren't necessarily looking for a bargain, so sell it for a little more and let the extra cover most of the tax.

And jobs aren't being created. They are just moving to a different location.

God help Bulls fans. It's amazing the gift Michael Jordan gave him, and his effort to try to mess it up. Pro basketball failed in Chicago. Then came back, was pretty good, but not great, Then MJ, and it's sellouts every night. He leaves, the team has never been so bad, but still sellouts. Now he can't get their games on cable, is fielding yet another lousy team, and interest is finally starting to fade. I used to be a huge Bulls fan, even before Michael. With Norm Van Lier, and Artis Gilmore....I watched whatever I could and would listen to Jim Durham on the radio for the rest. Since the demise of DRose, I look at it, but not engaged. The NBA as a whole, kind of bores me. I like watching Curry hoist 3's. but that seems to be the whole game now. Good analytically, boring to watch IMO. but a lot of people love it. I do think the Bulls are an exception. Their fans are starting to have had enough of being taken advantage of. What the Bulls do prove, is even if the Sox had stellar attendance, JR was still going to field a lousy team, just like he would at a new $2 billion stadium.

What I don't get is JR asks for minimal help with the United Center and now it's re-development. It's so inconsistent.

The Bears bought some land in Arlington Heights. That is where they will end up. The White Sox, who knows? But wherever they go, their owner will have to break out the checkbook.

Not if they hire Thome or Harold. They know the players. The team won't be wasting a year.

Yeah, the issue is location. LMAO.

He was nearly a White Sox. They wanted him, but the Dodgers got him. A couple of really close near misses Roland Hemond and Bill Veeck had that might have made Reinsdorf look better. Almost got Fernando, and almost had Guidry thrown in the Bucky Dent trade which included Gamble and Hoyt.

That's the problem. If you gave each company in Chicago that does as much business and employs as many people as the White Sox, $1 billion or $2 billion, we'd have a huge problem. I read where the Sox may not be in the top 100 in Chicago.

BTW.JB said no again.

MLBTR has the Sox offseason outlook up. They had all their arb eligible players except for Crochet as non tender candidates. That's development.

because what your wrote about the skyline at the old park is pure BS and easily proven.

JR stated a year or so ago sports teams were taking these companies to the cleaners getting on the basic tier. Now that is drying up, so there will be less accounts on the higher tier, which means less viewers, which means less advertising dollars.

One thing he can do is back off the plate in the batter's box. That way, anything inside is a ball. Of course, then you may have a problem getting to the outer half.

That was the photo I tried to upload. If you were right in the back of LF you might have had a chance, but he said he was on the first base side.

And a big difference between this and the Dodgers situation is the Dodgers still got paid when most of their fans couldn’t watch. This is costing the team money. The fewer the viewers, the less they can charge for advertising.

I get what you are saying with the carriage contracts. But “soon” for their own app? They have known how this was going down for a long time. They should have anticipated they were going to have issues getting on platforms. The app should have been ready. They literally had years to work on this. I have DIRECTV so I have access without rabbit ears {except when it rains because DIRECTV doesn’t work in the rain), and their studio shows are high school productions. Uneven lighting, audio that sounds like they are in a tunnel. Unprepared is unprofessional.

But the re was an upper deck blocking more than half that view including the tops of the buildings which you would need to see for a skyline view.I tried to attach a photo of what you are talking about but it’s too big. There is no way you saw what you claimed. If you sat way up in the upper deck, you would have had a little skyline. Not stunning, but enough to whet your appetite. For the lower deck there is no way you would be able to see 200 feet in the air from those openings, especially from the first base side. Take off the upper 2/3 s of this photo and you will have what you might have been able to see. And that isn’t very impressive.

There is no way you saw the skyline through those .

1.6 million more people live in the Chicago area than when JR threatened to leave last time. There is no way the will abandon Chicago and leave it a one team town. See if JR delays the managerial decsion. If he doesn’t, the whole thing is BS. It’s funny how the secretive JR wants everyone to know he is talking selling.

So let me get this straight. They are thinking of selling, but hiring a new manager, and apparently are confident the new owner would be good with Getz making decisions. It’s all BS, but it is fun to discuss.

Yeah I read the inner TV antennas most likely won’t work

2005 everything went right. That was his model. It was the one year it totally worked. He should get credit. I understand your point, but if we can blast him for all his failures, you have to give him credit for the one year he got it right. The one issue with that was it seemed to have convinced him, his way is the only way. And we have all paid for it since.

They said last time the Sox needed a new park the park they had was falling apart and dangerous to be in. They wouldn’t dare say the same thing now. Plus teams that have moved have had many many years of ballpark battles. This fight just started. Publicly funded stadiums were a thing for a while, but not anymore. Several years before that, they were moving to Seattle before Bill Veeck saved the day. There was talk Charlie Finley would have moved the As to the south side.. I it was a different era then. Attendance was what it all was about. While still important, not nearly as much as it was back then. It’s very hard to move in MLB.

That was almost 40: years ago, and what would have happened if JR moved to Tampa? He have moved again. Not moving was the best thing that ever happened to JR. Back then even he admitted moving would have most likely led him to sell the Bulls. He would probably be universally known as the one of the worst sports owners in history. If you read up on Stewart’s group, they plan to privately fund a stadium. Not many think they have the money. Who in their right mind would move a business whose model is basically built on broadcast revenue move from Chicago to Nashville? At the very least, people who buy these team usually have egos, and it’s pretty obvious the White Sox have been poorly run for years. They see a cash cow if operated correctly. It’s just like real estate. The 3 most important things are location, location, location.