Dick Allen

As a spectator, there's definitely something nice about a half empty or more ballpark.

All these guys that were playing for their careers were playing for them last season until an team awful enough threw a few dollars at them to try again. But I do agree with wegner. Defense alone should get them a few more wins.

It sounded like a great idea, but maybe the team sucking had something to do with it. I acutally used to work in the building the train station is attached to and took it to opening day once. It was great.

Maybe. They fixed up the 35th Metra station probably 12 or 13 years ago, and had a stop there. They also used to hold trains there for after the game, but that all stopped. It wasn't a big White Sox seller.

Clark is 100 West/ State is 0 West/

I watched a roundtable discussion with the Reinsdorfs and the Wirtzs a few years ago when the UC turned 25. The UC has 6000 parking spots. The one thing they said is fewer people are driving to games than ever before. A ton take Ubers, which I believe would be a very popular choice for people working or taking a train downtown if the Sox moved to the 78.

Yes. There were rumors JR owned the land where the parking lots are located, but he doesn’t. He just gets 100% of the parking money.

He hasn’t done anything yet. They haven’t discussed the most important part, which is exactly what the Bears are stuck on.

What a boring offseason.

Did you fall and hit your head?

Cubbie blue. Figures.

I'd like Getz to do at least one thing that Hahn was never able to do, get an average RF. It can't be that hard.

At first, around it, but in time, unless an ownership change, within. as well.

Makes sense, but the White Sox are going to blame their status in Chicago on location. I hope there isn't much in public funding help, but changing neighborhoods will allow for differnet things, although I wonder how long it would actually take to develop around a new South Loop ballpark. I have the feeeling its going to look similar to what GRF looks like now with a bunch of emptiness.

Jerry blew it for the other owners when he took the state for a ride . He got infrastructure for the UC. The Bears Reno of Soldier Field is a disaster for the city and state. Over 20 years later they owe more than it cost. If somebody really thinks JR is going to get most of the money to build a new park from the taxpayers, they are more stoned than Snoop.

Bob says Seattle is now in on Cease.

I do think people need to be civil., and the question I would have had this year would have been to JR and he’s not going to be answering questions anyway. I would like to know which of the Chris Getz moves this offseason couldn’t have been made by someone without at least a season in the organization. They can’t waste a year. Looks like that’s just what they are doing.

I disagree. I used to go to all the Soxfest, and usually every day. I never went in an autograph line, never really interacted with players, except Ron Kittle, who apparently thinks I’m someone he knows. He is a fun and nice guy, but for some reason he thinks I’m someone else. He just comes up and talks to me. But I always loved the seminars. They were interesting, even with the fluff aspect of the event. Now, I would be opposed to fans actually yelling, but asking tough questions, and getting real answers is something we all deserve especially after the last couple of seasons. With Rick Hahn being the mouthpiece of the front office for so long , it’s been a while since there has been a straight answer.

He will now be eligible to play for the White Sox.

So they must have told Pedro, this is his last season.

Back in the 90s , season ticketholders got a Weekend pass for 25 or 30 bucks. The only time I saw JR at Soxfest, a guy was complaining to him that not enough players were there.

I agree, but still they need to face the music. We do know if the Sox were what they claimed they would be the last 2 seasons, Soxfest would actually happen.

They owned it for 4 years before anyone ever heard of Covid 19. And wouldn't you think office towers , at least multiple are kind of off the board now? It could be kind of similar to when the Sox moved into their current home. Several of the suites down the lines weren't completed until almost 20 years after the park opened. If the Sox somehow did build a park there, most of the 78 would be a construction or look like a desert probably for a similar length of time.

The Rays are paying $600 million for a 1.3 billion project. Seems similar, hotels, apartments, restaurants. They will have a dome, but costs are higher here, plus no water lines or sewer lines or electric anywhere near, even if the ground is clean, it's going to be expensive. Word is the A's are having trouble getting financing, so who knows what happens there. JR might have lost his fastball, but he's nowhere near John Fisher bad.

Which, considering the amount of residents in IL, and in metro Chicago, the overwheming percentage will never even drive by this place, let alone use it. It benefits JR and his heirs, and probably the developer. BTW, the developer has been sitting on this land for 8 years with all kinds of things that were going to be built. Yet not one shovel in the ground yet. JR to save the day? I doubt it.