Harry Chappas

Same high school.

I just had a wicked Deja Vu moment as I opened up an Alumni email to see a guy was elected to the Idaho Sports Hall of Fame and I'll be damned it's you.

Stone compared them directly in that text. It was not a retweeted and I read it to be intentional.

Sorry can't figure out how to embed but this twitter post seemed pretty focused. Not sure if Stone's carrying water here. This is a Twitter post over the weekend. Nine years ago I told you that I was pretty sure you’d like my new partner Jason Benetti. Fast forward to 2024 and I’m sure you’re going to love my new partner John Schriffen. John is smart and enthusiastic. He loves the game as I do and he’ll bring a new perspective to our booth Am I overreaching like v love?

That Santos deal could be a move in this category. That Santos injury doesn't sound minor.

If Hahn did what Getz did, he'd still be employed. He is giving the younger players time to learn and grow in the minors instead of rushing everyone. You can't argue with that. Look at what the fools did last year with Korey Lee, Sosa, Popeye. Goes all the way to Beckham. Beckham was awesome when he first came up but was figured out. Could say the same for Madrigal, Vaughn, Burdi, Kopech and the kid from Vanderbilt. How much is forced from the JR hand, the KW philosophy and Hahn's general stupidity we will never know.

That's the story of my Sox life as well. Be there Opening Day getting the Cuban with the boys as we head down the LF line to the corner.

Least surprising news ever.

I kind of wondered if Bennetti got on Stone's nerves with both his absence and hooky stuff. Stone doesn't seem to appreciate shenanigans.

What is the public funding for that?

I used to be excited for this type of stuff. I bought two tickets to opening day on Wednesday. Found out a couple other folks wanted in. The seats next to us were still open. Going to be a sad home opener. They were pretty cheap considering it was opening day and they were lower deck. Incredibly sad state of affairs. Even when they were god awful the opener was a tough ticket to get.

The owner of the Phoenix Suns Matt Ishbia sounds like a good candidate as next owner. If the next owner is an asshole like JR they could move it he is a decent human being they will have success. Someone needs to show the Gavin Sheets playoff highlight and then ask, WTF are you talking about. The last three years have shown JR to be an embarrassment, this last two days even more so. He and Hahn cannot go away soon enough. Thankfully Hahn is gone.

When did GR become a shithole? Its better then Wrigley and nobody said it was bad three months ago. Now the consensus is its uninhabitable????? Soldier Field is an embarassment. Comerica isn't much better then GR....Miller Park or whatever it is is equal except for the roof.

The 78 is actually a pretty good plan to have an ROI as opposed to Bridgeport, the gentrification just never made it that far.

The White Sox and ISFA could have tried this around the current joint. Sell some land to IIT to build.

I love that so many folks think that the money that is not being spent on the White Sox would somehow magically be spent in a way that makes the state or city landscape fiscally brighter. The hotel tax if not used to pay for the stadium will be used to pay down the pension shortage or help reduce property. The f..k it will! Look at Chicago and the new tax on the ballot for real estate transactions over $1M. Those funds are going to fight homelessness. The f..k they are! Those funds will go to some organization that "fights" homelessness with 90% lining a bureaucrats pocket and 10% going to some cause that may need the money but won't be enough to make a difference. If you live in Chicago/Cook/Illinois your quality of life is factored into all of this and hopefully your salary allows for you to enjoy. Tollways, hotel tax, gambling tax, cannabis, increased payroll and property tax.....none have resulted in a more efficiently run government yet Jerry is going to push us over the edge. Illinois/Cook/Chicago will spend what JR is asking on migrant services....with Jerry I sometimes see a good baseball game and if there is a concert that keeps me from having to go to Wrigley, I'm happy.

Dejong will be done by July with the youth stepping in. Hopefully he does well enough to trade for a low A guy that can make our top 30 in the Future Sox writeup next fall.

I think it is a lot harder to get noticed with the online application process. Things like Indeed and what not are inundated with poor connections and I think the initiative if you are truly are a good candidate is a nice touch. While you would think hiring is easier now in some cases it is harder.

Around 7:30 it was the most lucid Levine has ever been. Haugh cut down a caller from Naperville yesterday that was saying the same thing. There are more then a few hosts on that station that have a holier then thou take on non-sports related topics that turned me off to them. I listen to them when ESPN is on commercial.

On the SCORE this morning Bruce Levine detailed this exceptionally well for David Haugh (as with Leila yesterday) who could not get past equating a $100M contract to this project....this while he bemoans the cubs not spending $100M+ on Bellinger. What is interesting and I cannot see anything legitimate as it's behind a pay wall is if Reinsdorf assumes this risk based on the franchises equity, he is more inclined to sell the team. Value of the team goes up to $3 to $4B with this deal and he's left with a $1B+ debt that the new owner purchases. Tax hit goes up as well but in the end the profit goes up. HIs heirs can clear a $1B even after his death, thus reducing the double tax hit. Then there is the land he owns by the current GR. What becomes of that? I think that is what the city and state want. I will say this, he is making Kevin Warren look really bad right now if he pulls this off.

WGN's report said the $500M TIF was included as part of the $1B.

The Bears and NFL are building a stadium to host Superbowls and Final Fours. That area is not it. You think parking will be bad for baseball how's football going to work. Also 81 dates v 8/9. The NFLl is not building up neighborhoods, there are not enough dates.

This is an obviously troll that is going to sit here and promote them moving while the Oakland A's can't find a home. The MLB isn't adding a adding a revenue sharing team nor is any city filling a stadium as often as Chicago would long term. $500M of the $1B is already accounted for via TIF funding. The other $500M is probably need to remediate and prepare the site for construction. The difficulty in looking at this project and bifurcating a $100M from this is nto that difficult. The idiots on the SCORE this morning were droning on about this like a couple of morons, This project instantly adds a new neighborhood to the south loop and then expands Bridgeport. I still think the GR site is the new Soldier Field with current Soldier Field being reinvented.

Am I the only one that sees this as the Bears moving to the GRate site and Sox downtown????

This seems like a microcosm of society. Some team of folks put these together and thought they looked good. I don't think it was the goal to save money it was just people being really bad at their job. Whether it was Nike or MLB that helped design, they did not know their market.