Harry Chappas

This is turning into an Abbott and Costello routine. Look at last years lowest attended game (probably early April) and subtract 1% and that is your season ticket base.

The only thing keeping them from AH is the $2B city paid renovation of the lake front which includes access to I 55 and LSD more smoothly and moving public transit into the complex. My hope is that this brings an end to the lake front old McCormick place building and a casino included in there. My lord the city has messed the casino project up.

Depends on what is given to Khan in a Soldier Field rebuild. Stop thinking of it is Jacksonville. It is an entity that it is one of 32 NFL football franchises and what Khan and his family is looking to spend his money on. The "fans" in LA cannot support one football team yet now they have two. You build two billion dollars project over the next 8 years...which thrives Arlington Heights or Chicago? As far as football goes, Soldier Field would be filled with visiting team's fans looking to enjoy the city....at least until mid-December

LA has shown you don't yet fans to back the team, just the owners and the NFL. The Bears get Arlington - Khan gets Soldier Field and a EPL game comes to the U.S.

I stated that it appears that they are trending away from being cheap. But one year ago they went with the same plan on GM and head coach and until recently they were run by their team accountant and life long employee. So I am not ready just yet to say that they team is going to be in on financing potential $1B plus deals. Maybe this is all Pat Ryan's doing and his move to own the team some day. If so then it all makes sense.

Warren was the first time I would agree with you. Poles and Eberflus may work out but there is no history to dictate that. The fact that Ted Phillips was running that franchise with a McCaskey was laughable and no way indicative of a professionally sports run franchise. Other than Angelo and Lovie, I always felt their GM and coach had no authority in building a franchise. Maybe Warren does but he also could be a short term guy if Goddell moves on. Maybe the McCaskey family sold off shares and now have a more functioning organization with a real Board that is making these decisions

That's pure Jerry's money

You are right when it comes to player salaries as there is a cap that they need to abide by. It has changed in the last 5 years with the enhancements at Lake Forest but non player spending on coaching, staff and other organizational costs always lagged and was a large talking point about coaches building staffs. Warren's hiring appears to signify a change in philosophy so maybe you are right but this is an organization that put nothing into the product and now is going to spend over a billion dollars to take on the risk of Arlington....sorry that I continue to ask this questions especially if the answer is out there. I find it similar to the Chicago mayoral candidates with all their "ideas" but no rational plan to implement. Maybe COVID hammered the cubs in Wrigleyville but their billion dollar investment isn't running as smoothly and this is the Bears plan from what I can tell.

The Bears in Arlington will sell out. NFL doesnt give a s%*# about optics they put two teams in LA that nobody wants, If Chicago lines up Khan and the $2B renovation why wouldnt he move. The Bears somehow ponying up a billion dollars seems out of character to me but maybe Virgina is assumed to sell but that appears to be a JR scenario. The Bears are cheaper than the White Sox.

Is there any reporting on how the stadium will be financed? If Chicago does renovate the current Soldier Field and puts a second team there, that would be interesting......or Jacksonville moving into Arlington as well.

Pedro Pascal is an amazing actor. I still see him as the Narcos role as that was a great show and for some reason view him in that role in the End of Us.

You ae 100% correct, the White Sox are very good at pissing away good talent. The loyalty thing seems to go out the window in certain cases and this is one time where I thought it would come into play for the good. My hope is that the White Sox see it clearer and the next agreement is more smooth. My hope is that Jason has exploded and that is the issue here and they need to figure it out. Brooks Boyer seems to have gotten really bad at his job lately.

They have to go with Gordon Beckham because Stone gets a good amount of vacation time. The list of good color commentators is not that long, watch any sport and you soon realize how bad they are. Benetti had a option that the club picked up. Benetti is asking the team to make concessions for him to broadcast other games. The White Sox have to fill these gaps and rework Kasper's deal when he moves to television and find replacements that they have to pay. I do not think Benetti can make as much money doing the national stuff to leave but it makes the White Sox position more difficult when he is missing so much. You would think the White Sox would be more accommodating but they are the White Sox. There is a middle ground here in this discussion other than the White Sox fucked up again. I think Benetti stays as there ae more options doing Sox games than other sports in the spring and summer but I think it is worked out much differently. If Jason needs to miss 20 games that is 12% of the season that is not insignificant. What happens if Jason has a FOX game on a Saturday in September and Sox game the following day and his flight is cancelled? There ae logistical aspects to this other than look at the cheap White Sox again.

Isn't he married to the girl he dated in high school? At this point you'd think the millions of dollars he has earned would outweigh the shrinkage.

At 2:00 it told me sold out....went back in and plenty of seats were available. My guess is that there will plenty for the game.

Tickets went on sale at 2:00 I was curious what was out there. Tickets are sold out. Went back in and grabbed two in lower deck for $69 and parking. Why not it's opening day. Sure they will be something like 1-5 and Davis Martin will be pitching but no worse then watching Jon Danks give up 5 in the first in the snow.

That's better than a full month of Royals, Tigers and Twins

I did not even know this until you posted......they used to not go on sale until March. Will be curious if they sell out.

For some reason I think that benefits the Sox most in the division.

I case the argument is that the minor league depth pieces are not good enough to be minor league depth pieces.

They spend money they just do it foolishly.

Abreu is going 3-4 with a HR and 3 RBI and will walk in his first at bat Benentendi will make an error or bad base running play

Doubling down on Russ.

If the full reporting is what is in the Athletic story and the IG stuff, there may not be enough to substantiate her story. We can disagree on this but in a vacuum that is what it is. I felt there would be a snowball after the reporting but that does not appear to be the case. The way the White Sox are going, it will probably snow ball around opening day or during he season. It is a terrible look for the White Sox and Hahn and solidifies the notion that Clevenger is a scumbag but it may not keep him off the field.

If there is such detailed reporting out there, I apologize as I did not see it. I only read the Athletic story and saw the IG photos. If there is such details as you quote on the events linked to the Athletic story again, I did not see them. Soxtalk is overwhelming against him ever pitching for the White Sox but sure make it sound like he whole forum other than yourself thinks the whole story is a fabrication.. A couple of people are stating reasons why we think that he will still pitch. Nobody is claiming they have anything but disdain for him and everyone seems to agree this was a terrible move by the team. Maybe they will release him and potentially eat all the money.....I think they will if the MLB comes back with something along the lines of 80 games as rabbit posted yesterday.