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We did not have a crystal ball when we decided not to sign him. We did not have a salary issue for this year or the next 3 years. The only issue was 1 more year. Who knows how he would be pitching for the Sox. He pitched great the second half, kept us in the first when Mark was :puke . But JR cried poor, and we accepted it. Now we have a giant hole that was never filled. You can accept that hole and think saving the money was good. You can believe taht with a investment that is now worth hundreds of millions more, they cannot pay to keep a proven super star (Maggs) You continue to accept whatever ownership shovels to you and defend their wallets to the end. Watch them develop players for other teams. Watch the season end in September year after year. Then when you near your final days, bask in the glory that when they sell the team and realize their profits, perhaps they will share the profits with you.

Valid point about my attendance. I only had season tickets for 10 years and not for the past 5. I will make a donation to JR instead.

The Flub fans won't know and Sox fans will cheer the guy leaving so we have more money to spend next year. :headshake

No option for 100+

I forgot how effective Wright, Rauch, Diaz and Cotts have been. Again trading wins for $$$$. Yeah!! Enjoy the 5th starter dance. You f***ing deserve it. Sho should be our 5th starter.

I am sorry for venting. It is the realization that I will never see the Sox win a WS in my lifetime. They will continue to try and catch lightning in a bottle. And cry like second class citizens. They will never overtake the Cubs. Do you think the Cubs will lose Sosa to FA? Y'all believe the shareholders hook line and sinker as far as payroll. It is fact their investment is worth hundreds of millions morre, yet fans want them to make even more. They will argue and defend the ownership's right to make even more money. I guess the joy is knowing the franchise is making money. Enjoy.

I am not going in circles I do not care about how much the shareholder earn. They can sell the f***ing team today and make hundreds of millions on their investment. And you care if they make a couple million more each year? You can hug their bottom line, I want a World Series. I don't believe they cannot afford Colon, Maggs, or any of these guys.

and by the way :fyou f*** YOU AND YOUR CAP LOCK

Yes, that's right. The Red Sox are spending money to compete for a f***ing World Series, We f***ing don't. Don't you f***ing understand?

I can understand and you can have a lifetime of grooming players for other teams. Enjoy. When the White Sox celebrate 150 years without a World Series, take comfort in your understanding of what the shareholders can afford.

Anyone want to take the Marlins and I'll take the Red Sox? Next 5 years, most playoff and WS berths? That's what I thought.

It's killing the game. Why are fans even loyal to one team? God I feel old; but when I was a youngster, teams kept a lineup together for years, not weeks or months. You knew your players stats from year to year. Pardon my Cub reference but no more Tinkers to Evers to Chance. Now it's 6-4-3 double plays. Who's on First isn't a comedy routine, it's 2004 MLB. Sign a guy for three months. Now we compare hits to dollars, no, we look beyond hits to an esoteric stat that someone comes up with. I just want to see the White Sox in a World Series before I die. I probably do not have many more tear down and build again cycles left. So in the end, I can cheer that we had the best team our owners money could buy. Seems rather hollow doesn't it?

Myth busters tested the theory using died water and weighing the cotton suits before and after each test and they found no difference. The walking is better theory holds that more water will just fall on your head and shoulders, not the rest of your body. The running theory is less time in the rain = less rain soaked into the clothes.

This is also 40 years of frustration with ownership bowing down to the Cubs and crying poor. At some point you realize your favorite team may never win a championship before you die. It's always anotehr rendition of these youngsters can play.

Read the Maggs thread and all the pleading to understand the owners financial situation. Just accept we cannot afford to pay our biggest star. Only big market teams can afford superstars I guess.

Just so we're clear what the goal is and what or who we are cheering.

draft well and then what? If you cannot keep the superstars you develop, when are you going to win a Worlds Series? Commenting on the Twins winning the central without an $85 million dollar payroll, I posted that no team has won the WS from the Central in a very long time and that if we were in the East, we wouldn't even sniff the playoffs. That was characterized as irrelevant. I guess actually winning a World Series is irrelevant to Sox fans, but the shareholders collective net worth is. :headshake :puke on losers

draft well and then what? If you canot keep the superstars you develop, when are you going to win a Wordls Series? Commenting on the Twins winning the central without an $85 million dollar payroll, I posted that no team has won the WS from the Central in a very long time and that if we were in the East, we wouldn't even sniff the playoffs. That was characterized as irrelevant. I guess actually winning a World Series is irrelevant to Sox fans, but the shareholders collective net worth is. :headshake :puke on losers

Small fine? Make them pay the full $2000 to $5000 cost. Why should the tax payers have to foot the bill?

You are correct, it is irrelevant. Since we, as loyal fans of the White Sox shareholders, would rather applaud them toeing some payroll limit then winning a World Series. Lose games but make money YEAH!!! Let's get a list of the Shareholders and start singing their virtues since we seem more interested in them making money then winning a f***ing World Series. I can just imagine the posts Wow, did you see where Barry Jones just increased his net worth? He's almost at $10,000,000! Dam let's see if we can sign the full roster to MLB minimum salaries and really put him over the top! Go Shareholders!! By the way, can you name anyone on the roster, you know the guys who play? "play what?" "baseball" "really, that's the business they are in? Cool, I thought White Socks meant textiles."

And when was the last WS winner out of the Central? Put us in the East and we'd never even dream of a playoff spot.

Fans, please understand we cannot afford to compete for a World Series. Enjoy a play off run now and then. If you want the resources ($85,000,000) to compete for a WS, please move to the north side. We want players who are competitive on the field, but not at negotiating a contract. We want players who will not settle for second place, unless it is money. Enjoy a lifetime of 2nd place finishes.

Really? I am a little surprised, I thought Illinois was still up in the air? The downstate folks aren't as solidly pro-Bush as before?

I guess Ava Maria is lost on you. The singer is awesome, I have tears in my eyes.

I put on a suit and tie for 15 years. Occassionaly, if I wasn't visiting clients, I could dress down for casual Fridays. I was lucky, my boss was in Milwaukee, my office was in Schaumburg. We both loved to ride motorcycles and he would find a Friday excuse every couple of weeks to have to meet me. Lake Geneva was always a good spot