Texsox

We need to sign more guys that are honest and will admit they aren't trying.

With an option to not rush their development because you have no other options. I see these types of signing as guys volunteering to go as tribute.

What cap and will he be smoking a cigarette?

The struggle was real

The SEC schools didn't help each other at all this year.

Not in San Antonio. I have to search a bit.

I'm thinking Getz signed him to impress some random woman at the bar.

The first and last time we will think of L.J. Jones. I hope he stays healthy and keeps living the dream.

It seems since Eddie passed on everyone else is a passive investor.

Still, for accuracy we shouldn't call JR THE owner.

My reply was to the comment that JR was personally cashing in. That may be true, but if true, it's odd the other owners would allow that.

The comment was he kept all the money for himself. Why would the other owners not get paid as well? Was the partnership agreement made public?

Why do all the other Sox owners allow that?

It can support a team. Even if you don't split the population in half, and give the Cubs the edge, you would be looking at close to a million population. But that's not all the factors. San Antonio for example has a much higher population than 2/3rds of MLB teams. Experts point to the lack of corporate headquarters and major business interests. The Sox and Cubs are competing for advertising sales and major underwriters. If a company is looking to partner with MLB baseball they have options in a couple cities.

What would you have done to motivate him to play better?

I think almost everyone agrees that it's expected that players will lack motivation and mail it in on such a losing team. So as the manager what would you do to change that? I nice speech before each game? Yelling? JR needed to pay these guys more to really motivate them?

Helping out the opponent announcing teams "Four up and four down, that's another 1-2-3-4 inning for the Twins, they go to bat in the bottom of the fifth after these announcements" "And that's the fourth 36-out no hitter of the season and it's only May 10th!"

Keeping on the philosophical side. You (probably accidentally) picked three single team markets. We're the #2 team in the market. How big is our market? We've never really come up with a satisfying answer. Also two of the teams you picked have no competition for hundreds of miles. The Sox seem to spend time in the top 10 or bottom 10 in payroll. Occasionally top 5. Fans expect teams to utilize the equity growth in the value of the franchise to finance budget deficits.

So do we prefer low payroll, stay in Chicago or high payroll and moving? High payroll, stay in Chicago just isn't a choice at this point in the build.

The Bill Melton thread and wine have me in a nostalgic mood. I first watched games in black and white on a portable TV while trying to get a decent signal on channel 44 (I think that was the correct channel) then using a black box. Cable. Now streaming. While my extended family had tickets forever my mom and dad didn't. My dad traveled and my mom wasn't going to drive to a game by herself. I didn't go to games on school nights. My mom also wasn't going to give up the big TV so I was stuck with a portable at the kitchen table or on my room. It wasn't until turning 16 in high school that I sucked up every unused ticket and went to a lot of games. Sometimes three or four in one week. I wonder if that amount of effort doesn't commit us to a life that clicking a link on a phone can't.

Those players, not necessarily teams, from the 70s really cemented my love of the team. Thinking of Bill I'm sitting at my kitchen table on Washington Street adjusting the rabbit ears on a portable TV to watch the game on a UHF channel 44?? . My dad was always in the road for work and my mom wasn't much of a baseball fan so I never really got the main TV.

Sad day

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10145700-mlbs-golden-at-bat-rule-floated-by-rob-manfred-is-wild-enough-to-work In the end there may be too many obstacles to overcome. I'm always willing to look at crazy new ideas.

I'm wondering what the process is. Some owner gets an idea and emails? A suggestion box? $$$$$$ paid to consultants?

The logical progression is DH for pitcher. DH for anyone one time. Maybe you have to use your DH for the "offensive closer at bat". Maybe you have to designate before each game who it is. I like other changes more. I think I like the 9th always starts at the top of the order. Based on what was said I'm most in favor of not doing it, but I'd like to see the details fully worked out.