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It's the same model for fifty years. Tear down one thing to fill a hole. Average is the dream.

I see a huge problem with how the do business. It's one or the other with them. I think they should do both, invest in the minor league and spend at the MLB level. Would you rather they be the Dodgers or the Rays?

You're not trying to hit a specific target. That would be extremely difficult. Are you thinking the victim was targeted? I'm thinking they are trying to hit a quarter mile opening from half a mile away. I have shot thousands of rounds on private ranches at various targets.

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Ridiculous physics? While I agree with the rest of your post the physics aren't ridiculous. Dropping a shot into the stadium from outside is actually easy, especially with a big of an opening. We try to land them in stock tanks, that's hard.

For this to make the most sense to me the victim must believe she was shot from outside the park or that it can't be proved that her friend shot her. Also, JR must believe the shot was from her friend and they wouldn't file the suit or if it was from outside and they wouldn't be found negligent. I know this is serious and it could have been tragic but it seems so surreal I can only think of the magic loogie from Seinfeld. I'm still on the fence. I can visualize the shot from outside the stadium based on experience and believe it's possible. I also watched the reactions in that section and it seems possible it was from outside. But the simplest possibility is a smuggled gun.

https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-shooting-woman-injured-gunfire-during-chicago-white-sox-game-guaranteed-rate-field-2023-files-lawsuit/15219761/ If her friend shot her they must be very confident that it can't be proven. Nice dollar amount $50,000 to go away? Jerry is going to write the check. Will this become the third most embarrassing stadium moment?

The athletic periods are part of the problem. Changing kids schedules around when they switch sports interrupts the academics. At least in my district we focus the off season training in the other muscle groups and skills. They might not be competing in that other sport but the conditioning and training is for that variety. Well except tennis. They have team tennis in the fall and individual in the spring. Swim kind of breaks it up with water polo in the fall and swimming and diving in the spring. I just told a freshman today that you can play golf all your life, your baseball career is going to end in high school. When baseball has tryouts give it a try, we'll keep fitting golf around it. Now for my players who have college and pro aspirations, the margin of success and failure is so slim they have to be all in. They need to be working out and hitting balls everyday. The folks that survive win. It's ugly.

Exactly. Taking money from salaries to do what is necessary in the rest of system is an idiot Jerry move to protect his profits.

Not a troll at all. We never build. If we have something of value we use it to fill a hole. The answer of course is to invest in the system WITHOUT taking money away from the payroll. The reason we suck year after year is the constant taking away from areas that are barely good to eliminate the problem areas. It's literally rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

And what happens when we have to pay those better players? They leave. My point is taking money from one area to fix the other just digs another hole.

And what would that minor league money go to? How would they spend it?

So the key to success is less money to spend on players? JR approves of this message.

How big of a raise would it take for someone from a top organization to leave to that over the Sox in the same role? That's one person. I think by the end of the process of hiring many more it would be a considerable amount of money. We're not even a good stepping stone for talented people to fast track their careers. There is a high price for being an historically bad franchise. Then the next problem. Explaining that after we invested all this money on FO talent there is no money left over to pay for top players.

The GM will probably stay healthier longer.

When I was teaching senior seminar we would do a simple lesson let's plan on having $500,000 cash at age 60. How much would you have to save if you are 50, 40, 30, 20 and they start seeing the magic of interest.

Damn, I thought Grady was going to turn things around

Memorial Day in newspapers across America. Editor "It's really slow today what White Sox articles can we get a jump on without wasting our time?" "Moncado gets injured?" "Already finished, we've been using a template from the last five years." "Sox are first team to be eliminated?" "Perfect. Time it for Labor Day. No team can be worst than that" lol

I would like to see teams allowed an offense lineup and a defense lineup. Basically universal DH. Caleb doesn't have to play D. Platoon it like football.

Whoa. I want a 145 game season, seven inning double headers, and all short inning pitchers. It's the kids that want this long ass season.

With shortening the season that would have to happen.

I'm thinking the shared TV money from playoffs would offset the loss of meaningless home games.

I wish baseball would get with the 21 century and expand the playoffs. Teams like the Sox shouldn't be playing in September. Not just because they are bad, it's to help them next season by their players not getting hurt. Rest their guys, have an expanded fall training to get then ready for the next season. Have the top four in each league earn a bye to the second round. Have eight teams in each league playing for the opportunity to play those eight. That would be a 24 team playoff without the worst of the worst teams.

Why go backwards? That's like last century thinking. Next they will want them to bat. Go forward. Expand the pitching staffs, have all relief. Some guys may be first inning specialists. Others mid game. Put a little strategy back in the game. Get this game out of the last century.

Careful, Getz may consider that a challenge.