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Good point. And I would trust you over Getz to turn things around.

Seriously, who in their right mind would take this position? If you actually have a promising career, this will kill it. The smell of desperation clings to everything.

Fixed it for you.

I ran like crazy whenever we had any chance of one. During Dolly we were 70 miles inland and that was too close for me.

What happens next is really simple and very predictable. Fact: No one we like will take the job. The interview process will be JR handing them a press release and asking them to read it as if reporters are in the room. "I'm excited to be the White Sox GM and to bring a championship to the great fans of Chicago. I especially appreciate the challenge of doing so without signing anyone to a nine figure contact, keeping pitcher contracts to under five, I mean four years, and no farm system to build on. It would be overwhelming but knowing I have a Hall of Fame guy looking over my shoulder will make it easier!"

We've been through these cycles multiple times. We've created an opening for some new players to step in. Odds are a couple will be fan favorites. It's almost winter.

Hoping it's minor

"The Angel coaching staff ruined those guys. Katz will fix them right up." Said no Sox fan ever.

Ozzie quietly many weeks before the last two games. While you guys know I enjoy piling on this crap of a franchise there are some moments in our history that I'm pretty damn proud of as a fan of this team. Larry Doby breaking the color line in the AL comes to mind. Baines and Goodwin.

It's cannon fodder. Either a career going up or a career going down. I'd rather start sometime on the way up and lose

Interesting point, who initiated it, who needed to approve it, anyone going to own it? Could be check the wind and give your hand picked candidate a boost.

The safety issue I'm addressing is that the Rate is unsafe and she therefore needed it for protection. I don't believe she needed it at the Rate, in the parking lot near the Rate, and probably not anywhere on her trip home. You are bringing up a different issue. Is the Rate unsafe because she was successful at smuggling it in? I hadn't even thought of that angle.

I am done with *this* owner. I am not done with a Chicago baseball team. But enjoy the JR family for the rest of your life. He moves his team out of the city (dumb move by a dumb owner) and I will embrace the next team that moves in. Sorry if that offends you. I love the city more than this asshat of an owner. My wishes JR sells and the team stays in Chicago. Best option, not likely Unacceptable are additional decades of this family ownership but the team stays in Chicago. Team moves and Chicago stays a one team city. Unacceptable, worst of the options. JR threatens to move, Illinois and city say don't let the door hit you on the ass and an expansion franchise moves into Comiskey or whatever they want to call it. Not as good as #1 better to me then #2.

The idea is dumb. My point is towards the people who are painting Chicago and especially the southside as unsafe based on her "bringing a gun to the Rate".

How about JR moves the team he owns to Mexico City and we embrace a new *expansion* team?

And people assume she felt threatened and was protecting herself from violence *at* the game. Could be she didn't want the gun stolen and felt this was safer than leaving it at home. She could have felt threatened by public transportation before and/or after the game. Especially if she is living around Wrigley. She may have just bought it from someone in the neighborhood and was transporting it back home and decided to catch a Sox game.

I assume death wasn't an option?

On the outside, GM puts together great looking roster, owner hires even older crony who destroys team, GM gets fired. Unless you really follow the team, it seems plausible.

I'm not certain if the races or Amazon has cost be more.

Which is something in Hahn's favor. A lot of people thought that was a WS level team. Two years down the road I'm more inclined to blame Tony and his decision to leave the locker room to the players expecting them to regulate themselves.

Good point.

How did shotspotter not pick up the shot?

Someone got shot in the neighborhood.

Probably the same reason no one pointed out my thread from October 2005 saying I wouldn't be surprised if Jerry talks about a new stadium. It's a reoccurring thread.