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They're going to have to prioritize somewhere. It's going to be getting the younger players higher salaries and/or earlier free agency or veterans that are at risk of being pushed out of the game because of the overall affordability of much younger replacements...but it seems the only thing that would really help the mid-tier veterans would be the institution of salary floors. That said, more and more teams could continue the trend of going towards those early-career (or at least in mid 20's) extensions that we've seen the last 5 years with many White Sox players and Sale/Eaton/Q in the past...another form of redistribution from older to younger/youngish players.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/texas-mlb-expansion-team/ Here's a much more in-depth article that looks at the A's and/or Rays leaving their markets...with two more teams coming into the majors to balance it at 32 teams. Looking like more of a 7-10 year window, with the stadium issue (financing) being the single most important issue, as well as ownership groups/buyers. Obvious point is that it would pretty much have to be an NL team. Fire Ants? Lone Star Hipsters?

That's the interesting thing, because non-Texans think of it as more of a football state. Then again, with the all the Friday night and Saturday college games...and then the NFL having Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays now, there's bordering on too much football. (Surely, those words are sacrilegious.) SA and Nashville (to me) have always seemed like more viable minor league markets for baseball, but who knows. Charlotte (of the southern cities) seemed the likeliest, wedged between DC and Atlanta. However, with all the general population and specifically high tech movement into that area of Texas, anything is possible. https://www.opportunityatlas.org/ Going by these "wealth/higher salary" areas, the logical place would be the I-35 tract (most of the money in SA is in the northern or western suburbs) between Schertz and New Braunfels.

Well, the owners definitely have an idea how much it's already impact season ticket sales/deposits as well as promotional nights/sponsorships/giveaways.

Movies recently watched Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 3.5/4 Eternals 1.5/4 Power of the Dog 3.25/4.0 (although most reviewers are giving it 3.5 after a second watch, for quite obvious reasons if you have watched it) West Side Story 3.5/4.0 Dune 3.25/4.0 Tick, Tick...Boom!!! 3.5/4.0 (highly-recommended if you like musicals or Andrew Garfield) Licorice Pizza... 3.5/4.0 mix Once Upon a Time in Hollywood's feel with a coming of age romance (25 year old woman with 15 year old "boy") Really liked this one a lot...especially the fact that the two leads are pretty much unknowns. Others on the viewing list include some more GG nominees, like King Richard (Will Smith meets Richard Williams of Williams tennis playing sisters renown and aces the role, supposedly), Belfast, Being the Ricardos, A Hero (amazing Iranian director, also did A Separation)

Wouldn't you think it would be more or less midway between Austin and SA? Like Arlington, between Dallas and Fort Worth? Of course, that would create naming issues...since "Texas" already taken by the Rangers. Hopefully nothing to do with the Alamo.

https://variety.com/2021/film/reviews/spider-man-no-way-home-review-tom-holland-1235132550/ This is the offending review referenced earlier....read at your own risk, roughly 2/3rd's of the way in.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/32860460/college-football-top-10-bottom-10-moments-2021

King Richard…..errr, Fernando, Sr. But seriously, Ball’s dad wasn’t all that far off in his predictions, he was just far too obnoxious and starstruck and greedy…and simply jumped the gun and lost all credibility.

"Had a nice chat with Tatis Sr recently in STL. He told me Elijah is a natural, one day he decided to pick up baseball and did, he has better tools than Tatis Jr. While Fernando works harder to get better, Elijah plays better at this age than Jr did." How could he be their highest upside teenager in half a decade if almost nobody believes that he (Tatis, Jr.) was much of anything back in 2015 due to his paltry signing bonus? Or it's simply saying we have hardly signed ANY teenagers during that time...for whatever reason (although it has been long speculated about around here.)

https://twitter.com/poloascencio/status/1146063751918960643?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1146063751918960643|twgr^|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Flarrybrownsports.com%2Fbaseball%2Ffernando-tatis-sr-son-elijah-better-tools-jr%2F502976

Jhan Mariñez and Osvaldo Martínez.

https://www.dodgersnation.com/dodgers-offer-to-max-scherzer-revealed-exploring-options-to-replace-mad-max/2021/12/10/ And so were the Dodgers…on their own guy. Will be interesting if LA ends up with Rodon, Montas and L.Castillo also being discussed as trade options.

Just says they’re assigned to the DSL. Hard to find any info.

Wouldn’t it be much wiser to double or triple the contracts for all those identifying and developing the young Cleveland pitchers and recruit them to the White Sox organization?

Almost equally important was flipping another higher pick, Daz Cameron and pieces, for Verlander. And then how they got their hands on Yordan Alvarez, yet another huge piece of the puzzle.

Yes, you are...

OK, Boomer...

Yes, the inevitable Vaughn/Burger at second nonsense again...

Well, we can all hope that Chris Getz wouldn't be so off in an evaluation...especially as the gritty/grindy type who never possessed any of the physical talent easily accessible from the Luis Robert Tool Chest. For example, Ben Sheets' future power scouting numbers from 2-3 years ago would be pretty interesting to look back at in retrospect.

Sure, if we didn’t have 4-8 week mandatory quarantines upon returning to China. Also, International flights still down 97.8% from two years ago, so ticket prices are through the roof…even for Korea.

Depends entirely on your appraisal of Burger…or Vaughn at third.

https://www.fueledbysports.com/chicago-white-sox-first-round-draft-picks/ Not many teams could successfully "blow" 2015-2018 and be so well positioned, lol? If you include Rodon now, it's actually a five year time period wandering in the wilderness...outside of Sheets and maybe Burger (potentially) being 2022 contributors or more likely trade chips. P.S. Certainly Rodon contributed a lot in 2021 after "testing" quite limited FA, but not as much as was universally expected based on his position in the draft. Obviously, more than Kolek and Aiken, though.

Well, therein lies the question. Without those three players (and you can add in the Frazier/Robertson trade as 3 1/2) to jump start things...how long would it have taken the White Sox to get to the position they're in today? You can argue that Tatis and Robert (at least potentially) offset each other, or will eventually, but I suppose it's possible looking at how things played out we would have not made the playoffs in either year. The reality is that White Sox fans, after suffering roughly a decade...I don't think they would have had the patience like KC/Houston/Cubs fans to go through a complete rebuild...basically starting from scratch and building through the June draft, FA and international markets. The Padres, for instance, also "rushed" their rebuild in an effort to catch the Dodgers a year or two before they were originally projected to, and it imploded in dramatic fashion. It's just that now we're unfortunately in a situation where we're lacking the finishing/"put us over the top" pieces and our trade chips are at an all-time low with a #30 farm system. Time will tell, I guess, what they do when/if he lockout's over and the market conditions for MLB settle into a more predictable financial landscape. History might say that 2021 (with Rodon and Lynn) was the year to really push and put all the chips in (RF, for example)...instead of waiting. Obviously, they made the Kimbrel trade, which is still impacting the future outlook of the team until that's cleared up or clarified one way or the other.

Sure, but it does put more pressure on the Sox to clear him quickly when this flurry of moves eventually takes place...as they will be more unlikely to add a larger contract like Conforto with Kimbrel still occupying that 2022 payroll space.