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You mean Jeremy Haber…

Hopefully Ishbia doesn’t take this advice lol… “White Sox should just move all their home games to Wrigley and play during day/night opposite of the Cubs and at least people will care and go. “ From a Cubs’ fan and someone working in pro sports

Sam Bowie will live on in infamy.

Going to do a Pollock and take less money with the Padres. Darvish out for all of 2026.

N.Cameron Bubic Estevez Erceg Daniel Lynch Ragans broke down, but already has had 2 TJ, and now more issues.

https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2025/10/monday-musings-streamers-bail-out-rsns-adam-silver/ From the above article, the five teams listed below are averaging $20 million in value, with the Twins probably at the very bottom. Makes it quite easy to put the White Sox in that same $12-18 million bucket...compared to $70 million they were previously receiving. "According to Andrew Marchand of The Athletic, baseball commissioner Rob Manfred and ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro have reached agreement on a deal that would give the network the rights to sell all out-of-market regular season games digitally — the current MLB.tv business model — as well as in-market games for the Minnesota Twins, Arizona Diamondbacks, San Diego Padres, Colorado Rockies, and Cleveland Guardians." Pirates Marlins Rays A's also with serious ongoing concerns with broadcasting deals, one would assume.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/article/world-series-outcome-astonishing-frankly-230122107.html

Makes it almost impossible for the Sox to have a 30th place payroll, especially if the Marlins deal Alcantara... Which is about as easy as moving Robert and Benintendi...

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/article/dodgers-star-blasts-blue-jays-164111154.html

That was Vaughn's problem? Burger/Madrigal? Keuchel? Benintendi? Lynn Kelly Graveman? Why is it that Liam Hendriks was practically the only player universally praised upon leaving? Sosa Leury Moncada Jimenez Anderson Robert Grandal the most thoroughly maligned. Hmmm...

The other thing that's inarguably less valuable with Robert's current deal is that option years or financial commitments for 2027 are to be avoided rather than embraced...by all but the wealthiest of teams.

Not sure if Robert is a net positive still at this point, but at least we don't have to watch Fletcher out there in CF again...

Cubs' rotation now: Horton Boyd Taillon (final contract year) ??????? ??????? Steele (midseason) from bleedcubbieblue.com "I don’t think this necessarily means Imanaga won’t be a Cub in 2026. The Cubs could try to negotiate a longer-term deal that’s different from the option years he had in his previous deal. They will almost certainly give him a qualifying offer, which for 2026 is $22.025 million. That’s significantly more than he would have made under the contract option in 2026, so it’s possible he could take it and go to free agency after 2026. This would also keep the Cubs in line with having most of their long-term contracts expire after the coming season (to avoid lookout year commitments). One other reason the team option might have been declined is that it would have triggered a full no-trade clause. Again, this is something that could be negotiated in a new deal."

"In spite of his lackluster season, a poll of MLBTR readers on September 10 suggested that more than 91% believed the Cubs should exercise his club option. From that point onward, what seemed at the time like a borderline call became more clear as he posted an 8.04 ERA in his final three regular season starts before posting an 8.10 ERA in the postseason and ultimately being passed over for a winner-take-all Game 5 start against the Brewers in the ALDS despite him being on regular rest. By that time, this outcome seemed far more likely." Imanaga's shockingly now a FA "The Cubs declined their three-year, $57MM club option on Imanaga’s services for 2026-28, and Imanaga subsequently declined his $15MM player option for 2026. It’s an outcome that would’ve seemed unthinkable just a few months ago. Signed out of Japan to a deal that was on paper a four-year, $53MM contract during the 2023-24 offseason that had the aforementioned complex option structure set to kick in after the 2025 campaign, Imanaga was nothing short of sensational for Chicago in his first year as an MLB pitcher last year." mlbtraderumors.com

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/11/white-sox-exercise-club-option-on-luis-robert-jr.html

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/world-series-2025-game-7-tv-ratings-1236416448/ 26 million US 18 million Canada "In the past 20 years, the most-watched Saturday baseball game prior to Game 7 was Indians-Cubs Game 4 in 2016 with 16.7 million. As Saturdays are the least-watched night of the week, it is rare to see a sporting event of such magnitude scheduled for the night. The only marquee, championship level event that regularly airs on a Saturday night is the NCAA men’s basketball national semifinals, none of which have ever averaged as large an audience as the across-all-platforms figure for Game 7." sportsmediawatch.com

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https://www.yahoo.com/sports/article/dodgers-loom-large-over-mlb-124500153.html

https://nypost.com/2025/11/04/sports/hugh-freezes-passion-for-golf-helped-get-him-fired-at-auburn/

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46653213/2025-nfl-trade-deadline-ranking-top-25-candidates-players-available

Ranked 27th at Yahoo Sports https://www.yahoo.com/sports/article/way-too-early-mlb-rankings-121915724.html

Luke Fickell, Wisconsin +150 40.0 Hugh Freeze, Auburn +300 25.0 Mark Stoops, Kentucky +600 14.3 Rich Rodriguez, West Virginia +800 11.1 Dabo Swinney, Clemson +1200 7.7 Mike Norvell, Florida St. +1200 7.7

Who exactly is Rome Odunze? Anyone concerned he's not looking like a true WR1 or does it not matter, as long as they're winning?

During the All-Star break, Buxton was asked about the possibility of him being traded ahead of the deadline, to which the 31-year-old responded, “I’ve got a no-trade clause.” “I’m a Minnesota Twin for the rest of my life. That’s the best feeling in the world, knowing when I walk into the clubhouse every day, it’s going to say Twins.”

Note this was written the day the Sox were officially eliminated...many now expect Minnesota to dump more vets to continue clearing payroll/lowering debt load. "White Sox fans will be disappointed to know that this team is still not ready to climb out of the AL Central basement. Significant free-agent additions are unlikely at this point in the rebuild, and there’s a good chance the veterans who stabilized the bullpen will either regress or pitch for other teams next year. The measure of progress in Chicago in 2026 will be the development of several talented youngsters. Fans should be watching Meidroth, Colson Montgomery, Vargas, Sosa, Shane Smith, Burke and Taylor to determine which members of that group can be part of a core that eventually contends for a postseason berth. Additionally, it would be exciting to see Schultz and Hagen Smith make an impact by next summer." https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/chicago-white-sox-2025-offseason-preview-with-reasons-for-optimism-emerging-whats-ahead-this-winter-in-chicago-190136150.html Crazy there's not even a Top 150 fantasy pick...but Teel and C.Montgomery would have to be close. Bullpen too veteran-laden has to start changing this year.