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We won’t forget, because Alonso’s deal had the same idiotic 550 plate appearance escalator. I think I’ll get more joy out of the Sox getting stuck paying even MORE money not to have Machado on the Sox roster...but I’m sure Hahn will do anything possible to dump him unceremoniously off the roster in June and July. Heck, we might as well just buy out his entire contract and give him back to the Indians so Palka can be assured of regular at-bats.

Anyone willing to believe JR will shell out $350-375 million (because it has to be 10-15% over the Phillies’ best offer) and NO OPT OUTS?

Somebody better check in with Hector Gomez and Dan Clark to make sure they’re still breathing...wherever they are.

That’s the last thing these front office types would do...they actually think the fans are on THEIR side, and understand the cold rationality borne out of their time at Stanford, Northwestern, Michigan, Harvard, etc. All that education is worthless if the ownership group is in some type of reverse V for Vendetta campaign to put a ceiling on salaries. Of course, there’s no cap on dumb FA signings from Tier B/C/D and the most useless collection of overpaid veterans that when added up collectively represented the $50 million we weren’t willing to guarantee. So let’s freaking spend that money on our current collection of free agents that won’t sell a single ticket to a White Sox game this year. Brilliant marketing strategy. Not only that, let’s create a scenario where we even resent those players who are on the roster because of what they are most decidedly NOT, which is one superstar player to build around. Gross incompetence. KW is the worst right now to me because of his over the top reaction of shock that Machado actually had the temerity to go elsewhere.

I don’t think anyone desired this feeling that pretty much we’re never going to get to the World Series again due to deliberate self-sabotage...

Colome for Narvaez is the exact opposite of another Rule 5, Quintana for Jimenez/Cease...it won’t end well. Eaton trade looks okay, but Giolito was expected to be better than the worst pitcher in baseball by most reasonable Sox fans.

Sorry, got the schedule wrong because it automatically gave me the China time... This Sunday, 2 p.m. Padres vs. White Sox

10-15% is about our going ratio for legit Top Ten prospects the last two decades...

Not enough money left behind, and travel/logistical nightmares. I’m more likely to buy Roberto Clemente’s old house than for this to actually happen...

Scratch Puerto Rico after the hurricane...

Only $225-250 million with the Sox and Nats both out...

Attendance would be higher than 30-40% of the years at Comiskey...especially 1970s and most of the 80’s.

Now we can get revenge for SoxFest being a relative love-in compared to how the rest of the year’s media relations with Sox fanbase is going to go...thank all the stars in heaven Chris Rongey is no longer around, or he would surely blow up at one of his callers before the All Star Break. By the way, February 25th (next Monday) and March 6th (split squad) we get the Machado and Tatis Jr. Show In Spring Training...that oughta be awkward.

Come out to a game, where it’s more likely to catch an STD from the Bunny Ranch than a Sox corner outfielder to corral a flyball...

Maybe they should start clawing back all those sweetheart subsidies the Stadium Authority and Jim Thompson gave to the White Sox in the late 80’s...

“I would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for those meddling kids.” Every Scooby Doo episode/Jed Hoyer PS: Fly the Friars’ Mustard Yellow and Brown Flag Proudly! Long live Tony Gwynn!

Can’t he just take it out on everyone as a politician instead of ruining our favorite team? WHY? WHY? WHY? You’re killing us, Jerry!!! Can someone please ask Phil Rogers why it would make any logical sense for a baseball team to declare themselves out? To save the hurt and pain of another miss to their suffering fanbase? Nah, that couldn’t possibly be it.

Does JR have an ownership share in the Phillies that we don’t know about?

Apparently, it’s sound business practice to drive down the price of talent for other teams who will competing with you for the World Series in the future. Never mind. We’re totally irrelevant, might as well not even anyone will pretend to take our bidding seriously.

Anyone waiting for the John Candy GIF...”park’s closed folks...”

White Sox resign Andy the Clown, kids around Chicagoland scream out in horror. In all seriousness, they might as well have a guy like we had in the Quad Cities who runs around and takes foul balls away before the kids can get them...he was the most hated “character” in the park, The Roadrunner everyone called him. More fast pitch competitions in the dead of winter, that would still be won by Shingo Takatsu’s frisbee slurve...that might help serve as collective therapy.

Watch Harper and Boras have to sign for under $300 million now...with the Sox and Nats refusing to bid up his price. F#$& it, I hope it’s the Indians or Twins that signs him, because this front office needs to be kicked in the face about a dozen to realize the decimation they’re wreaking on the remaining members of the fanbase. (But at least we have stale ass Benetti jokes to look forward to for the next decade...that oughta take the edge off.)

Fan of Faust is assembling the viable elements of a multi-party ownership group as we speak...

This franchise, even if they are/were almost intentionally trying to sabotage it or run it into the ground...is still worth $2-2.4 billion, especially with the media market’s theoretical potential. Let’s not forget the still being sorted out factor of legalized sports betting around the country.

It’s back to 2008 all over again...fighting against windmills without Quentin. Even if they or the Twins somehow do manage to sneak into the playoffs in future years, those super teams in NY, Boston, Houston and eventually LA will just rise up and wipe them out like the mega cities in Mortal Engines. It’s the exact same situation the Indians are facing now, pretty much, except they at least have two superstars and a DEEP starting rotation if they decide to hold onto Kluber and Bauer all season long.