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Not even Thanos Musk Zuck Bezos Ricketts Soros Bloomberg Thiel Ellisons can stop the Ishbias!!! They are simultaneously invincible omniscient and irrepressible.

Davis Martin is ambidextrous?

WestEddy will argue 2006-2010, Adam Dunn, Cabrera/Robertson/Samardzija and then 2021-23.

Reinsdorf decided he wanted a total monopoly over the Sox neighborhood...from the very beginning. Or parking lots. The reason those entertainment districts work in places like Atlanta or Wrigleyville is you have at least 20-35% investment from the private sector. There's not going to be legitimate private interest in these type of investments without a reasonable expectation of profitability. Sox are only a year or two removed from having the lowest net revenues in all of MLB...behind Miami Oakland and TB even. Ishbia Brothers also reported to be only 40% owners of the team ATM...they don't possess the controlling shares either, so what exactly are they supposed to do here???

And Peters (S) is very uncertain to hold up as well...nobody would be surprised by a falloff there. They probably also pass on overpaying Grichuk based on 2026, who balanced the lineup against lhp.

Three NPB players Sato Itoh Taira now have less than one month to sign. "Posted international players from the NPB have 45 days to negotiate a deal with an MLB team. If they don't reach an agreement, they return to their Japanese team. That is technically still the case, but players won't actually have 45 days this year. Instead, if they want to agree to a deal, they must complete it by 5 p.m. ET on Dec. 1, before the CBA expires. With their posting becoming official on Nov. 1, that effectively gives them 30 days to close a deal. Under the current CBA, KBO players have 30 days to sign, and that time frame remains the same. Roh will have the typical 30-day window, which also ends at 5 p.m. ET on Dec. 1." yahoo.com/sports

"Better yet, maybe wait for at least 10 years and focus on building a winning team by investing some of that absurd wealth." Edited 1 hr by tray What good would waiting ten years do? Even with the best team in baseball they'd pretty much have to sell out every game (+SRO) with current reduced capacity (in the summer months) to even get close to 3 million in attendance. And then they still have to deal with April May and September weekday/night games. 2,957,414 fans is the 35 year record coming off a WS win in 2006 and also includes 52 sellouts in a 10% bigger stadium at that time...

Shows you how much dependable high leverage relievers are worth these days. Almost as much as the "average" non elite closer, if not moreso as a lefty.

https://www.thebaseballcube.com/content/player/224575/ Pauley 833 career milb ops. Can work with that...but they already have Baldwin Acuna Murray. Charlotte depth.

Future class intl signings still going on https://nypost.com/2026/11/02/sports/robinson-cano-jr-16-agrees-to-1-million-deal-with-marlins/

GSV's Gabby Williams might be the best player in the world under Aja Wilson's height and size no accident France almost beat the US in the last Olympics

Brewers AGM turned down first Wasn't getting enough autonomy for his position from micromanager owner Crane

College volleyball and NPB and NCAA baseball/softball Korean dramas lol

Brother already has gone on record. No need for Justin to add anything further.

https://www.fangraphs.com/roster-resource/breakdowns/payroll 22nd projected payroll, $103 million spotrac2027 MLB Team Salary Payroll TrackerA real-time look at the 2027 salary payroll totals for each MLB team..30th @ $56-57 million

"The Padres announced that Miguel Andujar and right-handers Lucas Giolito and Griffin Canning are all now free agents. San Diego declined its end of mutual options with Giolito and Canning, while Andujar declined his end of a mutual option. Andujar will receive a $2.9MM buyout from his declined $8MM mutual option, Giolito’s $8MM mutual option came with a $1.5MM buyout, and Canning’s $5MM mutual option has a $1.8MM buyout." mlbtraderumors.com

The MLB Postseason was among the most-watched in recent years, but a shorter and lesser-watched World Series knocked viewership further off of last year’s pace. The 2026 MLB Postseason averaged 5.49 million viewers across Fox Sports, TNT Sports and NBCUniversal, down 13% from last year (6.33M), but otherwise officially the most-watched postseason since 2019. Viewership had been down single-digits entering the World Series, but with this year’s Fall Classic featuring fewer games and fewer viewers than a year ago, the average fell further off of last year’s pace. Last year’s playoffs culminated with a Game 7 of the World Series that officially ranks as the most-watched Major League Baseball game since 2017, the last of a record seven winner-take-all games. This year’s playoffs ended with a “Gentleman’s sweep” and included only two winner-take-all games. sportsmediawatch.com

He was definitely closest to Selig at that time... https://www.chicagotribune.com/1995/08/20/reinsdorf-to-blame/ "OK. Since last Aug. 12, the Sox have traded away Jack McDowell’s $5 million salary; failed to re-sign Julio Franco and Darrin Jackson, both of whom had hefty salaries in 1994; declined to pursue any legitimate and therefore costly talent on the free-agent market (compare Cleveland’s rather different approach to the ’95 season); traded away Jim Abbott’s $3 million salary; and tried desperately to trade away Robin Ventura’s $5 million salary." Interesting thing is that he was also quoted in August 1994 as coming off push for a resolution without a cap.

Ironic that he stands to make another $600 million having very little now personally to do with these labor negotiations...if they do get that salary cap imposed (eventually).

more resources?

Rich that the Dodgers care so much about small market competitiveness when they got spanked 4-0 by the Brewers. In fact, four of the final 8 teams were from smaller markets, with White Sox also a bottom 3 payroll and coming off 324 losses in three years.

https://tankathon.com/mlb

Then they should opt out of their $8.3 billion RSN deal that they're talking about extending through 2039, too. No more deferred $$$ contracts. Go under the ESPN.com/Disney+ banner, like Rob Manfred wants all of mlb teams in one collective package, within the next 2-3 years.

https://nypost.com/2026/10/30/sports/kaima-taira-takes-first-step-toward-mlb-jump-with-yankees-interest/ 45 days to sign but that get suspended on December 2nd, or that's the deadline for signing regardless? here's the answer... Teruaki Sato has a chance to make that same kind of impact (as Murakami), as he finished last season with a .306/.383/.609 slashline with 39 home runs and 106 RBI. But his serious swing-and-miss potential and malleable defensive position may be enough to give teams some pause. And it’s not just those factors that could impact his free agency, the impending lockout could also come right in the middle of his posting window. If he doesn’t sign before the impending lockout on Dec. 1, his posting window would be paused until the lockout ends. All those factors could lead to Sato falling into the price range for an American League middle-market team (Tigers?). If that happens, it won’t take long for him to become a Guardians villain.

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