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That sounds awfully familiar...minus 11 years.

They apparently are very interested in being involved in new stadium project...not happening in Minnesota for a long long time.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/attendance AL Central occupies #23-27 with only Pirates breaking that up. White Sox actually ahead of the Royals. That's almost astounding considering the playoff run they had last year. And ahead of the Twins as well. Pretty crazy considering 121.

Ramos and Drury in the Charlotte lineup tonight...Colson leading off, Teel with an extra day off/mental health day. Facing former Sox/Yankees pitcher Deivi Garcia. Chris Rodriguez arguably the best Knights' starter so far.

Something seems to be terribly wrong with Carlos Correa...that, and they can never keep Royce Lewis/Buxton both 100% healthy and on the field.

https://www.mlb.com/news/clayton-kershaw-injury-rehab-start-oklahoma-city

Getz would be an idiot to take Outman back. Hold for better/younger.

They must want Meidroth paired with the same player nearly everyday to build chemistry and don't seem to trust Baldwin at that spot...

Well, we can always use another 29 almost 30 year old OF with a -0.6 career bWAR and a .228 career batting average!!! And an almost above average for Sox 665 ops in the NL...but a robust 462 in the AL.

Not sure Getz is willing to acknowledge failure quite yet...he's also still one of the likeliest to walk, along with Tauchman.

Why in God's name are we giving Palacios playing time over Baldwin? Point 2...can the wearing of #42 jerseys across MLB manage to pass the entire day without becoming another pitched political saga, let's hope so!!!

Actually...the best question is who would Tray actually approve of as owner if it's not a Reinsdorf? They would clearly have to announce intentions to remain at 35th & Shields until at least 2100. Voted dramatically better.

And if Sheets is still hitting this well at the end of May? Isn't the most salient point here if the athlete himself totally believes in the changes he's made? Even 15 games is sufficient to confirm the team enjoys playing more for Venable/Santos than Grifol.

Who was that, even? Aaron Rowand? Chris Young? (To argue Eloy or Robert beggars belief.) Based on his hot start this year, it might actually be Alex Call.

Which ballpark location are you referring to here?

No...that's not the one. Did find this 2017 interview with Hahn for Greenberg/The Athletic that made me more upset reading it now...this idea of using alliteration/making more memorable the phrase "mired in mediocrity" being the biggest point of all was so tone deaf. "I think it (Sale trade) was announced that afternoon and it was consummated that morning. I will tell you, I want to say that was Tuesday, which makes sense because today’s a Wednesday. I did the math real quick in my head. Not a leap year. (White Sox vice president of communications Scott Reifert: “That’s a (2017) Sportsman of the Year type move right there.” Hahn: “That quick calculation.”) I remember the famous “mired in mediocrity” speech. Did you come up with “mired in mediocrity” before you talked to us? I didn’t. And I’ll tell you someone sitting in this room, not me, probably not you, based on your question, was not too happy with me after that press conference. Scott turned to me and said, “Did you have to use alliteration?” I turned to him and said, ” What are you talking about.” He said, “You said mired in mediocrity.” First, I didn’t realize the alliteration and second, I was just talking and didn’t realize that was a catchphrase, so to speak, or emblematic labeling of where we were at. It was just honest. We obviously branded where we were at pretty effectively, but that was not the intent — but just trying to clearly express to our fans that we were feeling the same things they were feeling. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/189936/2017/12/21/rick-hahn-speaks-a-very-complete-transcription-of-his-person-of-the-year-interview/

Seems like that hitting guru guy who lasted less than one year...hired maybe five years ago and nothing changed or he gave up out of frustration. Had a big social media following as well.

Tray and WestEddy voted Option 5...nuclear winter?

The way things are going...there might actually be a "negative" cost basis as this team would be foundering 3-5 years from now without a new stadium funding plan as well as positive revenue producing broadcasting plan in place. That obviously depends on unknown factors such as inflation...recession, economic cycles, but it's been pretty much a straight line up for the majority of other franchises for the past 10-15 years. The White Sox, obviously due to the last 2-3 seasons of ineptitude and increasing uncertainty about JR/Getz, their (projected) future ability to compete in one of the oldest stadiums in baseball and with unknown FA spending budgets...their valuation is somehow going backwards even in the face of a "rising tide floats all boats" momentum.

That work carried over with Padres hitting coach Victor Rodriguez, who roomed with Larry Sheets in their early days in the Orioles’ system. Still, the younger Sheets was mired in a 3-for-24 start in spring training and was not in the lineup the day the Padres bused to Maryvale for an exhibition against the Brewers. So Sheets hunkered down in the batting cage in Peoria with Rodriguez, assistant hitting coach Mike McCoy and sports science director Nathan Landau. Sheets considers himself a mix of old school and new school, a hitter who likes when the data matches what he feels. He took hundreds swings that day, and something clicked. “It just showed me some stuff in my posture with my body, getting it to move in a better direction, getting it to be in a better spot to where I can fire off my ‘A’ swing,” Sheets said of the biomechanics help. “If I can clean up my posture and know where my body is at all times, I feel like I can get off my ‘A’ swing. Just getting my body more athletic and using it in my swing in the right way.” The real work was making it stick. “You’re trying to break an old habit,” Sheets said, “so I just sat there and hit and hit and hit and hit. … We were just trying to make the muscle memory as quick as possible.” https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/04/03/gavin-sheets-fitting-in-quickly-with-padres-and-having-fun-too/

https://www.mlb.com/news/paul-skenes-splinker-fools-hitters-in-mlb-debut There’s also now the splinker…splitter combined with a sinker. https://www.mlb.com/news/justin-martinez-splitter-statcast-analysis

White Sox Shane Smith has a new sinker. He broke it out today, exclusively versus Alex Bregman the second and third time he faced him. The shape looks good—93.5 mph with ~7.5” vertical break 17” arm-side movement, more arm-side than the average sinker at slightly below average velocity. I’d expect this pitch to be used more on the inner third versus other righties, especially to set up his slider down-away to righties. Smith’s four-seam is still somewhat of a limiter, relying on off-barrel contact in-zone for his overall level of success. He’s been aggressively locating the pitch middle to either handedness. The success of that pitch is where my concern lies from a full-season POV, but if the White Sox get ~1.5 WAR out of his arm over ~130 IP, it was a smash of a Rule 5 pick. https://lancebroz.substack.com/p/rays-joe-boyle-splinker-white-sox-shane-smith

These are the current betting favorites... K.Campbell Jack Wilson Jasson The Martian Dominguez Cam Smith Jackson Not Brandt Jobe R.Anthony/M.Mayer Leiter/Rocker Christian Moore Nick Kurtz Sugano Jac Caglianone Teel Quero Colson Burke S.Smith Jace Jung C.Simpson/C.Williams Coby Mayo Alan Roden Will Warren NYY Will Wagner Blue Jays

For example, increasing debt dramatically and letting the whole house of cards fold in order to pick up the pieces later while giving the shaft to banks. There are several other strategies that Private Equity Investors can employ, but I am going to leave it to anyone interested in exploring that to do their own research. My own view is that Ishbia is a corporate raider that is guided by one primary financial interest - his own. Can he be stopped? I don't know, but I hope so. This sounds like exactly like the plot of Wall Street with Gordon Gekko/Michael Douglas against Martin and Charlie Sheen (Bud Fox)... How would the Ishbias be allowed to take on or issue Sox "debt" per se? They don't have the ability to offer FA contracts, for example. It's also not clear exactly how or why any banks would be shafted if this was self-financed...as Ishbia sitting on $5+ billion in net worth certainly doesn't require a bank loan like let's say a typical Trump Corp. family real estate deal, or an injection of investment capital from let's say, Saudi Arabia, lol. The only way they could POSSIBLY incur debt would be to take the responsibility for private funding on the new stadium....but that would revolve around a "cash call" for all investors to contribute XXX amount of money per share, where 85% of that money would have to becoming from either the Reinsdorfs or Ishbias. In theory, the other 8 minority shareholders still holding out could be "forced" to sell their shares if they didn't want to "lose money" through their contributions to the new stadium...but it seems like the Reinsdorf's (sons) have been more successful at picking off existing minority shareholders than the Ishbias (outside corporate raiders in this analogy, lol). Ofc, why would JR INVITE Justin Ishbia to abandon his Twins' courtship if they were looking at the Ishbia shares as somehow "hostile" (as in takeover or leveraged buyout) to the JR or Michael Reinsdorf shares (50% of the team, roughly)...??? In that case, it would seem the obvious play would simply be to buy the Twins at $1.6 billion from the Pohlad Family...but this is not what actually transpired in real life.

Nobody except the Ishbia's and Reinsdorf's know for sure....there has to be a signed confidentiality agreement that was drafted in the last couple of months. Before their share purchase, it would have been pretty obvious for the "control shares" in the team to be passed on to his son/s. “Nothing has changed,” Holmes said. “This is how it’s going to be. Jerry is not out here trying to get rid of the White Sox. He still would like to be in charge of the White Sox, and he’s going to be in charge of the White Sox.”