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Fwiw with the Tony jokes, he looked really rough during a Cards broadcast the other day. Saw speculation it was cancer. TLR had an awful, awful and infuriating second run here. But f*** cancer. If true, I hope he can beat it.

SoxTalk hive mind for GM

If anyone wants takes from the baseball community at large, including Tennesseans

Swear filter is weird.

I knew plenty of Cubs fans suddenly start wearing black and silver in 2005. Our fanbase exploded for Leury fucking Garcia.

Even not being a top tier team and mired in mediocrity, the Sox are #15 most valuable team in baseball. A's are 29th. Give the Sox a consistently good team and they'd skyrocket. https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeozanian/2023/03/23/baseballs-most-valuable-teams-2023-price-tags-are-up-12-despite-regional-tv-woes/

Also, let's think with dollars for a second. The Sox just released a whole as documentary about the brand connection with hip hop. It's one of the most popular hats in the baseball because of that. You think that's selling in fucking Nashville? Nah, welcome to the rebrand.

Vinnie and Herb on CHGO basically blow up the reasoning for a Nashville stadium due to market size, which is fairly obvious for anyone that doesn't want to be a doom and gloomer. Even with the Cubs, it'd be asinine. It'd be like the Mets moving to Orlando or Portland.

Sox Reddit does make solid counterpoints There have been inklings of MLB wanting to expand. This could be good or bad for this scenario because how many cities would have buyers and stadium deals lined up (especially post Vegas A's) while Jerry is still alive? I know that's playing with fire, but all it takes is one owner to say "staying in Chicago" vs. "financing a move and stadium build." A new stadium just ain't happening in his lifetime.

Serious post: If Reinsdorf were to fucking move the Sox away from the fucking South Side of Chicago it would be such a God damn betrayal to the fans of an original American League team. He's already made us endure s%*# show after s%*# show and because his fairytale ending with TLR didn't work because they didn't go all in, he'll take it out on a die-hard fanbase. The absolute audacity of the man.

Ok as someone who has lived in Flatbush for 6 years now, at least there is plenty of Sox gear already here. But there's no room for a stadium, let alone a parking lot.

God I love baseball and its stupid ways

After he had HR #9 in game 1

You sure James? 5.2 IP with 1 hit, 2 ER and 10 strikeouts screams "broken prospect."

Jake Burger deserves so much better than Imo's Pizza.

Post it as a Twitter (not X.com) link. Remove the UTM code (the question mark and everything afterwards).

Yeah, Tatis murdered A-ball before they moved him up.

Normally I get where you're going with these, but you've lost me here. I mean, for starters, there's no In-N-Out east of the Mississippi.

I just really want to highlight this fantastic strong of comments.

Fixed

Deciding to watch the Barons and Cannon Ballers the past two days (again, thanks @Autumn Dreamin) — they have so much more life and fight than the Sox. Barons we're trying hard to come back last night. Ballers just tied it up.

lmao I moved it because like you said, Burger's not on the White Sox anymore and as I pointed out, it had become the Jake Burger Update Thread. As for the bolded, holy s%*#, this is incredible hyperbole. I left a redirect link in Pale Hose and explained why it was moved, so if you think it is such a colossal effort for people to scroll two sections down to talk about Jake Burger, then maybe it was time to move to it to Diamond Talk.

Yeah, there's a reason Brad Pitt played Billy Beane and not Rick Hahn.

...they had a pulse beforehand?

Please let the Sox put a contending team around Luis Robert.