Thad Bosley

Keeping pace with you, dear. Point us into the direction of YOUR most relevant and meaningful…post this (past) decade.

Ah yes, renowned climate change scientist Joe Rogan. Let’s hang onto his every word for all things climate change related. 😅😂🤣

This was the best we could hope for, given the corporate rights naming era we are in. A corporate name like “Wintrust”, which is better than so many others (and infinitely better than “Guaranteed Rate or Rate” and their upside down, red arrow!), along with the nostalgic nod to Comiskey, would have been so much preferable, given our team’s charter franchise status. In most references the ballpark’s reference would have been to “Wintrust Field”, just to shorten it, just like in Baltimore where it’s usually just called “Camden Yards” versus the full name of “Camden Yards at Orioles Park”. Just another of so many missed opportunities by the current owner.

Nope, not going to happen as long as Reinsdorf is still calling the shots. He wants nothing to do with anything Comiskey-related. If you’ll recall he turned down more naming rights money from Wintrust Bank than what he got from Rate, but turned it down because Wintrust wanted the new name to be “Wintrust Field at Comiskey Park”. He flatly rejected having Comiskey in the name. Perhaps the Ishbias could be intrigued with a nod to the past like you suggest, but not current guy. No way.

And Andy the Clown and McCuddy’s.

We know any and all criticism of the abysmally inept owner is inconvenient to you for some strange reasons, but Lip sharing one of his great insights as to how the owner’s absence at Nancy’s retirement was hurtful to her is relevant to the announcement that she’s coming back. Again, as I mentioned before, now knowing based on what Lip has shared that when she looked up to his suite during her retirement speech and thanked him only to find that suite empty is really shameful, but not surprising given who we are talking about.

This billionaire owner must run a very busy schedule. Couldn’t make Nancy’s retirement (didn’t realize when she looked up at his suite during her farewell speech to thank him that the SOB wasn’t even there) and was allegedly a no show for an important free agent negotiation meeting with Bryce Harper. Guess he just has a different set of priorities when it comes to the organization. I’ll bet any money he didn’t miss one meeting when he was strong arming his sweetheart lease deal with the state.

You mean that very same “OTA broadcast /antenna TV (superstation WGN!) and Harry Caray” that Reinsdorf inherited from Veeck way back in 1981, only to throw both to the curb a year later in favor of the very ill-advised, get-rich quick scheme called SportsVision. How did that work out for Reinsdorf and the organization? It was the first of a continuous series of franchise-crippling decisions made by Reinsdorf over four and a half decades. It’s a very long list.

Seriously - what could have a presentation by this team currently owned by Jerry Reinsdorf with his reputation have hoped to accomplish? This is yet another example of why this franchise is in so desperate need of a change in ownership after four and a half horrific decades of abject failure. We are a major market team that isn’t taken seriously in situations like this.

Sure, great idea. Then have them offset that huge expense decrease with significant ticket and parking price decreases. Notice how payroll can gets cut willy nilly without corresponding cuts in prices? Oh, don’t get me wrong - nominal cuts in prices occur. But not enough to make this owner’s profit margin equal to or less than almost every other owner in baseball.

They didn’t spend their way when they were in their own perceived window of contention when both Bryce Harper and Manny Machado were available.

So that’s the primary expense line item of the income statement, the projected payroll. What are the primary revenue sides of the statement? Forget attendance for the moment - what is TV/radio revenue? What is advertising revenue? Shared MLB TV revenues? And oh, going back to the expense side of the equation - “Rate Field” rent? What is it these days? You can’t look at one line item on the financials in a vacuum and try to assess its reasonableness. You need to see the whole picture. And with the present owner, the whole picture suggests he’ll continue to show profits next year with his inferior product and likely at a higher profit margin than most of his peers. This, in a major market, and entering his 45th year of ownership. Wow. Just a big, ‘ol wow at this point.

Ah, so you were talking about his legacy as the Bulls owner, not as Sox owner. None of those Bulls’ championships impact his deplorable legacy as Sox owner.

Which part of his four decades of what now looks like one, long list of one franchise-crippling decision after another will somehow look better somewhere down the road? Absent the one hit wonder that was the 2005 championship season, what could any of us possibly later point towards and re-assess as “that wasn’t as bad as we thought back then”? Do you have an example of what you think that could be? I can skim his entire reign of terror starting all the way back in 1981 clear through today and there is nothing to my eye that the simple passage of time will change my view as to the absolute disaster this guy has been as owner since day one.

Don Kessinger resigned.