Mr. Showtime
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21 minutes ago, Blackout Friday said:
Expect something big.
Perhaps the 2 are intertwined but do you think it’s a big name/salary coming back or a big name from the Sox side moved to make the deal?
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Found it. (This is from 2020)
QuoteThe White Sox will be shown only six times in spring training, despite its network, NBC Sports Chicago, having relaunched as the Sox’ exclusive home and fans’ excitement for the season skyrocketing.
But the Sox’ spring broadcast schedule was surprising when it was announced. With NBCSCH’s other tenants, the Blackhawks and Bulls, sputtering to the finish line, many expected the network to serve starving Sox fans a menu of appetizers before airing a 161-game main course.
The network explained its situation in a statement:
“NBC Sports Chicago now carries every local Blackhawks and Bulls telecast. To accommodate that additional coverage, we have to make adjustments to our schedule. During the spring training games’ time frame, we will be carrying 27 regular-season games featuring the Blackhawks and Bulls, meaning that our production crews now have a grander scale of responsibilities than ever before.
“The White Sox are always a top priority for our network, and we are focused on bringing White Sox fans our expert coverage of 161 out of the team’s 162 regular-season-game schedule, beginning with the home/season opener on March 26.”
It’s a whole new world for NBCSCH, which is carrying more games than it ever has. During spring training last year, NBCSCH aired five Sox and two Cubs games while airing 20 Hawks/Bulls games. Without the Cubs but with almost every Hawks, Bulls and Sox game, the station has 30 more games of inventory in its first year of the relaunch.
With those additional games come additional hours for the production crew, whose work also involves pre- and postgame shows. Those hours aren’t free, and there are many of them.
Why NBC Sports Chicago is airing only six White Sox spring-training games
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7 minutes ago, ScooterMcGee said:
I wonder why NBC Sports Chicago didn't pick up more games to televise...you'd think there would be a lot more interest in the spring training games than whatever else they have on at 2 pm central time on any day of the week.
This point comes up every year, and I feel like the answer in previous years was related to overlap with the Bulls/Hawks and the amount of production trucks or staffing. The Bulls regular season ends on March 3rd this year. I'm assuming the road games not being on TV are due to COVID like how last season they did the games from the home park with the road production camera setups.
I'm guessing Jason probably has overlap with his other responsibilities so I assume he can't do a ton of games. Who knows how many ST games if any are in Steve/Jason's contracts, while we as fans would take just the game being on with no announcers I'm sure NBC Chicago wants the same level of production like a regular game.
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In looking at the broadcast schedule on whitesox.com it looks like all of the Home ST games have either a TV/ESPN 1000 Radio/MLB.com Radio option. The only "away" game with Radio of any kind is the 3-8-21 game vs the Dodgers which of course is basically a home game.
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3 minutes ago, fathom said:
Stiever and Bailey and a bit more doesn’t even get you Musgrove
Fathom, for those of us who have never heard of Garrett Richards or Burnes. Clearly a difference between money and a trade but from a standpoint of what they’ve already accomplished vs future potential is 1 of those 2 better than the other?
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1 hour ago, fathom said:
This better not be Hector referencing Vera signing
This is the first thing that came to mind since he said his comment in relation to future Sox news.
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27 minutes ago, bmags said:
Please never quote Ken wo
It is weird to me when I see people on Twitter who also post here, like as an example I had no idea @Kyyle23 was on Twitter until someone else I follow commented to him there.
I guess your on Twitter as well?
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10 minutes ago, fathom said:
Still say Schwarber will go somewhere he gets 400 at bats. Too bad, he’d be a great weapon against RHP.
Don’t know how to post tweets here outside of a phone screen shot but did you see Stone responded to a tweet from someone and said he thought they were still going to make a splash or two? His definition could be different than a fan to be fair.
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1 minute ago, flavum said:
Chris Rose not being renewed at MLB Network. He’ll do three more shows with Millar on Dec 21-23. Nice ten year run for IT.
Based on Twitter comments looks like Nick Shepkowski is done at the 670 the Score, might have been contract related. Seemed like Kevin Zepack(spelling) also gone.
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8 minutes ago, gusguyman said:
explain yourself coward
The SSS article linked earlier in the thread said:
"It’s hard to ignore one White Sox source’s penchant for rewarding a racist and sexist media outlet, so let’s just say that multiple sources are revealing that Ethan Katz, assistant pitching coach for the San Francisco Giants, will take over for Don Cooper as pitching coach in Chicago."
I'm assuming the author was taking a shot at Barstool with the comments. Not sure what hating on barstool has to do with Dave. Unless the author doesn't like him as well.
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8 minutes ago, bmags said:
Bob should be ashamed of himself.
Bob brought up the BAC and said it was equivalent to 2 or 2.5 glasses of wine. Which is why he said it wasn't a big deal in his mind. So I'm guessing if that's his take it might be the Reinsdorf view on why there's no threat to his job.
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There's a new White Sox Talk podcast where they talk about this. Has Nightengale on and he says it's a misdemeanor and not a big deal. Chuck didn't challenge him on that. Bob also said he might get 1 day in jail. Not sure what he's basing it on.
I haven't heard the whole podcast yet. Chuck and Ryan in the beginning said they want to hear from LaRussa. Not quite sure what difference that makes in this issue. Both seemed to agree that unless Tony steps away nothing is going to happen.
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4 hours ago, Orlando said:
Where is Garfein? Duber? Merkin?
Garfein has a podcast out with Peter Gammons and he briefly brought up that the DUI happened and explained his interview was recorded prior to the news which is why it didn't come up. Not much else was said.
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57 minutes ago, fathom said:
Heyman predicted the following:
- Springer to Boston for 4/80
- Bauer to Giants for 5/150 (he said he’s heard the Giants could be in on him)
- Realmuto 6/132 to Mets
- Lemahieu back to Yanks 3/60
https://mobile.twitter.com/JonHeyman/status/1324082678610698244
Have you seen any Sox Twitter commentary on wanting the Sox to go after Lemahieu?
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It's in the T-Mobile Tuesday APP today, be careful on the Athletic thing it auto renews you at $59.99 after the year if you don't cancel, they list it in the fine print.
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I think with the health issue they moved the timing. I got an e-mail the other day that directs you to this link:
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2 minutes ago, iamshack said:
If we just limit this to what was out on twitter, it appears Hector Gomez had their basic offer back in late January. So they did try to get this done earlier. The issue is they didn’t close and eventually they left the door open for someone like the Padres, who did.
We should all know that Lozano was undoubtedly throwing all sorts of nonsense at them, which they were left to try to navigate the best they could.
My guess is there were some things that they had sort of successfully busted as BS, and they thought the Padres’ offer was BS as well.
Unfortunately, it was not.
Appreciate the information. Very sad situation and unfortunate because as you noted this was the opportune time to strike and change the franchise for the next 5 years at least and their desire to not want to over spend hurt them.
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1 minute ago, iamshack said:
I honestly don’t know what their intentions would have been. I believe they did not anticipate the Padres offer was what it was, and I texted Fathom like 10 minutes before the deal was announced to that end.
I did not spend much time posting on Soxtalk during the last several months, but I was extremely critical of their negotiation strategy in other areas in the weeks leading up to last Tuesday, and there are members of Soxtalk who can vouch for that.
I try to keep up with you on Twitter so I might have seen some of it there. The whole thing is just so frustrating as many have said, had they came out of the gate at 8 and 280 or something things could've been much different.
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Just now, beckham15 said:
I am not shack, but I believe they got one final chance to match or better the Padres offer and shot it down....
I see.
They were fine paying over $300 million if he was still productive after 8 years but not upping the off above 300 within the 8 years? Just seems so silly with so much money to be made by his arrival had it occurred.
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1 hour ago, iamshack said:
Yeah, I’m not sure they were aware the threat was as real as it was.
Shack, do you have any reason to believe that if they saw the Padres as a serious threat they would've offered a better deal over 8 years guaranteed?
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Not much of an issue if it isn't the Sox but, when do we guess Harper signs?
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1 minute ago, shipps said:
He is zigging when everyone is zagging because the Sox probably aren’t as “out of it” as everyone thinks. It’s not going to happen but they haven’t left the room. They aren’t at the table though .
Seems like Harper really is down to just the Phillies unless there are other teams in it we don't know of. Hopefully the Sox at least make a true competitive offer and maybe his percieved lack of interest in Philly helps.
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5 minutes ago, fathom said:
With all due respect, people need to pretend KW never said the 300 million comment. They wouldn’t have met with Harper if that was true. I’ve said it before, but the 300 remark seemed like a bad response by KW instead of saying they blew it by thinking Lozano was bluffing.
I haven't posted much since I'm on a work trip and just following on my phone. It doesn't seem from what I've read that Rick and Kenny have their story in sync. I think it might've been you in another thread who said this 300 million thing was just a cop out answer because they didn't want to say they didn't believe the 300 million offer was out there.
Edit: I see you said it in this thread, sorry.
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Certainly it would be nice to sign Harper. I know Rabbit said he doesn't expect it to happen, what I don't quite understand is why would they get involved even "in secret" if they can't or won't get past 300 million guaranteed? We know Boras won't sign for anything less than Manny. Do they think Bryce really doesn't want Philly bad enough to take 315 or something from them?
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Hoskins to Brewers
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