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s%*# gets built in this neighborhood that residents are against. Grease the alderman's office enough and you'll get the green light. It's Bridgeport FFS. I'm opposed to 35th & Shields turning into Clark & Addison, not something I really have to fear, but the sea of parking has always been absurd, and lack of adjacent pre & post game options a massive missed opportunity. Bridgeport will never be the draw Wrigleyville is, but I have always believed that with the right investment around the park, it could be a game day draw, and an off-season draw for Sox fans. But as things stand, I don't think we will ever know.

There is a bar at Gate 5 now, but that's the only thing they've ever developed. The team store is open daily, but the bar is only open on game days, and not very late after games. It's hardly a money maker. The two bars on 33rd do far more business on game days than said bar attached to Gate 5. I've never put much stock in the rumors that the 'neighborhood' wouldn't let the area be developed. Presumably Jerry doesn't want to lose his parking monies or compete with outside businesses syphoning off money that would otherwise be spent in the park.

That would require actual knowledge of the inner workings of the ISFA, the Sox lease at GRF, and Jerry's business interests and relationship with the 11th Ward alderman and the city over the years. Then again, why provide facts when you can speculate wildly on the internet to justify a made up narrative.

Now that would be entertainment!

Not exactly sure how lighting a fire under a physically maxed out poor athlete works. Dude got his $6M for sucking in years past, it would take a lot for this org to cut bait at this point sadly.

I don't think they will have a regular DH.

Maybe because no team can? How the f*** does a team FORCE a player to do anything during the offseason?

These are the types of signings they should be making. If anything, it makes the signing of other washed up vets to guaranteed deals earlier in the offseason look even more questionable.

Cornering that Market!

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Good luck with that Detroit...

Like, maybe give the guys Getz himself traded for a shot, instead of burying them behind retreads that offer no value to the future of the roster. They are likely all AAAA guys anyway, but signing washed up vets instead of committing to developing the guys in house indicates that they either don't care about development or have no faith in their ability to do so. Neither points to them having a clear path or plan, or any faith in whatever they are trying to implement.

Except they are a worse team on paper than last year while operating in almost exactly the same dumb manner. 121 is difficult to replicate, but I struggle to see how any of these vets alters that trajectory.

Funny that the land east of State street, which was part of the same massive former rail yard, was developed in the late 80s. Both parcels heavily used by railroads for decades, but half of the land is supposedly non-developable? Please.

Developing the parcel at Roosevelt and Clark would be worth far more than anything that would be built at 35th & Shields as well.

In all fairness, this is probably true of most of the current 26 man roster. Hoping to squeeze the tiniest big of value out of washed up vets is such a White Sox thing, but I have no idea what it is supposed to accomplish. They are going to suck either way, why keep recycling old and bad players?

100% agree. I don't think they give Taylor a guaranteed deal unless they expected to need him on a regular basis.

Fegan's tweets feels like smokescreen to me. Getz loves his cheap washed up vets and all, but even Merkin questions whether Robert makes it through Spring Training on the roster - https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/news/white-sox-spring-training-2025-storylines

Roster churn is fine and is the least of my concerns. Getz's trades before Crochet however are the catastrophe to which I refer. Not only has he burnt his limited trade capital, none of those acquisitions look like foundational pieces.

Hoping he develops into the role is a fair take all things considered. Whether he can or will is an unknown right now. He certainly hasn't earned it, but it's JR's playground where job accountability means little so we as fans have little alternative. I also think it is fair to hope for his improvement while also not ignoring the level to which his first year on the job set the org back. And his management of the 40 man roster has in fact set the org back. JR refusing to hold him accountable doesn't mean he is above criticism, or that fans should simply ignore his catastrophic failings in year one.

Getz may have made some new hires that look good on paper. But it is too soon to know whether those hires actually can fix past organizational failings. Or if they will be allowed to. Those hires, however, do not overshadow Getz's management of the 40 man roster, which to this point borders on catastrophic. Chris Getz is the architect of the worst baseball team in the modern history of the sport, and one good trade does not make up for burning limited trade capital with very little to show for the return and burning millions of dollars in limited payroll on a 121 loss team.

Unlike the poster arguing that Getz deserves no blame.

It used to be that they wouldn’t check if the expected attendance was low. I haven’t had an upper deck ticket in ages so I wouldn’t know about now.

Diacritics matter, friends…

Master of creating weak contact my ass. Thorpe got lit up by a bad Mariners offense the second time he faced them. The same Mariners team that blew a 10 game lead in their division and missed the playoffs entirely because they couldn’t score runs.