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So how's the weather in Martha's Vineyard today?

You're telling on yourself 🤭

Same. That's the only platform i'm interested in.

Hahah cute. I only share the same zip code as 333 W 35th Street. But by all means, continue flaunting your willful ignorance, it's highly entertaining.

Crochet & Robert for more Dodgers scraps. Where do we sign?

This has always been my understanding as well. It’s not the neighborhood stopping anything, but JR monopolizing every dollar spent at or around the park.

To my knowledge, there hasn't been any request from the Alderman's office for resident input on developing the empty lots around GRF, at least not in the last 13 years since I have lived in the ward. I'm curious about the claims that' the neighborhood' has blocked JR from doing so. Anecdotally, when the Starbucks at 31st & Halsted was first floated, there were plenty of residents who were against it, or were against the plans as presented. Resident opposition didn't stop the alderman from selling off the parcel of land at a fraction of its value to fast track the development. Same can be said about the development of the former helipad on Halsted just south of the river. The community was not in favor of the massive warehouse and a sea of parking being built, but Daley-Thompson bowed to corporate interests yet again over the wishes of his constituents. I'd venture that if JR really wanted to invest the dollars and energy in developing the empty lots around GRF, he would find a way to grease the wheels of city officials.

Gotcha. Thanks for the correction. I knew someone involved made that promise, but that was all before my time.

Didn't JR supposedly promise that McCuddy's would be rebuilt? Yet for 30+ years nothing has been built other than the very overpriced ChiSox Bar & Grill, that is only open on game days. But please, tell me about all of the money invested immediately outside of Guaranteed Rate Field, from 33rd to 37th, Normal to Wentworth. I will hang up and listen...

I live in Bridgeport, and I was taking about the sea of empty lots immediate around the ballpark that sit empty 284 times a year. But please, tell more about my own neighborhood, where I reside, work, and spend the majority of my time.

The moving to the suburbs trend died 30 years ago. It's just not viable for baseball in this day and age. JR is angling for a better location so he can con someone else into building a playground around a shiny new ballpark. That won't happen with a suburban location. He'd have a new ballpark and a whole new set of attendance issues/excuses, while suffering similar struggles as he has in Armour Square. After 30 years of disinvestment around 35th & Shields, no one else is paying to develop that land either, so nothing is going to change for the foreseeable future.

Someone had to get the axe, and Getz sure wasn't firing himself.

Sure, let's move the team to a place where driving is the only option, and watch JR charge through the nose for parking. You can kiss any casual fan interest/attendance goodbye in Orland/Tinley as well. The Tinley Park White Sox would be a bigger ghost town than Euro Disney...

How many names can we float to cover for already giving the job to Grady?

Upper lower lower. If you know, you know.

Do you think there is an underground reservoir beneath the 78 that would somehow restrict excavation to build a playing field? Where on earth do you get the idea that anyone is hanging out below the river?

Tatis blossomed after the trade and its questionable whether he would have developed the same here. Where as Vargas sucked before it and there was a large sample of him sucking. I would venture that targeting Vargas was much, much worse.

Bingo. Look at all of the tall buildings built adjacent to the river, being in close proximity isn't an issue. Besides, the river south of Roosevelt is basically a man-made canal, reinforcing the foundation of a ballpark is child's play compared to rerouting a mile stretch of the river.

If Juan Soto, Pete Alonso, Alex Bregman, Cody Bellinger, Corbin Burnes, Max Fried, and Blake Snell all magically appeared on the White Sox roster, I think we would all be happy, and happy not going through any sort of rebuild/retool. But magic is the only way this happens since the owner is anti player in just about every way. Refusing to understand that is a choice.

Hahah, so the OTA signal isn't compatible with a number of television sets. Fan-fucking-tastic.

If it were that easy to just win, no team would ever need to rebuild. Or ever have a down year. Too bad magical thinking doesn't actually lead anywhere.

Oh I know. OTA isn’t an option for him, but he is spared the biggest hurdle any cord cutter deals with locally. Assuming the games will be accessible on mlb.tv of course.

The effort required to make OTA work isn't the point. OTA being virtually the only option for most viewers in this day and age on day one is. The new network and its lack of availability has virtually zero impact on me and I still think they are fucking it up royally. It is a valid critique.

Games only being available on MLB.tv but being blacked out locally would be so reisndorfian.

No. And why would anyone want to?