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But he does seem to have the talent to be a hell of a player.

But remember JR is content (and that apparently is all that matters)

Well friends and neighbors there you go. Eight in a row by the Cubs, they now lead the head to head series. Another game with three runs or less. Another game with an error. Boy that Castro sure looks like an "outstanding" pick up No? LOL. 🤡

Even better question...how much money was spent on stiffs, has been's, injury prone guys, dead beats et al. JR (from what little we know) won't object to wasting millions on those type players even under Hahn but we sure as hell know what he thinks about paying premium money for premium talent.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/18/chicago-pope-mass-rate-field/

Actually you have to give credit to U.S. Cellular Company, they gave JR the money. he didn't invest one dime out of his own pocket. January 31, 2003 - U.S. Cellular Company and the White Sox signed an agreement selling the naming rights to Comiskey Park. The deal was worth 68 million dollars and the contract was for 23 years. The money received by the club contained the stipulation that it could only be used on renovations and upgrades for the stadium, not say, for signing free agents. Because of said renovations U.S. Cellular Field became one of the finest looking stadiums in baseball. The Guaranteed Rate company would then secure naming rights in November 2016.

Bad organizations, bad coaching/teaching/developing, bad training and conditioning staffs, bas scouting, bad analytics...this is what you get.

Getz said as much a few weeks ago with his (paraphrasing) 'we only care about players with a long term future...' Seven straight by the Cubs over the Sox and they have now tied them in the all-time series result. They'll make it eight in a row Sunday with the Sox probably scoring three runs or less again.

The White Sox said they are going to honor the area around where the Pope sat in the published photo when he was at Game #1 of the 2005 World Series. They are going to paint something near where he sat on a support structure.

The White Sox are the island of misfit toys. 😆

As long as JR pays for it.

That seems to be his M.O. doesn't it? Acquire as many beat up, has-been's, injury prone, stiffs as possible. But hey they are all cheap so JR is very happy!

At 14-31, the Sox matched the worst 45-game start in franchise history — a mark shared with, among others, last year’s team.

Like my dad said, you get what you pay for. Anyway fundamentals yet again cost this team. Physical errors led to a big second inning and the mental mistakes in the game were to many to count. White Sox baseball at its finest! 🤡

Apparently. More wasted resources which are limited to start with.

Which means at some point he'll be back with the big league club.

No mention at all of the White Sox: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/16/bears-stadium-chicago-arlington-heights/

I'll consider it a good weekend if they can actually win a game.

Basically he has, no one else in baseball has hired him to do anything.

Very possible but since they won't open their books to an independent auditor we have no way of knowing. I'd 'balance' your comment with the fact that MLB by Manfred's own admission is now a 13 billion dollar a year industry and they have more domestic and international monetary revenue streams then ever before. And JR and the White Sox get their cut. Plus in the majority of the years between 2018 and today the Sox have had very low payrolls, during the first rebuild for example for 2017-2019 they were either dead last or near the bottom in payroll in MLB...while still getting their cut from local deals, ticket sales, merchandise, parking et al. To say nothing of the very good stadium deal. Anything is possible unfortunately we'll never know for sure.

Absolutely correct...maybe the entire season. In the end like they have done literally every time since 1972 the owners will eventually fall apart and cave. The MLBPA will never agree to a salary cap that's been made clear but yet the owners keep dreaming. That's their choice of course. As I've said it won't bother me to much because unlike in 1981 and 1994 the Sox are still going to suck so missing games seeing them consistently lose will actually be a refreshing break for me.

Depends on your definition of "compete." JR is making money maybe that's his way of "competing." Look let's end this, please...MLB and the commissioner doesn't give a tinkers cuss about how bad the Sox have been, they like JR care about one thing $$$$$. Second JR IS NOT SELLING THE TEAM...not yesterday, not today, not tomorrow. As long as he is drawing breaths he is not selling and not giving up any real authority to anybody. Period, full stop, end of story. That's reality, deal with it as best you can and hope to still be alive when new ownership does come on board. Literally that's all you can do, nothing else you say or do matters in this situation. Even if you have two billion dollars laying around and called up JR and offered it to him for the team, he's say "no." With him it is ego, arrogance, $$$ and power. That's what matters to him. Again it really sucks for all the good fans who are left but that's reality.

Reasonable owners would agree with you, JR is not reasonable when it comes to paying players what they may be worth on the open market which is why he still dreams about a salary cap being instituted.

Robert barring an injury is as good as gone. There's no way around that reality.

I'm guessing that was a deliberate choice of words and a direct indictment of JR.