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McCaskey spoke to the media and the stadium issue came up. The Sox may want to take note: There are other issues on the Bears’ agenda. McCaskey reiterated that the team is focused on building a new stadium downtown, just south of Soldier Field. Gov. J.B. Pritzker has said it will be “near impossible” for the Bears to gain approval for a stadium during the General Assembly’s veto session in November. McCaskey said the Bears are aiming to get on the agenda, but admitted it will be a challenge. “We’re just trying to continue the discussions,” he said, “and trying to convince people that it will be great for the region, for the city and for the state.” The Bears have pledged to commit $2 billion towards the project. They might have a new way to access some of that money — in a special meeting this week, NFL owners voted to allow teams to sell up to 10% of their franchise to private equity firms, which would remain passive investors.

That actually is what happens in case of a catastrophic accident involving a MLB team, say a plane crash. In order to finish the season the organization would be allowed to select unprotected players to fill out a roster and continue to play. Does this season qualify under those terms?

Can the owner be put on waivers????????????

Good point since JR was publicly opposed to him getting the job.

Jankowski was put on waivers one day to late.

Over time the schedule has never been perfectly balanced so any argument a team from the East or West has is out the window. How many years was Tampa losing 100+ games a year and the Yankees/ Red Sox were taking advantage of that. Or when Houston was God-awful in the west? Manfred isn't going to do squat as long as everyone is making loads of money.

27th time the Sox scored one run in a game. That's seven straight losses, I think they have a third double-digit losing streak in them.

The Sox have used a franchise record 59 players this season, including 31 pitchers, a turnover that has seen the entire Opening Day bullpen not on the current active roster.

Well remember he "saved" the organization a year and speeded up the rebuilding process. 😆

Don't stop now boys! Another double-digit losing streak coming right up!

Sox have scored one run in 26 games so far this season. And for those mentioning "luck" and "cursed" I'm reminded of this salient quote: "Luck is the residue of design..."-Branch Rickey

It would help if he could string a few years together where he's not trying to hit with only one good arm or be able to run without serious injury.

That's probably true. To expect JR to change his attitude towards his front office at this stage in his life is highly unlikely.

And before anyone brings this up when the Sox lose this game. Flexen did not start the game so he is still tied with Danny Wright for the record of 19 straight starts without his team winning.

When you have arrogant, incompetent, dysfunctional and inept people in power making decisions from ownership on down the line why should you be surprised?

That would be a start at improving things. We'll see if it actually comes to pass.

The Sox had multiple chances to usurp the Cubs since the early 80's and every single time they shot themselves in the foot with head scratching, crazy decisions. Although to be fair there were some factors that were outside of their control, for example Tribune Company which owned WGN-TV and radio buying the Cubs.

But it is basically now played every night of the week, holidays like Christmas included. Back when I was a kid it was blasphemous to even think about playing on Christmas Day.

It's well known that JR is in the room on draft day and "offers" his opinions. As a source told me: “With :30 seconds left in their selection time on draft day JR would say things like “You know this college right-handed pitcher has the lowest injury risk.”

Can't spend a dollar if you only have .50 cents! 😆

Very true that moniker belongs to the juggernaut called the NFL.

And we'll also hear him (or his organization stooges) come out and say, "Hey give us two billion dollars, build us a new stadium and everything will turn around...trust us!" 😆

My guess the name would have been something like "Comiskey Park at Wintrust Field" something along those lines.

As crazy as it sounds I was told things along the lines you are suggesting in the story I did on the State of the Sox which came out in November 2022. “Things started to change when Howard Pizer (Author’s Note: Pizer is the Senior Executive Vice-President) was told that he’d no longer be in charge of everyone, that some folks would no longer have to answer to him. That opened the door and some people are trying to get themselves into position to become a team president. Folks aren’t telling JR everything; in some cases they are lying to him.” “Howard Pizer was the only guy who could tell JR ‘no’ and stop something. If people are angling to try to become a vice-president or president that’s just embarrassing.” “I know the friction in the front office just wore Bob Grim down.” (Author’s Note: Grim retired after 30 years with the organization. He was the Senior Director of Business Development and Broadcasting) “Here’s a story about scouting/development. Nick Hostetler was ‘promoted’ to the Special Assistant to the Vice-President/General Manager. He was ‘promoted’ because he was overheard complaining about a scout in Arizona, Ken Williams Junior. Someone got their revenge. I liked Nick, he was independent, he was his own guy.” “People wonder why Dennis Gilbert (Author’s Note: Special Assistant to the Chairman) is around.” “Mike Shirley is the darling of amateur scouts right now. (Author’s Note: Shirley is the Director of Amateur Scouting) He’s the power broker. I heard him saying that he’s been in baseball a long time, I looked up his career and it was only a couple of years maybe a half season of at-bats.” “I think Chris Getz (Author’s Note: Getz is an Assistant General Manager and in charge of Player Development) is getting to much power to soon but I like him, he’s got some interesting ideas.” “There are department heads in the organization who don’t know what they are doing, worse, all they care about is getting ahead themselves, some of them are real snakes.” “Wintrust offered a much better deal than Guaranteed Rate but part of what Wintrust wanted is the name had to be changed back to Comiskey Park and JR didn’t like that at all. He also wasn’t told some of the details in the agreement that may have made a difference had he knew.”

More millions of JR's dollars wasted by GM Chris Getz. 🤡 Would be nice to know what the owner thinks about approximately 22-24 million of his hard earned dollars wasted on stiffs, bums, has been's and retreads.