Lip Man 1

Any franchise in theory is movable but where are you going to go? Again I refer back to the stories and the Sports Illustrated article that stated a Nashville expansion team could garner 2 billion dollars. That's a lot more than relocating the White Sox to Nashville, Montreal, New Orleans, Salt Lake City, Portland or Timbuktu is going to bring in. And as we all know the most important thing to those running the show in MLB is $$$$$$$$$$. I know your position is the Sox are moving, my position is they aren't going anywhere (as TLR recently said). Time will tell who is right.

Very well said.

Well played. What we do know for sure is that as long as that family runs this operation, any success will be in spite of them as opposed to because of them. Love the fact that the media both locally and nationally is calling out this franchise and ownership for the idiots that they are.

Every team in MLB has access to more domestic and international revenue streams then ever before. More than enough to put good teams on the field. The White Sox have more advantages for one example than every other team in the division. Yet because of their incompetence, dysfunction and ineptness they have squandered them. It's not MLB's fault they are run by a miserly owner who seemingly has done everything possible to alienate his fan base. Your response is hilarious to me. And I again point out how many different teams have been to or won the World Series over the past 25 years.

Grew up in Chicago, was a Sox fan (while his brother Bryant was a Cub fan)... https://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/2024/12/27/longtime-sportscaster-and-chicago-native-greg-gumbel-dies-at-78

Exactly correct. Other teams/owners cry poor instead of trying to win. I have zero sympathy for them. If they can't or don't want to play the game the way it is being done today, then sell and get out.

Nothing more needs to be said does it: In fact, in 32 seasons since the unofficial beginning of the McCaskey era — following the firing of George Halas-hired Mike Ditka after the 1992 season — the Bears rank in the bottom 10 in the NFL in nearly every key measurement of success. They are 231-284 (.449), which ranks 23rd; They have nine winning seasons (tied for 27th), seven playoff seasons (tied for 26th). They have four playoff victories (only the Lions, Commanders and expansion Browns have fewer). If the McCaskey's were selling anything but an addictive product — football — they’d have been out of business long ago with that record of failure. https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/2024/12/27/sell-the-team-mccaskeys-again-wont-give-bears-fans-what-they-want-most

Credit to Prime Video for not cutting the audio during the postgame recap where you could hear Bear fans chanting in unison "Sell the Team," Charissa Thompson even commented on it. And credit those Bear fans for staying and making their feelings known. McCaskey family ownership in full effect. 🤡

His biggest fireable offense was neglecting the offensive line basically for three years. Compounding the dereliction of duty was then drafting Williams behind those sacks of s%*#.

Pittsburgh?

Except JR doesn't consider them a "big market" club for various reasons some of which are personal.

They lost 27 games this past season where they took a lead into the 7th inning or later.

They had the lowest payroll in baseball during one of the years during the first rebuild, don't remember the year, it may have been 2018. And they were among the lowest in a few other years during that time period.

55 wins (maybe...)

I'd suggest there is a real difference between calling the G-League, Slam-Ball and UFC compared to calling MLB, NFL, major college football and basketball games. The fact that Jason has been given those opportunities says something about what those in charge think of his abilities.

He made the list. coming in at #2: https://chicago.suntimes.com/sports-media/2024/12/26/chicago-sports-network-comast-chsn-white-sox-john-schriffen-leila-rahimi-blackhawks-chris-vosters-bulls-stacey-king-bears-courtney-cronin-steve-mcmichael-jim-nantz

Jason has also called some NFL games for Fox during the baseball playoffs when some of their regular NFL guys were doing those games.

https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/news/white-sox-2025-ticket-information

He went 0-41 to start his Major League career.

With Nightengale delivering praise and the details of the assignment about a guy whose track record doesn’t necessarily point to massive prior successes in those areas, the initial suspicion is more along the lines of “Did Tony La Russa’s shadow government just hire the manager it wanted?” https://soxmachine.com/2024/12/christmas-eve-notes-nevin-in-eloy-gone/

https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2024/12/23/white-sox-to-hire-phil-nevin-as-special-assistant

I agree this is probably true for now. New ownership arriving changes the dynamic potentially.

With You Tube I can watch "highlights" (or more to the point "lowlights") from every Sox game.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/2024/12/22/if-bears-were-auditioning-for-ben-johnson-he-saw-caleb-williams-not-much-else-maybe-thats-enough-detroit-lions

My definition of success is having consistent winning seasons. Even if you don't make the playoffs. At least with a winning season you have a chance to get in and then a lot can happen. A team with a losing record has never made the post season in MLB. (It would have happened in 1994 with the A.L. West winner had the season resumed). And at least a winning season, even if it is only 82-80 shows some things went right, some things you can build on and it does give you a selling point to the fans and the advertisers. And the MLBPA is the strongest union in the world, I can not see under ANY circumstances them agreeing to a salary cap. That is a fevered dream of ownership.