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Dripping with sarcasm and completely true: https://chicago.suntimes.com/sports-saturday/2024/1/19/24044482/chicago-white-sox-soxfest-jerry-reinsdorf-pedro-grifol-covid

The Sox had never made the playoffs in consecutive seasons before 2020 and 2021. 2020 of course was only a 60 game season as you recall. As far as attendance remember in 2021 it was limited because the COVID situation was still on-going. And you'd have to spend far more money then is conceivable to drive a MLB franchise into debt. They are basically printing money by the boatload.

There may be some truth to what you say, I can't disagree with that. The Cubs situation is very unique and runs counter to most of what makes sports, sports...it's about winning. That's because John McDonough (who grew up a Sox fan by the way) had the brilliant idea first started by William Wrigley to "promote" Wrigley Field instead of the team. "Have a great time in the sun regardless if the team is good or not..." Couple that with the timing of Superstation WGN which promoted the same idea nationally and the Cubs wound up literally getting 40% of their attendance for the year from outside Chicago and the Chicago area. Sox fans are more discrete when it comes to what is important to them by and large. That is winning first, second and third on the priority list. So the location could help some but long term that factor will play itself out of the team is bad.

When new Comiskey opened in 1991 for the first three years before the labor impasse they drew extremely well but then as the column stated the "newness factor" wore off. Without putting a winning program on the field the exact same thing will happen when or if this new proposed stadium is ever built.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/white-sox/ct-chicago-white-sox-ballpark-jerry-reinsdorf-20240118-dwt7p2n4gveyfd5cfgjd2xayea-story.html

Agreed. The only way the Sox win the division next year is if the other four teams all forfeit.

JR will want those tenants to cover their windows during games so they don't get to watch for free! ?

Is there a link or something to his comments? I'd be interested in reading them.

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/batting-around-will-white-sox-trade-dylan-cease-before-2024-opening-day-and-which-team-will-land-him/

In depth story on the location, its history and what would be needed infrastructure-wise to make it possible to build a stadium on it: https://soxmachine.com/2024/01/white-sox-exploring-chicago-ballpark-site-in-the-78/

Correct. He was trying to boost a new ownership group led by TLR and Dave Stewart.

https://soxmachine.com/2024/01/white-sox-waiting-to-announce-latest-international-signings/

Interesting possibility.

https://awfulannouncing.com/amazon/diamond-sports-announces-amazon-investment-in-comeback-plan.html

I don't know if they have ever done guys like Fox, Pierce, Aparicio, Allen...would be interesting to know if they have done so.

The garbage dump or the junk yard would be my guess.

https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/news/white-sox-2024-international-prospects-signings?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage

I know of a Lori Mendenhall but not Lori Lee...and I have not been told who the other inductees are.

Who? ?

Thank you.

I appreciate the thought and frankly I could do the job. But I'm 68 and my wife and I just paid off our house. I'm actually going to be inducted into the Idaho State Sports Hall of Fame this February. I have established roots here in Southeast Idaho but it simply is a non-starter right now. Maybe 20 years ago I'd certainly think about applying but not now.

Well researched story on ballparks: https://www.thescore.com/mlb/news/2813438

Don't bet on this.

From Paul Sullivan's column today of what Chicago sports fans have to look forward to until the Bears season opener next September: Vanishing White Sox fans The biggest difference between the Blackhawks and the White Sox is Hawks fans will come out to watch an awful team if they have someone like Bedard to focus on. The Sox have no such player on the current roster, and the minimal spending this offseason by general manager Chris Getz suggests they don’t intend to obtain one any time soon. Top prospect Colson Montgomery is considered the next big thing, but the Sox don’t want to rush the shortstop, even on a rebuilding team that could use a gate attraction. Luis Robert Jr. is a superstar in the making, but he’s not good enough yet to convince Sox fans to buy tickets just to watch him play on a losing team. In short, it could be a lonely season in the bleachers at Sox Park, which at least would make it more difficult to get hit by a wayward bullet. By August the Sox could be playing out the string and Pedro Grifol could be on the hot seat.

Correct. Those deals are already signed and the money is already in the bank earning interest I might ad. That revenue for now won't change regardless if the Sox win 100 games or lose 100 games. However with the NBC Sports Chicago deal expiring after this year, you'd think the Sox would want to show progress in order to get the best new TV deal possible for the Chicago-area.