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No worries, I appreciate your posts since you obviously take a lot of time thinking them through.

Just FYI, read a story in the Tribune a few days ago where representatives from the pro women's sports teams met with members of the state legislator branch. They are trying to get a law passed that if the state allocates any money at all towards construction of new stadiums for male teams (like the Sox and Bears) they must also offer money for the construction of new women's stadiums.

When new ownership walks in the door and fires just about anybody and everybody connected to the old incompetent, dysfunctional and inept organization.

I honestly don't think JR is that motivated by his "legacy" when you are as wealthy as he is, "legacy" has very little meaning. The bank account means a lot more.

A very wise thing to do.

He has been signed to cover the Sox by the new network, McGuffie however was vnot. He's signed up to work with Kaplan on their podcasts/web site.

Exactly, starting at the very top.

Who are these guys?

Yes it is shameful but not to JR who has other priorities. As stated leaving as much money as possible to his family. Given the tax hit, that would impact this, which is why by all indications that both he has said and others (recently by TLR), he is not selling. That will be left to his family.

27 times the Sox took a lead into the 7th inning or later...and lost the game in 2024.

White Sox impacted the most: “Unfortunately, the White Sox are a really tough team to [cover],” Spano said. “Herb’s incredible. He’s one of the best talents we’ve ever had and a great person. Vinny Duber’s as good of a writer as you’ll find on a beat. But sometimes you feel like you care more about the White Sox than the White Sox care about the White Sox. So that makes it tough.” https://chicago.suntimes.com/sports-media/2024/12/18/chgo-sports-chicago-greg-boysen-vinnie-duber-ryan-herrera-herb-lawrence-nicholas-moreano-brandon-spano-all-city-network

Like I was told last week after the Crochet deal by a long time front office executive, "All Jerry wants now is to leave as much money as possible for his family and grand children." All you can do is hope to outlive him and hope for better days.

That's what I was told by a front office executive.

https://apnews.com/article/mlb-pitcher-injuries-report-a5606c566920da8f4ebae2ad5a6146ab#:~:text=NEW YORK (AP) — A,changes to address the problem.

Embarrassing. Regarding Poles, the Sun-Times has a story tonight that talks about three possible outcomes: 1. He gets fired 2. Warren gives him a contract extension since he has made improvement in the roster overall and has major cap flexibility 3. Poles resigns himself. https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/2024/12/16/kevin-warren-believes-in-ryan-poles-until-he-doesnt https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/2024/12/16/big-decision-on-next-head-coach-bigger-doubt-about-whether-bears-are-up-to-it-bill-belichick-george-mccaskey

Very true. With the Sox there always seems to be an "excuse" for not being able to close a deal on a superstar since Albert Belle (and the only reason the Sox got him was because JR was upset the other owners settled the 94/95 labor impasse on terms he didn't agree with and he was going to show them...)

I understand that Burnes would like to sign with the Giants if they'll come up with the money. Don't know if he is from the West Coast or not.

When all is said and done this will simply be another opportunity for the Sox organization to say, "we had a seat at the table...we tried..." without any real chance to succeed.

I knew Harry well, he was a mentor and gave me a lot of broadcasting advice. First met him in September 1971. I came to the park very early to watch BP and infield. Very few folks were there and I saw him coming in and going up to the press box. I stopped him and we talked, told him I wanted to get into broadcasting. He gave me his address and we stayed in touch all through college. Yes he could be a jerk and he certainly had a big ego. But he always treated me well so I have no complaints. This is from my interview with J.C. Martin: ML: After you retired you worked in the Sox TV booth with Harry Carey and Bill Mercer. Did you enjoy that experience? JCM: "Not really. I didn’t really fit in with Harry. He didn’t want to work with me. We didn’t hit it off at all. I wasn’t used to working with a guy that had that kind of authority and Harry used that against me. I was only there for one year. Now Bill Mercer was a great guy, he helped me out a lot. If I had Bill when I started out, I think I’d have been a lot better and things would have worked out. Harry just left me out to dry. I’ll give you an example, we were in Milwaukee doing a game and the Brewers had a pre-game activity which saw the Milwaukee wives playing a game before the regularly scheduled one. That game caused the regular game to start late. Harry opened the telecast and then just left the booth. He left me there by myself for it must have been 15-20 minutes."

From what I remember Shingo was asked about this and he had no issues with it.

It is the fact that they have been a part of my life since I was five years old. You don't just throw that away. As a Sox historian I've had the chance to meet a lot of members of the Sox family over the years, interview many of the same people, get to hear the stories and such. That's important. Especially now with things looking so dismal. And I'm contributing from that perspective, wrote two chapters for Dr. Fletcher's next book for example. And I am pulling back in many ways, I used to literally not go to bed until all the West Coast games were over (I was in TV and usually didn't have to get to work the next day until around noon) because the Sox were usually involved in a pennant race, I'd get upset over a blown game in the 9th inning, sometimes even have a hard time sleeping. Those things either I don't do anymore or it just doesn't bother me. I know this franchise is going to lose 100+ games, and until new ownership arrives there's nothing I can do about it. So I resign myself to that reality and hope to be around to see better days.

Under the circumstances does it even matter? Like I was told by my friend, the long time Sox front office employee, after they traded Crochet, all JR is interested in right now is having as much money as possible to give to his family and grand children.

Rich is still with us and jerry told him to drop the "Son of" moniker and just use Svengoolie, that he earned the title.

Seems the White Sox lead TV announcer can't help but screw up other sports too: https://awfulannouncing.com/college-basketball/oscar-robertson-robinson-john-schriffen-espn-plus.html