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I imagine the negativity is counter balanced by a nice paycheck every two weeks and knowing that as long as JR is alive those checks will keep coming.

Why should anyone be expecting any other type of signing?

A litany of incompetence: Eberflus was a problem, but he wasn’t the only one. A franchise that has won only six playoff games since its 1985 Super Bowl season has issues that go far deeper. Chairman George McCaskey, president/CEO Kevin Warren and Poles have been entrusted to fix them. That’s troubling, given that they let them fester in the first place. Warren appears no closer to finding a home for the Bears’ new stadium — or anyone to pay for it — than he was when he started in April 2023. Poles is expected to remain in his role next season, but he flubbed his initial hire of Eberflus. And the Bears have yet to win a playoff game in McCaskey’s 13 years as chairman. https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/2024/12/01/bears-fire-matt-eberflus-caleb-williams-risks-stunting-growth-missteps-shane-waldron-luke-getsy-ryan-poles

Just a few thoughts: TLR on the radio publicly said last month that JR is not moving the franchise. MLB could get up to two billion dollars from an expansion team in Nashville according to a story in Sports Illustrated. If that is true, and I have no idea if it is, they aren't going to kill to Golden Goose by allowing the Sox to move there. I do agree with you, JR hates this fan base because they never really swallowed his BS from the beginning.

True but consider the source, his history and his philosophy of "I win, you lose" (for example the sweetheart lease agreement with the stadium or his demand for more tax payer money for another one) His ego may simply not allow him to want to pay ANY taxes.

I don't know how that may or may not apply all I could do is go by what I was told by the tax consultant that I asked regarding this situation.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/2024/11/29/circus-maximus-matt-eberflus-gets-fired-most-bears-way-ever-george-mcaskey-ryan-poles

From Brad Briggs column tonight at the Tribune: Only six teams have fewer wins since the start of the 2011 season, when George McCaskey became chairman. Even in their meandering quest to find a franchise quarterback, the Bears have mostly avoided direct comparisons to some of the perennial losers in that bunch, such as the New York Jets, Cleveland Browns, Las Vegas Raiders and Jacksonville Jaguars. Then, in the final 32 seconds of Thursday’s nationally televised game in Detroit, they became the butt of jokes around the league and were pilloried by the most even-handed analysts. https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/11/29/chicago-bears-thomas-brown-matt-eberflus/

As I have explained in stories the capital gains tax hit on a sale of the club while JR is alive could be in the range of 200 million dollars and that is not counting the Illinois state tax hit. JR started his professional career working for the IRS. Those numbers have real meaning to him which is why on the rare occasions he has spoken publicly about it, his message has been the same, he's told his family to keep the Bulls and sell the Sox when he is gone.

Prepping the team for sale makes sense but it won't happen by JR, his family will sell it when he is gone.

Better late than never. So who is the next milquetoast stiff this dysfunctional organization will hire in order to fire two or three years later?

https://soxmachine.com/2024/11/hunting-for-mlb-free-agent-bargains-for-white-sox-on-black-friday/

All true and a salary floor won't stop a bad organization say from overpaying a good player tying up a large portion of the floor and then go out and get 24 other minimum wage deadbeats and stiffs.

There is some truth to that but I'd gladly take what Zisk put up that season in 1977, 30 home runs, 101 RBI's and a .290 batting average.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/2024/11/28/hall-of-fame-coach-jimmy-johnson-never-seen-dysfunction-like-matt-eberflus-error-vs-lions

Only the Bears...😆🤡 https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/2024/11/28/no-decision-on-bears-coach-matt-eberflus-who-remains-under-evaluation-source

https://awfulannouncing.com/mlb/yankees-owner-rob-manfreds-tv-plan-optional.html

The White Sox haven't even started crawling.

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/blake-snell-contract-how-deferrals-signing-bonus-give-dodgers-even-more-money-to-improve/

The Yankees last won a World Series in 2009. Just saying. Seems to me the quality of the sport hasn't been impacted as much as you think again given the different number of World Series winners and the lack of repeat champions. And I have no issue with a business making a profit, they take the risks, they deserve something...but when profit turns to greed, especially in sports, that's where I draw the line. The Braves, Cardinals, Brewers, Rays and Guardians aren't large market franchises yet they make the post season on a regular basis or at least have a winning record pretty consistently. They seem to do fine without a salary cap or salary floor. The White Sox have more built in advantages than those franchise do by far, they don't succeed, not because there isn't a salary cap/floor but because the organization itself is incompetent, dysfunctional and inept. A cap/floor won't change that in my opinion.

Just curious...how many different teams have won the World series say in the past 20 years? How many different teams have made the playoffs in that time frame? (Even the Sox were able to do it...) Baseball isn't as broken as many think. What's broken is ownership that decides profit is more important than winning.

Bears still saying that want the stadium on the lakefront. Politicians still laughing at that idea. Their plan, which requires upwards of $1 billion in public funding, drew cheers from Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson — and cold shoulders from state lawmakers in Springfield. https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/bears-stadium/2024/11/25/bears-stadium-arlington-heights-lakefront-michael-reese-soldier-field The Bears (and White Sox) will get nothing and like it.

I agree. The team will be sold but not until JR has passed. It'll be sold by his family.

Funny all those years when Tampa Bay was a joke I never saw or read anything about how that was unfair the Yankees and Red Sox were taking advantage of that situation to pad their win totals and make the playoffs every year.

True but as long as current ownership remains really what is there to discuss? How the Bears keep shooting themselves in the foot every week through incompetence? There's really nothing more to say when you get right down to it.