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It's a great show. After Sorkin left with the conclusion of Season 4, the show goes down in quality in Season 5 and 6, but the race between Santos and Vinick in Season 7 is a nice change of pace and ends the series well. I've re-watched it all the way through probably 4 or 5 times, all timer for me as well.

Just a god awful Day 2 for them, yikes

A TE?!? In the third? I swear Poles is doing this out of spite. Draft a fucking DE

Shouldn't Schwarber be used as the example for Mune? IMO, they are incredibly similar.

Unqualified man gets leadership position and fails….

Honestly, what real difference would it have made? It’s like putting gourmet cheese on spoiled meat. You’re still going to have a shitty burger.

Here is the thing. We all root for the Chicago White Sox. In most cases, your fandom is passed down from a parent, family member or friend. OP references his son, following in his footsteps. When you root for a team, you aren’t rooting for the owner. Jerry Reinsdorf isn’t the White Sox. When he dies, the White Sox don’t go with him. Now, that man has caused an incredible amount of frustration for us and deserves every ounce of vitriol thrown his way. He is a stain on Chicago sports and should be embarrassed of his ownership run. But he isn’t why I root for the White Sox, nor will it ever be. I root for them because I had White Sox wallpaper as a 4 year old, and I’ve got about 400 ticket stubs in a box from 1999-2020, and I’d guess a little more than half of those games, I was with my dad. Things suck right now. They are going to continue to suck until Jerry dies. Giving a second thought about a Brooks Baldwin injury or where Andrew Benintendi is batting in the lineup is a waste of time, because none of it matters right now. All we can do is hope that new ownership actually has even the faintest interest in actually winning, and things will be feel a lot better as a Sox fan. Until then…spend your time doing literally anything else.

Don't think anything Michael said was anything different than his father, including Michael saying at one point "If you know my father at all, you know how important winning is to him." Actually feel worse for die hard Bulls fans than Sox fans, as there is at least some hope down the line with new ownership. When the old man finally goes, Michael will still be leading the Bulls.

If Sam Presti called up Michael Reinsdorf and said "I want to run the Bulls" do you really want Reinsdorf's response being "Only if Billy can be your head coach?" If Presti says no to that, you're eliminating Presti from contention?

Don't know why anyone would expect Jerry/Michael to have any sort of grasp on how to properly build a front office.

That whole situation is insane. I have yet to hear a rational reason why the NFL dug in so hard on not giving them the picks. It wasn't punitive to Atlanta, there is truly no "victim" by awarding the picks to the Bears. The NFL simply fucked the Bears, there is really no other way to view it, it's so cut and dry.

He was/is just a terrible fit for the typical Sox fan. He's a rah-rah, over the top announcer that likes to bring a certain "attitude" to the broadcast. The Sox are 102-226 since he started. You flip that record around, the announcer could basically shout racial slurs into the microphone and no one would care. I don't think he's very good at his job, but he was put in a very tough situation knowing his skillset.

In his eyes, he brought six NBA titles and a World Series Championship to the city of Chicago. Flip it. How much more does Jerry need to give this city? Of course I don't agree with what I just wrote, but it's abundantly clear in his actions the last two decades he has very little passion or even interest in running franchises that have a goal of winning. His goal is profit. As a fan, I don't agree with that at all, I think both are obtainable, but it's harder to accomplish. Which leads to Jerry's other "trait" He's incredibly lazy. This whole idea of Jerry being ultra loyal is horseshit. Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Phil Jackson, Frank Thomas...all have been basically shunned by their former Chicago employer. He didn't hire Chris Getz because he's loyal, he hired him because he didn't want to go through an actual search committee, learn to work with someone new...they already had a guy in the payroll system, so just give the job to him. He shows a complete lack of interest in evolving with the times, citing David Eckstein as one of his favorite players as late as 2024, along with bringing up Branch Rickey in his press conference in hiring Getz. Branch Rickey has been dead for over 60 years. He is a stain on this city, and when he finally goes, it will be the most significant and impactful thing to happen to this franchise since 2005.

The White Sox are Coming, Tra La, Tra La!!!!

This is a simplistic way of looking at it. They did not break any rule, you are correct. Ethically, we're having a different conversation. And decisions have consequences. Teams will be more hesitant to trade with the Ravens. Players may be more hesitant to agree to terms with the Ravens. It also has created much more of a mess for teams than people realize. We know by reporting that multiple teams were in on Crosby. He was one of the first dominos to fall, trade was agreed to and the multiple teams that were involved in the talks pivoted to signing and agreeing to terms with other players to fill their roster. With the salary Crosby has, there has to be some planning involved in getting his contract to work with the rest of the roster. For a trade of this magnitude, and with the current injury state Crosby is in, medicals should have been reviewed before a deal was formally announced.

Do the Raiders have the cap space to bring Crosby back after the FA’s the signed? What a mess

Have a weird feeling that Colson is going to have just a disaster of a season, eventually being sent down to AAA. On the flip side, think Murakami will provide excitement and have a positive year, but stretches of terrible AB's.

Thus far, they have plugged holes with seemingly similar players for last season. And there are still more holes to fill. But, when the draft is over, we should all have the expectation that the Bears went out and made this team better during the offseason than it was last year. That should absolutely be the goal, based on where they are at in their timeline. On March 10th, that isn't the case, they are not a better roster than they were last year, but there is still some time. I assume you mean that as a slight based on your post history, but banking on free agent signings isn't the way successful teams prosper. You don't hit on your draft picks, your team will fail, it's a really simple equation.

Thought this was interesting I think the right answer is probably somewhere in the middle when it comes to the cap, but I think the logic is sound in the idea of "kicking the can down the road" really isn't that risky with how we've seen the salary cap rise over the last few years, but a team has to have a willingness to actually want to spend big when the timing is right, and not sure we've seen the Bears show that sense of urgency.

And the Bears wouldn’t have been able to beat that offer given the Ravens are picking ahead of the Bears. Just too much

This is one of those moves you can’t totally judge in a vacuum, let’s see where else they spend. A Crosby trade is more of a stand alone deal, this one kind of seems like “Ok, let’s see where the dust settles with the rest of the offseason.”

Agree. Don’t love it, but simply need to see how the rest of the offseason plays out

I think they have to move forward with the idea that Ozzy is basically a lottery ticket at this point. The history isn't great with that type of injury, especially for big guys. And lets be honest, it wasn't like Ozzy was playing at an all-pro level. He was serviceable, which we were all happy with for a rookie. If he was healthy, based on his play last year, he'd be the starting LT, and you'd feel OK about that given the other guys on the OL. Think for the most part, if you have 4 guys on the line you truly trust, you can get by with one "weak link" Bears need one more guy on the OL, and probably two given how healthy they were last year (probably doesn't hold up again in 2026) I'd make some investments in FA in the OL, go heavy on defense in the draft.