h. jones

Particularly with railroads (who control their right of way and very flexible rights to build upon their property), it's a far wiser strategy for residents/neighbors to coalesce around a list of requested enhancements to a project (i.e., please build this sound-buffering wall; we'd like a pedestrian/bicycle overpass/walkway; can you add more greenery to the borders for aesthetics; please donate $x to the community park in the neighborhood, etc.) than to think for a moment that opposing it will do anything at all. Also, it's changing from a freight yard to a larger passenger service facility building/yard - far less pollution, far less danger of hazardous materials handling; if I lived in the area, I would view that as a huge positive change.

The Phillies have painful experience with "acquire Austin Hays at the trade deadline" in 2024 (in fact, they traded Seranthony Dominguez to the Orioles for Hays); he was oft-injured and gave them -0.4 WAR in 22 games. As for Pereira, they already have outfielders that can hit .230 - I don't see that meeting their needs for an upgrade. Perhaps he'd have more value if he produces for awhile at the Major League level first.

Silly question, perhaps, but if this is now the second cleat-related injury...maybe the type of cleat that Teel uses needs to be re-thought? I get that these are freak accidents in a way, but still.

Solid choice. Wet Leg is outstanding live.

I did the same thing as @DoUEvenShift did, but just had the photo adapted into the style of Rockwell first.

If I were designing the concession concepts at a new park, I would lean heavily into licensed renowned/beloved local institutions as the purveyors, whether Levy/Delaware North/Aramark or whomever is handling the point-of-sale. Whomever makes the best pizza, hamburger, hot dog, fried chicken, donuts, or whatever in Chicago should have a stand on every level of the stadium with their name on it. And generic cheap-o alternatives of those foods would be available at generic/typically-named stands ("Ballpark Classics") at a lower price point. Do a licensing deal with Rick Bayless and put his Mexican food in-house. You get the idea.

This is a great example of a nuance/quirk of the stadium design, and something that I hadn't noticed about Rate Field.

At the risk of annoying people, I'd like to try steering things into talk about ideas. For a moment, let's just presume as a given that the next location for the stadium will be at the 78 or directly across the river from it (where the rail yard/landswap deal is happening). Set aside personal opinions/feelings about that, or alternative location ideas, or why the current site is or is not good. Just start at this point: a new White Sox Stadium at the 78/across from the 78 opening in the year 203x. If it helps, assume that you can park easily in a multilevel garage or take public transportation right to the location. What would you want to have surrounding the stadium? What features would make you happy to have inside of it? How would you want the seating? What about different food? Party areas? There's always going to be suites. Would you have clubs? How many kinds? Etc. Etc.

Yep, I understood - I was drawing a contrast between the ease of now vs the effort of then, is all.

It's an issue of volume - it takes no time/effort/cost at all to write some rant in an email and hit send. Front office folks get hundreds of them per day, if not thousands.

The cost for internal team performance personnel goes up now - if the only advantage you can wring out of the same sets of data is the quality of people working with it, those people can command more $ for their expertise. Same thing if they ever eventually set a max on number of analytics people per-team. Constraining supply doesn't constrain demand, it just makes the supply more expensive.

They should (because the ballpark village wouldn’t exist in the first place if not for the baseball games at the ballpark) but I’d bet they’d settle for the owners of said profit centers to stop simultaneously pulling out their pants pockets to show how empty they are.

It doesn't matter if there are Sox fans who will refuse to go to the 78 - those attendees will be replaced 1:1 by the residents of the developments of the 78 and any/all nearby walkable/transit neighborhoods, and tourists, etc. etc.

Collusion is illegal, but it would be a very weird and amusing variation of it if the other 29 clubs "spontaneously decided" not to trade with the Dodgers between now and Opening Day. There'd be seven potential releases to pick over without loss of prospects.