34 minutes ago, GenericUserName said:

Call the bluff.

If he goes through with it and Stewart moves the team to Nashville, that's good. Now they can deal with this cursed fucking franchise.

And it would let us start fresh. Give us a new expansion team with an ambitious owner and give them the opportunity to do the 78 project and do it right.

I think I could get over losing the name and history of the White Sox if it meant a better future. As long as there is a team on the southside that hates the Cubs, I would be happy.

I was thinking they lose the team but keep the name and history for an expansion team. I would actually be ok with a fresh start. White Sox 2.0 haha 

Edited October 16, 20241 yr by Bob Sacamano

1 hour ago, Dick Allen said:

Dave Stewart is the guy leading the charge on an expansion team in Nashville. To me, this is a plant to try to force public opinion and politicians. Call his bluff.

That's true, Stewart wants the Nashville franchise. According to Sports Illustrated he's working with TLR on it.

I hope JR does want to sell, the sooner he's gone the better but this smells fishy to me especially regarding Stewart.

 

 

Sell you ass 🤡 POS

28 minutes ago, Bob Sacamano said:

I was thinking they lose the team but keep the name and history for an expansion team. I would actually be ok with a fresh start. White Sox 2.0 haha 

I'd be fine with that. Same franchise, same history, just a new owner. It would suck to not have a team for a minute but long term that would be the best thing for us fans imo. Just clear the entire JR stink out.

5 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said:

I'd be fine with that. Same franchise, same history, just a new owner. It would suck to not have a team for a minute but long term that would be the best thing for us fans imo. Just clear the entire JR stink out.

This is crazy talk to me. Zero guarantee this happens. 

1 hour ago, Green Line said:

Wow go figure, the people who demanded he sell might get what they want.  Hope you're all happy!

This is just our cheapskate owner trying to get his new stadium funded by throwing out threats like a little child.

Edited October 16, 20241 yr by WhiteSox2023

Perhaps JR wants to sell now because he realizes he can't get the new stadium built.

5 minutes ago, Look at Ray Ray Run said:

This is crazy talk to me. Zero guarantee this happens. 

I get it, but if the team moves, what are we going to do? I'm not going to follow the Nashville Hot Chickens.

3 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said:

I get it, but if the team moves, what are we going to do? I'm not going to follow the Nashville Hot Chickens.

Have no local team to follow at all, rather than a garbage one that has been run into the ground by its owner.

Edited October 16, 20241 yr by WhiteSox2023

8 minutes ago, WBWSF said:

Perhaps JR wants to sell now because he realizes he can't get the new stadium built.

Or as stated he's using this as a ploy to try to extort state funds. I suspect he knows his stadium idea is D.O.A. with the politicians.

Anyway more musings from yours truly:

Don't be fooled. This is a ploy by JR to try to extort more financial money from the state/public for his stadium idea.

 

First off, a story in Sports Illustrated wrote that Stewart and his people want the Nashville franchise and that TLR is part of it. Stewart has had discussions with Manfred about it and that MLB likes the idea of minority ownership. Plus MLB could get A LOT more money from an expansion team then relocating the Sox. 

 

JR knows his idea to get state money is doomed as long as Pritzker is governor. 

 

Second Stewart's group may be a fraud in and of itself.

 

Third as I wrote in August 2020, the tax hit if JR sells while he is alive:

https://www.southsidesox.com/2022/8/29/23325369/jerry-reinsdorf-selling-chicago-white-sox-not-on-his-life

 

Hey the sooner he's gone the better in my opinion but this 'report" doesn't make a lot of sense.

 

11 minutes ago, WBWSF said:

Perhaps JR wants to sell now because he realizes he can't get the new stadium built.

Maybe, but he's not selling to Dave Stewart's group that much I'm sure of.

1 hour ago, GenericUserName said:

Call the bluff.

If he goes through with it and Stewart moves the team to Nashville, that's good. Now they can deal with this cursed fucking franchise.

And it would let us start fresh. Give us a new expansion team with an ambitious owner and give them the opportunity to do the 78 project and do it right.

I think I could get over losing the name and history of the White Sox if it meant a better future. As long as there is a team on the southside that hates the Cubs, I would be happy.

No expansion team will come if the Sox move. You’re so half-crazed with hate for the owner that you want the team gone? Not my thing and I honestly don’t get the mentality of people who feel that, and that’s the nicest way I can put it. Still, you do whatever makes you happy. But don’t expect another team to come in to fill in where the Sox failed. 

1 hour ago, Quin said:

If I'm not mistaken, Cubs would gain the ability to block any expansion team.

Yes! They would. 

1 hour ago, whitesoxwinner said:

Where is the lipman. We need someone with inside sources

Busy telling us this could never happen.

4 minutes ago, NO!!MARY!!! said:

No expansion team will come if the Sox move. You’re so half-crazed with hate for the owner that you want the team gone? Not my thing and I honestly don’t get the mentality of people who feel that, and that’s the nicest way I can put it. Still, you do whatever makes you happy. But don’t expect another team to come in to fill in where the Sox failed. 

There's 9.5 million people in the Chicagoland area and you are saying no expansion team would move here ?

4 minutes ago, NO!!MARY!!! said:

No expansion team will come if the Sox move. You’re so half-crazed with hate for the owner that you want the team gone? Not my thing and I honestly don’t get the mentality of people who feel that, and that’s the nicest way I can put it. Still, you do whatever makes you happy. But don’t expect another team to come in to fill in where the Sox failed. 

Counterpoint: Chicago’s market is a goldmine for another team despite it being the second team. It was just Jerry owned.

35 minutes ago, WBWSF said:

Perhaps JR wants to sell now because he realizes he can't get the new stadium built.

or they're selling the minority shares to a new group who will help finance the new stadium.

2 minutes ago, Falstaff said:

There's 9.5 million people in the Chicagoland area and you are saying no expansion team would move here ?

If you count 1/3 of Chicago as a market, it is bigger than pretty much any real expansion market out there, especially if you account for two expansion teams on top of it.

2 minutes ago, Bob Sacamano said:

Counterpoint: Chicago’s market is a goldmine for another team despite it being the second team. It was just Jerry owned.

The Mother Lode

2 hours ago, sin city sox fan said:

Mark Cuban.....pick up the phone please

Oh hell no. 

CALLED IT

Why do you credit the tertiary source? Seems the athletic is source, per NYT, as posted to twitter by some guy

14 minutes ago, Harold's Leg Lift said:

or they're selling the minority shares to a new group who will help finance the new stadium.

LOL.

Whatever way this goes, Jerry Reinsdorf is a rat.

30 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

Busy telling us this could never happen.

Actually I've said that the odds were remote due to JR's own comments as well as the tax hit.

Before either of us says, "I told you so" let's wait and see how this shakes out shall we?

As I posted this smells totally like a ploy by JR.

We'll find out soon enough.