2 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

For my job I could double to triple my salary if I were willing to go into an office every day in Chicago or especially NYC. I have plenty of house, a yard, I am a mile from Lake Michigan which I can park at any day for free and see a sunset in my favorite bar on the beach. There are reasons I never left. The no commute part is definitely worth giving up some money for, as is the housing vs any other market around those metro areas. There is a reason I never moved to Illinois despite commuting there for 15 years.

Alright, Alright....stop rubbing it in for crying out loud.

7 hours ago, Texsox said:

Why have a human player, perhaps based on their participation in the predictive markets, missing a shot when we can have an unbiased athlete playing on your screens?

As a parent of a 12 year old, I understand what you’re driving at… I just don’t think it will be this extreme.

There may be a separate segment of it in a new market, sure… but the game of baseball will be played by people for the rest of human time.

2 hours ago, Texsox said:

Giving up on the NFL or switching teams? Packers maybe? That would be an interesting dynamic shift if Chicago became Packer Country. It would serve the McCaskey 's well.

I’ve always figured I was the only Sox / Packers fan on this board. Would be strange for have that become the norm.

I hope the Bears stay where they belong.

6 minutes ago, hi8is said:

I’ve always figured I was the only Sox / Packers fan on this board. Would be strange for have that become the norm.

I hope the Bears stay where they belong.

Who pays to demo and remove the current stadium at Soldier Field?

The Bears or IL and Chicago taxpayers?

38 minutes ago, hi8is said:

I’ve always figured I was the only Sox / Packers fan on this board. Would be strange for have that become the norm.

I hope the Bears stay where they belong.

Sox/Packers/Badgers/Celtics fan here for over 50 years.

Edited June 5Jun 5 by JTB

Am I the only one who thinks it's weird that the Bears -- historically the North Side's team that played for years in Wrigley -- is suddenly gonna be on the far Southside? Also, I grew up in St. Joe, Michigan, so I am very familiar with the Wolf Lake area. The whole thing has to be a Superfund site, right? For many years, the air around there could have been mined for an assortment of metals, let alone the water. I gotta believe the environmental work they'd have to do to make that site ready is going to stretch into years.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/2026/06/05/hammond-bears-chicago-indiana-nfl-george-mccaskey-kevin-warren-mike-braun-wolf-lake

I was born and raised in NW Indiana. From what I'm hearing and seeing on social media is that most residents there don't want them moving in. They despise the fact that are going to help pay for the stadium. I also remember seeing some Indianapolis Colts signs there during the Bears Colts superbowl

16 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:

https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/2026/06/05/hammond-bears-chicago-indiana-nfl-george-mccaskey-kevin-warren-mike-braun-wolf-lake

All the beat reporters seem to think its not over either.

I was born, raised, and lived in Hammond for 30 years and so my Facebookis blowing up with the news. I'm telling them to pump their brakes just a lil bit and I hope I dont look stupid.

I'd say it's like 95% Indiana at this point but dont think it's over.

2 hours ago, Melton1972 said:

Mayor Johnson didn't seem bothered by these developments in his statements a few days ago. My ultimate fantasy is to move the Cardinals from Arizona back to Chicago and have them play at Soldier Field. I can dream can't I ?

The Bears have the right to block any team from moving into Soldier Field, which sucks.

Edited June 5Jun 5 by Falstaff

1 hour ago, tray said:

Who pays to demo and remove the current stadium at Soldier Field?

The Bears or IL and Chicago taxpayers?

That's not happening regardless of where the Bears go.

7 minutes ago, Green Line said:

That's not happening regardless of where the Bears go.

Yep. The Bears only account for about 20% of the Park District's revenue from Soldier Field. Sold-out marquee concerts will continue there and they could possible schedule even more in late August and into September now. It'll be a bigger draw for the mild weather months than a dome surrounded by refinery and coke battery fumes.

1 hour ago, tray said:

Who pays to demo and remove the current stadium at Soldier Field?

The Bears or IL and Chicago taxpayers?

The Illinois stadium authority.

NBC showed a clip from 1975 showing Mayor Richard J Daley angrily vowing to prevent the Bears from using Chicago in their name if they left Chicago. Loved that guy

1 hour ago, JTB said:

Sox/Packers/Badgers/Celtics fan here for over 50 years.

Holy smokes I’m not alone! 😆

Though, I don’t follow basketball since the sport changed so much and the other league I know so little about to not have any frame of reference for who the Badgers even are. 😆

2 hours ago, hi8is said:

As a parent of a 12 year old, I understand what you’re driving at… I just don’t think it will be this extreme.

There may be a separate segment of it in a new market, sure… but the game of baseball will be played by people for the rest of human time.

I agree. We probably disagree if it will be as mainstream as it was in the 1950s, 1980s, or 2020s. I see parents and kids at games and they are all lost in their phones. How many right now are watching the game and posting here?

Perhaps it starts with virtual eSports teams in the Nashville and San Antonios of the world without physical franchises. Image games that fit into a perfect 90 minute videosteam.

4 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:

The Illinois stadium authority.

Hey @tray. As you leave your moronic passive-aggressive laugh reacts, you might want to try actually paying attention to information instead of reveling in your own ignorance when someone gives you an answer to your question.

Or just keep proving to Soxtalk you have no idea what you are talking about.

8 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:

For my job I could double to triple my salary if I were willing to go into an office every day in Chicago or especially NYC. I have plenty of house, a yard, I am a mile from Lake Michigan which I can park at any day for free and see a sunset in my favorite bar on the beach. There are reasons I never left. The no commute part is definitely worth giving up some money for, as is the housing vs any other market around those metro areas. There is a reason I never moved to Illinois despite commuting there for 15 years.

This is where I am at now. I have lived in Chicago and the burbs for all of my life and I love it but the taxes suck. I have worked for the same Fortune 500 company since 2017, which moved to full-time remote work during Covid. My oldest son is starting college in De Pere, Wisconsin but my younger son is still attending Brother Rice for two more years. I think I will make the move to Wisconsin once he graduates and goes to college. I just want to live in a cottage on a lake, fish everyday, shoot target practice in my backyard, drink Spotted Cow, and basically do whatever the f*** I want without being taxed up the ass. The order of these activities to be determined later.

Edited June 6Jun 6 by WhiteSox2023

9 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:

For my job I could double to triple my salary if I were willing to go into an office every day in Chicago or especially NYC. I have plenty of house, a yard, I am a mile from Lake Michigan which I can park at any day for free and see a sunset in my favorite bar on the beach. There are reasons I never left. The no commute part is definitely worth giving up some money for, as is the housing vs any other market around those metro areas. There is a reason I never moved to Illinois despite commuting there for 15 years.

Just be honest with us. You never moved to Chicago because it is too woke for you.

Just now, ron883 said:

Just be honest with us. You never moved to Chicago because it is too woke for you.

That’s one way to put it, without getting into politics. Fuggem all. 🤣

The ISFA (Illinois taxpayers) own Rate Field and additional property around the stadium. Once the White Sox leave, the ISFA can choose to either repurpose Rate Field (doubtful), abandon it, or demolish it. Demo and clearing the land seems like the most likely scenario (in order to sell vacant property to a private developer).

Soldier Field presents a much different and more complicated set of options given its location and the involvement of the City and the Park District.

Edited June 6Jun 6 by tray

7 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:

Hey @tray. As you leave your moronic passive-aggressive laugh reacts, you might want to try actually paying attention to information instead of reveling in your own ignorance when someone gives you an answer to your question.

Or just keep proving to Soxtalk you have no idea what you are talking about.

Do you have a law degree?

Can everyone just roll their eyes and move on and stop responding to him? All he does is try to derail this thread, ignore it. Plenty of good egress ingress talk in here

14 hours ago, tray said:

Who pays to demo and remove the current stadium at Soldier Field?

The Bears or IL and Chicago taxpayers?

The Cardinals should return to Chicago and they can play in Soldier Field.

21 minutes ago, The Mighty Mite said:

The Cardinals should return to Chicago and they can play in Soldier Field.

The cardinals have their own huge boondoggle stadium, why would they want to move again.