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It’s hilarious that the pearl clutching about parking ignores the fact that many fans already have to walk a block or two to get from lots G, F, and L into the park. Heaven forbid that they walk a block or two from an existing lot or garage across the river or nearby in the South Loop. Or that humans can’t adapt to new circumstance and simply won’t be able to function with something new or different about their ballpark experience.

Right so promoting Hostetler to a position he didn’t really qualify for but he was in the Sox organization so hey let’s do it sounds nothing like Getz look, you can be excited about a few new guys being hired but they have done nothing and nothing feels different except we keep getting closer to being the worst team in history. But yay on bannister, I’m sure in the next couple 100 loss seasons he will prove his worth and we can root for the pitching coordinator

JR should build more rivers then

This time Lucy holds the football in place...

Go 0-11. Leave no doubt.

The eye test should be all it takes. Vargas has been absolute cow dung in 559 career plate appearances. That’s a full season of at bats over three seasons. There is no way the Sox are going to be the team that fixes the guy when he was just as bad with the Dodgers. Brandon Gomes hoodwinked Getz, just as other GM’s have already done and will continue to do so in the future. BTW — excellent extra innings loss! Get that record Getz, you sorry excuse for a GM!

And one instance where the metrics and the eye test match up perfectly. There's literally nothing there. He's a AA caliber player.

And it’s why all this fluff about internal changes doesn’t mean anything when he is truly terrible at evaluating talent. Every metric about him showed he was a bad player.

And instead of hiring a Navy Seal with no baseball experience, they hired Chris Getz. who just acts like he has no baseball experience.

You'll take Jerry's parking lot revenue from Tray's cold, dead hands.

Also can we just get the "JR lied to us about this being a quick turnaround" thing out of the way now so we don't have to read 30 separate comments about it please and thank you

Jerry:

I've never understood how it can be so hard to find A GM and a manager Who simply have a baseball IQ of 97. Since we;re talking about the Sox I should point out that this is not a combined score.

Born into hard core Sox family in 1962. I wouldn't give JR 5 cents toward a new stadium.

Meanwhile Cease is dominating again. Fire everyone, Getz is the worst GM of all time.

He might be the worst player I’ve ever seen get over 100 at bats for the Sox

I assume everyone knows Grady Sizemore will never manage in the bigs again after this year. What a dope.

Vargas another 0-4…worst trade imaginable. He will be out of baseball in two years.

To be fair, the Fedde, DeJong, and Grossman acquisitions were good because they got back a couple decent relievers for DeJong and Grossman. However, Getz completely blew the Fedde signing by trading him for Vargas.

Julks is also dreadful. Will be interesting to see if that lottery ticket pitcher turns into anything for the Astros. He has been solid across rookie ball and low A ball this year.

Seriously? Do you not remember the 2020 playoffs when he literally left the game due to an arm injury? Source? Literally any Sox fan in the last 5 years.

If you want him to be able to compete with KC, he'll need several rivers.

You know what’s better and more effective than hiring a Director of Leadership and Culture that has zero baseball experience? Hiring a quality GM with experience and a goddamn clue. A GM that doesn’t trade quality trade assets for scrubs like Soroka, Shuster, Lopez, Fletcher, Vargas, etc. (a.k.a. not Chris Getz).

Eh, we’ve come this far…let’s get it all. Sox were an AL team in 1916, so it should count for something. Split with the Angels, get swept by the Padres and Tigers and finish 38-124 (.2345679).

Never gets old....1 post with the cap tip, 1 post with the loss #, and 1 post with Beavis never scoring.

I was long in bed for this one.....

Apologies....West Coast Delay......

He will get a raise. If they bring him back, they are even more nuts than we think.

what an absolute pile of horseshit. anything to not invest in players. this is window dressing of the highest order.

Yeah, f*** those god damn grifters at Related Devleopment. I definitely don’t want a brand new park in the perfect location that will draw a fuckton more casual fans and allow us to be more competitive if it requires me to take public transportation with the scum of the world. Ingress/egress all day everyday baby!!

The Cubs have more wins against AL teams than the Sox

Very good point, yes. Easy to forget we were in that position not too long ago.

Like I said, that would be my approach based on my motivations. Nothing more, nothing less.

Because they hired a culture leader and gave their flunkies a press release to write about?

Are there subsidies for that? Asking for a random billionaire.

I’d be perfectly happy with 121, or preferably 122, losses. I don’t need the distinction of a worse winning percentage than a team over a hundred years ago. 121/122 stands out to all hardcore and casual fans alike.

In 1998 if the Sox hired DePodesta instead of the As, I would have thought JR was full of crap and trying to sell us cheap ass players. I don't want innovation, I want things to stay the same. f*** JR for trying to fix the front office and take it in a new direction. The front office doesn't play. The front office is fine and has been for decades now. Just give them a $200 million payroll for next year and all will be fine. Well, maybe this might be a small step in a slightly better direction. I'll leave open the possibility it might help in ways we'll never know.

The link that heads22 provided and I included in this post is super informative if you click on the CHSN link Heads22 provided. Read it thoroughly and also click on the link they provide within their advice in the Over The Air (OTA) section about antennas from thefreeTVProject.org Your ability to watch games depends on how much effort you're willing to put into using antenna TV or your willingness to pay $100+ per month to DirecTV to get their streaming package that carries CHSN. This is a work in progress but for now DirecTV has the edge and that's a hefty price to pay. SO you must take advantage of OTA free TV and figure out how to make the best use of your Smart TV ability to scan for local channels. This will involve the use of some sort of antenna to pick up that channel and your antenna should be pointing at Willis Tower for best results. If you can pick it up using an indoor antenna start there because it will be the cheapest. I have cut the cord so streaming services are ideal but if you enjoy NFL football and can watch it on OTA channels like Fox, ABC ,NBC and CBS then you should already be using some type of antenna on your smarTV to pick up those channels depending on where you live and the strength of the signal. Each channel may broadcast from different points so the reception depends on where you live and the ability to adjust your antenna accordingly. It's a lot to learn so it depends on your patience and ability to decipher if an indoor or outdoor antenna is best. I'm in California so I cant give advice on whats the best approach in Chicago to get CHSN OTA but if you're willing to put in the time and effort and money to figure out what's best its still way cheaper even to install an outdoor antenna if you must rather than pay for DirecTV every month. Where I live I can pick up the OTA football channels just using a basic radio antenna that i shove into the coaxial output on my smart TV and playing with its location depending on the channel. It's a bit unsightly but basically it works and I just used basic wires for the antenna I had among old electronics stuff. I can pick up other channels too like PBS and multiple Korean, or Vietnamese stations. Basically you just use the INPUT on you SmarTV and scan for channels and whatever you get depends on how good your antenna is and where its pointed. It might change every time you do a scan. The weather is a lot worse in Chicago than in So Cal obviously so as I said read up on those antenna articles and figure it out if cost savings mean anything to you. It's unfortunate the channel is only HD starting Oct 1. That's ok for football and baseball but 4K really helps if you're a hockey fan in following the puck. You local ABC, NBC, Fox and CBS all broadcast in 4K as far as I know and it would help OTA broadcasts of CHSN to be in 4K too. I have no idea if that's under consideration for the CHSN OTA channels but it should be.

Now it's exclusively done by Reinsdorf

That works well because you have the 3 rivers and then all the bridges, but especially the Clemente Pedestrian Bridge.

Yeah, I'm not disagreeing with you or criticizing Crochet. I just know that, given my personality, I would have taken a different approach. You never know if you're EVER going to be able to play for another championship ever again in your life, so you go for it... full stop. That's my personality, without knowing what it feels like to have a 9-figure payday as a realistic future outcome.

You invest your whole life to reach a professional and financial pinnacle. You don't want some other team messing with the plan that has finally started to work to your advantage . He had no advantage to trusting his future to people who didnt contribute to getting him to his current position. You're in a much better position to contribute to a championship team when you can give it 100% from a physical and financially secure position. He would've been in neither position pitching in the post season in any capacity. You're likely to hurt your team or yourself performing in less than optimal conditions and guttng it out. He knew his limitations. That shows maturity. Now that could've come from his agent but it was still in his best interests.

Nothing really new in here. Everyone likes the idea and potential for the site, liked the presentation, just don't want it to be covered by public funds.

It did wonders…

Do you have any data at to what percentage of Cub fans reply on mass transportation to get there, and exactly how much dumber Sox fans are that they can't do the same thing/

Why does the job title just sound like a joke to me?

But guys who bash their work mates anonymously to media, those are the guys who you want around.

Did this guy just start or has he been around all season?

Diminish attendance? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Jerry: CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!