NO!!MARY!!!

It was Mayor Harold Washington who told that staying at 35th and Shields was part of a stadium deal. The current site was foisted upon them. They did agree, but can we please put to rest the BS narrative of greedy owners rejecting this sweetheart deal that was offered them on a silver platter.

Will they though? Attendance peaked in 2006 and declined, to the point where they were in 1st place through nearly all of 2012 before pulling their mini-1964 Phillies, and they failed to draw 2 million.

Not at all. Just giving the reasons an expansion team won’t happen if the Sox leave. Plus I’m a little peeved by people who are already packing the moving vans and sending them to Nashville, when they haven’t even started negotiating yet. Plus there’s a social media page where a lot of Sox fans are being gleefully nasty about it.

The owner of the Chicago Capones would have to cough up an expansion fee AND a territorial rights fee to the Cubs. Speaking of which, the Cubs have veto power over any new team that would want to come into Chicago. Will they approve the Capones coming in and giving them competition? Also, MLB has been restructured to the point where the AL and NL no longer exist in their old form. There would be no need for a second team in Chicago to play in a park that can’t draw, is considered one of the worst in the majors AND is one that many Sox fans bitched, moaned, whined and complained about-everything from the height of the upper deck to the fact that it isn’t “retro” or yearning for old Comiskey Park or a better ballpark-until it was announced that the Sox wanted a new home. Now, suddenly, nothing is wrong with the park and any old team will be happy to take over it. Or, they can build their own park that every fan wants them to pay for, being against a billionaire getting government money, some for the first time in their lives probably, which would add to all the money they’d have to pay before they even play a single game. The idea of an expansion team is a fantasy, and the amount of Sox fans who want this to happen astounds me. It also happened in 1988, when a group of nuts fought to save the park at the expense of the team-again, because they hated the owners-because they were under the delusion that the AL would immediately put an expansion team in old Comiskey; the same governing body that told them they needed a new park or needed to move.

Bull.

I am ticked off. I worked on a long reply that somehow didn’t post. In a nutshell, no team would come in, and the amount of Sox fans who want them to move because they hate the owner pisses me off to no end. Also, how long before the Chicago Capones or whatever tick off the fans with dumb owner statements and losing baseball? It would not take long for some to go back to being angry and miserable and some to go back to trolling and enjoying every bad thing that happens to the Capones.

And what “new” franchise would that be?

So it’s official? They’re gone? Moving to Nashville? Did the owners approve?

I thought term limits were imposed after Jim Thompson? EDIT: just looked. You are correct.

Eddie Einhorn realized this more than 30 years ago. When the team hired a PR firm back in the late 80s, one of the first things said firm advised was for Einhorn to assume a low profile. Reinsdorf has no people skills from what I can see.

What? John Allyn did no such thing, where are you getting that? Arthur Allyn wanted to sell the team to Bud Selig, who was going to move them to Milwaukee. John was a silent partner who controlled half the votes on the Board of Directors and he refused to authorize the sale. Art wanted out, so he sold out. I do know that Art sued John years later over unpaid money from the sale, but the sale itself was about keeping the team in Chicago.

Jesus Christ.

It’s even worse on Facebook. People there are proudly proclaiming they should move, all because they don’t like the owner. They would rather lose the team because of that. It’s pathetic.

It’s pathetic

Come on. Stop trying to justify being perpetually miserable. Other fanbases have put up with the bad teams too. There’s nothing special about it.

True enough

The Godfather Part III. Mary was lying dead on the steps of the Opera House after being shot and while Diane Keaton was going hysterical Andy Garcia stood there and yelled “NO!! MARY!!!”

They’re Byron Hadley, the Chief Guard in Shawshank Redemption

Not to worry. Those complaining about no parking will complain that it’s too much and will cause traffic nightmares

Blah blah blah blah blah.

Harold Baines was not a Reinsdorf acquisition

The skyline from GRF is off in the distance and can’t really be seen. Enough of this crap over a big nothing.

I’d rather let the tub in.

Be careful what you wish for.

No they will not. Good Lord.