Balta1701

If it’s Getz without any process, it’s because Reinsdorf wants to be Jerry Jones or Al David and just handle it himself:

is there any CBA loophole that we could get a draft pick for Lucas if he was here for 5 out of 6 months of the season?

He has a 1.457 WHIP, clearly some numbers have just gone temporarily haywire with him. Basically everything he is throwing is either a strikeout a hit or a walk.

This is the correct statement of how mutual options and buyouts work.

I believe it's more like a person rather than people.

So a person successfully smuggled a gun past White Sox security... And Ronald Acuna jr. Just was tackled or knocked over while security was apprehending two people who ran onto the field up to him. This is going to end with these events being combined together at some point, isn't it?

This is literally part of the strategy. When you acquire guys in their early to mid 30s, they are cheaper. Relief pitchers are also cheaper. Older players are cheaper because other teams recognize the risk of the player falling off, sometimes suddenly, with age. Keuchel, Lynn, Grandal, LaRoche, Cabrera. These guys had high likelihood of hitting walls in age. The White Sox took those gambles. And relievers - they’re up and down every year, sometimes luck/BABIP, sometimes because 80 outings a year takes a big toll on an arm. The guys who get big contracts are often coming off of good years, so they're set up to take a step back just based off of luck.

https://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/38273076 Labels them the most disappointing team of the last 5 years, says that the worst prediction of his career was saying this team could win the 2021 World Series.

Give this excuse all you want it’s still wrong. Common sense is not “there should be hundreds of big events nationwide per week and it’s impossible to evacuate any of them in an emergency so you just let things play out and hope tons aid people don’t die.” Common sense is not “there might be a gun on site but let’s hope there isn’t because if there is we are helpless. “ How many events this week nationwide had 20,000 people present? You have to be able to evacuate this in minutes without a crowd crush, it is seriously rule number 1. Concert venues know this, stadiums know this. If you do not have procedures for this then you will lose millions in the negligence lawsuit from the families of your victims. Common sense should be “this is what we trained for people, this is why we have well trained and well paid staff. If we have to move everyone out we can do it safely in a few minutes, a crowd rush is not a concern. Is it 100% certain that it is safe to keep people in this facility or not? If you did not know where the shot came from, then the answer to that question is no. If this turns into an active shooter situation because someone has a gun that is way worse as you cannot manage the crowd rush in that scenario. If they thought it was 100% safe, why did they move family members?

Ok first - the White Sox and in fact any big event or professional spots team should have sufficient staff on hand and trained to manage a quick move if everyone to the exits in an emergency. It is standard crowd control procedures and is legally required in many states. If you don’t have this, you end up with Astroworld. Hell the facility was barely half full. Second, it is challenging to figure out how it is not safe for the players families and guests but everyone else should be allowed to stay.

In general it hasn’t been thought to be that effective. It draws a substantial amount of resources because police respond whenever it sends out a message, but it has led to very few actual arrests.

I’d wait until tomorrow to see if this makes any sense somehow, but if you were there, you should at least send an angry message to them. I’m not sure if you’d have a case to contact a lawyer for that, maybe?

That’s bizarre too, there’s no way it went more than an hour before someone reported “hey there was a gunshot in the bleachers people are bleeding and police are flooding in wE might not be able to do the concert?”

There still the more than slightly big issues of the game continuing and how someone got a gun into the park.

Maybe Twitter is just this broken that there’s tons of video and photos but no one shares breaking content any more.

https://wgntv.com/news/chicagocrime/shooting-investigation-underway-at-guaranteed-rate-field/

The person linked here labels himself as CBS Chicago but of course that’s not verified.

Did they clear out an outfield seating section at any point?

It seems pretty clear at this point there was some sort of incident. Will edit the thread title as details fill in. There seem to be several reports that it happened during the game and they played on, which seems particularly unbelievable?

I believe the grey check marks are reserved for government officials.

I could certainly believe that major media might withhold until there was an official statement, but even with Twitter being half destroyed it does seem like we’d have video or photos or something.

Shooting stuff split into its own thread since people may care about that after tonight.