Balta1701

See that's the thing, if the White Sox genuinely can say "We tried to get a stadium deal done for 4 years and the city and state would not play ball", is MLB going to tell the White Sox no? Are the other owners? They want to be able to leverage the threat of moving for their own stadium deals, if MLB were to block that, it reduces the leverage of every other owner in the future when they make crazy demands of taxpayers. If they were arbitrarily trying to move this year, fine right now there's no stomach for it, the league would say no today but there's literally a gulf of $1.5 billion between the two sides. I don't see how we are anywhere but right here in 2028, with the White Sox telling the league that they tried for 4 years and their stadium deal is expiring, and the league saying "fine if you have money elsewhere we won't block you".

I can't find all the details because Google is now terrible, but Oakland gave the A's a serious offer for a new stadium as a partnership with a whole bunch of public money involved.

I don't see a way that this gets resolved without the same sort of brinksmanship that it took to get the deal done for new Comiskey. Reinsdorf isn't going to offer up his own money if he can threaten to leave, and the only thing that might make the state offer anything is a 100% serious threat to leave. And if the politicians don't fully cave with a massive offer for him like last time...I don't know how this ends other than the A's approach.

I believe they should retire his throwback jersey.

Given our history with this ownership, presumably this is an effort to find and fire the leakers rather than to improve the identified issues.

“No one wants to win more than Reinsdorf” is one of those things he loves hearing about himself, which is why the yes men around him repeat it constantly.

January of 2020.

You have to remember, he also surrounds himself with guys like Chris Getz, Rick Hahn, and Tony LaRussa, who tell him that things are great and they love his feedback because they know they can have high paying jobs forever with no accountability, so they become yes men forever, or in one case they’re just completely nuts. If everyone is telling him he’s doing a great job, why would he need to change? And meanwhile, he’s terrified about being told that he’s made a mistake, so he won’t even interview GM candidates outside the organization.

We have a 50/50 player.

...So they've been using the same plane for at least 10 years?

…not Getz though.

Mine’s better.

A Rick Hahn apology thread should feature an apology from Rick Hahn.

A quick search suggests that the average age of an A320 in United’s fleet is 25 years, and this one seems unusually low in the size of the first class area.

One of the things that stood out the most over the past decade is the high ground ball rates. It’s not just one guy, it’s everyone, and the longer they’re here the worse it is. Eloy, Vaughn, Anderson - these are guys who should be hitting line drives and fly balls over the wall, but they gradually become more and more ground ball heavy. Do we seriously think this is an accident, and anything other than the coaching staff telling them to hit the ball on the ground and put it in play? Theres a line in the article about how Reinsdorf wants guys who get em over and get em in. LaRussa comes in, and these guys turn into ground ball machines. Thats a coincidence? Naw.

I don’t have it in front of me but I don’t remember seeing it stated that Haber refused to comment as they did with Hahn. Did they?

No one hates White Sox fans more than…well we know.

None of them have a recent history of back or leg problems that also start affecting other muscles and their performance, so it’s ok.

It’s weird how two straight seasons the guy who has called out this FO has been a marginal roster vet. Its like they think they’ve seen enough that they’re saying screw it, I’d rather be out of the league than let this hurt other players.

For the better franchises out there, this probably makes him look more like a responsible leader.

Then he doesn't deserve anything resembling an apology and I get my 10 years of earned vitriol. If the White Sox organization can't get their act together and this franchise moves, Rick Hahn will be tied with Chris Getz as the number 2 reason why it happens.