Dick Allen

No they are not. But getting the right guy here will help, eventually.

Of the candidates out there, he definitely seemed the best. The Cleveland bench coach seemed OK, To me, if it was a tie, Venable would get my pick because he recently played. Maybe not a huge deal, but players seem to respond to it. He's basically an ivy League educated Grady Sizemore, with a lot more coaching experience.

The White Sox don’t pay for upkeep and improvements, and when the ISFA took on the Bears Reno, they had to mess around with their bonds. This will be the same problem only 5 to tenfold if the state caves and builds both new stadiums.

And there really is no hope on the horizon for a relatively quick fix. The catcher will help the catcher offensive numbers, but rookie catchers usually don’t hit much. Montgomery leaves a bunch of doubt.

They got the White Sox for 13 games. If it were 6, they were probably screwed.

I’m sure they do. He is under contract through next season.

He said the hold up now is with the NBA.

Laurence Holmes has the price breakdown for the app. 19.99 a month per team. 29.99 a month for all teams or 300 per year for all.

Of course, but you look at the White Sox and say when can they be good? If most goes right, it will be a while. At some point, the manager gets fired, and not many guys with only a history of 100 loss seasons get another chance. I would say if he stays where he’s at, he’s probably to odds on favorite when Bochy retires again. And he will get other interviews. There was a while Sandy wasn’t interested. Maybe he had kids in school or something similar and didn’t want to mess with it. You take over a team that might be a year or two away from a really nice run, you punch your ticket. LaRussa got the A’s job at a perfect time. Pedro might have won a WS with that roster. But it got Tony credibility, and when the A’s went bad, Tony got the Cardinals. If Tony got another team after the Sox fired him, if they weren’t stacked, he would never have the rep he has now. Since he left the Cardinals, he’s been around a ton of losing.

If I was Venable, I would definitely listen, and then wait for an offer, but the offer would have to be pretty, pretty, pretty good to accept. Market rate or average, why would you come to this mess? You will have other opportunities down the line. OTOH, if you go 58-104 you are a hero. But that’s no fun. Cutting payroll, little chance for the offense to be much better. Most likely trading away your best pitcher….if I’m him I’d wait.

I think even the Marlins would laugh. It has to be an agents worst nightmare….having to use the White Sox to try to up the ante.

Phil Nevin is late 90s early 2000s old school. Up until he was 28 years old, never hit 10 homers in a season. Then hit 24, then 31, then 41. Hmmm, what was going on around that time? The other thing is, he would obviously be a LaRussa hire as Getz said the hire would have been in uniform during the 24 season. Unless he had a job at Burger King, that wouldn’t be Nevin.

Which is true, but ironically, not turning down Jerry’s free money probably cost him a shot at ever being a GM of an MLB team ever again. No way any team will ever hire him in that role now, although if they looked at his work before the rebuild, they most likely would never hire him anyway,

So the question is are the Sox going to hire a re tread like Nevin or someone else they will tell us blew them away with knowledge yet will require an experienced bench coach because they aren’t quite sure he knows what he is doing yet? IMO, this hire really comes down to who will agree to JRs price.

What an awesome idea.

What they can try is similar to what my siblings and I are trying to pull off right now. My dad has been in assisted living for a while and up until earlier this year we would pick him up and take him to his house and spend the daily with him. The house expenses were worth it. Now, he isn't going to be able to do that anymore so we want to sell the house. We are baking the Capital Gains tax into thr price of the house, and hopefully someone bites. These guys rhat but teams aren't necessarily looking for a bargain, so sell it for a little more and let the extra cover most of the tax.

And jobs aren't being created. They are just moving to a different location.

God help Bulls fans. It's amazing the gift Michael Jordan gave him, and his effort to try to mess it up. Pro basketball failed in Chicago. Then came back, was pretty good, but not great, Then MJ, and it's sellouts every night. He leaves, the team has never been so bad, but still sellouts. Now he can't get their games on cable, is fielding yet another lousy team, and interest is finally starting to fade. I used to be a huge Bulls fan, even before Michael. With Norm Van Lier, and Artis Gilmore....I watched whatever I could and would listen to Jim Durham on the radio for the rest. Since the demise of DRose, I look at it, but not engaged. The NBA as a whole, kind of bores me. I like watching Curry hoist 3's. but that seems to be the whole game now. Good analytically, boring to watch IMO. but a lot of people love it. I do think the Bulls are an exception. Their fans are starting to have had enough of being taken advantage of. What the Bulls do prove, is even if the Sox had stellar attendance, JR was still going to field a lousy team, just like he would at a new $2 billion stadium.

What I don't get is JR asks for minimal help with the United Center and now it's re-development. It's so inconsistent.

The Bears bought some land in Arlington Heights. That is where they will end up. The White Sox, who knows? But wherever they go, their owner will have to break out the checkbook.

Not if they hire Thome or Harold. They know the players. The team won't be wasting a year.

Yeah, the issue is location. LMAO.

He was nearly a White Sox. They wanted him, but the Dodgers got him. A couple of really close near misses Roland Hemond and Bill Veeck had that might have made Reinsdorf look better. Almost got Fernando, and almost had Guidry thrown in the Bucky Dent trade which included Gamble and Hoyt.

That's the problem. If you gave each company in Chicago that does as much business and employs as many people as the White Sox, $1 billion or $2 billion, we'd have a huge problem. I read where the Sox may not be in the top 100 in Chicago.

BTW.JB said no again.