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People complain how bad Leury's contact is. It should be the minimum. I'm complaining about any player who signs a worst deal.

Cheap ass owner underpaying players so they can make huge profits. No way he should have signed for less than Leury money. I was hoping with the new CBA we'd see fans continuing to demand higher salaries for players. He doesn't have many seasons left, this should have been a better payday.

I'm guessing it's more complicated than a "bum" ankle.

No word on how the kid got the gun.

No. Nothing compares to a Hawks Anthem. A friend of mine was at the exhibition game against Russia when it started. He said it started small during the opening line then just got insane. He thought it would be a one off thing but it's a tradition now.

Then you really should look at those Bull rosters from the 1990s. Paxson, Harper, Kerr to name a few. They had a competitive team and actually signed some key free agents. There are very few owners in all of sports that have really changed a team. The majority of the time nothing really changes. The Sox hadn't been in the playoffs in over 20 years when JR bought the team. They made it a couple years later.

So many thoughts. It's obviously life changing to receive that diagnosis.

The Bulls are valued higher than the Sox.

How sad is Chicago sports when JR has the most championship seasons under his ownership? (Almost all Bulls of course). I don't mind if he keeps his ownership stake, but turn over the Chairmanship to someone else and enjoy retirement. He's earned it.

Could happen. Or a Jerry Jones type. I'm mostly pointing out that it could get better, stay the same, or actually get worse. I'm trying to think of a principle owner of all Chicago sports franchises throughout history with more championships to their credit?

Voting on what?

That's the most common reoccurring percentage I've read. It is unofficial. It usually is included in reports on his current estimated net worth of $1.8 billion. Perhaps it's an audit number. But I don't believe anyone disputes he owns much less than half.

Jerry owns 20%. His influence isn't as much as one of the owners, it's as the Chairman. He doesn't have to sell, he could retire and allow a successor to take over.

How much debt does the team have? What's their P&I cost? What were the executive salaries? Office costs? The average MLB team employees about 500 people. How much do they contribute to run the league offices? Insurance costs? And Jerry owns 20% so "he" didn't lose that. Companies have losing years, dividends get paid, CEOs get bonuses. If they did lose that they have plenty of equity to borrow against. Just draw down their line if credit. It's easy to believe they lost $21 mil. That's really not that much. For some franchises that's just one player's salary.

I "lost money" on my home last year while picking up a lot of equity. Same principal here, they may have lost $10 mil, but the value of the franchise may have increased $100 mil. And let's remember that it's not like the ownership group is tossing in money each year. It's more debt they have to service. If they only lost $10 mil a year for all of the forty years this group has owned the Sox, $400 mil total, it would still be a great investment. NBA franchises are with more. Comparing to the Clippers probably isn't accurate. The Bulls are worth over $2billion. I wouldn't be surprised if Jerry received a nice raise this year as President. Don't think of the loss as him losing income. If they sell, it means a bank will be grabbing a little more off the top at closing. At $1.7 billion that $10 mil loss is very minor.

I teach both plus "Stop The Bleed", which is now required for teachers in Texas. Yep, don't need CPR as a teacher, because you'll probably not going to use it, but let's make certain every teacher can stop gun shot wounds.

Good point. I think it's just amazing the Bears have not had a franchise quarterback in over 70 years. Meanwhile the average Packer QB seems to be a Pro Bowl candidate every year and most are HoF caliber. Luck? Curse? Generations of bad drafts? Timing? Hoping for just good enough at that spot is realistic, anything more just sets us up for disappointment.

Still waiting for the next Sid Luckman (1939 - 1950). As mentioned, there are no guarantees the greatest draft pick will be a franchise QB and carry the team. Keep building around Fields and adapt the system to him. The Bears system is win with defense.

If Jerry cared about winning they would have lost 30 million.

Find an owner without ties to the city that will finally move them to a city where they can be #1 instead of in another team's shadow. Maybe get an owner that has a ton of debt from buying the team and needs to slash costs for a while. Get that payroll closer to the half way mark instead of top 10. Plenty of great things can happen with new ownership.

I'm guessing at these numbers some sort of production will be in there as well as games played, etc.

The market is set by the second highest remaining bidder. It seems like he's heading towards the richest incentive based contract in history. Lower annual salary cost, higher possibilities based on production.

Location doesn't really matter. It will get press coverage.

Better to never have been in that position in the first place. But when we rehire Grifol, the HoF manager from LA in 2049 we'll know we haven't learned that lesson.