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"Ellch explained the vision for the ‘78’ as a 13-million square foot extension of downtown Chicago with a half mile of frontage along the river they would look to create and exponentially expand back to connect with the downtown Riverwalk. The first phase of development in creating Chicago’s next neighborhood would include two apartment buildings, food, beverage, and retail spaces, as well as parking." https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/news/white-sox-proposed-ballpark-update Merkin puffery

Boston/NYY fell off the face of the earth...recently. And the Yankees have lost five consecutive ALCS.

A real series now with CLE thankfully. Carlos Rodon is looking at another key/deciding start. Things not looking as promising for the Mets...

This is why Elias believes you need hitting more than pitching...but you definitely need enough quality depth in the rotation to get your team to the post season in the first place. Ofc he would have looked a lot smarter had Flaherty pitcher to his potential. And even then you could turn out like the Mariners...or Padres last season.

Unless someone similar to Ricketts Musk Zuckerberg Bezos is the owner...

https://news.yahoo.com/sports/cleveland-mayor-says-browns-owners-194509830.html Browns' owners spending $2.4 billion to move to a suburban domed stadium and away from the downtown/lakefront. Haslam family. Might equal White Sox for pro sports team with bleakest future due to Watson trade...cap hits, all the personal lawsuits involved there and already having to dump key vets like Amari Cooper with the 2024 season essentially toast. And then they would have to develop yet another QB while simultaneously having to deal even more draft picks to dump Watson...similar to Broncos' fate with Brock Osweiler.

Mike Gellinger? Ncorgbl?

Matthew Boyd to start an absolute must-win game?

Diluted... And his capital gains taxes are not going to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars at 20%. One would have to think Hobson and Lucas are still the most obvious play here to buy out the other 60%.. or maybe they also told JR they want to cash out, having considered buying the whole thing but decided the profitability of financing a new stadium was prohibitive unless they just wanted to make a civic gift to the city in trade for something else. And won't the rest of MLB owners flip out when three more playoff teams come out of the AL Central next year...and 50/50 in 2026 again unless Schultz Smith Montgomery Quero and whoever they get for Crochet can at least get to 95-105 losses???

What is the current Forbes valuation? It seems like at one point it was around $2.2 billion, but right now $1.8-1.9 billion wouldn't be too shocking despite the Chicago media market, as the current broadcasting situation is a bit of a mess, to say the least. Not to mention the worst record in baseball history, a so-so first round draft pick (as opposed to 1-1) and a minor league system bereft of much high-impact talent outside the Top 3-4 names. Luis Robert because of his current contract is not a premium value, it's really Garrett Crochet who is the only (potentially) truly valuable piece of the current major league roster. Plus the AL Central is on an upswing (at least currently) and you've got a....let's be generous and say a number twenty-something stadium of thirty, but one that likely would be replaced in the next 5-10 years by new ownership and/or public/government entities willing to partner with nearly anyone but JR.

https://www.mlb.com/news/shohei-ohtani-homers-in-nlcs-game-3 Ohtani with a 2024 playoff OPS in the 660's before that homer...

https://soxmachine.com/2024/10/report-jerry-reinsdorf-open-to-selling-white-sox-in-discussions-with-dave-stewart/#comment-9181720 "In 2021, the White Sox averaged about 68K viewers per game, to get the same total number of viewers would require 3% of the total Nashville metro population to tune into a game every night. It’s hard to imagine any MLB team being able to get that large of a percentage of viewership consistently. There are about 9M people in the total Chicago metro area, 68K viewers is about 0.7% of the total metro population, if a team in Nashville got the same percentage of viewers as the Sox got in 2021, they would be getting about 14K viewers. I get that there’s a huge shift in the business model for TV and sports TV broadcasting, but Chicago just has more people than anywhere else." From article comments...

Didn't they just break records for public funding of the Titans' new stadium/facilities? Seems hard to go do that well twice when football has 5X more the pull in that region of the country (compared to baseball) through tradition and geographical location in SEC territory. Nashville and Memphis were "just" AA baseball markets for long periods as well...

Wasn't TLR also labelled a "consultant" on that situation in Nashville, or was he also considered part of the investment group?

The Jeter thing definitely didn't work in Miami, and we'll see about Alex Rodriguez...that was for another sport other than baseball after some of his initial attempts failed. They jury is still out, he was working with at least one major investment partner there. Wasn't it the T-Wolves? Even Tom Brady only has 10% of the Raiders now, for example. Then obviously you have MJ. Where's Mellody Hobson and George Lucas on all this??? Don't they own 40% of the existing shares right now? Looking to cash out, or increase their investment?

Advertising....if they can prove or validate their ratings/share.

"Lombard, 49, has served as A.J. Hinch’s bench coach for all four of his seasons in Detroit. He began his coaching career with the Red Sox’s minor league affiliates before filling the same role, roving outfield and baserunning coordinator, with the Braves in 2015. The Dodgers then hired Lombard as their first base coach, a role he would hold from 2016 to 2020 under Dave Roberts. Lombard has previously been interviewed for positions with the Marlins (base coach) and Pirates (manager). Given his time with a World Series Champion Dodgers team, which is just a top-class organization itself, Lombard has some great experience to go with his current coaching role on a team that just made the ALDS. Ellis, 43, is a former big league catcher for the Dodgers, Phillies, Marlins, and Padres. An 18th-round draft pick back in 2003, Ellis has been working for the Padres since 2019, when he joined the front office as a special assistant to the baseball operations department. In 2024, he assumed a role that saw him interact with the MLB team and minor league affiliates as an assistant." https://www.soxon35th.com/more-names-surface-in-narrowing-white-sox-managerial-search/#google_vignette

Just hope there's SOMEONE/ANYONE on the major league staff who at least can speak Spanish...as roughly 1/3rd of the Opening Day roster will have English as their Second Language.

Cosmo Kramer for GM. At least they would have the best name, not sure about all the other baggage, though.

Not much drama in this series...so far. Creates a must-win situation for the Guardians against Clarke Schmidt for G3 in Cleveland. CLE starter TBA at the current moment.

Yankees should have put the game away right there but two runners picked off... And a Tim Hill appearance in pretty high leverage. And then Kahnle as well.

Or DeBoer...just no way Bama goes undefeated the rest of the way based on their defense these past two games. Just hope OSU isn't dumb enough to bring back Urban Meyer.

Isn't the confusion here Tyler Nevin vs. his father Phil? At any rate, Sox could have the 1-1 pick from 1992 as shot caller. How can you possibly beat that?

Yet the current Getz philosophy is presumably based on a starting pitching, fundamentals and defense-centric team approach. Except our two best defenders are getting traded (Robert) or can't hit enough to justify a starting spot (Fletcher). And fundamentals poor due to? Hmmm...how can this go wrong?

Lombard also has Braves/Dodgers' ties. Originally a highly touted RB prospect for UGA. So, the KW of the bunch.