Thad Bosley

Seriously - what could have a presentation by this team currently owned by Jerry Reinsdorf with his reputation have hoped to accomplish? This is yet another example of why this franchise is in so desperate need of a change in ownership after four and a half horrific decades of abject failure. We are a major market team that isn’t taken seriously in situations like this.

Sure, great idea. Then have them offset that huge expense decrease with significant ticket and parking price decreases. Notice how payroll can gets cut willy nilly without corresponding cuts in prices? Oh, don’t get me wrong - nominal cuts in prices occur. But not enough to make this owner’s profit margin equal to or less than almost every other owner in baseball.

They didn’t spend their way when they were in their own perceived window of contention when both Bryce Harper and Manny Machado were available.

So that’s the primary expense line item of the income statement, the projected payroll. What are the primary revenue sides of the statement? Forget attendance for the moment - what is TV/radio revenue? What is advertising revenue? Shared MLB TV revenues? And oh, going back to the expense side of the equation - “Rate Field” rent? What is it these days? You can’t look at one line item on the financials in a vacuum and try to assess its reasonableness. You need to see the whole picture. And with the present owner, the whole picture suggests he’ll continue to show profits next year with his inferior product and likely at a higher profit margin than most of his peers. This, in a major market, and entering his 45th year of ownership. Wow. Just a big, ‘ol wow at this point.

Ah, so you were talking about his legacy as the Bulls owner, not as Sox owner. None of those Bulls’ championships impact his deplorable legacy as Sox owner.

Which part of his four decades of what now looks like one, long list of one franchise-crippling decision after another will somehow look better somewhere down the road? Absent the one hit wonder that was the 2005 championship season, what could any of us possibly later point towards and re-assess as “that wasn’t as bad as we thought back then”? Do you have an example of what you think that could be? I can skim his entire reign of terror starting all the way back in 1981 clear through today and there is nothing to my eye that the simple passage of time will change my view as to the absolute disaster this guy has been as owner since day one.

Don Kessinger resigned.

I’d be happy with a 2-1 White Sox winner at this point.

THIS!!!!

I was not predicting things to end up the way they have the night Tim hit the walk-off homer against the Yanks in the Field of Dreams game. ?

I love most of this idea, but I wouldn’t want an upper deck in the outfield to block the view of the skyline.

I want the Leury Garcia Era back!

Sure, Jim, that’s exactly in the Sox’ offseason plan. First, cancel the annual fan fest. Second, make the most spectacular free agent signing in the team’s history, and then have no forum on which to show him off and take a bow. Reinsdorf showed up at the Soxfest after the Belle signing. Do the math, Jim.

Faint praise. You’re comparing him to Comiskey, Veeck, and the Allyns, the last two with no money to spend and without a sweetheart lease deal. None of those previous owners had near the resources afforded Reinsdorf, and yet with such an advantage, just one trip to the World Series, and ZERO playoff series wins in the other 41 years. PATHETIC.

42 years of one mind-numbing, franchise-crippling decision after another. If you take a step back and have a holistic review of the four plus decades of ownership by Reinsdorf, it’s beyond appalling. He’s really been a horrible owner. It would be a dream come true if Reinsdorf joined his dear pal tomorrow and surprised us all with the announcement he was selling the club and walking away as well. Won’t happen, but it’s fun to dream about.

Great! Then we can count on you logging off any moment now and not posting your negativity the rest of the way this season. Win, win for everyone!

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Too early to hear your negative BS, for sure. ?

I still see his 2019 season and think he can return to that level, at least.

Has anyone ever told you your insights are, well, not very interesting?

Terrific effort by Johnny tonight. Let’s go and win this thing for him.

Sort of like a do-over, build a ballpark they should have built the first time around. One facing the magnificent skyline and with a far more reasonable upper deck in terms of steepness. Imagine the difference in the upper deck experience if you could see the skyline beyond the scoreboard from most of the seats up there wherein you also don’t feel like you’re getting vertigo because of a steep angle. Put the entrance to the upper deck in the middle of the deck, not at the base as it currently is, so nobody would be faced with a huge hike to get to their seats. I think the demand for an upper deck seat would almost do a 180 if all of this were to happen, and would go a long way towards addressing the team’s long-running attendance issues. Seven years left until the lease on the current ballpark runs out, and that’s on a collision course with the advent of new ownership in this same time frame, so as get closer to all of that I can’t imagine how the talk of a new ballpark won’t steadily increase. Should be very interesting!

Why would you criticize another White Sox fan diehard? As goofy as you can be and certainly are, at the end of the day, we know you’re a diehard Sox fan. So are those folks who chose to make the short trip in the middle of the summer to Minny to see their Sox play there in their beautiful ballpark

Probably the same kind of diehard like you checking into a game thread for this Sox team.

This is Jerry Reinsdorf’s 42nd (!) year as owner of the White Sox. In his first 41 years, there’s only been ONE year when his White Sox team won a postseason series - 2005. In the 40 other years with him at the helm, there has not only been NO postseason series victories, but a mere SIX postseason appearances and a mere SIX playoff game victories. If that doesn’t scream UTTER FUTILITY, I don’t know what does. Not to mention, but the four plus decades of his *ahem* leadership has included one mind-boggingly, boneheaded, franchise-crippling decision after another. Put the current LaRussa debacle as the latest in that series. Luckily for the fan base, we are in the twilight of the current ownership, and if you look hard enough at the horizon, you can see new ownership that will likely come in, clean house, and hopefully change this culture of losing we have suffered under with Reinsdorf for way too long.