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A spokesperson for Gov. JB Pritzker said his “stance on the stadium issue remains unchanged regardless of possible locations” — namely, that the Bears should not expect to receive any public dollars for a new home. https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/bears-stadium/2024/11/12/bears-stadium-michael-reese-site-lakefront-bronzeville

Meh, rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. They'll fire the head coach at the end of the year and bring in another worthless, milquetoast stiff.

The odds of Sasaki signing with the White Sox are slim and none...and slim just walked out the door.

That's the White Sox way.

So what's next for the Bears? Answer: Stink-town and another losing season. They may not win a game the rest of the season, which is completely fine with me. Clown ownership, clown organization. 🤡

From MLB.com: 29. White Sox (24.3 WAR) Top free agents: RHP Mike Clevinger, RHP Chris Flexen, 3B Yoán Moncada Biggest needs: Where to start? Not last! Not, you know, good, but not last. (Remember, again: the projections care about the players here and what they might do in 2025 – not that the 2024 team lost 121 games.) It should go without saying that new manager Will Venable arrives to find a roster that needs improvement basically everywhere, and that contention in 2025 is not exactly the goal. There are really only three questions that matter, right now: Will ace Garrett Crochet get traded? If so, to who, for what? Will center fielder Luis Robert Jr. rebound from a brutal year? If so, when does he get traded? A year from now, which young players show that they’re part of the next good Sox team? It’s that last question that seems most interesting, and most important. If the 2025 season gives you confidence that Colson Montgomery or Drew Thorpe or Miguel Vargas or Ky Bush or Edgar Quero are going to be contributors, while Noah Schultz and Hagen Smith progress towards the bigs, it can be a successful season. If they don’t? Competitive baseball could be years away on the South Side.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2024/11/09/chicago-white-sox-chris-getz-analytics-brian-bannister-brian-mahler-ryan-fuller-yoan-moncada-garrett-crochet

https://awfulannouncing.com/dsg/mlb-atlanta-braves-object-bankruptcy.html

Yes and no. More to the point JR signed Belle to that deal because he was angry that the other MLB owners voted to settle the labor dispute after Judge Sotomoyer ruled they were not negotiating in good faith. In fact during the press conference reporters specifically asked JR about the motivation for the deal and JR said that (paraphrasing) 'If the other owners weren't going to look out for baseball he was going to look out for his team...' As an aside JR also said he asked Frank Thomas his opinion on if the Sox should sign Belle or Barry Bonds and Frank said Belle. Belle put up staggering numbers for the Sox. But JR (naturally) protected himself by allowing the clause that Belle had to be one of the three highest paid players in the game or he could become a free agent. When Rickey Henderson (I think) got his big deal that moved Belle out of the top three and invoked the clause which JR never intended to honor in order to keep him. As a follow up to that situation Thomas took a little less money on his deal thinking the Sox would use it to keep Belle AND Ventura. The Sox did neither which pissed off Frank. Remember JR always has to "win" at negotiations even if it hurts the team on the field.

https://soxmachine.com/2024/11/will-venable-arrives-in-chicago-as-a-new-manager-for-a-new-system/

https://awfulannouncing.com/dsg/st-louis-cardinals-local-media-rights-deal.html

There has been movement, more politicians have said it isn't happening.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/11/06/chicago-white-sox-rebuilds-jerry-reinsdorf/

https://awfulannouncing.com/local-networks/atlanta-braves-financials-reveal-increase-tv-revenue.html

https://www.mlb.com/news/kyle-hendricks-angels-deal

With that porous offensive line can you blame them? Crucial huge mistake by the front office, you have a possible franchise quarterback and you surround him with five sacks of you know what.

Remember JR's motto, "fiscal responsibility is more important than winning..."

Latest Getz comments: https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2024/11/06/white-sox-notebook-from-gm-meetings

Some would argue the bolded point including recently in an interview Tony LaRussa.

https://awfulannouncing.com/mlb/mlbpa-local-tv-deals-team-revenue.html

Burns did go into the 10th and gave up Landrum's home run.

Just got an e-mail from the Sun-Times last week reiterating that they no longer had a paywall. I make a 25 contribution every year myself but that shouldn't impact the e-mail they sent.

The pay wall has been down for two years.

It’s imperative that this hire plays out better than that one. Venable will have lower expectations to win than Grifol did after inheriting a team supposedly built to compete in the American League Central. Getz is giving Venable a team that’s likely built to lose, but that doesn’t mean Getz won’t feel the pressure. It’s on him to remove the Sox from the state of disarray the rest of baseball sees. https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2024/11/04/white-sox-gm-chris-getz-under-growing-scrutiny-entering-second-year-in-charge

One of the last interviews he ever did was with Paul Sullivan of the Tribune. In it Dick said if he ever got in he wanted to be wearing a White Sox cap.