OT: Other Sports 81

[Malaka]

Logistically impossible. It's a big enough pain in the ass for 8 Bears' games a season. And you want 81 White Sox games there? It will never happen.

If you build it the fans will come. It’d be nearly half to 2/3rds of the capacity/volume. There’s enough parking garages and transit to accommodate it. Wrigley also gets by on much less, and I find it a bigger pain in the ass to get there(having lived a block away in 2013/14) than the loop. I don’t disagree with you technically however I’m a dreamer and biased so I think it can be worked out.

Not to mention no one wants to deal with Chicago Park District and its bullshit that Bears have had to endure for decades

But… I want it.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Reinsdorf has to hire new drinking buddies.

 

[belfour30]

 

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

I'll be absolutely flabbergasted if the Sox move to soldier field.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Yeah, the only chance that they move to Soldier Field is if Comiskey literally collapses and a half dozen other alternative options are booked solid as a stop gap.

 

[clydesdale line]

Jerry still needs to sell but this is a step in the right direction. Now poach someone from the Braves, Tampa Bay, Dodgers organization to run this ship and I'll start to believe in the direction of this team... and hopefully Jerry lets said GM spend money on the analytical department, farm system, etc even if that means a lower payroll (cuz we know he'll penny pinch)

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Jerry still needs to sell but this is a step in the right direction. Now poach someone from the Braves, Tampa Bay, Dodgers organization to run this ship and I'll start to believe in the direction of this team... and hopefully Jerry lets said GM spend money on the analytical department, farm system, etc even if that means a lower payroll (cuz we know he'll penny pinch)

Something is off with that organization in how it views pitchers

Everyone ends up with major arm injuries it seems and they are ok with it

I dont know but idea of promising young pitchers constantly having arms ruined or risked is a concerning trend that seems excessively to occur with Rays

Maybe it's nothing but bad luck but there just seems an issue in TB with that so I would be wary about bringing in TB people to run things here

 

[hawksrule]

Impractical for a bunch of reasons, but I like the idea of cws playing at Soldier Field.

 

[Ben Grimm]

I'm not being sarcastic. The ChiSox firings surprised me. Ever since David Ross was hired, I honestly didn't think the Chicago baseball teams ownership cared about winning.

 

[HeisenBaez]

No more Drew Smyly for more than an inning please.

 

[Space umpire]

Logistically impossible. It's a big enough pain in the ass for 8 Bears' games a season. And you want 81 White Sox games there? It will never happen.

But it’s hard to compare a bear crowd to the 10 to 15 k going to see the Sox.

 

[Sarava]

Yeah, I think Soldier Field is a pain in the butt for most people and wouldn't work. But man, imagine the views you could come up with for a park down there, whether it's the city skyline or the lake. That part of it would be a big win.

I wonder what is going on in Jerry's mind right now. We know the state wont pay for another stadium - and its hard to imagine him diving in to a billion dollar + project with his own funds. Especially at his age, but with him, at any age lol.

But he may see that you need a good stadium or stadium project to inject value in to the White Sox as he prepares to possibly sell the team? Who knows.

And I've said this before in Bears stadium discussions. I think the Chicago suburbs are possibly the most untapped wealth of fertile sports stadium grounds in the country. While Arlington Heights probably makes the most sense for the Bears. For the Sox I'd lean more towards Naperville.

 

[IU Hawks fan]

Naperville is too far out there. A suburban stadium needs to be close to 294.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

I don't know, I think that the Sox thinking suburbs would land them in one of two downgrades:

- if out west, they'll be a trek and a half from their much more localized fanbase.
- if down south, they just won't be a destination like they probably want to be.

And they already have a massive ease of access advantage over the Cubs for a potential downstate draw and yet that's never done anything for them.

I think the city about where they are honestly makes the most sense for their situation. They have ample parking, are near to easy (by Chicago standards) road and mass transit access, and are near to their fans. Anywhere else other than a slight swap slightly in any direction would be a downgrade in one or more of those categories.

 

[belfour30]

FU Jerry

 

[Mrfenn92]

FU Jerry

Jesus. Promoting from within and Dayton Moore coming in. Awesome.

 

[belfour30]

Jesus. Promoting from within and Dayton Moore coming in. Awesome.

Pun intended?

Honestly promoting Getz and hiring Moore is probably worse than doing nothing at all.

 

[TLEH]

When there is a culture issue, you definitely just promote from within the org.

Jerry taking the cheap way out, AGAIN. Just f***ing sell.

 

[Ace Rothstein]

FU Jerry

And the excitement lasted about 13 hours.

 

[clydesdale line]

f*** off Jerry Reinsdorf.

 

[ChiHawks10]

f***ing clownshow.

 

[Ace Rothstein]

There can't be a more dysfunctional franchise in any sport.

 

[Illinihockey]

Lmao this is the funniest outcome

 

[x Tame Impala]

Naperville is too far from the airport but having grown up there it would be awesome to have a team in the burbs.

 

[Mrfenn92]

And the excitement lasted about 13 hours.

We should’ve never gotten excited.