Clayton Kershaw is one of the all time great left handed pitchers. But his ERA is 2 full runs higher in the post season over a not small sample and he’s recovering from shoulder? Surgery.
Braves and Red Sox trade: Chris Sale and $17M cash for Vaughn Grissom.
I like it for both sides. Braves get another starter, one with big upside and big injury risk, for low money and give up a prospect that was no longer in their plans. Grissom gets a new org with perhaps a clearer path to start.
I think Braves wind up paying Sale only 500k this year and another $10M deferred to 2039. They also pick up a reasonable club option for next season if they decide to use it.
Enjoy Chris Sale. Sox getting anything for him is a steal. Would have taken the Flint Tropics’ washing machine from Jackie Moon.
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Two electric starts followed by any injury you can imagine and some you cant. Frustrating talent
From 2013 til he got injured in 2018 he was one of the best pitchers in the game. But he just hasn’t been healthy since then or quite the same guy he was back then. He’s still good when he does pitch, he just doesn’t pitch often enough.
The Braves extend their GM Anthopoulos through 2031. I approve. He’s been great.
First exciting news I’ve heard about the White Sox in a while. Much better neighborhood than where they’re currently at and easy to get to from downtown. Not sure about parking though.
The property is pretty big, so they could probably build a buttload of parking if they wanted (and charge a buttload). They might also try to do like the Bears and have shuttles running from the Millenium Park garage, but I don’t know if that would generate the same interest at night compared to the Bears’ mostly day games. People generally don’t want to mess around after a night game, they just want to get out of there.
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Oh, yeah. They also have the Soldier Field parking pretty closeby.
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How much is this likely to cost Chicago taxpayers to build a new stadium? Any history on such subsidies?
We’ve largely, but not entirely, managed to stop helping billionaires in Canada to build sports stadiums.
Chicago has always given in to the threat of the team moving. And we generally don’t find out how really bad the deal was right away. It takes a year or two to realize what the city has given away. But out of all the teams, though, I’d think the White Sox have the least blackmailability. I expect them to eventually move out of town on a lack of stadium deal. I don’t think a new WS stadium now would be popular for a whole bunch of reasons and, at a time when the fans (and remember, there are far fewer WS fans than Cub fans) are really fed up with the team, trying to push a stadium deal right now is probably a horrible idea. I’ve already posted here that, at this point, I’m annoyed enough with them that I wouldn’t mind them moving to Nashville.
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To give you an idea of the feeling about the White Sox - they were the front sports story in the Sun Times today with the headline “Sox Unrest. Yet another winter without annual Sox Fest, giving organization another chance to dodge unhappy fans”. It’s the 4th straight year that they haven’t had the “annual” Sox Fest.
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Gotta be safe from covid!
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I assume the first 2 of the 4 years would have been due to Covid. They were a really exciting team in 2021 and won the division.
I’m disappointed with them too but certainly wouldn’t want them to move to Nashville. So many great memories and looking forward to many more as my kids get a bit older.
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My hunch is that the bolded part below is the real issue:
Agreed that it is an issue.
Bigger issue is how much the County currently distributes to the counties’ School Boards and how much it won’t distribute to the counties’ School Boards in the future.
Yes, and other budget lines as well.
Big news, I guess in Japan, where people don’t get married:
Wait, the interpreter meant that Ohtani went to Maui over the winter.
And, that interpreter is now fired. Allegedly stealing from Ohtani to make bets, and losing. A lot.
I hear Yamamoto just requested #45 to match his ERA
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