The Chicago Bears are Super Bowl contenders. The White Sox fancy themselves to being on the way to being World Series contenders. The Bears are have a team capable of achieving the ultimate goal. Do the White Sox? Certainly not yet, and they could have made drastic strides in that direction the last couple of months, but they failed.
Ryan Pace became the GM of the Chicago Bears and he didn’t vocally say they were starting from scratch, but if you watched the Bears and saw the moves he was making, it was clear that’s what he’s doing.