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56 minutes ago, T R U said:
For as long as he was GM and for as little as his teams accomplished, he's got to be one of the worst to ever do it right? Given the length of time he spent as GM of this team. Does anyone else even come close to that level of failures?
Roland Hemond?
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On 10/12/2023 at 3:30 PM, nrockway said:
I think in this analogy, Chicago might be closer to Beijing than it is to Rio. Chances are it would’ve been a spectacular failure but look what they’re doing with the Olympic village site now (Michael Reese hospital site). The cost is five times higher and for something arguably much dumber and unnecessary. At least I like sports and it could’ve easily been converted into something useful.
People forget that Daley's plan was to get corporate interests to fund the Olympics. G-ROD already said he wasn't paying for the olympics, and the feds rarely give money. US Olympic bids are financed locally. And the IOC did NOT like a corporate financed Chicago 2016, never mind the olympics is a giant ad for coke.
That, coupled with the fallout of the Salt Lake City bribery fiasco, meant chicago never had a chance. Even with Richie calling a favor from Obama, who was a rock star to European leaders at the time.
The long-term future of the Olympic sites was the corporate interests controlling most of the facilities, and favorable deals for land to develop nearby. While the washington park stadium was to be dismantled after the games, the park and the area around it was going to be "cleaned up" and be ready for gentrification. Even now, that plan is happening, just with the Obama Museum and the eventual tiger woods golf course nearby. -
On 3/20/2023 at 10:31 AM, he gone. said:
holy s%*#. never mind. they were playing games and pulled tickets, they just put them back on the market.
Received an email today about opening day ... every single section has tickets open.
It's going to be like 25-30k tops at this point. It's not embarrassing to me or to fans, I think it's awesome we finally stood up and said no. But it's very embarrassing for the Sox.
everyone releases unsold inventory from Seasons and groups 1-2 weeks before the homestand. brewers did the same, but also offered $6 tickets in crappy locations.
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17 hours ago, Texsox said:
Bingo. The PGA Tour has even said they price beers to keep people from getting drunk.
Sucks that a few bad apples ruin it for the rest of us happy drunks.
The same number of people get drunk on 10.75 Miller lites
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17 minutes ago, The Beast said:
Disregard. Shane was wrong.
17 minutes ago, The Beast said:Disregard. Shane was wrong.
Tailgating at Guaranteed Rate Field | Chicago White Sox (mlb.com) i'm not so sure about that. at least the tables
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Wasnt this supposed to be a DIGITAL billboard on the dan ryan?
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5 hours ago, MiddleCoastBias said:
Doesn't feel too long ago that they had $1 hot dog nights on Thursdays. Now $5 hot dogs are *special*!
i know, right?
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1 hour ago, greg775 said:
At least food prices won't keep people away on Tuesday's. 5 dollar beer in this day and age at a sporting event is almost like the old quarter beer night. If u are gonna go to one home game a week or month, Tuesday would be the day to go.
20 years ago my brother was FURIOUS that they raised the price of beer from $4 to $4.50. And then it went from $4.50 to $5 in 2004.
now it’s a “deal” to have a $12 miller lite for $5.
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33 minutes ago, he gone. said:
I think much like you see in football or basketball when they make a rule change it will be a "point of emphasis" early in the season (And particularly ST) and then will be a bit more lax.
I also don't disagree that they should maybe tack on a few seconds. It'd give time for both the fans and players to adjust a bit more, but as others have alluded they did this in the minors as a test run and within a few months we'll forget how we even watched the old way. This is the best change MLB could make.
The next thing I'd do if I was the MLB is a road show. One series a year for each team in a smaller city playing in either a minor league park or college stadium basically. Grow the game. So for instance, Indianapolis, Grand Rapids, Green Bay, Des Moines, Omaha, Wichita, Nashville, Louisville, Memphis, Tulsa, Duluth, Ann Arbor, Columbus, Toledo, etc. etc. You get the point. You play 162 games a year and 81 total. No team wants to give up revenue for a series a year, but the sacrifice to grow the game in mid-sized cities in your region would go a long way in my opinion to making it "America's past time" again.
Let the owners pick which games ... likely April .... they want to give away. Jerry can give away a 3 game set in April to Little Rock or Charlotte. Or maybe it's a closer location like Springfield or Urbana.
i like the idea, but mlb seems to want only 2-3 games like this a season.
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15 hours ago, caulfield12 said:
copy and paste 18 seconds, tops
of stuff that has NOTHING to do with a sox team that is not affected by bally sports. so shut up
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6 hours ago, CentralChamps21 said:
We got tired of xfinity's price increases and switched to YouTubeTV. They have NBCSC but not Marquee.
then it sounds like you won big. i'm still paying for joe ricketts' tv station.
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18 hours ago, caulfield12 said:
Illinois is bleeding population as well cable subscribers.
If they don't make the playoffs in the next two years and there's no new stadium and/or Chicagoland relocation...it's going take coin flip luck they get an ownership group that can ever challenge the Cubs like the Angels got in Moreno and Mets got in Cohen in those markets with multiple teams.
It will look a lot more like the A's situation...minus the almost complete desperation/exasperation.
IMO Milwaukee, Minnesota, Cleveland, St. Louis and the Cubs all have better ownership groups...certainly front office teams.
lolz. thanks for the massive pile of typed crap. it made me laugh.
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4 hours ago, JoeCredeYes said:
RIP Dave and condolences to the Wills family, always loved listening to Dave, and his big "White Sox Baseball...........NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEXT" lead in on the radio would always fire me up.
he also did a prerecorded version of that at the park. usually followed by gene honda saying" listen to the postgame on espn radio 1000"
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15 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:
2. Illinois
"For the Illinoisans leaving the state, the choice came down to moving for a new job (31%), family (30%), retirement (24%) and a new lifestyle (22%).
This marked almost a decade of straight losses for Illinois, with residents looking for more affordable living. Interestingly, nearly 52% of those who left the state in 2022 earned more than $150,000 a year.
Considering Illinois “offers” one of the highest combined local and state tax rates — and the second-highest property taxes — in the country, it’s unsurprising high earners are eager to set up shop elsewhere."
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/off-beaten-track-searching-better-140000055.html
and this has WHAT to do with sinclair?
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On 2/17/2023 at 9:04 AM, southsider2k5 said:
that's a lie from manfred. they could have fixed it years ago. they enjoyed making money off the extra innings and mlb.tv packages, as well as making the national packages worth more due to blackout restrictions.
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12 hours ago, WBWSF said:
White Sox historian Richard Lindberg once wrote that building the upper decks in 1927 changed the character of the park and should have never been built.
that likely helped the park last as long as it did.
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On 2/19/2023 at 5:08 PM, caulfield12 said:
Only excuse is Bulls and Blackhawks?
No sponsors left to sell advertising to...to offset production costs?
Who exactly watches their non-live programming?
Sigh.
The bulls and blackhawks 2pm replay ratings must be through the roof to bump potential live sox games.
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1 hour ago, Harry Chappas said:
If these guys were all "run off" they seemed ok with it. For an organization that is deemed to treat their players like garbage they seem to have a relationship with them if they desire after their playing days.
Harold Baines and Frank Thomas could be the top of this list and JR somehow got Baines into the HOF.
Now that I think of it maybe that was how LaRussa got the managerial job
harold baines had his number retired 2 weeks after he was traded in the middle of a rebuild. and played 12 more years in the league.
lay off the crack.
my comment was about an anti union owner. not whatever your brain drooping was.-
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On 3/4/2023 at 8:49 AM, Middle Buffalo said:
I loved that Sox team and hated the A’s. They were such d-bags.
The opening scene where the stadium was shown pre-white paint makes me wonder who thought painting it was a good idea.
The nostalgic me wishes they never tore it down, but I also remember “seeing” quite a few games there with an obstructed view thanks to my Perfect Attendance tickets. I don’t know that there’s anything they could have done to remedy that.
CF bleachers we’re the place to be.
that was Hall of Famer Bill Veeck's idea!
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29 minutes ago, Harry Chappas said:
And almost all are working for the white sox or living out of the spotlight
reinsdorf treats them differently when they aren't in the union anymore.
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On 3/3/2023 at 8:53 PM, ChiSox59 said:
He was lowballed because he ran his course on this roster. Having Jose would have been great, but it was no longer realistic based on the roster construction. The FO is to blame for that, but letting the much older and declining player leave was the right call.
The Sox beating the Astros offer would have been an atrocious use of resources.
its not abreu's fault that hahnjob cant do much more than sign relievers to multiyear deals only to watch them suck.
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2 hours ago, caulfield12 said:
Fisk, McDowell, Ventura, Durham, Maggs, C-Lee, Buehrle, Dye, Rowand/Thome...the only ones not run off unceremoniously were Konerko and Contreras. Stayed pretty faithful to AJ until the end, too.
thome was given a chance to chase a ring. they loved him.
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On 2/3/2023 at 6:34 PM, Texsox said:
By the way, the clinical term for the surgery is an addadicktome
that was the charity howard stern raised money for at his new years eve special 30 years ago. where john wayne bobbit was a guest judge.
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On 2/1/2023 at 11:12 PM, wegner said:
And she'll like it too....unless it goes wrong.
that's the offical nugenix warning on the side of the label.
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41% decrease in viewership
in Pale Hose Talk
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it's based off Nielsen ratings. So you'd have to see how those metric are measured.