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Have to side with the Sox/CPD on this one. Sending 20000 out of the building TOWARDS where they believe the shot came from, while rumors started spreading of a shooter could have caused a horrible panic costing many lives. Nobody died, nobody seriously hurt, therefore correct response.

It’s the worst franchise in sports, and that’s only based off of what becomes public. There’s so much stuff out there doesn’t go public which makes you sick.

Come on now. Have some respect for the GOAT videogame.

I'm hearing Dayton Moore is unlikely to happen.

Gravity?

It's seems like they responded in the most tactical way possible. There wasn't an active shooter. There wasn't a panic. There wasn't stampede. Nobody else got hurt.

Thought I’d share this: took my kid to his first baseball game tonight in Myrtle beach. Caught Pedro Ramirez 1st home run, frickin crazy. Sox notes: Jacob G looked dumb on a strikeout but was clearly one of the better players there. Looks like a shortstop, almost made up for a bobble on a slick play but didn’t get the call. Looks really young, not crazy about the stance but he belonged for sure. I’m just an idiot fan so salt to taste. Nshida looks like a kid that doesn’t belong IMO. He could barely get the ball to the cut off man and his contact was super weak. Looked away for a second though and he was cruising around the bases for a triple. Not sure how that happened didn’t see the hit but sure didn’t seem like he has the power. Again, idiot fan. Special night for me and the fam.

Chicago has more murders than anywhere else in the country and it's not even close. The per capita stuff is ridiculous when the cities being compared are far closer in population to a single Chicago neighborhood than Chicago itself. Austin the neighborhood has 100k people and would be statistically the most dangerous place in the Western world if you isolated it out. It's ridiculous to use some affluent northshore area to ignore stuff like that. Philly is really the only place that compares to Chicago on the whole. That said Bridgeport is awesome. There's some shitty places around it though. You don't want its rep slipping because other idiots around it.

Or someone outside of the stadium, screwing around, pointed the gun in the air at say a 45 degree angle and fired off a few rounds and they came down inside the stadium.

Even just telling them it’s cancelled without there being an obvious reason for cancellation would scare the s%*# out of people. And you’re right back into the crush risk.

This magic bullet must have had a time machine considering the Robert Taylor Homes were demolished 16 years ago.

The recovered round was mostly intact which gives credibility to it being fired outside the park. Nobody in custody, no weapon recovered, and the area south of the park is a shooting gallery. Good luck getting free agents to sign here knowing a round could land on their head.....however that's a problem in most major cities now. Good thing Brandon Johnson accidentally wrote shotspotter a check in that at least there's some lead.....kinda.

I agree with your statement. Nobody dislikes Reinsdorf and his organization more than I do. However, in this case I'm not going to pile on. Maybe it was better that they didn't start a panic and have everyone rushing for the exits all at once causing a stampede in which more people may have been hurt. And if the shot really came from outside the park, it's probably good they didn't send people outside the park until they knew exactly what was going on. As it was nobody was seriously injured and even people sitting nearby had no idea anything was amiss. It was a relatively minor incident. Unfortunately these things can happen anywhere, but it's especially not surprising that it would happen in Chicago.

Keep violent felons incarcerated instead of let them out the same day. Pretty simple.

I’m done following games until the FO is announced, but hope Yoan passes .700 OPS and Benintendi before the end of the season. Builds momentum for 2024. Sad if they get even more Royals trash with a Getz and Moore pairing, after Pedro and Benintendi this year. More Royals = More Trash

Chicago violence is par for the course at this point. I don’t think people would even bat an eye about it. “Not surprising, it’s Chicago.”

If we're being honest, a 2023 White Sox documentary would be a more interesting watch than the 2005 DVD.

Would you prefer the Sox send you and your kids down a ramp toward a potential active shooter? Prefer they trigger a stampede involving you and your kids? Because those were the scenarios they were probably comparing. The goal in this situation is to avoid more casualties. Their actions accomplished that in a completely unpredictable scenario.

This team never fails to stay in the news. Mostly negative s%*# too

Ron is a Final Fantasy dork? What a world.

Totally depends on launch angle. A bullet could travel a mile. Combine that with the fact that nobody inside the park heard a gunshot and this currently stands as the most likely explanation.

Lol oh man, this city is a national embarrassment.

I guess Cease is supposed to be good, but after the sell off of anyone decent from the staff, this is how it was going to be. Just hard living through it. Game started early so didn't bother, I'm done with the team period until Getz is no longer interim or permanent GM or EVP. Same if Tony is announced as having a formal role. Not wasting more time on this s%*#. Perhaps I'll be interested in baseball. Jerry needs to go, that's the bottom line, and fans need to stop giving him a penny.

If noone is in the Gamethread, did the White Sox still win?

Lee’s feet on his swing are bad

Montgomery with a walk. So refreshing to have someone with his plate discipline.

Time for Moncada to start playing for that next contract!

My first thought would be a bomb in thr building.

Buffalo's backup is also named Allen. Josh Allen played one drive

Quite simply, some indication that there was an active shooter in the park. Based on the info I've heard, there was none. Mass murder shooters don't fire one shot then stop for a while. They shoot and shoot non stop until something stops them. Not just Lil Durk, but many instances of crowd panic causing injuries and deaths. That was the real threat after the one bullet hit.

No one reported a shooter on the inside. You wanted to know there was a shooter outside the park, so you could go outside the park? Would you want police to secure the outside first? Maybe check the neighborhood? Or at least announce there has been a shooting in section 123. If you guys want to stay, we're going to keep playing, but if you want to leave, safe travels.

The goal is to avoid “more causalities” and yet they let people continue to sit within 20 feet of where three people were struck by bullets. How did they know more bullets wouldn’t come raining down on fans? Like I don’t even get the argument here. Doing nothing is 100% unacceptable.

He got really close to 100 without going over.

I was at a pro wrestling show back in 1975 at the Amphitheatre when someone from the upper balcony pulled a gun and started firing at the ring. He missed the wrestlers and referee but hit a few people sitting at ringside. I heard a few "pops" but had no idea they were gunshots. We didn't know anything about it until we were walking home late that night after stopping for a pizza at a place near our own neighborhood after the show. The police pulled up to us because we were underage and it was long past curfew. They asked what we were doing and we told them we were walking home from the pizza place. They asked why so late and we told them we were previously at the wrestling matches. One of the policemen asked, "What happened there?" and I started telling him the results of the matches. He said, "No, I mean what happened with the shooting?" We said, "What shooting?" We were right there and we didn't even know about it and first found out when the policeman told us what had happened. There was no panic, no announcements and most people there had no idea there was an active shooter in the crowd and that several people had been hit.

Lol at a bullet making it all the way from the Cabrini housing

It was definitely shot outside the stadium, as crazy as that sounds. There's no way a gun went off in the park and not a single person has come forward claiming they heard it. I'm glad everyone is going to be okay. Not a good look! Maybe they should reconsider their movie where they proudly link the team to the ghetto.

Robert Taylor homes? I don’t think a bullet is making it from Cabrini.

Are you on drugs? The Sox can't beat the goddamn A's. They are nowhere close to winning. It's 100% a rational take from a fan to have wanted to trade Cease.

Here is the link to the article above: https://www.bleachernation.com/cubs/2023/08/26/white-sox-shooting-incident/

If this was a fictional movie, you would say it’s a ploy to say the area is dangerous and the team needs to move.

Soros

Meh.. Sarah is a Cubs fan anyways.

The way this week has gone, it’s going to come out that it was Robert Jr’s gun

My wife just said "it happened during the game and Benetti didn't say anything about it?!?" I told her it wasn't anything important like busting some kids running in the upper deck or someone with too big of a bag of popcorn, so he let it slide.

Pedro when he’s asked about the shooting: “That’s why I like this fan base and it’s a privilege to play in front of them. They have that fight in them. They’re ready to kill at any moment. And that’s what south side baseball is. And me, and Tony, and Getzy are going to bring that to the diamond”

You can always tell people it's german for "The Jerry, the".

Live round recovered at Gate 4 which is the opposite side of the park? And how the f*** does a gun go off in the stadium and the game goes on, like no one noticed or something? Nice security, Jerry. You're on a roll, pal.

Well i guess im wrong thinking they should conduct themselves like professionals. I honestly don't understand how wearing a bunch of chains on your neck helps you play better. Most jobs have standards that you are expected to follow but it appears for the white sox organization there are none. Might as well we them to wear some clown noses to wear also, it wont help them either but at least it will make watching them more entertaining.

Also, Nancy Faust ruined baseball by introducing rock and pop music to the sport.

"Technical issues"? Fucking cowards.