greg775

Say what you want. Nobody would have thought a fake team could fill 50,000 seat stadiums. The free food idea is genius. Anybody know if they charge for parking? Most sporting events these days charge so much for parking you'd think you were in Vegas getting ripped off by the casino owners.

My point is because of the Sox they WILL make the playoffs. You wait. They'll be hot as heck after this sweep turns their season around.

I will say I'm amazed in a good way at the Bananas success. This has been going on for several years now and they sell out all the games they play. My gosh 100,000 fans on two nights in Colorado; Rate Field is sold out for two nights. I watched the game on stream and it was as everyone says, very fun. AJ and Mark Buehrle were into it and it just was awesome. I think they charge 40, 50 and 60 for tickets maybe. Not exactly 10 dollars but the fans that attended prolly say it was worth it. There's some kind of lesson to be learned here. Banana fever. https://www.sportstravelmagazine.com/bananas-on-the-rocks-five-things-the-savannah-bananas-get-right/

I truly do think the Sox are improved this season so this is mostly frustration being expressed. I get so mad because the Sox are about to save the Royals season. Bet the house times 10. KC will sweep this series and thus start a hot streak that will get them in the playoffs. The Royals dominance of the Sox saved their season last year and they boatraced the Sox for years before that. It's not fair, baseball. Even though the Sox are better they still reek on the road and it's unfair KC gets to ride three wins over the Sox (again) to save their season and get 'em hot for the playoff stretch. Make us get competitive, baseball commish. It's unfair to teams that don't play the Sox at opportune times.

This is insane. Any one of us coulda thought of this idea. Kudos to whoever invented this concept. Can you imagine how rich he/she is? And how bout the players? I would think there are making so much $$. To pack the Cell for those prices is unbelievable. Can you imagine the money made on concessions today? I wonder if they charged for parking.

Our everyday lineup is good and full of potential. Our pitching reeks. Not Getz's fault. No $$s. I think this season he grades A-minus. Jerry grades F

Thank you. Sounds like the coach is qualified. Nice resume. Worked at St. Xavier and all those other places. High school sports are so weird. Obviously we can't win if we don't recruit and recruiting high school kids has to be strange. I met Bobby Frasor two winters ago at a KU basketball game. I was asking him all about Bro Rice. He had to think I was wacko being an adult so interested in my almie mater. Nice guy though.

Getz so far is doing a fine job especially considering the financial constraints.

Old Comiskey was that way. If you had lower level boxes first 5-10 rows or so you'd walk in the park and walk thru one of the tunnel entrances and BOOM, a glorious baseball field overcoming all your senses. I don't think my senses have ever been through a more glorious experience than entering old Comiskey field level. Actually Wrigley may be that way too but I can't remember that as much as Sox Park, 35th and Shields.

Good post. If folks want to kill an hour or two go to youtube and watch the 3-4 people who go to games and rate the ballparks. Our park, Rate Field, consistently is the worst park the reviewer(s) have ever watched a game. Our park does reek but it has to be in the top five in terms of delicious (albeit overpriced) food.

We gotta give credit where it's due. Getz is no longer the devil. He's made some great moves including picking up this Mead guy. As well as Tauchman and the others we discuss a lot. Folks, it's time to raise a glass to Getz. I'm thinking he 'gets it' in terms of talent evaluation, baby. BTW: Quero and Teel are for real IMO. Any current or former haters of Getz willing to raise your glass with me to toast (not roast anymore) him?

Like I said before he is gonna take Chicago by storm. He's the Sox version of Pete Crow-Armstrong, Bobby Witt Jr., Connor Bedard. Ten home runs at this stage is remarkable. His last two homers have been rockets.

Great post. The block lettering unis and hats were intriguing. Kind of unprofessional though as u said like a softball uniform. I will say the Sox have always had good uniforms though. But you can't beat the current hats and jerseys. Like somebody said the rap community all wore Sox hats and Sox gear. The current S-O-X script is gorgeous. Again, the best hat in baseball tying the Yankees. I'd prefer we keep the current unis but scrap those dark red and black ones we wear sometimes. To be honest our best uniforms in my lifetime prolly were the red ones that Dick Allen wore in that picture with the cigarette in the dugout. Our only bad jerseys were the ones with the collars Zisk wore. Anybody else an Eric Soderholm fan? He could hit (in '77 at least).

I love Frank Thomas. All I was trying to say is our lowly White Sox, an embarrassment to those who pay attention any more, finally have a Caitlin Clark, a Connor Bedard, a Bobby Witt for those who think I love the Royals, a guy like the Cubs player with the 3 names. That's all I was trying to say. I worship MJ and Frank both in a baseball sense of the word. Not guaranteeing anything except you watch Colson rake and try to tell me he doesn't have perfect hitting form.

You are not a believer in Colson? It's OK to get excited about something involving the White Sox when deserved IMO.

I knew greg would get called out for drifting to politics. Why did I go there? Check the thread and there are some political comments in here. I drifted there in response figuring I'd prolly get gregged. I was crossing my fingers I wouldn't get suspended.

Frank is/was amazing (his batting eye especially and overall hitting of course) but this Montgomery has the SWING. Smooth, explosive, BOOM.

He's so good that you have to believe the Sox have their own superstar. His potential is unlimited.

Montgomery, no hyperbole, is our best prospect maybe ever. That swing on the homer is as smooth yet forceful as anybody who has worn a Sox jersey. Whoever is responsible for drafting him must be a genius. 22nd overall pick? How could all those teams pass up this natural talent? When is the hype machine gonna take off?? He is the Sox's Caitlin Clark. He is the Sox's Connor Bedard. He is the Sox's versus of the Bulls' Mxxxxxx Jxxxxx. OK I won't go that far yet.

ls the data correct though? Or it is Soros-sized

This has nothing to do with Chicago's numbers. I have no idea if they are accurate or not. ... BUT in D.C. did you see the officials were saying via numbers crime is down like 50 percent and lowest since the 1960s or something. Then somebody proved the numbers released were fake news. What a world but we don't know who to believe any more.

There are a lot of things stupid and unnecessary about sports, Lip. Taxes being used to pay for stadiums of billionaires is one of them but it's the norm. So you gotta do it. These salaries to play a kid's game also are stupid and unnecessary. I just wonder at what point fans stop going. Not sure where they get all the money to drive to games, park, eat, drink and watch the games. ... The new thing in college sports is having to pay a rental fee just to have your season ticket seat. The cost of the seat is in addition to how much you have to pay lump sum just to have right to the seat.

Chicago negatives: The accent from the deep southside; potholes. Positives: Deep dish, beef sandwiches, Chicago hot dogs, Giordanos thin slice, high school football and basketball. Are we gonna rally and beat the Guardians tonight?

Caiaphas sounds like a figure from the Bible's Old Testament.

Also hard to have pride in Chicago itself. I won't get political but living out of state, trust me, the nation's opinion of Chicago's financial situation and mayor's plan to increase taxes on businesses and crime stats dominate what we're told about Chicago. If it's fake news, fine, but nobody is proving it's fake news. To the average out of state joe, Chicago is a mess and it'd be insane to not move to suburbia if you were a sports owner of any team but the Cubs and their museum (park).