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Can you imagine being a Sox sales person calling potential customers about season tickets? I'd imagine the recipients of the calls are rather direct/mean to the sales people. I'd be like, "Are you serious? Season tickets?" I assume their selling point is getting to see the other teams' players while getting to know future Sox stars as they are called up to the bigs. Can you imagine paying to see this pitching staff in action? This bullpen? And finally this lineup? WOW. The Sox should offer something in addition to baseball. Maybe the price of a ticket allows you to take batting practice.

So this means pennants are in our future? Dominance of division soon?

to see if the stadium personnel were nice to the few who attended.

where did u sit? boxes? Were there about 1000 fans there total?

This is one of those years people who hate crowds could just go watch a MLB game at GRate and probably have a good time, that is, if the ushers aren't dictators. Like if the section next to you is almost empty and yours for some reason is packed and you wanna spread out. Also breeze in and out for parking compared to years when the team is actually decent.

i killed my post; didn't think the peeps would like me hijacking a thread with comments about wnba and its future. as far as attendance you'd think the Sox season ticket sales might be low. peace.

I guess the public will never stop spending whatever sports teams want to charge. I'm sure it chaps the baseball owners that the secondary market can get 6,000 a ticket for a World Series game when they charge whatever they charge. Not 6000 bucks.

I still can't understand all the money in sports teams when ticket prices are so high. I know it's TV money but all you hear about are TV cutbacks, ESPN, CNN, etc. I'll never understand. I guess most teams draw well and attendance helps but I'm told time and again by fans on here attendance doesn't matter. It's TV money.

My bad. Why did we keep him?

Interesting the Sox kept Robert. Somebody decided we better have one player people might pay to see. Not for attendance mind you, just to make sure the team had one good player. If Robert was/is traded the Sox have not one player you would pay to see. That's kind of scary. You wouldn't pay to see any of those pitchers. You certainly don't pay to see Vaughn and the everyday lineup guys.

Yeah but those players all reek. When the Sox acquired them I was thinking they needed some warm bodies just to be able to field a team at all. Not one of those players you mentioned is any good but they were big league warm bodies.

South siders stand up? Ha. They won't stand up to support this joke of an organization. Will they come back when we get good again? Yeah, it's the nature of the fan beast but it'll never be the same with the diehards. I'm sure if we could do a thorough examination of greg's fanhood on here I bet the tone of my posts have changed so much since the years we tried and actually had a pulse in the division race.

That's awesome you will support the team no matter the quality of the product. Many of us could handle a down year or two, but this current thing going on is appalling. You'd think after the embarrassment of last season the Sox would try to improve the team. Instead there is no reason to believe the team has improved at all from last year. If you are willing to pay exorbitant prices for tickets (I assume you want a good seat, not some bad seat) again good for you. I don't see how a franchise has fooled some fans in thinking a second rebuild job is a good thing. The stars of the first rebuild were all stiffs, ala Moncada and Timmy and Eloy lol.

I look at the big picture and if you said you did this, there have to be a TON of fellow Sox fans who did the same thing. I mean I have a friend in Lisle who got fired from a job because he had tickets for the Sox-Orioles playoff series (the Dybber, Britt Burns, Hoyt series) and his boss said if he skipped work he was fired. He went to the game and got fired. This guy doesn't know anybody on the Sox roster besides a player or two, has no idea of our farm system saviors who were acquired for Crochet. He has zero interest in the Sox. I mean a true diehard. A lot of you I know think as soon as we start winning again all the former fans who have lost interest will come back. Maybe, but there are an awful lot of kiddos who have NO interest in the Sox, many probably don't even know Chicago has a team at 35th and Shields. My point: Say what you want but the longer the Sox are totally irrelevant and loser of 100 plus games, the more fans will stay away. Most people will not pay those prices for a mere baseball game that features no players worth watching and food/drink/parking that's for the 1 percenters, not the average Jane and Joe workin' 60 hours a week. Very sad. My second year of not watching a game is upon us. I will watch highlights as long as mlb allows it for free.

Very sad baseball hasn't commented on the Sox disgraceful treatment of its fans in not trying to win. It's disgusting to look at this roster. And it's not like the guys we're waiting on in the minors are THAT great. We're waiting on some good prospects, whoopie! Are they really elite?

Well offseason is finished in my mind. A couple more days til Feb. 1. February means spring training and the Sox frankly have had the most pathetic offseason in my lifetime. They got rid of Sale, I mean Crochet, and added that one trade worth of prospects and a bunch of old mediocres. The pitching staff is made up of a bunch of nobodies. Until they get going in April, May I am confident 80 percent of Sox fans could not name 50 percent of our 2025 roster. 50 percent may be way too high. This franchise is despicable. I'd rather be sent to Antartica for a month than purchase mlb.com to watch this wretched team. Robert is staying it looks like. So he's the attraction, the one "star." Good luck Mr. Robert shouldering the load. It's apparent it is you and a bunch of stiffs representing the Sox in 2025. I do wish him well. Vaughn would be the next closest guy resembling a big leaguer but he's had his chances and he's Mr. Mediocre/Try Hard Though. Oh there's Beni. I'd rather have Rowand or Vance Law. Feb. 1. How depressing to know the roster is about complete. I predict 35-45 wins. I'm thinking 39 wins somehow. Q: is the sox current pitching staff, starters, openers and relievers, by far the worst in Sox history, maybe baseball history? Wait til u see the 6-7 we use every game lose almost every game.

What a dummy TA is then. Chicago's a good town to be a sports hero. He stopped producing. He probably should write a book and name names. I take it he must have had a tough few years for sure.

Anderson was one of the few Sox players anybody'd ever heard of during his tenure. I also wish him well. That'd be neat if he got good again. Abreu should sign a minor league deal somewhere too.

somebody said he mispronounced veeck's name. You can't do that period. Chicagoans are unforgiving when somebody is that dumb.

What a life. Got to play baseball for a living, got to broadcast baseball after his career ended. Got to 'work' at a job he obviously cherished all the way until it was time to head to heaven. And I would assume he had a great family life. Just a gut feeling he's a great guy. Rest in peace. What a glorious life he had.

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I read thru the thread and saw the prediction by the poster came true and made a comment. It didn't put on blast any party or candidate thus I thought it would be OK to go there.

You were right. I won't get political, but I wonder who would be the next president had they done it the normal way, by nominating a candidate and having a convention. Or I wonder if KH would have won had she named the Penn. governor Shapiro her running mate instead of the other guy.

Weird sarcasm coming from a guy who I thought liked me. I do not like Applebee's, never been to the one in Kansas. I do like the salad bar at that one restaurant I forget the name. Italian garden or whatever the name is. And I love Ozzeroo of course. McCarthy is a veteran coach, proven, Aikman upset the Cowboys fired him. Might figure ways to beat Green Bay, etc.

Slam dunk. Bears next coach has to be McCarthy. He's only 61. He could be the coach of our next good team. If he's Bears coach til 71 you can't convince me he won't win at least one SB.