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SN Report: Sports Authority Approves U.S. Cellular Name By Mario Scalise April 1, 2003 SoxNet.net The Illinois Sports Facilities Authority approved the naming change from Comiskey Park to U.S. Cellular Field on Monday, making the 20-year $68 million deal official. Following the approval, the White Sox revealed the rennovations that will be ready on opening day, Friday, April 4 against the Detroit Tigers. The renovations include three new video screens: One being a "state-of-the-art" scoreboard screen in center, which is almost twice the size of the one previous; along with two 300-foot-long LED video display screens along the front of the upper deck that will be the largest continuous video ribbon boards in MLB and the highest-resolution video ribbons in professional sports. Other changes to the ballpark are as follows: >A "fan deck" was built on the center-field concourse. The fan deck, which will be open to all fans, will consist of patio tables, food and beverages. >The outfield concourse canopy has been painted a dark gray, while pedestrian ramps and seating area concrete has been stained dark gray. >A brick overlay and stainless steel countertops have been added to the outfield and upperdeck concourses, matching the lowerdeck concourse renovations of last season. >Iron gateways and lamps were added above aisles in the outfield.

Damn it Rex, that sucked horribly. U just got that in in time too. 8 minutes till its the next day. Damn, you set us up, continuing with the gag, and then bam. Oh well, I hope the Sox read it and are all thinking that they were screwed and they are gonna just come out tomorrow and score 17 runs. I'll give ya credit though Rex, cause u suckered us good.

Thats what I wanted to see the whole time.

119 or something like that. I forget, they just automatically renew mine, and typically something goes wrong and they end up giving it to me for free.

Gary (cy young porzio) is in.

about 6k last i heard yesterday... Opening day isn't sold out yet?

In his 2ND post in this thread, Rex said, "I think there is a 17 yr. old clubhouse helper that feels really bad right now." Gotcha.

What kid? Your lost me Rex.

It has to be bs, judging on the fact that they are basing everything on one day. It could of been a serious article, pointing out to those that are jumping off the skyscrapers after just one game just how the season isn't really over.

That was hillarious. I didn't catch todays show either. I slept in and then went to the beach and then work. I love spring break

Is that supposed to be a serious article? If so what a joke, and if its an april fools joke, I must of missed something.

Neverhad them, but If I get out to Birmingham this summer like I want to, then I'm gonna have to try some. I'm assuming they are from a place nearby the stadium?

Ya, forgot about that. You can also watch that, and they do another free preview right after the All Star Break.

Guys, you may see some new colors on THIS Board, as we are going to try to keep it around as long as possible before making the switch. For those reasons, I'm going to try and get some work on it tomorrow and work on sprucing up the colors. This probably won't be noticed for a few days and knowing me, it could take longer, but if anyone experiences any weird colors its cause I'm tinkering.

Are you serious on the Frank part? I swear, you must be setting me up for April fools here. If not, then I am going to take it as an excuse for why the Sox sucked it up this year. I'm also even more excited for Wednesdays games, cause I'm assuming they'll have the bats back. Either way, I'm a lot happier after reading this thread. You rock Rex

how are you watching that .. with 500 channels and over 50 of them with sports i dont have a single baseball game on tonite.............. Well, I just watched the Angel world series ceremony and now am watching them play the Rangers. I wish it were the Sox I was watching though

I'd of been looking.

I'm good. We can do it Tues or Thurs pretty much anytime, Mon, Wed, Fri it has to be after 5 pacific time. This sounds way cool

I believe it does. I don't think they want to deal Lee, under the belief that they'll want to keep either Carlos or Frank after this season, letting the other one go. If Daubach is destroying the ball and an offer came in for a really good starter that we'd be able to keep long term with our other guys, I'd be all for it.

We're only 4 months into the new year, and you've used it up already? It depends, he may of had two. Depends on whether you think SnR was a good idea

Forget about it, and I'm not saying that because of Boras being the agent, but because of that ridiculous price tag. Vladdy is gonna get a contract similar to that and he's way better then Beltran.

I can help. Just tell me where and i'll get them set up.

Thats awesome news.

Bahh, that was hillarious.

the early days the sox were more prominate on wfld, or what is now wciu..... wgn has always been a scrubbies channel.. and untill the past few years the sox were only on there a small handful of the time.... now they have a ton of games on there...... i know its better for you out of towners to get wgn............ No way...they're only on WGN around 30-35 times. That's pretty much the way it's been for the past few years, if memory serves me correctly. Once a week is about how often they're on. I'd agree, but I thought somewhere this year they said it was an increase in Sox games on WGN. I think they had like 28 last year, but thats just a number coming off the top of my head. All I know is I want no games on WCIU.