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The Phillies, Mets, and Rangers, but they're all trying to build entertainment districts on their parking lots. l can think of a few parks that aren't necessarily surrounded by parking lots, but still aren't really walkable to a downtown or to an entertainment district - Miami, Toronto, Yankee Stadium. Houston used to be like that, but it looks like that part of downtown has grown up since I was there last.

In August 2024, Paul Sullivan wrote that Schiffren had two years left on his deal. https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/08/12/chicago-white-sox-john-schriffen-steve-stone/

Jeff Agrest is absolutely right about Schiffren's lack of preparation. Baseball is a slow sport, and an announcer has to come prepared each day with new things to fill the time - or be such a good communicator that they can just pull interesting things out of their head. Hawk could tell old-time stories, Benetti has his corny jokes and is fluent with advanced stats, Kasper seems to bring something novel to every broadcast, like a recent game when he and D.J. spent a half inning chatting about how today's players have dozens of pairs of spikes, while players in D.J.'s day wore the same couple of pairs for months. Kasper had talked with the clubhouse manager before the game to get some actual numbers on how many shoes the team had gone through. Schiffren has gotten better, but he still doesn't seem to bring much to the broadcast except some predictable quotes from the previous day's postgame press conference.

Looks like the immediate plan is just to build the Fire stadium and some surface parking lots. The other proposed buildings would come much later. https://x.com/BuildingChi/status/1968745733521092961 https:/https://x.com/BuildingChi/status/1968745733521092961/x.com/BuildingChi/status/1968745733521092961s://x.com/BuildingChi/status/1968745733521092961

According to media reports, Benetti's contract with the Tigers allows him to miss 35 games per season. I don't know how many games Schiffren has missed, but I'm guessing fewer than 10.

Fun fact: The TWIB theme - a piece of production music called "Gathering Crowds" - was also used as the ABC News theme in the 1970s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un7Lp7ibwgo

Here's a fun TWIB segment about the banners. There was a group of fans who sat in left field every game who had a whole supply of them that they'd drape over the outfield walls- slogans for each batter, an eye chart after a bad call. etc. It certainly was more creative than all the ads that cover the walls of every ballpark now.

Whenever I hear this, I encourage people to read Peter Richmond's book Ballpark. He shows HOK's original 1986 and 1987 renderings for Camden Yards. The first looks like a generic stadium with no retro elements; the second resembles New Comiskey with a warehouse. He says it was the Orioles management who insisted on the total-retro-design and had to persuade HOK to do another redesign in 1988. He quotes Orioles president Larry Lucchino saying of HOK, "Comiskey would have been the stadium they'd have built, given free reign." According to Richmond, by the time HOK re-designed Camden Yards with what became the final plan, New Comiskey was already under construction. So it's not clear to me how Reinsdorf could have been offered that design.

WCIU to broadcast seven Sox games, including all three games of the Cubs series: https://www.wciu.com/articles/catch-chsn-live-simulcasts-of-seven-white-sox-home-games-on-the-u

This series features the last two MLB teams that don't have advertising patches on their uniforms. Enjoy the clean-sleeven look while you still can.

The developer has said in the past there's room for both stadiums at the 78. https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/possible-future-home-of-white-sox-could-have-a-second-stadium-developer-says/3578694/

Robert Channick in the Tribune has reported that one of Comcast's demands is that CHSN discontinue the free over-the-air broadcasts on channel 62: So what's the best option for fans and the teams? Should CHSN jettison the antenna viewers to potentially reach the million Comcast viewers in Chicago -- albeit on Comcast's more expensive Ultimate tier? Or should they forgo Comcast, which has been steadily losing customers nationally for years? Maybe there's some split of free games on WGN/WJYS and Comcast-exclusive games that would satisfy everyone? Given the performance of Bulls, Hawks, and Sox, it's hard to imagine that anyone but the most devout fans will be motivated to either fiddle around with an antenna or pay an extra $20/month to Comcast. So until the teams get better, I doubt their TV revenue numbers are going to get better.

As a reporter in Texas, he also witnessed the assassination of JFK.

If this is true, Comcast is being ridiculous.