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QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Apr 7, 2005 -> 08:42 AM) I don't know about nationwide, but I know our numbers are always a fraction of our northerly neighbors. Well we do seem to get a fair amount of national TV games. We are ESPN already this Sunday and for sure one more. They usually switch us to another Sunday game late in the year if we are doing well. We also are on FOX quite a bite. Much more so than say Florida, Arizona, Milwaukee, Cincy and the like.

I don't know if it is quantifiable, but does anyone know what kind of TV ratings numbers the Sox draw vs. the rest of the league? I bet we are in the top 10 or so in that area. Maybe?

Why is attendance such an issue with everyone, especially the media. Mariotti waited only a few paragraphs to mention the attendance. It's simple, day games have never been big draws for the Sox. I would hope next week does better and hopefully we'll sell out the Monday night game against the Twins. Talk to me in August if we are still drawing like that. I am sure we will bust the 2million mark this year.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Apr 6, 2005 -> 12:11 PM) but it was supposed to rain heavy today.......it still might. Weekday game in April ..... It wouldn't matter what the weather was like.

What paragraph in Marriotti's column tomorrow will the word attendance appear?

The Sox will only get $2.5 million for their radio rights? Hmm, seems low. Does anyone know what the Sox TV deal nets the team? I thought it was a pretty penny. At least in the upper third of the league. Perhaps the real numbers are not known since they own a portion of the Comcast channel.

I wonder if Lee, Valentin, and Ordonez were buddies in the clubhouse, isolating themselves from the rest of the team. There definitely is a different, and better, feeling around the team this year.

It's official: SOLD OUT!!! http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/cws/ticket...ening_week.html

QUOTE(qwerty @ Mar 28, 2005 -> 01:45 AM) http://www.badtipper.com/celebrities/scottiePippen.shtml Bulls*** he is a top twenty five player in nba history. Top 25 of all time, Scottie Pippen? You can only name 24 players in the history of the NBA that you would take over Scottie-headache-gun-toting-wife-beating-1.8-second-quitting-never-hit-a-last-second-shot-calling-the-fans-racists-ingrateful-dick-Pippen?

Great job. He is the perfect down-to-earth White Sox guy. I know he recently signed for a couple of years. What's his contract situation? Anyone know?

The last few days, Mike North has been telling everyone that the Sox will be the team that everyone will need to take notice of this year. I agree, I don't think I have ever been this excited about the start of an upcoming season. Perhaps its because of all the new players we have or just a feeling that things are going to jell for us, but I am pumped. My only wish is that we opened on Tuesday so that we could get a day away from the Illini hype that will be all over on Monday if they go to the Championship game.

AJ does not appear to be knocking the cover off the ball this spring.

It all comes down to one thing for the Sox to get respect. Just WIN! If the Sox were to make it to the World Series, they would get all the coverage and respect. It's just that simple. Unfortunately, we don't have a well-publicized CURSE or 26 World Championships behind us, so we need to earn our notoriety.

It's in the Buehrle Breaks Foot thread, but it might get lost on page 23. It's pretty good. By Mike Imrem Daily Herald The earth didn’t shake Monday morning when word circulated that Mark Buehrle injured his foot shagging flyballs. I mean, this wasn’t the Cubs. It was the White Sox. It wasn’t Mark Prior. It was Mark Buehrle. It wasn’t People glitz and glamour. It was Popular Mechanics nuts and bolts. Nothing might symbolize the relative statuses of Chicago’s baseball teams better than the responses to their respective recent pitching crises. Prior and Kerry Wood went down with ailing arms last week. When they were scratched from the season-opening series at Arizona, you would have thought the pope and president were spitting up blood. Buehrle? Pending the outcome of further tests, he might be scratched from Opening Day and maybe longer. It would be as big an “Ouch!” for his team as a Prior or Wood absence is for his. Maybe bigger, in fact. Maybe big enough that when Buehrle is absent, somebody finally notices him. Until now he could have been the object of the country lyric, “How can I miss you if you never go away?” Buehrle has been one of baseball’s most unspectacularly outstanding players the past few years, quietly becoming a No. 1 pitcher if not an actual ace. But Buehrle’s reputation didn’t precede him to the big leagues. He didn’t burst onto the scene with a $10 million signing bonus. He doesn’t throw hard enough to wow you with 20 strikeouts in a game. All he does is sneak up on hitters as well as victories. If Buehrle were a Cub he would be glorified as a cerebral, crafty, consistent winner. He would be Greg Maddux, or at least the next Maddux, or possibly the left-handed Maddux. Instead, he’s merely the current Buehrle, which is plenty good enough for the Sox. He won 65 games for them over the past four seasons, never less than 14 or more than 19. Yet probably only serious Sox fans experienced chest pains when word circulated that Buehrle suffered a possible hairline fracture of his left foot. The news didn’t reverberate throughout Chicago as if Buehrle were Wood, or throughout baseball as if he were Prior. When Prior and Wood were shut down recently, it became the stuff of “SportsCenter” segments. The Cubs’ hardship was discussed on “Pardon the Interruption.” It was serious, by golly, because they are the Cubs, by gosh. Never mind that Buehrle has been more reliable than either Prior or Wood. He has done more for longer than Prior and accomplished more with less than Wood. But Buehrle barely dented Monday’s 5 p.m. “SportsCenter” and I missed it if he was mentioned at all on “PTI.” He is as anonymous there as he is walking down Michigan Avenue. “Doesn’t that guy look familiar ... didn’t he fix our toilet last week?” Buehrle might prefer it this way. He is pretty low-key, not unlike Maddux. Then before anybody realizes it, each records double-figure victories and usually finishes with closer to 20 than 10. Hopefully for the Sox, Buehrle’s foot isn’t as badly hurt as first diagnosed and he won’t be out as long as first feared. If that’s the case, it could turn out to be a positive. Maybe then when Buehrle pitches again, the masses won’t take him for granted, like he was while throwing a league-high 245º innings last year. Mark Buehrle should be appreciated at least as much as less successful pitchers around baseball and around town.

I would take Hawk a million times over Farmio. Hearing him telling another story about his playing days just grates on me. Also, hearing Farmio lead the discussion with some of the players and their wives at SoxFest made me want to run up on the stage and smack him. He talked aimlessly and constantly. He never knows when to shut the hell up. Hey Ed, no one paid money at SoxFest to see your old ass up there rambling about where you played golf for free.

At the end of last year he missed a few starts and was hit pretty hard in a couple of games.

How's Ventura doing in the booth?

QUOTE(thomsonmi @ Mar 21, 2005 -> 10:02 AM) There's no way to spin this. This is bad f'n news. Buerhle is the man on our staff. s***! Exactly!!!! We have to hope to stay about .500 until June 1 when he should be back to form.

I never thought I'd be screaming for Ozzie to bring in Garland.

Sox lineup anyone?

Just like PK is willing to give the Sox a hometown discout, the Sox may want to think about overpaying for him just a bit. It can't all be about numbers. Frank is close to retirement and he isn't the most fan-friendly player. Paul Konerko is the face of the White Sox. Like it or not, a big-hitting, beer-swilling, speak-his-mind, type of person (such as PK) is the person who needs to represent the Southsiders for the next 5 years. Actually Konerko and Rowand should lead the Sox until 2010. Hard-nosed grinders.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 18, 2005 -> 08:20 AM) I will say one thing in Jaime's favor. He did everything the Sox have asked of him. He has played any role or position, and never complained about it. This is true. Unfortunately, he would play better third base with a shield than a glove. Oooo he's scary over ther.

I like Big Ben and he can go on hot streaks. He can also go on very cold streaks. Jamie Burke is destined to be the 25th man on any roster. To use Jerry Angelo's analysis: Burke's floor is not that low, but his ceiling is not that high. Davis' floor can be quite low, but he has the potential to have a high ceiling.

Rut Roh!

Go here, they give a complete wrapup every 15 minutes or so: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2014564