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I don’t live in Illinois, but I try to get to a game when I am in town if the dates line up. I’ve heard about the tailgate scene, and see some people being sad it is going away, but I’ve never seen or been involved in the tailgates in person. I went to a game in May and parked in the lots near Cork and Kerry. I was early and walked through the lots to the entrance, and I didn’t see one tailgate. Attendance was ~15K. It was a nice night weather wise. I’m sure tailgates for Cubs/Sox is a good time, but when I see people clinging to this as an argument….I don’t know. As someone who’s been to a bunch of parks - most of which have been built in the last 30 years, the Rate sorely lacks things to do before and after the game. Growing up, my dad would park somewhere in the neighborhood and we’d walk through the viaduct to the game and leave in the 8th inning to “beat traffic.” Later, I took the Archer Express with friends. There was never any hanging out around the stadium. That’s the aspect of this stadium JR totally failed on. People like to be able to spend time around the stadium, but the current location doesn’t have many opportunities to do it. From what i recall, the major obstacle to building up the Rate has always been JR. Ishbia doesn’t want to be stuck with gate revenue, concessions and parking as his only income sources. He’s looking for year round income. Kinda hard to fault him for that.

It’s only 5 pages. Just skip any post that’s more than 4 sentences. Anything beyond that is a form of self-pleasure you need not witness.

Yep. He’s just guessing and swinging as hard as he can on every pitch.

I’m convinced Colson just guesses and swings as hard as he can every time.

Well, he’s on pace to strike out about 220 times, so he might not have the best concept of what a strike is.

They must have been told to stop burning the challenges in the first few innings. Looked like a ball, but it would suck if it was a pitch that caught a hair of the zone.

Big Unit the one anomaly… Names two more.😀

After 3 awful seasons, I won’t be satisfied at the end of the season if they miss the playoffs. It will feel like a failure because the division is winnable and the wild card should be the worst they do at this point. Need to refocus. Don’t stop now boys.

I listened to today’s (8/23) game against the Mets, and it’s so much better than the Schriff experience. He doesn’t let the game breathe at all. Against the Cubs, there several times where he tried to get Stone to engage in Cubs bashing or Wrigley bashing, and Stone didn’t bite. Schriff needs to stop selling the Sox to Sox fans. We’re watching the game already. Not sure why it seems like he’s trying to convince me to be a fan. DJ was terrible (terrible!) when he started, so there is hope for Schriff, but perhaps he can listen to some games called by the best announcers and learn from how they back off and let the pictures on tv do some of the talking.

Vargas, Meidroth, Sam, Mune

Nope. Colson needs a few days off. Glad he got a timely hit, but that doesn’t negate him having no clue half the time.

He needs a couple days off.

Going rate for the Pope hat on eBay is approximately $75.

I remember the girls had to sing Immaculate Mary, and there was something about it that was really awesome. I’m somewhat of a lapsed catholic, but the traditional hymns still get me. Being catholic isn’t totally about religion for me, there’s a cultural identity that I still hold onto. 12 years of catholic school doesn’t go away easily.

When Tom Grieve was the Rangers pitching coach in the 90s, he had players warm up with a football. I think he believed it helped reinforce good pitching mechanics or something.