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QUOTE (RockRaines @ Oct 23, 2012 -> 03:25 PM) Epic Fail. I cant believe we got a player for his worthless ass. Dont believe that's a line in Anchorman.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Oct 12, 2012 -> 04:03 PM) Tigers have $5 tickets in their upper deck for all 81 home games. They also have an official parking lot that costs $5 to park in. Chicago metro area: 10 million Detroit metro area: 3.7 million A couple considerations -- lets say you reduce parking for all games, then you are losing all that parking $ generated for the surefire winners (i.e. hosting the Cubs). What if the team is awful? Then you just lost all the money for those well-attended games that are a sure bet...AND you lose in general overall attendance. Point being - a sharp decrease in prices ain't happening. We are what we are -- a giant city with a lot of potential interest, but as of yet, not enough truly interested people.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Oct 12, 2012 -> 03:56 PM) This. It's all about building up the season-ticket base which happens in the off-season. The smart fan perhaps comes to this site, but the general Sox fan has to learn about the team in advance..and the casual fan needs to ...hear...HEY they got a free agent blah blah. Hate to say it, but the Sox would probably make more money next year if they took that Peavy/Pierzynski money and instead gave all of it to Josh Hamilton with no other additions. Then the casual Sox fan would think to themselves: "oh, they were pretty surprisingly good last year-- and now they added Josh Hamilton!" Neverminding the fact that, overall, the team would be worse (if that was the only move)

I think the core issue with sports teams that irks today's general population-- they know if they cater to big spender people, and try to just keep Average Joe somewhat in the picture... they can operate while keeping their eye on a big prize. The years the Sox are very good likely attract BOTH the spender and the average joe, and said year is a big win for them. Big enough perhaps to make up for what would've been, say, some imagined year where we were awful and we lowered prices way low to compensate for that. The White Sox could probably lower prices and be thought of as just some bar you can go to... yet in the past, we saw on-field problems (bad publicity) to the point where they had to lock up the concourse level to anyone in the upper deck. Suites, private boxes, etc -- today's game revolves around getting companies to bring clients, groups, spend a bunch of money. And yes you have to pay an expensive roster of high priced players, but that doesn't explain the entire story. They are gambling on a winning year resulting in big buzz for the team and tons of lucrative interest from any number of directions--not necessarily the family of four hoping to see the occasional game. That's the route this thing has gone -- but it comes down to the Sox not having a large enough total number of fans to achieve their goal every year.

Tickets on the secondary market are already cheap. People are under the impression that they HAVE to buy a few beers and food. Buy your ticket, and just go watch the game. Of course, people don't do that and as a result don't attend -- and get to keep the excuse alive that everything is too expensive. In today's day and age, if you are someone who budgets ANY money for entertainment purposes, then there's no reason why you can't make the Sox the recipient of that money. If the fanbase was big enough, we'd all be able to do that--enough to make the team fairly well attended. The total fanbase, however, is not big enough..to make each game fairly well attended (unless there is really good buzz in a particular year). This is good though. You should want the organization to be driven by a need to win. I can live with that, considering we are what we are as an organization.

The article mentions exchanges AJ had with famous fans. I remember the one with Dubya.....but what happened with Brian Knobbs?

Cubs should get Grace in the booth. Just get him an in-city condo and a ChicagoCard 30-day pass

QUOTE (fathom @ Oct 4, 2012 -> 10:51 AM) Again, I repeat what I've said for a few weeks now. No one on the Sox had better at bats the last month than Dan Johnson did. It's frustrating that there were games in which he should have been used against tough righties in order to give someone like an ailing Paul Konerko a breather. Here's the thing..when a good guy is going bad for a stretch...do you apply this same logic in reverse? You personally, I'm not sure...but I think many people here will overrate a stretch of greatness from a mediocre player, and will similarly lose their s*** unnecessarily over a horrible stretch from a guy you're depending on. In the end, a person is their numbers. Dan Johnson is a guy with mediocre numbers, considering you can't use him many places in the field.

Dan Johnson I build a shrine to you. Dan Johnson I forget your earlier years and overall unimpressiveness (and age)...those three home runs have earned you a special place in my heart regardless.

But Flowers is ready in that he can contribute in all facets passably well and then the AJ money can be spent on other things. The opportunity cost of keeping AJ is the thing that happens to the other positions of need. Due to money lacking.

With Flowers ready, that money just has to be spent elsewhere. The chance of a repeat of AJ's offense is not worth what we'd probably get...which is the free-swinging high avg/low obp.. plus poor catching. There is no question AJ's offense was a huge part of us getting as far as we did. It also should not be something that keeps us from doing...anything

I don't approve of what Hawk does in the booth, or his beliefs about the game...but I would not want him to leave yet. Granted that makes no sense, but I would think others are in that boat w/ me

Reinsdorf is kind of funny about his old allegiances. He apparently really thought about bringing back Doug Collins a few years back....and there were some rumored aspects of the Reinsdorf/Collins falling out way back in the day that trump anything between Ozzie and Reinsdorf (to level ten) All that said, my expectation would be that door is totally shut and could only reopen for some sort of future office or ambassador role.

Lets not get Dan Johnson fever. If he was a better bet than Konerko, his career up to this point would show it. This is an older player, and there's no mystery about him.

Perhaps Tyler Flowers' most important at-bat ever. And I hope I don't mean to include the future as well...but quite possibly.

If he mentions Sale after a start like this, it actually embarasses Chris even more than if he hadn't

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 29, 2012 -> 03:36 PM) big dick Chris Sale! ease up

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Sep 28, 2012 -> 10:53 AM) A lot of your posts lately are of this nature, almost like you aren't included as a fan. I find it interesting. I'm actually with him on that one. Just because you root for a team doesn't mean you have to consider yourself part of a united group. Maybe that's not the point he's making, but I've always felt that way about myself. These are the teams I root for-- whoever's rooting around me, these people I don't know.... I can't say I have tons of allegiance to them.

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Sep 28, 2012 -> 10:33 AM) What took you so long? to be fair, if i remember right-- i only favored Wise because he was a veteran. my stance was --they're both bad. And next year I'll go back to hoping we rely on neither for anything.

The people enraged at Wise over Jordan Danks have experienced weeks and weeks of wrongness

I wonder how many different rating scales are defined as "1 being Greg"

So far this game is made for SoxTalk

There's no way to ascertain if a team is choking, or if they are simply in a valley since their talent is flat out not special. The game is all peaks and valleys. We were on some serious peaks early in the year. But when you have lineup holes and an aging best player, there will be a reckoning at some point.

Does anyone want to add up our wins versus those of other poor attendance teams? Since...say 2000

a The Season gulp right there