IlliniKrush

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 11, 2014 -> 01:22 PM) Lines at practice: Bickell - Toews - Versteeg Saad - Kruger - Kane Sharp - Handzus - Hossa Nordstrom - Regin - Smith Speechless.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 9, 2014 -> 10:26 PM) 19,118 on a beautiful Friday night. Of course, the D-Backs suck. Even though Goldschmidt and Parra are fun to watch, that's about it. Blackhawks.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 9, 2014 -> 09:27 PM) There's the Bryzgalov we know and love. Game 5 announced as a 8:00 start on Sunday night, wow NHL. Golf on NBC. And SOCCER. Not a big deal. Sure beats 11:30am hockey. QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 9, 2014 -> 09:55 PM) Any time you want to make a stop, Crawford... Beyond brutal. You knew a clunker was coming at some point. Awful timing. QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 9, 2014 -> 09:57 PM) I adored JP Dumont thanks to a hat trick he scored as a rookie. I remain livid that he was added a deal simply to dump Doug Gilmour months after signing him. I, too, loved JP. QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 9, 2014 -> 10:49 PM) Unbelievable. Still didn't see the penalty on Roszival. He caught it, ran for 3 yards to get the first down, then threw it off the boards. I actually caught that live and was furious. You knew they'd score on something so f***ing stupid. The only way it could have been better if it was at the UC and the whole crowd would have been all BOOOOOOOOOOOO as about 2% of the people would know the rule. In other news, he was f***ing awful outside of that tonight. Here's what you do. Brookbank has actually been fine. Sitting Leddy was stupid for Brookbank. Let Brookbank play for Rozsival. Finally, those lines were awful. Not that they weren't then changed 55 times. Can't wait for more RLG on Sunday. QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 9, 2014 -> 10:49 PM) They're getting stomped. No doubt about it. They got outskated badly. QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 9, 2014 -> 11:20 PM) Like Krush always says, a series doesn't start until a road team wins a game. Yup, 2-2, nothing has happened so far, series doesn't even exist yet. Good response to the embarrassment that was Tuesday. Yikes. Hawks have been outplayed the vast majority of the series. Luckily, it's 2-2. All the sudden Sunday is a must win.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ May 9, 2014 -> 03:54 PM) Jawun Evans is looking more and more like Illinois as well, that would be a coup if we got both (and one of them coming here helps with the other I'm sure). I'd lose my f***ing mind if both actually ended up at Illinois* *After they signed That said, it's recruiting, who the f*** knows, things change by the minute. I'd be thrilled with one, or any other big time recruit to add to this class.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 9, 2014 -> 11:12 AM) But the coach and GM are largely responsible for the success of the team and franchise. I'd wholeheartedly disagree with you there.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 9, 2014 -> 10:44 AM) Criticism is one thing saying they win in spite of him is another. On top of that the players have spoken out in favor of his line juggling. First of all, what are they going to do, speak against it? Second, it doesn't mean the line juggling is for the better. We've seen that. Sometimes, this team absolutely does win despite the coach and GM and the position they've put them in.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 9, 2014 -> 07:50 AM) Come on man. The team performs in spite of one of the best coaches ever? Get your head out of the sand. Don't be that blind and act like Q can do no wrong. Plenty of mistakes through the years. Winning a Cup doesn't make you protected from criticism.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 8, 2014 -> 08:27 PM) Exactly. It is possible to have grown up loving Hawk, to think he is an all-time great, and at the same time to think his time is done and he does more harm than help to Sox broadcasts nowadays. This is exactly it. The whole "but he's a fan!" defense is just old and ignorant. They should have an easy time getting a new announcer that pleases everyone with the bar set so low.

QUOTE (TRU @ May 8, 2014 -> 02:36 PM) You might be the only person who cares about whats boring to you, clearly, your opinion does not reflect what is reality. What in the f*** are you talking about? My opinion IS my reality.

Hey let's hit the panic button and f*** up all the lines. Here's an idea, let's put Handzus back with Hossa and Sharp, brilliant. That's a line from practice today, plus moving Toews away from Hossa. OK then. This team consistently performs in spite of Q, and to a degree, Bowman. It's really amazing how much talent this team has to overcome all of it.

QUOTE (TRU @ May 8, 2014 -> 12:51 PM) Ratings say otherwise Nice try, but ratings don't say how boring something is to me.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 8, 2014 -> 12:10 PM) i listen to him, and a lot of it is true. It really is sad to me that he had CBS turn off the comments sections on his articles, and it really bothers me when he hides behind "I dont care what you say, we get ratings so you dont matter" He can be funny, he can be informative, but unfortunately he has started to lean on the very idealogy that he hates, meatball thinking. He wants to make a large argumentative statement, and then refuse to allow the argument to happen. Unfortunately there is absolutely no competition to push him to be better than that, because I believe he can be(and has been) better than that. I see your point, I just laugh at people that talk about B and B like it's the worst thing ever, yet somehow they never listen, never have listened, but know everything that is said on the show, good bad or indifferent. So they take their hate of Bernstein, and any opinion or anything he ever says, is wrong. As is shown with this silly "OMG HE'S A CUBS FAN BECAUSE HE SAID A NICE THING ABOUT THEO" thing we have going on right now.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 8, 2014 -> 12:03 PM) He isn't a fan of anyone but his ratings. He is a highly paid troll that makes money off of upsetting people into calling his show to listen to what stupid thing gets said next. Don't fall for the act. You never listen to him, how would you know? How can you comment on something when you don't know what's said?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 8, 2014 -> 11:06 AM) f*** the NFL draft, there is baseball on. The NFL draft is pretty boring, I'd much rather watch a baseball game (or any game for that matter). If you follow it at all, you know everything about every guy already. What more is there? All you need to see is which team drafts what player, which can be looked at in 2 minutes instead of watching 4-5 hours worth of "action." /takes cover.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 8, 2014 -> 11:52 AM) Bernstein likes Theo's approach. That doesn't make him a Cubs fan or mean that he isn't or can't be a White Sox fan. Exactly. Can't be objective.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ May 8, 2014 -> 11:41 AM) I listen plenty since Theo has showed up it has been a love fest from Dan, Theo the man with the plan does no wrong. His positive comments on the Sox have been very few. Sox have deserved very few positive comments. Did you miss 2013? Theo has a plan. And it's a logical plan based on where they were at. May or may not work, but it's 100x better than anything they've been doing for years. If I was a Cubs fan, I'd be behind the plan as well. At least they have some sort of direction. Guess he can't be objective about things. Just blindly support the Sox and boo the Cubs. He also had positive comments about the Sox offseason now that there's a plan there, too.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ May 8, 2014 -> 11:31 AM) He says he is yet rips Sox every chance he gets. His comments on the radio all these years would say otherwise, he may have grew up one as a kid as a adult he is hardly a Sox fan. You're just wrong here, you don't listen to him much if you actually thought he was a Cubs fan. He's a Sox fan. You don't think the Sox have deserved to be criticized the past 8 years? Come on already. He's more than fair with that. He also rips the Cubs plenty.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ May 8, 2014 -> 10:07 AM) "They" would be the white sox ticket site, where right next to the buy tickets button it says 'tickets starting at $7'. Not sure what day you are looking at but Sec 140-145 are $72.45, Sec 146-153 are $51.45 and all the outfield is between $34 and $35. Go ahead and take the processing fees out if you want, but it IS part of the price. UNless you want to walk up and haggle with them to not get put into those far outfield corner seats that suck. As for upper deck, the first few rows between the bases are fine, but then you lack access to the lower deck (thanks to a drunk Cubs fan). I am still going, just don't like paying. Not sure where you are looking, but this link lists the ticket prices: http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/ticketing/...layout=gameflow Your $67 are gold box seats, where as you can go a section or two over and save $21. The lower box are the ones that run the majority of 3rd to the pole. Processing fees are not part of the price. There's also absolutely no reason to pay TM fees for a game like this, just walk up to the box office day of game and purchase for face value. For someone who doesn't like paying, you're choosing the really expensive seats (if looking gold box) and choosing to ignorantly pay TM fees.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 8, 2014 -> 09:42 AM) It'd be an easier sell if you could take public transportation all the way from the suburbs to the 35th street red line stop. Technically you can, it's just not that convenient as it's metra train, then L.

QUOTE (Tex @ May 8, 2014 -> 09:35 AM) You can insert any team in that statement, even the Cubs. The Cubs have killed us based on the out of towners that were drawn in by the huge TV advantage the team had through most of the second half of the 20th Century. When my daughter lived in Lakeview we walked that area headng to restaurants and clubs, I have to say the neighborhoods around Wrigley offer more before and after game options. I don't want to see it, but I really think a suburban stadium would have the team drawing 35,000 a game. Perhaps somewhere in Schaumburg close to all the trains and expressways, is there land near Arlington Park? Agreed. Plus, a lot of that south side area, you're not exactly pulling fans from it. The Cell is tough to get to, has a bad stigma around it, hardly anything to do near the park (comparatively) and the biggest thing that goes against it is that it's not on the north side. You have people on here that live in Downers that talk about how it's tough to get to the game with public transportation, and the alternative, driving, is awful. That applies for the vast majority of suburbs. For a sport with 81 games vs 41, and much more reliant on families, I think the suburbs would make a big difference.

QUOTE (SnB @ May 8, 2014 -> 09:36 AM) The upper deck is not bad, if you were that cheap - you'd deal with it. Upper Deck behind the plate are some of the best seats in the house. This. I greatly prefer upper deck between the bases (even a bit further) than anything past the bases downstairs. To me, those past-the-bases downstairs seats are some of the worst seats in the house. You're watching a tennis match, looking through people walking the entire game and rubber necking as the seats don't point directly to the action (infield). I'd rather go outfield at that point, better vantage point.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ May 8, 2014 -> 09:29 AM) They can say 'tickets start at $7' all they want, but if I am going to the game, I want to SEE and enjoy the game, not get nosebleeds and a workout hiking up to my seat. I haven't had to buy tickets for a few years, so imagine my shock when we went to buy tickets for this Saturday against the Diamondbacks. They want $72 for lower bowl between 3rd and outfield wall. Go a little closer to the wall and it drops to $52. Bleachers $35. Still going, but to my cheap-ass it is pretty steep. Who is "they"? Because if you are listing Sox prices, they aren't correct. Maybe you're factoring in TM fees? Even so that's still high. Your 3rd to outfield wall seats are $46, not $72. The ones closer to the wall are $20, not $52. Bleachers are $29. http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/ticketing/...layout=gameflow

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 8, 2014 -> 07:10 AM) What about a legit white Hawks jersey with the #17 on the back and SECONDS written as the player name? I'm not a fan of the jerseys that have sayings or things like that on the back. The only exception was back in the old Chicago Stadium, I remember seeing a guy in the section over every game that had a WIRTZ jersey and the number was a $. Plus, I think Joe Murphy takes offense to it. Other amazing 17's (posting this for Steve so he can throw up this morning): J.P. Dumont Michal Grosek Wendel Clark Reto Von Arx Mike Peluso Chris Simon What an epic list

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ May 7, 2014 -> 11:14 PM) Who gives a s*** if it's a jersey the players actually wear or not? Are we trying to fool people in to thinking we are a bench player sitting with the regulars that game? Because you look like a f***ing clown and are bastardizing the jersey and colors. There are plenty of legit options, pick one of them. But it makes it really easy to spot the idiots, so that's one positive. While you're at it, put your name on the back of it. And order it from China so it looks f***ing awful, too.

I think they did have higher prices for the Red Sox series (as they will for the Yankees series coming up), but not nearly this high. Cubs tickets are 2xish what the Yankees series is, and that's a weekend. Like you said, you're not going to this game unless it's one of the only ones of the year. Would you rather go to 3 Sox games, possibly weekend included, or one Cubs game? The value just isn't there, they just haven't figured that out yet. Plus, by not filling the stadium, you're making it harder to bring back the excitement to the series anyway.