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QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 03:54 PM) He didn't do anything wrong...just thought he got a bad jump off the bat possibly. OK, that makes more sense. I thought you were on him for trying to take home.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 03:48 PM) On first view, seemed like he wasn't as far past 2nd as expected when the camera view changed. He was running all the way though. I guess I'm confused. It looks like he picked up McEwing who was waving him the whole time. I don't see what he did wrong. That's on McEwing. Dumb wave.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 01:20 PM) Yes, but you lose parking, concession, and souvenier sales with 4500 vs. 10000. The problem is, the Sox could give away free upper deck tickets to the past couple of games and be nowhere near capacity in the upper deck. The upper deck at USCF has a stigma attached to it that will not go away. Even though there are many seats far better to watch a game in than many on the lower level, it really doesn't matter. Before they got good again, the Blackhawks used to give away free tickets on Ticketmaster from time to time usually near the end of the season. There still was about 8k at the game. The stigma is that the Sox have banished those people to the UD. I haven't been to one other park that does this. There are a lot more concessions, stands, etc. downstairs. To not let people down there is dumb. We know it all stemmed from keeping the half price Monday crowd off the field, but those don't exist anymore. QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 01:26 PM) That is the thing. I pay $40 a ticket I spend less in the park as I am pissed I spent $40 on a ticket. I get a free ticket, I spent $60 in the park because....I got a free ticket. QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 02:01 PM) I have always had that theory that the White Sox would prefer corporate accounts than indivduals. For one thing you spread it around. It isn't the same 2 or 3 people going to every game who might get sick of ordering $8 beers and eating the same old things. You get some guy who takes his wife and 2 kids with his company's tickets and parking pass, he's already ahead and IMO is more apt to spend wildly at the park. You'd think people would spend more, but from my limited experience, that's not always the case. I worked for a team where we were able to track merch sales, for example, on games where we had a ton of freebies handed out, and the rev per person was actually lower. Some people have the mentality you do, but some people want to get away with as free of a night as possible.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 03:45 PM) Stay hot Flowers...but jeez Alexei, did he know there were 2 outs? What? He was being waved home.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 08:38 AM) If you do this, and it brings in 10,000 fans to the upper deck, you make $100,000. Now, if you charge $22.50, and that brings in 4,500 fans, you make $101,250. If you average that over the course of a season, you bring in $101,250 more than with the $10 tickets, which means, in the upper deck alone, you make a games worth of revenue more over the course of a full season. Now figure that when school's out and the weather is nicer and the weekends come, the Sox will draw more than that anyways, and the figure I used - $22.50 - is a pretty low figure anyways. Price point maximization is really a pretty simple process and is something you learn in ECON101, and major league baseball teams are going to employ very good economists because messing that up can lose you a lot of money. It's extremely far from "simple." It involves finding the maximum price people will pay for things. You pulled numbers out of a hat for the upper deck, but finding those numbers in real life would involve polling tons of fans and having years of data, playing around with different numbers, to back it up. If they up a ticket a dollar, is it going to affect how often someone goes? Probably not. $10? Definitely? $5? Who knows. There are some metrics to help, but knowing every fan's situation and thought process is impossible.

QUOTE (TheTruth05 @ Apr 4, 2014 -> 07:15 AM) It's inevitable,last years guys are feeling the hangover and now there's alot of new faces and alot of mistakes and turnovers on the ice. Unless Kane and Toews with some rest come back firing and inspire this team I don't see them beating a hungrier,equally fast team like the Avs. No no no, let's not give them the hangover excuse here. Go look at the Bruins. A lot of this is the holes in the roster being exposed. And bad hockey.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 3, 2014 -> 09:27 PM) This team flat out sucks right now. OMG BUT WE WON IN A SHOOTOUT

Someone please teach him the Maggs slide catch.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Apr 3, 2014 -> 02:01 PM) A good run down play should have one throw. You track the guy until your partner says ball and places the tag. You also want to make the play at the preceding base, so if it's f***ed up, you didn't gift them a base.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 3, 2014 -> 02:00 PM) Yup. Abreu should have chased him back to the bag a bit more. He had no time to get out of the way really. Yeah, it's his own fault. You shouldn't need more than 2 throws on a run down. Max 3. That was an abortion, and eventually that's the easiest way out, someone gets in the way with too many throws and guys involved.

That's obstruction.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 3, 2014 -> 01:02 PM) He isn't grindy enough for Q. He isn't talented enough for Q, especially with the amazing centers we'll have tonight. QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 3, 2014 -> 01:03 PM) I did play center, but I sold my pads a few months ago to stop myself from paying $$ on ice time and coming into work super tired on Thursday mornings. I'm sure Mr. Parchman can get me suited up quickly in Tony Amonte's old gear, though. Also, as predicted, TT is not ready for this size of ice. Not one bit. s*** really, you sold your s***? You're done for good? Whoa. I'm far from the OMG TT IS THE GREATEST IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD but with 2 centers out, one due to sucking...and the complete lack of depth we have there right now...how can you not play him?

So let me get this straight. Toews out, Handzus out...TT can't find ice time as one of FOUR centers? Good God sometimes Q is so f***ing inept. Steve, do you play center? You may want to head to the UC after work.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Apr 3, 2014 -> 08:29 AM) Wasn't it a night game in Game 2 last year? As a Teacher, I usually go to the 2nd game of the year. It was idiotic to make it a day game. No, day game. It's generally a touch warmer during the day, I think the attendance would be worse for a night game there. That said, it looks like a great day to head to a game this afternoon. Should be at least 20K there.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Apr 2, 2014 -> 08:19 PM) Did I upset you? Nope, made me laugh.

How much are tickets at these Texas HS games?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 2, 2014 -> 06:16 PM) Anyone know how much it costs to get a hot tub hauled away? It'd be tempting to try the "put it on the curb and someone will take it within the hour" approach, just to see how it goes.

LOL at starting this thread over this game. Unbelievable.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Apr 2, 2014 -> 04:40 PM) Boooooooo strategy. Thief

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 2, 2014 -> 03:59 PM) You're saying Plouffe would have definitely been safe since he was almost half way. I'm not sure you can assume that. In this system, you can. They have overhead cameras tracking baserunners at each park. I could say you cant assume hes out at 2nd. Ultimately, there will be judgment involved. Replay is far from black and white. Bottom line is that they have to basically recreate the play. So him going back to first after the out call is irrelevant.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 2, 2014 -> 03:53 PM) It's clearly not irrelevant since it affected how the players reacted after the call. Exactly, which is what they corrected.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 2, 2014 -> 03:42 PM) You can say the same thing for the fielder. In the end, it's the umpire's fault for not making the correct call to begin with. Nope. He's not getting him at second even if he knows he drops it. Go watch it again. It's the correct application of the rule and system. Your last sentence is irrelevant, this is why they put replay in. Ultimately, it's actually Eaton's fault for dropping it.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 2, 2014 -> 03:33 PM) Wow, awful. Plouffe would have been out at second easily. False. He only ran back after the out call. He was almost halfway to second. If the initial ruling is no catch, he's at second easily. You can't punish a baserunner for not knowing a call will be reversed on replay. See, these are the issues I brought up before. Instant replay isn't as easy as everyone thinks.

This will end up guys on first and second

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Mar 31, 2014 -> 10:15 AM) Will this be the 8 month old's first opening day? Haha yeah, wife wasn't at opening day last year, only me.