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I have sat literally everywhere in that park except for Scout seats and Club Level (doing that soon), and it's crazy to say the UD seats are terrible. I've sat last row, all the way down 3B line (i.e., as high and far away as you can be) and the view is still not bad. Plus, you get the killer view of the city and the breeze when it's hot. Usually we're in first row in the UD and of course that's killer. The lines are shorter in the UD, the fans tend to be real fans (not on their iPhones all day) and there's even a MUCH less crowded gift shop. The only crappy seats I've ever experienced at The Cell are the ones behind/next to the foul poles. 155/156 or 108/109. I hate those views. I also enjoy being first row any section in the OF, especially the bleachers. Hell even the fan deck is a nice view, if far away.

Boy I'm a two-time loser here apparently, since I'm either common folk in the--gasp!--UD when I take my mom or I stand on the LF concourse by 163 with my friends, yes the entire game. Although we don't pay $100/ticket. I still want to try club level though. Do you think they will still smell my 99%-ness and toss me over the rail?

Just make sure that when you're sitting in club level and a foul ball approaches, make sure you drop it every time. Why? Because EVERYBODY ELSE ON THAT LEVEL ALWAYS DOES...

If it's any help SSP15 I was there with my mom Sunday sitting in 544, first row on the rail and the view was spectacular from where WE were. I kept looking down at the club level people just below us and we finally agreed--we gotta try those seats! Yes they have their own, nicer bathrooms on that level. The food I don't what the deal is. I'm pretty sure though that you can't go downstairs and get the vendor food (corn off the cob, churros, etc.) and that it's more of a set menu like the skyboxes. Someone else can help you out there.

ESPN can suck it. When they're not busy fellating the BoSox or Yankees, they look at the central and only see the Tigers. Which honestly is fine with me.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jul 10, 2012 -> 08:13 AM) How does Quintana get a B? Yeah no kidding I'd say A+ for that guy. What more could you want out of him, considering?

I REALLY like this team. And with the Youk deal...gag...gag... I think I owe KW some credit for this season. Hell has frozen over!

I keep hoping we sign AJ long enough so he can finish his career here but we never do that. The only caveat is that Flowers ain't exactly lighting it up at the plate so we may just indeed keep AJ.

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Jun 22, 2012 -> 08:30 AM) I want the 20 minutes of my life back I just spent reading the past few pages. I'm not even sure where that argument began or what it was about. Something about xBoxes or something? I did pick up on the sniping about the purported Soler bid. To me, there was plenty of evidence showing that the Sox had interest and were involved in the bidding for the guy. Apparently the Sox offered (or were prepared to offer) around $25 million. Why argue that? We (on this board) have been talking about Soler since before the season started. But, just because the Sox may have offered the money doesn't mean they have $25 million to spend to make the team better today. When KW talks to the press and says he has no money to spend on players, that's fine. We all know that more often than not, he uses a lot of misdirection. So, who knows if he's actually willing to spend some money. I would hazard to guess that he will spend the money if there's a deal that could truly make the team better and help get them to the post season. But to blame attendance (or lack thereof) is ridiculous. The Sox have one of the highest average ticket price is baseball, and they are in a city with two freaking teams. And the other team has a cult following...well, more acurately the stadium in which that team plays has a cult following (look at me, I'm at Wrigley!). The attendance at The Cell will always be disappointing until the team that plays there can win consistently. A team that was expected to play at or just below .500 performing slightly better will not cause 10,000 extra people to show up each day. A team making it to the playoffs on a consistent basis and winning the occasional playoff series will increase attendance. Like I (and others) have said, going to a Sox game is a big commitment financially, especially if you're taking a family. I would love to go to a half dozen games a season, but I like cash in my pocket more. I like being able to sit my ass on my couch with my kids and a 6-pack of Blue Moon just fine. Sorry, Kenny. /thread BTW, guys, I read yesterday that ratings for Sox games on TV and radio are UP this year, significantly. So it's not lack of interest. Take all the conclusions you want from that.

Ta-da! That, and as somebody mentioned above, the food prices? They rape you at the Cell. Here's my case: did anybody try to get online to get Cubs/Sox at the Cell? I was just poking around (really don't care, since it was on a M/T/W--WTF?) and even though the Cubs suck and the White Sox' attendance is dismal and nobody cares about the series much anymore, you could forget getting a ticket for anything less than 80 bucks, even in the nosebleeds. Stubhub was no better. So they lost me on this one, and I've never missed a Cubs/Sox series until this year. Even for this week's Brewers series the decent seats are priced ridiculously. I wonder what economy these guys think we have right now.

This is the Peavy we've been waiting for. Not just on the mound, but I love his comments about losing to the Cubs. Ain't it just our dumb luck that this is his last year.

Any warm feelings I had during our winning streak are now evaporated seeing that we just lost two, no three, no wait FOUR series to NL teams in a row, and just dropped two straight to the worst team in baseball--while at home. The first being a complete shelling and the second an utter waste of another lights-out performance by our #1 starter. If we can't win behind pitching performances like that, at home, against the worst team in baseball, then who are we to talk about how we're on a par with Cleveland or the Tigers or anybody for that matter? Don't get me wrong--this may just be a bad streak--but it sure is troubling.

When it gets to this and he's been a punchline twice in one week, I'd say: enough.

Hawk is a bozo. We are the third largest city in the United States and we have some rube relic regaling us with unending tales of back when HE played, which was back before cars could go up hills. If I have to hear his rube-isms one more time--"dadgummit, can of corn, Bolingbrook bounce, right size wrong shape"--I'm going to throw up in my mouth. His rant was classic yesterday, but in a trainwreck sort of way. It's gone viral not because people admire it, but because Hawk is a punchline. Wasn't he noted as the #1 worst sportscaster in the league by some magazine? When you listen to a decent broadcast team--and yes, that would be the Cubs'--you realize what a clown Hawk is. The same Hawk who proclaimed at the beginning of the season, as Becks was busy screwing himself into the dirt striking out with his lousy mechanics: "There's absolutely nothing wrong with his mechanics!" To which Steve Stone replied: *crickets* I do love his home run call but that's not enough to endorse him anymore. We need somebody new. I'd like to think we're a bit more sophisticated than having Ole' Hawkeroo spray us with his down-south sensibility night after night. We're not down south, we're in Chicago.

I haven't said this in years but: this is fun. And having a winning streak of some length? That's been pretty rare the last five years. GO SOX. I am so there Sunday.

In answer to the OP, this is the most fun I've had watching the Sox in years. Especially last night. That's the game I've been waiting to see forever. We just look... like winners. Great pitching, D, small hits, homers, everything firing on all cylinders. Gawd at this rate I may have to backtrack and admit that bringing Ventura on was a stroke of genius by KW, but let's not get ahead of ourselves... KEEP IT UP, BOYS. It'll be interesting to see if attendance gets a bump this weekend.

LOL I hear what you're saying about select games. I never understood why on Opening Day you have all these Navy guys unfurling the flag but then you stick them in the furthest-away upper deck. Why? Because capitalism trumps patriotism every time. But it's still a nice gesture because CPD handled this weekend brilliantly. Rahm must be totally proud.

QUOTE (Cali @ May 17, 2012 -> 02:28 PM) The Sox don't know how to suck terribly. They only know how to be okay. And that's 10X more frustrating.... Agreed. I'd rather be terrible than... well, what this team has been for years now.

Should we also consider that AJ and Paulie are at the twilight of their careers and still productive and JR may want to give them a chance to play for a winner before they retire? Didn't one of them sort of hint at that before the season started? I think it was Paulie. My point: if we're clearly out of this before or at the ASB, rebuild or no rebuild they would probably go as would Peavy.

The reason things look so bleak is, ok: so we dump everybody and go with a "rebuild" year. And who's the architect of that rebuild? KW. Oh, and with our awesome farm system.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 15, 2012 -> 03:52 PM) Wow, went away when it was 6-0 and thought the 10 was a typo. I'm so tired of the way Ventura uses Ohman. Is Hawk still going to tell us that the bullpen isn't a problem? Probably the same way he would say at the beginning of the season that Beckham's mechanics were "just fine" and you could hear Steve Stone doing a *facepalm* in the booth...

What was the other game like this this year? I left and I swear it was like 6-0 and when I got home that night we lost the game, I think all in the 8th or 9th inning.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 14, 2012 -> 11:09 AM) At least Pierre would get to the balls last year, then drop them. It's hard to drop them when you misread them and they all bounce in front of you. LMAO!!!! So true, so true. He'd get there, but...

I'm getting worried now after hearing about how other coaches/players see his pitching motion and start counting down the days to the inevitable surgery. I've heard that before...

I'm fine with three. Six was too much, quite frankly. And as people have pointed out, the rivalry has really declined since we won the Series in '05.