southsider2k5

For real. If you didn't see it, you didn't want to see it. There were times these dudes were fighting literal Nazis in the 40s. There has always been a polticial undertone for real (not made for TV preening) freedom, anti-facism, and equity in almost all of these.

I wish. I was seeing the Hope Diamond almost annually.

Dude hits arb years next year. He may be looking at a number that starts with a 3 in the post arb years. With his health he could push a decade too.

You know that friend who is always convinced he tells the best jokes, but everyone else just blinks back in overdone confusion? Yeah, no idea why I thought of that.

Wut

It's Ron's fault. I don't know why, but it is.

Only if there is 1 second left

No better plan for cheap tickets than the worst season in baseball history.

Chicago metro is about 10m. NYC metro is around 20m.

The White Sox haven't averaged even 25k a night since 2010. They last time in their history they hit 30k was the few years immediately following the world series, besides that the only other time they hit 30 was when the new park opened. The Mets had done it 4 straight years at Shea and 8 out of 10 before the new field. I get optimism at all, but I also get some reality.

The Mets are also two way splitting a market of about double what Chicago is, and they even dropped their capacity from 57k to 41k when they built their new stadium.

I mean we could bring out the Caulfield list of the 75 players they cycled through in the last few years who didn't succeed...

The idea that daring to question a move means you don't deserve the team is a political press conference level of absurdity for a franchise with the history the Sox have.

I mean it's something is such a rare occurance, I am not sure why it is such a big deal. Honestly I would be shocked if capacity isn't smaller based on the history of this franchise and the size of the area they are shoehorning a stadium into, plus recent trends in ballpark capacity. At least 95% of the time, Sox fans can walk up to the gate and buy a ticket pretty much anywhere they want for list price.

And without demand, they aren't going to spend tens of millions of dollars to add more seats to a park after their last stadium they cut 8000 seats out of their last stadium for lack of demand.

This is what I was talking about when I said railroad have almost absolute power to do whatever they hell they want. They wrote these laws.

They have already cut the capacity from the mid 40s back when the park opened, and you had to go back six seasons to find a game it made a difference in. Of the things to worry about, this is way down my list.

They drew 40,288 and 40,170. That's what we are talking about here? Its been almost a generation since the Sox even averaged 25k a season.

The "intent" was obvious. I almost wonder if the successes this season kind of went to their head, beacuse even when you look at those successes, they took years to get Vargas right, for example. Even a Tristan Peters, who had a full spring training, took until May to start putting up numbers. Again, I think if you were going into the winter with spring training ahead of you, and pay winter prices to bring these guys in, you get more of a benefit of the doubt. But thinking you could fix these guys in the middle of a playoff race seems pretty risky, and not how we have seen these things work out in the last few years. But of course they didn't ask about that distinction. I think the Sox have been extremely lucky at how bad everyone else around them has been, as those moves could have easily cost them the playoffs if teams like Detroit and Cleveland had gotten hot. It's a helluva gamble to make it August.

An infrastructure plan is sooooooo much easier to sell than one giving 9 to 10 figures to a billionaire.

This park's capacity is already below 40k. I think the number is like 38.6k IIRC.

TO A DEEEE LUX APARTMENT IN THE LOOOOOOOOP

I don't know the Bridgeport White Sox of the South Loop has a nice ring to it.

I have done to the comparison to other franchises in other posts, but the 2nd team in LA just sold for over double what the White Sox are being sold for. Look at the price paid for San Diego too. If you do this right, the Sox could be a $5 billion franchise in no time at all.

Ticket prices will go up 10% this off season, I would bet.