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We did recently sign Dwayne Wise-who has played most of year in majors

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 3, 2012 -> 06:44 AM) Nobody is claiming Lee, and that's as close to a sure thing as there's ever been in the history of waivers. He's owed so much money I doubt that the Phillies can eat enough money to trade him even after he clears waivers. He's stuck there for at least another year or two. They said that about Rios too

Worst Section 100-101-can't see scoreboards, from 145-156 can't see left field dispay due to Fundamentals, other than that OK, higher rows in upper deck-brutal to get food, long walk down and long walk back up.

O-EEE-O Omogrroso Can we do that again?

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Jun 28, 2012 -> 12:58 PM) I am sure we will see for ourselves this weekend just what kind of LH relief help he is. I know some might be uncomfortable with the bullpen youth, but I kind of like the fact we are able to bring up our own talent and not have to trade it away for help This X 2

Discount seats-pricing gimmicks-it may be as simple as free or $5.00 parking or reduced concession prices. When I went earkier this year, I was surprised by not that food prices were up, but how much. Maybe sell "taste portions" for smaller amount. It is a difficult place to bring a family by public transportation-and who wants to take a bus or train back to a car at night anywhere in the dark. Make it an affordable and pleasant trip, and the seat price issue becomes less of a reason not to go.

I would hope that players vision is checked every Spring, but he just does not appear to see things well. Taking 3 balls every at bat is not helping either.

QUOTE (oldsox @ Apr 5, 2012 -> 09:17 AM) Really? Never heard that. I listened to the game on radio, still remember it well. Ed Fitzgerald got the hit, then Pierce struck out Albie Pearson to end the game. I was with my grandpa, sitting in upper deck just past 1st. You were close to field then and it looked foul to me. I just remember Billy standing on the mound with his hands on his hips after that hit. I recall while driving home, a record by Ella Fitzgerald came on the radio and my grandpa turned it off saying he "didn't want to hear the name Fitzgerald on the South Side tonight."

I was at his 8 2/3 perfect game-and that ball was foul

QUOTE (flavum @ Mar 31, 2012 -> 01:39 PM) I think this is noteworthy/interesting/somewhat disturbing... There are no African-American players on the Sox 25-man roster, and this will be the first time there isn't an African-American in the opening day starting lineup since 1955. Please with this stuff. The GM is black

Allen was such an imposing figure at the plate, like nothing I had seen since Big Klu in 1959. Yes, I'm old. That huge bat, the SI Cover, and I believe he hit one into the CF bleachers when they were 440 feet, are all pictures in my mind I don't forget. What a fun era, with Melton, Wilbur Wood, Gossage, Forster and a real competitive team with Chuck Tanner at the helm.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Mar 12, 2012 -> 06:42 PM) KW probably has a pretty decent idea what Floyd would bring in a trade next offseason after shopping Danks this past winter. I think he'll trade him now if the price is right. Hopefully that trading done by someone other than Williams

QUOTE (LVSoxFan @ Mar 13, 2012 -> 10:00 AM) As far as baseball goes, they will be. I think realistically the Bears are the #1 team in Chicago. As for us vs. Cubs, it's simply geography. Where The Cell is cannot compete with the Wrigley location. I was at Cubs/Sox at Wrigley two seasons ago and there was a guy in the bleachers with his four kids and wife from Texas. They were in Chicago and they all wanted to see... Wrigley. He bought SCALPED tix outside for the family (think of what that must have cost). They either didn't know or barely knew that there was a second team in Chicago. So right there you've got the tourist crowd, plus the built-in crowd from the surrounding 'hood (mine, BTW) and of course the allure of being able to hit the endless bars/restaurants before and after the game. We can never compete with that for the casual baseball fan. IMO when old Comiskey came down they should have built the new park on the lakefront (say, where Northerly Island now resides) and THEN all of a sudden you'd have a location to die for. That said, if the rumors are true and Wrigley will be torn down and built up next year meaning the Cubs have to play at The Cell, that will settle the argument once and for all about how many loyal fans they really have, when it means getting on the el every time and heading eight miles south (as I do). Cubs attendance was abysmal last year BTW, probably only ours was worse. What will probably keep the stands more full this year is they have something we certainly don't: hope. With their new management, even if not this year then soon they ought to at least be contenders. And if this doesn't work, I'd say there truly is a curse. Contrast that with us, where even our new slogan can't avoid the reality that nobody expects this team to do anything and there is no short-term fix and our farm system is rated a league-worst. Appreciate the game? How about appreciate some offense? I can take the losses if they're hard fought but I swear to God last year it seemed like every game I was at was the same game over and over. Flatliners. Can't disagree. especially the "hope" factor. They get new guy, launch some dead meat, have a plan-thus hope. We lose most popular and dependable player, keep same guy, have no apparent plan (i.e. signing Fukudome) have same dead meat on team-thus little hope. It's hard to appreciate the game for this team at $50 for a descent seat and $25 for parking.

QUOTE (Cali @ Mar 12, 2012 -> 03:22 PM) Rios hitting a robust .154 now... At least we know he's ready

i may be against the grain on this site, but I'd like to see more of Jordan danks

Perhaps they are looking at bad advance ticket sales, and Thornton's big contract in the way.

Getting like the NFL-draft well and fill gaps with free agency.

$43.5 million to the most questionable performers, really makes me wonder if those acquisitions were more Reinsdorf than Williams. And that is why Williams is still here.

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Mar 2, 2012 -> 12:38 AM) I get to have a longer list than most because my fandom goes back further than most of or all of you guys. Louie Aparicio Nellie Fox Billy Pierce Floyd Robinson Mike Hershberger Moose Skowron Dave Nicholson Joe Cunningham Smoky Burgess Hoyt Wilhelm Tommy John Joel Horlen Gary Peters Pat Kelly Dick Allen Goose Gossage Bart Johnson Ralph Garr Ed Herrmann Carlton Fisk Ozzie Guillen Julio Cruz Ron Kittle Steve Lyons Frank Thomas Robin Ventura Bobby Thigpen Jack McDowell Bo Jackson Warren Newson Mark Buehrle Paul Konerko Shingo Takatsu AJ Pierzynski Bobby Jenks Favorite manager: Chuck Tanner Arrrrgh! I forgot Lillibridge! Not me-saw every one of them

Nellie Fox Don Buford Gary Peters Ken Henderson Don Kessinger Pudge Bobby Thigpen Big Frank Mark Buehrle For a few

Nick Swisher

The $25.00 signs were up this morning

Our fans, and ticket buyers, are usually "wait & see" when it comes to the team. But I have not experienced the indifference regarding the team in all my years of associating with Sox fans. It's only fitting that what the owner says comes on a day of PK's comment, and a day when club level seats are being offered in April at huge discounts, including a Red Sox game, which is really unusual.

2017-4 years after Williams is gone

Interesting to see KC at 78.5 (12 of those against us)