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QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Jul 5, 2012 -> 02:59 PM) Folks want to park close, get good seats and eat and drink until their heart's content and spend $12 total. well, this aint 1964 anymore.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 5, 2012 -> 02:06 PM) Pay attention to the codes. http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?s=...t&p=2639323 Yeah, but YOU said UD Reserve was $38. It was a $16 ticket without a code.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 5, 2012 -> 02:00 PM) $38 if you sat in the UD reserved seats. bulls***: http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/ticketing/...date=06/10/2012 Upper reserve was $16 last night. this link shows the per game price of EVERY GAME. bleachers were $37.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 4, 2012 -> 11:09 PM) Average up to 22,885 per game Coming up on the Royals for 24th place. If we averaged 30,000 for the rest of the season (and that's a huge IF with August 15th-September 30th looming), that would put us right around 2,000,000 and 26,310 average, which would end up being anywhere from 18th-23rd in the majors. I realize 25-27,500 is more likely to be the average, but all those people who were comped tonight were spending money on concessions, souvenirs and I guess a few on parking. the lots were almost full. i had my rep get me some club level tix for wed's game. the section he put me in was almost unsold tuesday afternoon. when i go to my seats, the section was full. that was almost 100 tickets sold at a price of $58 in 24 hours. and it should be pointed out that the sox do not discount club level tix with codes.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 3, 2012 -> 01:35 PM) Hot. I have said many times Chicago is the greatest city in the world. Amen, brotha. again, it was $64 for four tickets to last night's game. that is considerably less than $300.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Jul 3, 2012 -> 08:02 AM) I've heard Chairman Reinsdorf has been aggressively buying out other investors recently . . . Why?I havent heard this, but it wouldn't surprise me if Uncle Jerry is doing that.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 3, 2012 -> 07:13 AM) Phase 3. Skip Spring. Go directly to Summer. Don't pass go. Heat wave will limit the attendance to how many this week, especially the Thursday game? tuesday and wednesday each were 30k-ish in paid attendance. there were more people in due to comps.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Jul 3, 2012 -> 02:36 PM) I do not think they do. I think Jerry owns a good amount of property more than just the lots around the park. Same thing Wirtz did around the Stadium. Wirtz bought up west side Jerry south side. There was a time in the 80's when Jerry was buying up space that the cubs could have been doing in Wrigleyville and they did not.The state of illinois OWNS the lots around sox park. We know this because Jim Thompson has tried to set up parking garages and hotels on the land, and it was vetoed by the sox, who have that right as tennant. This statement was televised. The United Center lots are owned by the hawks and bulls.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Jul 3, 2012 -> 02:41 PM) I am going tomorrow wit my two kids. Ticket, lower deck box but could easily have gotten $24 upper deck but went with some nice $40 seats down the line total cost $120 YOU chose to sit downstairs instead of a cheaper Upper Box seat. Infact the Upper Reserve seats were $14 in Feb, so this is not the Sox' fault you CHOSE to spend more. Prepaid parking pass $24 up to $144 Cant b**** about parking prices when you tailgate. Will tailgate and BBQ in parking lot. Would do this at home so no cost there. Good call. You do know you can bring someof that food in, right? As well as water? Will buy two beers, two big sodas and budget myself to spending $50 in the park Again, you can bring food and water in the park. And you could get at least one soda free by by signing up for the designated driver program. That is $200. $120 in April, $24 last month for the parking and $50 tomorrow. Now if I am going to get loaded with my family and eat like vikings I am sure I could get to $300 easily. To be honest, there's no reason to buy tix early. You could have gone for 1/2 price($20 each lower level) with a code, and that makes the other costs more bearable.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 4, 2012 -> 01:34 AM) I still say parking is a f***ing joke at the Cell.and wrigley is $42. what's you're f***ing point?

QUOTE (balfanman @ Jun 27, 2012 -> 12:47 PM) I believe that I read somewhere that this is the last week for All Star voting. While it is a good feather in a players cap to make it, I, for one, have been on record of not really caring if our players make it or not. I would rather have them getting the rest, especially the pitchers. Just wondering however, does anyone think that the White Sox playing in New York this weekend will have any bearing on the voting, one way or the other? Say one of our guys who is close has a terrifically good (think Aaron Rowand) series or horrifically bad series would the bump in exposure and the large voting fan base decide things one way or another? voting ends tomorrow

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 26, 2012 -> 10:06 PM) Michael Reinsdorf would love to have his father's job no matter what you may hear. Michael already has his dad's job. As head of the Bulls.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jun 27, 2012 -> 08:28 AM) StubHub gets 25% of every ticket sale. 15% from the seller and 10% from the buyer. Best business idea EVER. stubhub charges a 10% fee to the buyer, but that's on top of the ticket cost. as a seller, i give them 15% of my asking price. it's not qiute 25%, but it is a great racket. and dont forget $5.45 to "ship" your tickets

QUOTE (Paulie4Pres @ Jun 26, 2012 -> 10:02 PM) Attendance is low because it's still TOO DAMN EXPENSIVE. I'm sorry, but I'm not dropping $300 to take my family to a baseball game...you do realize the sox give out FREE tickets to kids that are in the kids' club, right? and the sox give out FREE tickets to kids that have good grades or perfect attendance? and that you can go to a game for as little as $7, with or without codes? and let's not forget about kids' day, where your kids can sit in the lower level for...get this...a DOLLAR!? but let's not get facts in the way of a good rant, shall we?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 26, 2012 -> 05:08 PM) I wouldn't be surprised at all if in about 10 years we started hearing the "new stadium" whispers. If you count the renovations done to Kaufmann and the big A, the Cell is actually becoming one of the older stadiums in the league. Well, the lease would only have 7 years on it, so i imagine ownership would look into a replacement for the cell then.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 26, 2012 -> 06:33 PM) Higher. They own a chunk of their own cable network, not to mention the parking. ISFA owns the lots. And btw, the padres own a stake in thier RSN(worth 200 million)

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 26, 2012 -> 04:46 PM) Is there anybody out there who would buy the White Sox if Jerry and the investors wanted out? Would Cuban buy the team? Does he have the cash? The rumour i keep hearing is Rocky Wirtz. Aside the fact that he is a sox fan, the word is that John McDonough would run the club and go 3 for 3 in marketing rebuild successes. Also, the whispers are that no one in Camp Jerry wants to take over when Jerry retires/dies. So even if the ownership groups stays mostly intact(there are still investors from the Veeck days), new leadership may not come from the reinsdorfs or even the einhorns( Eddie's daughter is an mlb exec and MAY come on, but who knows how much she wants to leave nyc)

It's $10 because it's the weekend. Not a bad deal considering that there's a bobblehead giveaway on one date.

Same Sections as the previous $5 deal. 506-509, and 555-558. 7/7 is Alexei bobblehead day.

The yankees ate half of the contreras contract. In exchange for esteban loaiza for two months.

looks like the deal's over. stupid sox.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 21, 2012 -> 02:21 PM) No, I understand that, but with this Cubs series, most tickets were sold to season ticketholders, or the people who received ticket plans that aren't considered season ticketholders, and people who bought tickets right away. The pricepoints were nowhere near what they were on ticketmaster the past several weeks. Pricing them ridiculously left those seats empty. I would really love to see an actual comparison from year to year on walk up sales from before they were dynamic, until now. What the Sox are hoping is the people who thought tickets for that game or others were too expensive will buy them in February next year to "get a deal". Maybe it will work, maybe it won't. If it doesn't, I bet bleacher seats against the Cubs won't be $90 next year.If they are optimizing profit, why doesn't KW just say we are doing fine when asked about money available to add payroll. There is no way they really expect a regular guy with a family to spend $90 a ticket to sit in the bleachers do they? The other problem is the person willing to pay $90 a ticket probably isn't a bleacher guy. this series is sold to a lot of group customers. but two years of weekday games made me buy just one single ticket, instead of my 20 a game, plus the additional groups they make me buy to get cubs/sox.

QUOTE (klaus kinski @ Jun 21, 2012 -> 11:44 AM) 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. lil tip: the kid's concession stand/ice cream stand in the 500 level has a "kids' hot dog" for $1.50. it's the exact same dog sold in the other stands. also, the bertucci's have a "secret" stand by the patio area(accessible from gate 2). most of the food there is cheaper than the sportservice menu. and a lil more varied.

the sox have a groupon offer out now, if anyone's interested: http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/cws/ticket...B174M37G1V-1Q81 $56 for the brewer series. the cost of the patio ticket plus the game ticket is only $6 higher than what was posted back when tix first went on sale.

QUOTE (balfanman @ Jun 21, 2012 -> 09:24 AM) But even Ohman, if used correctly (only against righthanders), can be a valuable piece if you plan on competing for a couple of years like they did when they signed him. I do not believe that they overspent on him at the time. If the Sox fall out of contention and become sellers, I would think that there would be several teams that would love to have Ohman on their side for the stretch run. they can have omen