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QUOTE (Alexeihyeess @ Sep 5, 2017 -> 12:37 PM) No. Where did I say that? QUOTE (Alexeihyeess @ Sep 5, 2017 -> 11:33 AM) There is absolutely nothing racist or anti-immigrant about securing our southern border by building a wall. At all. It's something we desperately need to do, and for amnesty to work needs to happen in conjunction. It's a national security issue most importantly, I don't see how you could be reasonably against it. Here?

Apparently Obama didn't respond fast enough to Katrina

I'm supposed to go there in October...

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 24, 2017 -> 08:53 AM) If Affleck remains the DCEU Batman, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan is cast as Thomas Wayne in the Flashpoint movie, and a new Batman is cast for Matt Reeves movie, there could conceivably be 3 people playing the part of Batman at the same time Not to mention 2 people playing Joker at the same time. Jared Leto in the Joker/Harley Quinn movie and whoever they cast for the stand-alone Joker origin movie.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Aug 23, 2017 -> 02:17 PM) I can't watch the video though. What is the violence he's referring to? The Charlottesville ordeal? Yes. I can see how people can infer that he's talking about Trump in the first video but he never mentions him by name.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 23, 2017 -> 10:31 AM) My guess is that he hit at a pretty big swatch of his constituency with this statement. There is a pretty big group of Trump supporters that fall into the typical clientele here. I'm sure he did. But the way it played out amazes me. People aren't upset that the media equates hateful and violet people as Trump supporters. They are upset that a CEO doesn't want those types of people as customers. Seems a bit backwards to me.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 23, 2017 -> 10:39 AM) I've honestly never heard of that company. So maybe its helping him reach a larger customer base. Of course I f***ing hate camping. I really haven't seen or heard much of this story outside of the camping message boards I'm on. Although they don't allow political discussions so I can't really discuss it there. If you aren't really into camping, it's probably a place you'd drive right past without a second thought. There is one in Wauconda though.

I've owned a camper of some sort for around 15 years or so and I belong to a couple of different camping message boards. Marcus Lemonis, the CEO of Camping World made some comments the other day about the events in Charlottesville, Virginia. Here's the clip of his actual comments. Of course the headlines are twisting it into him saying that he doesn't want Trump supporters shopping at his business. This has people up in arms and many are saying they are cancelling their memberships and that they won't shop at CW anymore. Here's his follow up video clarifying his statements. Basically he's saying that if you are for hate and violence, then he doesn't want you as a customer. Of course people are proving his point by sending him hateful and violent comments including death threats. I'm sure the irony is lost on them.

QUOTE (ewokpelts @ Aug 22, 2017 -> 07:36 PM) because it was in a newspaper(and website)

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 20, 2017 -> 12:44 PM) Oops North Korea warned of a "merciless strike" today. They're baacccckkkkk, folks.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 17, 2017 -> 12:38 PM) By gawd some of those people (white surpremists) are good people; See, this is just something that should never be said by anyone.

It really is the lack of crowds that probably makes the experience better. With all the other teams it's likely a combination of being too crowded, tickets are over-priced, lack of parking/accessibility or the team is bad with no foreseeable future of getting better anytime soon.

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Aug 10, 2017 -> 06:05 AM) Watched the first episode of Mr. Mercedes last night. Really good so far, and it follows the book pretty closely. The opening scene is gruesome and just like the book's opening. I like Brendan Gleeson as Hodges, even though in the book he wasn't Irish...well, at least it was never mentioned that he was Irish. Harry Treadaway is perfect as Brady Hartsfield. I'm looking forward to see how the season plays out. I was just coming here to make a similair post. This looks like it could turn out to be the best TV series based on a SK novel yet.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 31, 2017 -> 05:01 PM) Most research shows kids form their permanent sports attachments at 8-12...so they've already lost half a generation of potential young fans. That's not necessarily true. I'm sure they haven't gained as many fans as they would if they were winning, but I became a fan of the team somewhere around 90-91. They weren't exactly winning fans with their play on the field back then. But the alternative was the Cubs, and my best friend was already a Cubs fan. So I had to be different from him. Especially when we picked teams on my MLB game for my NES.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 31, 2017 -> 02:14 PM) Then how come attendance was lower in 2009 than in 2008 which was lower than 2007 Because nobody really believed in that 2008 team. Justifiably so as it turns out. QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 31, 2017 -> 02:14 PM) Being in first place for the vast majority of the season doesn't make people want to come to the park due to what they did the year before? Kind of makes you wonder why they showed up and paid big bucks in 2005 for the WS considering it had been 46 years since they even went to one of those, and 88 since they actually won. 2006 was bigger because the team forced season ticket buys for WS tickets. I remember the media roasting the fans in 2005 about the lack of attendance throughout the year. "This team is in first place, where are the fans?" Looking back now, it did go up. But you hit the nail on the head with your last sentence. Attendance usually doesn't jump significantly year-to-year without a big boost to the season-ticket sales. The season-ticket sales don't go up unless something significant happened the year prior. Winning the WS is significant. Going to the playoffs 2 or 3 years in a row is significant. Being in first place for a few months of the season is not.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 31, 2017 -> 01:34 PM) When they are winning games and in first place, why does 2009 or 2011 matter? The White Sox fans not showing up in 2012 really spooked this team to new heights. We didn't show up in 2012 because the team didn't do anything in 2010 or 2011 to make us believe that 2012 would be any different. The big attendance jumps don't really happen during the season. They happen in the prior off-season. That's why the 2006 attendance was higher than 2005. And really, the loss of fans from 2011 - 2012 was pretty small compared to the year-to-year losses 5 years before and 5 years after. QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 31, 2017 -> 01:34 PM) There have been a lot more people at games than I thought this year though. That will be tested during the week and when the kids go back to school. They are trying $1 hot dog Wednesday to see if that helps. So those ticket sales must really be meager. Family Sunday really is taking off. Almost 30k yesterday. And over 30k to get a piece of crap jersey on Saturday. That's really the good news in all of this. Give the fans something to believe in with a stated goal in mind and they'll actually support the effort. If only they would've done this 10 years ago.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 31, 2017 -> 12:49 PM) This is the one truth in here. The rest of it is irrelevant. What the team was purchased for in 1980 has zero do do with how the business is run today. To me it is obvious that they worry about the fan base, as they have spent pretty much a decade trying to add to teams to quickly put results on the field as they are obviously fearful that the fan base will dessert them in droves... and they regularly have, not just in down times, but even in years where they are in first place all season long and in playoff years. It's almost like fans expect something a little better than being in first place "most of the season" or having one lone post-season appearance in the last decade...

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 31, 2017 -> 10:47 AM) A measure of the quality of a fan base isn't that they pack them in when winning. It is if they show up when they aren't. That's kinda how attendance works. When you go years and years without making the playoffs with no end in sight, fans tend to get frustrated and stop going. The teams with "good" fanbases tend to be the ones that are in the playoffs or at least in contention year after year.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 31, 2017 -> 09:21 AM) And outside of that 8 year stretch they are the historical absolute worst fan base of all of the old time franchises. Outside of that 8 year stretch, what have they really had to root for? A couple of Championships that happened long before most of their fans were born, and an appearance in the WS in the 50s followed by many, many years of nothing. One of the things that really made it jump was the new stadium in the 90's. It's scary how much they mirror the White Sox.

QUOTE (SonofaRoache @ Jul 26, 2017 -> 07:08 PM) The radio quote shows what the cubs winning can do to the Sox. The Sox were booted off of the most popular sports station in Chicago and replaced by the Cubs. The Sox are going to suffer because fans don't know of or care about the new station. So to say things like marketing, revenue, viewership, etc doesn't have a big impact is not true. As the example I gave shows, the Cubs can continue to kick us down the ladder. The Sox didn't get booted out by the Cubs. WSCR bid on the radio rights for the Sox, they just chose another station, which opened up the opportunity for the Cubs to fill the void. This all happened before the Cubs won the WS.

I've always liked this one from RA Dickey. It's one of his cards in MLB the Show 16.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 26, 2017 -> 02:19 PM) I believe your assumption that for Sox fans being a Cub fan, or going to Cub games is a substitute is 100% wrong. The MUCH more likely outcome for an upset Sox fan is they quit going to games and watching games, as we have seen this happen in the past. QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 26, 2017 -> 02:24 PM) Again, I think your assumption that these are all Ex-Sox fans is wrong. This. I've met maybe 2 people in my entire life that have "switched sides". And it happened years ago when they were pretty young and both teams were still bad. I have met more people that insist they are fans of both teams.

QUOTE (SonofaRoache @ Jul 26, 2017 -> 02:13 PM) You are looking at it too simplistically. Sox fans were not mad at the Cubs trade at all because they beat out everyone else with their offer. If all offers are equal you don't trade with teams that you compete for resources with. JR is probably thinking if the Cubs win a second World Series while his team has back to back 100 loss seasons it may devastate his business. Advertisers stop coming, fans stop coming and watching or decide to follow the Cubs while they are winning, Chicago media puts pressure on prospects to play well instantly like the Cubs, etc. These are all things a reasonable owner will take into account, just like a reasonable owner wouldn't trade within his division for the same reasons. Your immediate competition doing well while you suck is not good for business. I think, for the most part, the Sox and Cubs aren't really competing for the same customer base. At least not as much as everyone seems to think. In 2006 the Sox attendance was a little over 2.9 million. The Cubs was over 3.1 million. There are enough fans to go around for both teams.

QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ Jul 20, 2017 -> 01:33 PM) Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington, 41 Wow. I was supposed to go with my family to see LP in concert in August.

QUOTE (Sox-35th @ Jul 20, 2017 -> 09:02 AM) M&H had someone on (missed the beginning of the interview) saying "He feels like he slides faster head first". I don't know if that's true, but isn't there more drag sliding head first? I googled it a little bit but there doesn't appear to be conclusive evidence as to which way is faster. I supposed it "feels" faster because you are already leaning forward a little when you run and it's more natural than having to completely shift your body around to slide feet first. Overall, I think it really depends on the situation. Sometimes it's not so much about getting there faster, it's more about avoiding the tag or disrupting the throw to break up a double play. But I think it's pretty well known that sliding head first is much more dangerous.