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The quick and simple answer is lower the ticket prices. Obviously the demand for them has been decreasing steadily the past few years. Economics 101 dictates that they need to go down. Create some cheap ticket packages that are offered for all 81 home games. $20 for a couple of upper-deck tickets, 2 hot dogs and 2 cokes. Something like that. Also lower the parking prices. The more difficult answer is make the post-season 3 or 4 years in a row. That get some butts in the seats.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 12, 2012 -> 01:27 PM) There never were any complaints about the Sox's on-field performance under Ozzie.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Oct 11, 2012 -> 08:51 PM) Yes. I'm not quire sure how I'm getting the blame for a semi trailer scrapping up the front of my car while he was turning.

Does anyone know if there's any truth to the fact that when an Illinois vehicle accident report is filled out, the person they put as vehicle 1 is the one the officer determined to be more at fault when no citations are given out?

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 10, 2012 -> 01:27 PM) I won't disagree with you, but it's kind of crazy a guy gets a D the same year he throws a perfect game. Yea, I hate when people judge something based on a single outlier from the rest of their career.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 6, 2012 -> 02:23 PM) 1.) My answer: Loria is crazy. I guess he wanted Ozzie to self mutiliate himself with words, blaming himself over and over for the season instead of being honest that he was headed to Spain. This backs my point that Loria was flat out enraged when Ozzie called out his firing of many other managers. I'm sure at this point Ozzie would love to get paid for three years of no work if Loria fires him. IMO Loria is torn right now. He doesn't want to pay Ozzie, but he sure wants him out of sight. Ozzie had the audacity to call him out like Girardi did. Bye bye. 3. Ozzie is infatuated with the money, but so are most all baseball players. They live in a dream world. Ozzie's ego and love of the media is a problem for any owner or GM who also has a huge huge ego. He'd be better off in a place like KC with dull David Glass. He was fine in Chicago with Jerry, but the conflict was with equally ego-driven Kenny. I will say Ozzie probably needs to work on his English this offseason and be lead analyst for Fox or ESPN for a year or two. He's still a good manager and funny as s*** in interviews, but guys like Loria can't stand forking over a paycheck to a guy like Ozzie who they deem ungrateful if that is the right word. Too bad, Loria, you hired him. Now they are pointing out all these things they don't like about Ozzie. These are the same things that make him lovable when he is winning. Didn't Loria count all the 'f***s' Ozzie blurted out in that first speech to the team in spring training? Loria was laughing like everybody else. Now the Marlins' record sucks and it is 'unprofessional?' Give me a break. I think you're too quick to blame Loria here. You are correct in that he should have seen what he was getting into at the beginning of the season instead of trying to back out know but what's done is done. I think the only people that were laughing were JR and KW because they actually found someone to take Ozzie off their hands. I'm not so sure any of the other 28 owners will make that same mistake after he's finished in Florida. QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 6, 2012 -> 02:29 PM) The collapse would have been a lot more fun. Can you imagine the things Ozzie would have said about the Royals as Chen and Guthrie beat us game after game? And during that 1-9 death march at the end? At least it would have been exciting, not this funeral-like event of the last 3 weeks. I can't believe you would seriously think that having Ozzie would make a season-ending collapse "more fun". It's when you say things like this that people accuse you of being more of an Ozzie fan than a White Sox fan.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Oct 5, 2012 -> 01:37 PM) I know it's good riddance. Seriously, who cares other than grammar nazis? I'm usually not but that just stuck out for some reason since I'd never seen it before. The ones I usually see are: for all intensive purposes (for all intents and purposes) mute point (moot point) take for granite (take for granted)

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Oct 5, 2012 -> 01:03 PM) Good riddens! Tell me this is serious.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 4, 2012 -> 10:37 PM) Let Ozzie be his color man 20 games since he's getting the boot in Miami; QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 4, 2012 -> 10:49 PM) Ozzie for 20? Amazing. You've got to be the only person in the world that thinks this is a good idea.

QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ Oct 5, 2012 -> 12:27 AM) I'd guess the Sox had about 9-10,000 season ticket holders this season. I base this number on the Tuesday afternoon game at the end of the season that drew 13,000 fans - that's tickets sold, not actual butts in the seats. So, when the Sox draw 30,000 for a big game, the media take is that the fans don't care and aren't loyal, but I'd say a walk-up of 20,000 to any game is pretty impressive. QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ Oct 5, 2012 -> 12:27 AM) The Sox lack of demand should result in lower prices, and considerably lower at that. However, we go into the season with basically the same prices as the Cubs and expect to compete with them for fans. I agree with all of this and have been saying the same thing myself. It's not fair to compare it to the Cubs attendance because they have such a large season ticket base that they built up over the years. Now as people are falling off more are lining up to buy their tickets because they have been on the waiting list for so long. What's interesting is that many people lost money on that investment and the Cubs attendance has been slowing declining the past 4 years. We'll see how many people contine to believe in Theo's plan the next 3 or 4 years.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 3, 2012 -> 01:11 PM) other players like Rios seem to get a free pass when they stink (last year). I know you like to make up "facts" to support your arguments but really? I don't remember anyone on here giving Rios a free pass last year.

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Oct 4, 2012 -> 02:39 PM) You really can't waste a bench spot on a guy who can only DH & play 1st. Especially in the AL. He's basically a poor man's Adam Dunn. They are almost exactly the same age too. Johnson is a few months younger.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 3, 2012 -> 02:20 PM) Forget the dynamic deal discount, forget the Sox save of the week, people don't want to go through hoops to buy your product. Set a price and keep it there. Tigers ticket prices.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Oct 2, 2012 -> 04:04 PM) It should have no bearing. If you seriously think Cabrera is better than Trout, then you vote Cabrera. You shouldn't vote for Cabrera just because he wins a Triple Crown. Is having one more RBI or one more home run than Josh Hamilton that important? That's what I think too. MVP = most valuable player. Not most valuable hitter.

QUOTE (knightni @ Oct 2, 2012 -> 01:11 PM) If Cabrera wins the triple crown - him. If not, Trout. So if Hamilton hits 1 more HR than Cabrera that will swing your choice to Trout?

QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Oct 2, 2012 -> 03:30 PM) PKs having surgery tomorrow so its clear he was dealing with something, so thats not an excuse. It's a problem he should have taken care of last off-season.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Oct 2, 2012 -> 12:36 PM) I didn't reply because I thought your question was silly. So you didn't actually have a point?

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Oct 2, 2012 -> 11:34 AM) What's your point exactly? Still waiting...

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Oct 2, 2012 -> 11:41 AM) It makes things look worse, sure, but it's also reality. The Rays and the Angels (two teams with better records than the Sox) will also be watching the playoffs from their couches as well. Again, what's your point? Why do you care where they stand record-wise vs. the entire league?

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Oct 2, 2012 -> 11:26 AM) Last I checked they are the 8th best team in the AL. 2nd best team in the ALC. The 7th best team is going to the playoffs. What's your point exactly?

I think I've seen less than half of the movies/scenes on that list. A few of them I know of the scene but have never actually seen the full movie. Like the Casablanca one or the Taxi Driver.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Oct 2, 2012 -> 09:42 AM) People now love to throw around 90+ losses were predicted. I want to know who predicted that? Very first link I clicked on after Googling 2012 MLB predictions: link I'm sure there are more... EDIT: Apparently SI predicted 95 losses.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 1, 2012 -> 02:53 PM) Fact: Our pitchers couldn't go more than five innings for the final couple weeks of the season. Fact: Buehrle could have done so. Fact: Buehrle could have mentored our young pitchers who desperately needed help late. The fact is the Sox couldn't afford to pay another guy cause of all that money going to Rios and Dunn and Peavy. Too bad. Cause I will always believe we are in the playoffs if mark is on our team! I think the much hyped Coop did a s***ty job the last month mentoring this staff. s***ty. And bad use of pitchers as well. The only thing that could be considered a fact is that first sentence. Even that is not entirely true. The rest is all an opinion.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Oct 1, 2012 -> 03:35 PM) Why do yo say that? How he left as a player was as bad as how he left last year and he was brought back to manage the team. That's why I would not dismiss it. I'm not sure JR will be around in another 15 years.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 30, 2012 -> 02:16 PM) Well, if he does have surgery, then that would give Marty more credibility to most on here since he started about a month ago he heard PK had a fractured/broken wrist or hand. He's having surgery for a floating bone fragment that has been bothering him for years. IIRC, he had an injection done last year and this year to move it to a less painful spot in his wrist. It's not a story that Marty broke.