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Mods/admins, please change thread title to: "Keppinger DFA" From the Sox FB page:

If the Bears ever traded up into the Top 5 to draft anybody other than a franchise QB, I'd be incredibly pissed.

I lived in Oak Park for 5+ years and took the Green Line to over 50 games and never once had a single problem, and on weeknights I was often the only white person on the train past the Ashland stop. People who are afraid to take public transit to the games must live extremely sheltered lives.

One of my best friends from high school's wife is a theology professor there.

If Robin senses some flatness in the team and wants to call it out, that's fine, but even at 2 under .500 this team is overachieving. Their best reliever has been out nearly all of the season. Their best starter has been out for half of it, along with their second best position player. Other starters have hit the DL.

I'm at the other end of Indiana.

From the summer before my freshman year of HS through the summer after graduation, I played nearly every day the weather was nice, including on the HS golf team. I consistently shot 86-89 with little variance. My best ever on a Par 72 was 81 and my worst was about 95. There was a 9-hole Par 28 course that I played on once a week and I got really good on that course and was shooting 31-33 regularly with my best ever being 29. Once I started college I only played about twice a week and regressed to shooting in the mid-upper 90s and now I haven't even picked up a club in 7 years.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04...,41.507,-87.470 This map doesn't support putting something in Lisle. If you are going to go outside the city, best bet would probably be around Bridgeview/Justice, near where the Tri-State and Stevenson meet. Don't know how feasible it would be to extend the Orange line out there, but that would make it even better if that could be done. I still think the current site is best, though. The Robert Taylor homes have come down, the Circle Interchange is getting fixed, new food/drink options in the area. The valid arguments against going to games in that location are starting to get less valid.

http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2014/05...world-cup-2014/ USMNT’s 30-man squad for the 2014 World Cup GOALKEEPERS (3) :Brad Guzan (Aston Villa), Tim Howard (Everton), Nick Rimando (Real Salt Lake) DEFENDERS (11) : DaMarcus Beasley (Puebla), Matt Besler (Sporting Kansas City), John Brooks (Hertha Berlin), Geoff Cameron (Stoke City), Timmy Chandler (Nürnberg), Brad Evans (Seattle Sounders FC), Omar Gonzalez (LA Galaxy), Clarence Goodson (San Jose Earthquakes), Fabian Johnson (Hoffenheim), Michael Parkhurst (Columbus Crew), DeAndre Yedlin (Seattle Sounders FC) MIDFIELDERS (10) : Kyle Beckerman (Real Salt Lake), Alejandro Bedoya (Nantes), Michael Bradley (Toronto FC), Joe Corona (Club Tijuana), Brad Davis (Houston Dynamo), Mix Diskerud (Rosenborg), Maurice Edu (Philadelphia Union), Julian Green (Bayern Munich), Jermaine Jones (Besiktas), Graham Zusi (Sporting Kansas City) FORWARDS (6) : Jozy Altidore (Sunderland), Terrence Boyd (Rapid Vienna), Clint Dempsey (Seattle Sounders FC), Landon Donovan (LA Galaxy), Aron Johannsson (AZ Alkmaar), Chris Wondolowski (San Jose Earthquakes)

No, anyplace outside the city (or one of the few close suburbs connected to an L line) would have been worse. I can't think of anyplace in the city that had land available that would have been a better fit. In hindsight, what would have helped would have been: 1) Orienting the park to have a direct view of downtown from behind home plate 2) Having green seats and the smaller upper deck from the start 3) Getting some businesses (restaurants, retail shops) on the property from the start, even if it meant having one less parking lot

That was just an example, and probably a bad one. 99% of ND alums have more money than they know what to do with it so underselling the Cubs won't work. It should work with other groups though. As for CSN, anyplace inside the Sox blackout area (which includes Indy) should be able to put CSN on whatever tier they want. No reason MLB would stop them from putting CSN on inside their blackout area.

Oops, I fixed that.

I gave mine away, but then, I also think that those tickets were not included in paid attendance totals.

I've talked about these things before, but from the perspective of somebody who does not live in the metro area, some things that can increase attendance: #1 (by a longshot over all the others): Since the Sox own a 20% stake in CSN, they need to very aggressively market the channel to cable/satellite providers within their "blackout area" that aren't already carrying it on the same tier as ESPN/NBCSN. I'm talking about places like Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, Lafayette, Terre Haute, Champaign, Bloomington, Springfield. Getting games on in front of TV viewers is the first step in getting them to games in person. I grew up near South Bend back when most Cubs games were on WGN and most Sox games were on SportsChannel and if my local cable company hadn't carried Sportschannel, I'd probably be a Cubs fan now instead of a Sox fan. Kids in the cities I listed above are growing up to be mostly Reds or Cardinals fans in large part because those are the teams games they can see on TV. #2: Try to get more Saturday home games in the evening. I know that national TV contracts have a lot of control over Saturday scheduling, but the Sox need to find a way to get more of the Saturday home games in the evening. Those Saturday night 6:05 fireworks games are pure gold. On Saturdays, families can go to museums/zoos during the day and Sox games in the evening, but they can't go to Sox games during the day and then the museums/zoos in the evening. #3 (which is buoyed a lot by #1): Aggressively market group outings to those cities I listed above. I know the Notre Dame Alumni Association has a Chicago outing every year and it is ALWAYS scheduled to coincide with a Cubs home game. There are probably dozens of others like this. Get them on the phone and offer them insane discounts to try switching to the Sox for one year. Especially now that the Cubs have really sucked for a few years. Time to pounce on those groups that do their yearly outings to Cubs games. #4: There are plenty of giveaways with admission, how about some giveaways with parking? 50% off (up to $10) concession stand coupons, random drawings for seat upgrades, random drawings for free VIP parking at a future game, etc. #5: Continue to work on ticket pricing. I would like to see pricing that varies by opponent go away. Make three different price levels per seating area: Friday-Saturday (highest), Monday-Thursday evening (middle), and Monday-Thursday afternoon + all Sunday (lowest). Also, for games other than Friday-Saturday, designate a few sections in the Club Box and Gold Box areas to have special lower prices that are available only as individual game purchases and in quantities of no more than 8. Give people who would never consider paying $60 each for tickets a taste of these seating areas at a discount and see if you can convince them that those seats are worth the money.

AL OPS leaders by position: DH: VMartinez 954, Ortiz 851, Dunn 827 C: Weiters 839, Flowers 793, Pinto 789 1B: Abreu 936, Pujols 891, Napoli 868 2B: Kendrick 844, Dozier 806, Pedrois 782 3B: Solarte 857, Seager 801, Donaldson 793 SS: Ramirez 864, Lowrie 756, Villar 745 OF: Choo 987, Bautista 967, Cruz 896, MCabrera 889, Trout 882, Cespedes 857, Brantley 841, Joyce 833, Jackson 831

With the Sox down 2 starting OF and with the way Paulie has hit the last couple weeks, I'd be really tempted to stick Dunn in LF for a few days.

The original program will only be two hours, but they will rerun it for west coast primetime and then use segments from it constantly throughout the next few days.

CNN will have a 2-hour special comparing the two coming up this week.

Not disagreeing that the Sox should be concerned about and working to improve attendance, but not because of comparisons like this. First of all, attendance is such a small portion of revenue compared to TV money, and none of these teams even comes remotely close to the Sox in that category. Secondly, all of these teams except Pittsburgh are literally the only team in town right now. They either don't have NBA/NHL teams or their teams are already eliminated.

Is it actually 40% Reinsdorf or is it owned in the same ratios as the teams?

I hope he comes back on the 24th when I am there (and when it's Chris Sale bobblehead day).

Very interesting analysis of the NFL Draft from the standpoint of economists. http://www.vox.com/2014/5/7/5683448/how-nf...m_medium=iosapp If you don't want to read the entire thing, here's the highlight: Almost never, ever trade up in the draft. It's terrible value to do so.

Just saw this: http://www.kgw.com/news/Italian-show-claim...-258465671.html

John Danks, L, 3-2, 4.93 vs Jesse Chavez, R, 2-1, 2.47 Full lineups later -- a LOT later.

5.5 innings would be in between getting one or two outs in the 6th. 5 1/3 would be under, 5 2/3 would be over.