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The slight advantage that the Phillies would have with Trout is that he came from the area and grew up a Phillies fan; as we see from the possible Machado/Yankees situation, “always wanted to be a _____ growing up” has a bit of weight behind it.

Likely just that the gap day is for travel to the East Coast, whereas Philly and New York can be back-to-back days via car due to close proximity.

Anything's possible under stress - I've seen people here (and elsewhere) all but calling Philadelphia a dinky little backwater of a town, as if it were Cincinnati or Des Moines!

They’re real, but the Phillies got the better pitcher in the trade.

*and* the Phillies don't pay any of Santana's salary.

The unknowable that I'm left pondering is: if a sore-kneed Avi was worth one TJS-needed pitching prospect, what was Avi's (presumably) higher trade worth in the preceding offseason? And if it was indeed a higher return, why didn't the team pull the trigger, if they were willing to do so when the return was a single injured prospect later on?

Several MLB teams have reduced or eliminated their online fan clubs over the past 5-6 seasons.

Considering the JR's original objection to Manfred being Commissioner was that he didn't think Manfred was hard enough on the MLBPA during previous CBA negotiations, what do you think?

QUOTE (Springfield SoxFan @ Jan 26, 2018 -> 09:44 AM) Anyone know of the secondary market sells passes for tonight or anyway to get a pass for tonight? To my knowledge, there is no Friday-only pass - it's only as part of the Weekend Pass, which is reserved for hotel package buyers.

https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/ballpark/infor...guide#n-content

Second inning, usually.

You get a member email sent to you every month that contains the list of games for the following month (which you choose on the usual Single Game tickets page on whitesox.com) and your membership code number that you enter on Ticketmaster to get your discounted Lower Box offer.

He just tweeted again: So my guesses are either he's attending terrible positive-image seminars, or that he's in the midst of a peyote-fueled vision quest.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Sep 29, 2016 -> 08:11 PM) The Sox invited me to Guaranteed Rate Field for an NIU game via advertisement at the Sox game the other day. The sign had the downward arrow on it. Did the logo itself have "Guaranteed Rate Field" in it, or was it just the Guaranteed Rate logo?

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Aug 1, 2016 -> 11:20 AM) George Ofman ‏@georgeofman 6m6 minutes ago Chicago, IL It appears there will be no deal for Sale between Sox and Sox. Things though, could change. That is the most worthless tweet.... two simultaneous bet-hedges.

QUOTE (soxfan18 @ Jul 26, 2016 -> 04:06 PM) Did anyone get the Black List code? Didn't see it in my Inbox. Email goes out tomorrow morning, I heard...

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jan 28, 2016 -> 02:28 PM) Is there Friday single day passes? No; Friday is reserved for hotel/weekend package buyers.

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Jan 12, 2016 -> 08:42 AM) You are reading way too much into a couple of random tweets in which he is obviously being sarcastic. I'm sure one of two things has happened. Either they simply forgot to add his name to the list or he has yet to commit 100% to attending. There is no logical reason to not let him attend. Agreed; if anything they'd be delighted to have more team members who interact with the fans there like Eaton does.

Ryan Howard is an interesting example for comparison purposes. In his first year of arbitration in 2008, he won and got $10 million (the Phillies offered $7 million), up from $900,000 in 2007. In 2009, they were about to go to arbitration again (Howard's bid was $18 million and the Phillies was $14 million) before the Phillies blinked and signed him to a 3-year $54 million deal.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Oct 20, 2015 -> 11:26 AM) That correlation won't hold up in court, my friend. Luckily, it doesn't need to!

I'll say this much about Dominic; his one very good season (2013) directly coincided with Wally Joyner being the Phillies assistant hitting coach, and Wally worked extensively with him throughout that year. When Wally left the Phillies at the end of 2013, so did Dominic's production.

QUOTE (My_Sox_Summer @ Sep 11, 2015 -> 12:28 PM) I thought the '05 stuff would bring the people out, but it really didn't. Team performance aside, I think the organization overestimated the attraction/draw of the 2005 team. Many people scratched their 2005 itch at SoxFest, and if you went to the ring giveaway game of the reunion weekend, you were able to see everyone at once so no need to go to the other games. The Chicago Theatre event was expensive and, if I recall, about half-empty.

Ballpark Pass has returned for August/September/October, on sale Monday at 10 am. 22 games for $79.

There was a Luzinski bobblehead at SoxFest 2013.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ May 24, 2015 -> 12:51 AM) Is there video of the full length ceremony It's on the Paulie tribute page on whitesox.com: http://whitesox.com/paulie