soxfan18

Paying out 13% of revenue would be fucking criminal! Baseball needs a ~50/50 split like NFL/NHL/NBA all have. I think 6 teams is the sweet spot, personally. You need to give byes to only 2 division winners, so early clinchers still have something major to play for down the stretch. Everything he said was factual. Lol, you brought the other leagues up.

Seen games at: GRF - always will be home Wrigley - don't hate as much as most / concourses suck, obviously, especially when crowded Miller - awesome tailgating, feels indoor even when open Target - amazing! Roomiest concourses I've been on, lots of seating variety, fun area Comerica - pretty good GABP - generic and bland Nats - felt like GABP Busch - loved the outfield and Ballpark Village / both main concourses are terrible, can't see the field from LD, and UD is totally open (think pre-reno GRF) Pac Bell/SBC/ATT/Oracle - sat in the upper deck, view is incredible! Oakland Coliseum - absolute dump Saw games at - RIP: Tiger - I was in 5th grade Metrodome - obvious dump / saw football there too, which was a better experience Milwaukee County - was falling apart Been inside: Skydome (tour) - was set up for a football game New Yankee (tour, then football) - It's a mall, so bland Wishlist: Fenway - just gotta see it at some point Dodger - looks so cool how it's built into the basin and you park on the upper level Chase - I was supposed to go to one of the games at the end of ST this year, so annoyed I missed out Coors - I ate lunch outside of it in September, at a place with a rooftop in the outfield. Very cool area, Old Western bar strip Petco - looks beautiful PNC - same

Good Karma Brands is. AM1000 is no longer operated by ESPN. I disagree. This is Jason's dream job and I think it'll be his for several decades. He can move up nationally and still do regional work. Brian Anderson is #2 at Turner Sports but still does Brewers games. Sam Rosen & Kenny Albert both call NFL games, with Albert also doing MLB and NHL nationally, while still working for the NY Rangers. Jon Miller did Sunday Night Baseball for years while still with the Giants. These are all higher profile gigs than Jason's CFB/CBB work. If Jason moves up to the Joe Buck/Al Michaels level, that's another story, but he can still advance at ESPN or elsewhere and work for the SOX.

Received an email about a new 10 ticket 'Voucher Pack' they are offering, and from that, I am led to believe we are going to see significant increases to ticket prices this year. $291 for 10 Lower Corner tickets. Do the math, that's up $9.10 from the $20 they've been at for quite a few years now. $30 for Bleachers, are they nuts?

Please, everyone, stop with the bullshit "equivalency". You can't just multiple the games by 2.7 and say that's what would happen in a full season. Baseball games aren't played on a calculator. They showed most of the year that they had the talent to win 4-5 more games than they did. Expectations change, they did not outperform when it was all said and done.

It's not MLB who would care, it's Sportsnet. Minor league parks don't meet the standard for Major League level broadcasts. Pittsburgh and Baltimore are the favorites, as both have hotels steps away from the park, eliminating the need to an auxiliary clubhouse.

Disco Demolition - full game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZaXq338HN4

Hulu is majority owned by Disney and NBCUniversal (Comcast) has agreed to sell their remaining shares by 2024? I believe.

Stadium is a joint venture between Sinclair and Silver Chalice Ventures. SCV is a subsidiary of the ballclub, with Brooks Boyer serving as CEO.

I was at that game too, 6/25/06 (my brother's birthday) on Sunday Night Baseball. We left in the 6th when the rain started, I was leaving the country the next morning. Heard both homers on the radio and watched them lose it at home.

1) Lee Walkoff vs Flubs - what a scene 2) Opening Night 2006 - one of the most memorable nights of my life, despite all the rain 3) This game, my 14th birthday in 2003. Robby Alomar broke up a no-hitter in the 7th, and Frank homered to tie it right after, then walked it off with another one! In recent years, I'd say Moncada's debut is up there, also because I was in the GR Club for it. Kopech's would be without the rain, the crowd was electric for those couple innings.

They're still probably holding back a lot of tickets in hopes of selling plans. Also on Sundays from May-August, Reggie's, a bar at Cermak/State, buys up a big block of bleacher seats. So if you look at 160-161, the former likely is why there's nothing in the 1st 10 rows, while the latter is why there's nothing in row 17 in up.

Taxes were not included in the price last season. The $7 tickets became $7.84 at the window.

What's that?

The funny thing about Wrigley is that it was really a dump in it's time. Cubs fans along with the local and national media, act like it's so great and historic because it's old, but in reality it was built on the cheap with no upper level for the Federal League Whales. It never held a candle to Old Comiskey, Tiger Stadium, Old Yankee Stadium (pre-70's reno), Shibe Park, etc.

As was said, they were expecting 10k less people. Staff don't work for free.

The Sox don't managed the concession stands, Delaware North does.

They were checking yesterday on the ramp to get back into the 100 from the social lounge. We had to walk up to the 500 just to come back down on the other side to get to the Craft Kave. They normally check all around if it's over 30,000, sounds like they were blown away by the walk up, so both concessions and security weren't prepared.

I've parked in Bronzeville below the Green Line tracks for nearly 15 years. It's a 6-7 minute walk.

There's really not much value in going after a foreign market, because everything in the league is centralized. In European soccer, teams control their own apparel contracts, so you see teams playing preseason games overseas to boost the team's profile and increase shirt sales, leading to a bigger deal from nike/adidas/etc. In North American sports, the league controls those deals, and the teams are all paid 1/30th of all these contracts with Majestic, New Era, etc. They really only make money off of sales when you buy directly from the team (why the Sports Depot is so valuable). TV is the same, they won't make anything off increasing ratings overseas, they'll just make the league as a whole more money on the next TV deal. Sponsorship is really the only area you can get something out of foreign interest.

Man, some of you guys are clueless. There has been 1 baseball team relocated since 1973. The White Sox are a charter franchise, that has played in the same mile radius for nearly 120 years, longest of any team in North American sports. Teams move primarily for 1 reason, they don't have an adequate stadium. Nearly every move since the turn of the century has fallen into this: Expos, Sonics, Rams, Chargers, Raiders... The Thrashers played in a modern stadium, but their ownership group wanted them out of there. TV and sponsorship money playing second fiddle in Chicago than it's ever going to be in friggen Portland or Charlotte.

Here's the Harper story: https://94wip.radio.com/bryce-harper-decision-done

Seconding Marshalls/TJ Maxx. Can get some great deals, but it all depends on timing. Fanatics and Lids.com have a lot of sales and clearances too. One thing to keep in mind is that the Nike league wide contract starts next season. That means all of the Majestic branded jerseys and gear is going to be heavily discounted next offseason, just as was the case when the NFL ditched Reebok for Nike and the NHL went from Reebok to Adidas. So next winter will really be the time to stock up.

So you'd rather the owners keep more money?