2 hours ago, Bob Sacamano said:

Makes no sense they haven’t added any depth.

White Sox and never addressing the lack of depth.  Feels like we’ve seen this movie before. 

1 hour ago, wegner said:

How about we go all in with a 6 man rotation including Clevinger and Bauer.

I would set all of my Sox merch ablaze outside Gate 5 then defecate on the smoldering ashes if that happened. 

3 hours ago, Y2Jimmy0 said:

They aren’t going to willingly do something that would cause the players association to file a grievance. 

Nobody cares about Jerry Reinsdorf’s money. I especially don’t. The thought of Clevinger getting $12 million right now is gross though. 

They don’t have any money 

Claiming Justus Sheffield or whoever for depth purposes doesn’t add much of any money. They simply do not care.

22 hours ago, caulfield12 said:

Thanks.  It's not THAT dramatic, but it's amazing how life priorities change when you get married and especially have kids.  And now having lost both parents, it's a reminder of how short life can be.

I remember once having a dream of retiring and buying White Sox season tickets every year.  Now, I actually feel like an Advanced A minor league team or maybe AA like San Antonio in the past would be the dream...where the players are close (but not not TOO close to the majors) but everything's more affordable like parking or concessions and ticket holders largely come from same social class more or less.

I also was thinking in retirement it'd be fun to go to every single MLB game I guess if I lived here it'd have to be the Royals. I'd never move back to Chicago now cause of what I perceive as it being unsafe (not that here is that safe). Anyhow I agree with your longer post. Sad we have to feel this way.

My question is ... what would it cost me for 2 season tickets to Sox 15 rows up from third base or catcher and parking? How much jack does that cost nowadays? thanx.

2 hours ago, greg775 said:

I also was thinking in retirement it'd be fun to go to every single MLB game I guess if I lived here it'd have to be the Royals. I'd never move back to Chicago now cause of what I perceive as it being unsafe (not that here is that safe). Anyhow I agree with your longer post. Sad we have to feel this way.

My question is ... what would it cost me for 2 season tickets to Sox 15 rows up from third base or catcher and parking? How much jack does that cost nowadays? thanx.

Dick Allen would know.

A 40 game package was $1732 so you're talking $3000-4000 per seat (depending on location) for the full season and not even sure if parking's included with that.

3 hours ago, caulfield12 said:

Dick Allen would know.

A 40 game package was $1732 so you're talking $3000-4000 per seat (depending on location) for the full season and not even sure if parking's included with that.

https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/tickets/season-tickets/full-season-plan

An 81 game plan in the 15th row (Platinum Box is rows 11-25) is $6322 for the season. The second ticket ($6322) plus parking ($1396) puts the total up to $14,040, which is $86 per ticket incl. parking.

If you move a few rows back it's $5039 a ticket ($70 per ticket per game) and a few sections down the third base line and its $3836 ($56/ticket per game) a ticket.

 

7 hours ago, Tnetennba said:

I would set all of my Sox merch ablaze outside Gate 5 then defecate on the smoldering ashes if that happened. 

I'm gonna put you down as a maybe.

2 hours ago, wegner said:

I'm gonna put you down as a maybe.

This is solid posting.

9 hours ago, greg775 said:

I also was thinking in retirement it'd be fun to go to every single MLB game I guess if I lived here it'd have to be the Royals. I'd never move back to Chicago now cause of what I perceive as it being unsafe (not that here is that safe). Anyhow I agree with your longer post. Sad we have to feel this way.

My question is ... what would it cost me for 2 season tickets to Sox 15 rows up from third base or catcher and parking? How much jack does that cost nowadays? thanx.

Kansas City has a higher per capita murder rate than Chicago. 

13 hours ago, wegner said:

How about we go all in with a 6 man rotation including Clevinger and Bauer.

f*** it.  Sign me up

50 minutes ago, Greg Hibbard said:

Kansas City has a higher per capita murder rate than Chicago. 

Thats because Chicago has a lot more people to water down the stats. If you take the Northside (non West) out of the equation it looks different. 

Sure but likewise if you take the people in KC that haven't been murdered out of the equation, then the murder rate there is 100%. Pretty scary.

23 minutes ago, Squirmin' for Yermin said:

f*** it.  Sign me up

1 hour ago, Greg Hibbard said:

Kansas City has a higher per capita murder rate than Chicago. 

Did the Ligues move there??

26 minutes ago, SonofaRoache said:

Thats because Chicago has a lot more people to water down the stats. If you take the Northside (non West) out of the equation it looks different. 

 

Wat

14 minutes ago, Quin said:

 

If you take out his hot streaks, George Brett was a life time .249 hitter. squarely between Walter "no neck" williams and Gates Brown.

13 minutes ago, Kyyle23 said:

Wat

If you remove certain data points, you can get any answer you want.

Like, if we just count Frank Thomas' stats from 2001 onward, is he really a Hall of Famer with a .262/.376/.884 slash line, no All-Star appearances and only 38 games played at first base? Probably not.

4 minutes ago, zisk said:

If you take out his hot streaks, George Brett was a life time .249 hitter. squarely between Walter "no neck" williams and Gates Brown.

If you take out his homers, mike schmidt's slugging % was .389. squarely between ken reitz and george mitterwald.

I could do this all day. but i wont.

2 hours ago, Greg Hibbard said:

Kansas City has a higher per capita murder rate than Chicago. 

#8 in the nation in 2021.  In-state neighbor St. Louis was #1.  Chicago was not in the top 25.

16 minutes ago, 35thstreetswarm said:

#8 in the nation in 2021.  In-state neighbor St. Louis was #1.  Chicago was not in the top 25.

That is mind-blowing considering how much people dunk on Chicago.

21 minutes ago, pettie4sox said:

That is mind-blowing considering how much people dunk on Chicago.

I think it's because the city's large size (relative to the highest-murder/crime rate cities) leads to high gross murder *totals* that catch peoples' eye.  (I also think there are lots of other reasons people like to try to dunk on Chicago, but those are for another forum on another day.) 

 

Edited January 27, 20233 yr by 35thstreetswarm

6 hours ago, FriendlyNorthsider said:

https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/tickets/season-tickets/full-season-plan

An 81 game plan in the 15th row (Platinum Box is rows 11-25) is $6322 for the season. The second ticket ($6322) plus parking ($1396) puts the total up to $14,040, which is $86 per ticket incl. parking.

If you move a few rows back it's $5039 a ticket ($70 per ticket per game) and a few sections down the third base line and its $3836 ($56/ticket per game) a ticket.

 

Thank you, Caufield must have been looking at the 1980 season ticket plans.

Ok everyone, let's steer away from talk that's beginning to get political and, as much as it pains me to say it, about Mike fucking Clevinger.

Why was my post citing the murder rates of Kansas City and St. Louis (#8 and #1 in the country, respectively) deleted?  That is not remotely political, it's a fact.

Edited January 27, 20233 yr by 35thstreetswarm