6 hours ago, 77 Hitmen said:

USA Today has issued their MLB ballpark rankings for 2026. We're #27! Take that Chase Field!

https://ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2026/03/25/best-mlb-stadiums-ranking-2026-edition-baseball-ballparks/89304877007/

My childhood buddy was a diehard Cub fan, and we went at it with Sox vs Cubs his whole life. He always said that New Comiskey was fine and he liked it better than Wrigley. He mentioned the concourse was outstanding and enjoyed the park.

7 hours ago, 77 Hitmen said:

USA Today has issued their MLB ballpark rankings for 2026. We're #27! Take that Chase Field!

https://ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2026/03/25/best-mlb-stadiums-ranking-2026-edition-baseball-ballparks/89304877007/

27. Chicago White Sox

    "It's really not that bad.."

35 minutes ago, Falstaff said:

My childhood buddy was a diehard Cub fan, and we went at it with Sox vs Cubs his whole life. He always said that New Comiskey was fine and he liked it better than Wrigley. He mentioned the concourse was outstanding and enjoyed the park.

The lower deck at the White Sox stadium is great. The upper deck is horrible and the location of the stadium is not a popular location.

44 minutes ago, WBWSF said:

The lower deck at the White Sox stadium is great. The upper deck is horrible and the location of the stadium is not a popular location.

So your advice to JR/Ishbia is…?

55 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

So your advice to JR/Ishbia is…?

Hopefully the new stadium will be built in a popular location where people want to go. Also build a stadium that doesn't have a miserable upper deck.

3 hours ago, caulfield12 said:

So your advice to JR/Ishbia is…?

Remember JR no longer answers his letters and request to interview for the G.M. position so the advice will fall on deaf ears! 😉

11 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:

Remember JR no longer answers his letters and request to interview for the G.M. position so the advice will fall on deaf ears! 😉

What about faxes and emails? @WBWSF better up his game if he wants to shoot his shot.

13 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

What about faxes and emails? @WBWSF better up his game if he wants to shoot his shot.

JR always responded to me in the past on numerous items. He stopped responding to me after i requested an interview for the White Sox GM job. I don't hear from him anymore. Then again, I don't think anybody hears from him anymore. He has completely disappeared from the public.

5 minutes ago, WBWSF said:

JR always responded to me in the past on numerous items. He stopped responding to me after i requested an interview for the White Sox GM job. I don't hear from him anymore. Then again, I don't think anybody hears from him anymore. He has completely disappeared from the public.

Were these letter or email responses from Jerry in the past? Also, do you think they came directly from Jerry or an admin assistant? Would be cool if you shared some of them on this site.

Edited Thursday at 05:23 PM3 days by WhiteSox2023

35 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

Were these letter or email responses from Jerry in the past? Also, do you think they came directly from Jerry or an admin assistant? Would be cool if you shared some of them on this site.

I know when I visited Chicago and was treated very well by the Sox I'd write JR to let him know how I was treated and to thank the organization. He always responded but then again I never asked for an interview for the G.M. position either. 😉

After the Sox won in 83 I also wrote him, EE and Roland Hemond and all responded. Roland became a good friend for many years afterwards until he passed away.

43 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:

I know when I visited Chicago and was treated very well by the Sox I'd write JR to let him know how I was treated and to thank the organization. He always responded but then again I never asked for an interview for the G.M. position either. 😉

After the Sox won in 83 I also wrote him, EE and Roland Hemond and all responded. Roland became a good friend for many years afterwards until he passed away.

Bet that wouldn't happen today.

1 hour ago, southsider2k5 said:

Bet that wouldn't happen today.

It's an issue of volume - it takes no time/effort/cost at all to write some rant in an email and hit send. Front office folks get hundreds of them per day, if not thousands.

54 minutes ago, h. jones said:

It's an issue of volume - it takes no time/effort/cost at all to write some rant in an email and hit send. Front office folks get hundreds of them per day, if not thousands.

Just to be clear when I reached out to them it was via written letters.

1 hour ago, h. jones said:

It's an issue of volume - it takes no time/effort/cost at all to write some rant in an email and hit send. Front office folks get hundreds of them per day, if not thousands.

I am going more that he has burned his bridges in recent years. The Sox don't take kindly to that.

1 hour ago, h. jones said:

It's an issue of volume - it takes no time/effort/cost at all to write some rant in an email and hit send. Front office folks get hundreds of them per day, if not thousands.

The Sox front office should get the most.

17 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:

Just to be clear when I reached out to them it was via written letters.

Yep, I understood - I was drawing a contrast between the ease of now vs the effort of then, is all.

11 minutes ago, h. jones said:

Yep, I understood - I was drawing a contrast between the ease of now vs the effort of then, is all.

No worries.

On 3/26/2026 at 5:29 AM, southsider2k5 said:

27. Chicago White Sox

    "It's really not that bad.."

Looking at the 3 ballparks that rank lower on that list: the A's are getting a new stadium in 2028, Chase Field is about to get $750M in renovations, and the Rays new ownership is working on getting a new stadium in Tampa. Rate Field could drop to #30 in some stadium rankings in a few years.

We'll see about the Rays new stadium, though. I'll believe it when they actually secure funding at start breaking ground. Sounds like they might be asking around $1B in public funding for that new ballpark.

Fenway is such an overrated dump. Nostalgia aside, it’s awful.

Kauffman was stale as could be outside of the waterfalls. I haven’t been since the new updates have been made, so maybe it’s much better?

Truist should be higher. The Battery gets all the love but that’s a really cool ballpark inside.

On 3/26/2026 at 9:33 AM, WBWSF said:

Hopefully the new stadium will be built in a popular location where people want to go. Also build a stadium that doesn't have a miserable upper deck.

Like Wrigley where there are iron ibeams obstructing already terrible views in the upper deck? Any stadium has cheap seats that are far from the field. You get what you pay for. I have enjoyed walking all around the park on the 100 level and meeting many friends on the concourse. That part of GRate is a great design. You aren't practically tied into your seat for the entire game like you are in the bleachers at Wrigley where you are stuffed in. Sitting out there can be claustrophobic and a terrible experience. I hope you like the body contact with the sweaty bloke next to you. There are several locations inside GRate that I have enjoyed, like the Rate Club (awesome), Leinenkugel’s Craft Lodge (formerly the Craft Kave), and the RF food concourse. Plenty of parking, direct access off the expressway, and proximity to many Chicago restaurants within a short drive.

Some of us witnessed the deke that Reinsdorf tried to pull by threatening to move the team to Florida. Now, I don't hear one word from Reinsdorf or the ISFA about signing a new lease, but a lot of talk about moving to a new location. Now Ishbia, a billionaire private equity investor (a Michigan State alum who knows nothing about the South side), can possibly do whatever he wants. OK, but that might not be for a while * (2035?) , so relax, strap it down, hold your nose, and root for Jerry's boys with the rest of us. Enjoy life and live it well while you're alive.

• "The agreement provides that, from 2029–2033, Reinsdorf will have the option to sell the controlling interest to Ishbia. After the 2034 season, Ishbia will have the option to acquire the controlling interest. In the event of any such future transaction, all limited partners of the Sox would have the opportunity to sell to Ishbia at that time. In addition to Justin Ishbia, his brother Mat Ishbia, and father Jeff Ishbia will also be significant investors. There is no assurance that any such future transaction will occur, and in no event will such a transaction take place before 2029." https://www.mlb.com/press-release/press-release-white-sox-announce-long-term-ownership-investment-agreement

Edited Saturday at 10:04 PM1 day by tray

3 minutes ago, tray said:

Like Wrigley where there are iron ibeams obstructing already terrible views in the upper deck? Any stadium has cheap seats that are far from the field. You get what you pay for. I have enjoyed walking all around the park on the 100 level and meeting many friends on the concourse. That part of GRate is a great design. You aren't practically tied into your seat for the entire game like you are in the bleachers at Wrigley where you are stuffed in. Sitting out there can be claustrophobic and a terrible experience. I hope you like the body contact with the sweaty bloke next to you. There are several locations inside GRate that I have enjoyed, like the Rate Club (awesome), Leinenkugel’s Craft Lodge (formerly the Craft Kave), and the RF food concourse. Plenty of parking, direct access off the expressway, and proximity to many Chicago restaurants within a short drive.

Some of us witnessed the deke that Reinsdorf tried to pull by threatening to move the team to Florida. Now, I don't hear one word from Reinsdorf or the ISFA about signing a new lease, but a lot of talk about moving to a new location. Now Ishbia, a billionaire private equity investor (a Michigan State alum who knows nothing about the South side), can possibly do whatever he wants. OK, but that might not be for a while * (2025?) , so relax, strap it down, hold your nose, and root for Jerry's boys with the rest of us. Enjoy life and live it well while you're alive.

• "The agreement provides that, from 2029–2033, Reinsdorf will have the option to sell the controlling interest to Ishbia. After the 2034 season, Ishbia will have the option to acquire the controlling interest. In the event of any such future transaction, all limited partners of the Sox would have the opportunity to sell to Ishbia at that time. In addition to Justin Ishbia, his brother Mat Ishbia, and father Jeff Ishbia will also be significant investors. There is no assurance that any such future transaction will occur, and in no event will such a transaction take place before 2029." https://www.mlb.com/press-release/press-release-white-sox-announce-long-term-ownership-investment-agreement

Root for Jerry's boys? WTAF? I root for the name of the front of the jersey, and not any owner, management, or anything else. I am Chicago White Sox fan, not Jerry Reinsdorf.

I also love how you slander Ishbia, who actually lives here as knowing nothing about the Southside, while Jerry parks his ass in Arizona and threatened to move the team to Florida, but that's fine.

Heard a rumor from the construction circle Ishbia is a madman (in a good way). This project will be nothing short of perfect.

7 minutes ago, DFAthewave69420 said:

Heard a rumor from the construction circle Ishbia is a madman (in a good way). This project will be nothing short of perfect.

Lets hope its sooner rather than later.

Project in the same location without the balpark village does pretty much nothing for changing the future trajectoru of the team.

Forward/outside the box thinking is actually a good thing.

Because what they've been doing the last twenty years certainly hasn't been working out.

On 3/24/2026 at 9:06 AM, MiddleCoastBias said:

I was at Dick's in the west suburbs last week and popped in looking for Sox gear. I saw two full sections of cubs, full wall of Blackhawks, all of the Bears and Bulls stuff... and three women's shirts for Sox. I asked a kid that worked there where the Sox section was and he just shrugged and said there was no Sox section. They genuinely had more German national soccer team gear than White Sox gear.

We're losing (or already lost) the next generation of fans. We need a reason to be in the stores, and for people to see the brand and support the team. Getting this stadium right is key.

A winning team is key IMO.