If anyone is going, we should all meet at The Big Downtown, its right next to the Hilton

and accessable.

Coming in from Boulder, Colorado for the third consecutive year. I'm looking forward to a great weekend.

I will be there for the weekend with some friends. Should be a nice getaway, full of drinking, baseball, and more drinking...

I wonder if there have been any cancellations-I know a partial plan holder that has been called about rooms/tickets available.

Hey guys I'm not going but some of us would love to read reviews/roundups when you're done, to see what we did/didn't miss.

Not going for the first time in a couple years. My work schedule pretty much blows right now (Busy season as a CPA is a lot of fun, WOOOOO) but on the bright side I will be snowboarding instead (and considering I don't get to go as much as I used to...I'd rather be doing that).

 

However, just 7 or so more weeks till I arrive in Arizona for spring training...YESSS.

 

But for those that do go, hopefully you can pass on any interesting info that comes from the seminars.

Eventually I'll go, but probably not for a few years when I'm out of college. It's just too much of a commute for me right now. Sounds like a great time though.

Does anybody know why it was moved to the Palmer House?

Does anybody know why it was moved to the Palmer House?

I think they wanted it to be in a more intimate setting due to the fiasco of last years. I am sure there were other reasons, but I also thought that there were issues with the hotel having too much say as well.

I wish I was going. Have been there for the last three SoxFests and unfortunately due to college, I won't be making the trip. Always one of the best weekends of the year.

Went the past three years, but due to the fact that they raised the prices, not going this year.

I'd go but it's sold out.

I am.

 

 

Hopefully it will be better than last year's miserable outing.

Went the past three years, but due to the fact that they raised the prices, not going this year.

Yup.

It's like 8 hours away, it's sold out, and I'm a poor college student.

 

It would be a blast, but it is about as possible as the Bills playing in the Superbowl next Saturday morning.

Soxfest at Soxfest

I think they wanted it to be in a more intimate setting due to the fiasco of last years.

I heard that, but they were passing out the little notes that Soxfest would be at the Palmer House at last year's Soxfest. I doubt they would have been able to arrange it that quickly. Something must have happened before the actual event. It seems weird they would deprive a lot of people a chance of attending Soxfest because the hotel wanted a say in what was going on. It would be interesting to see what exactly the reason really was.

Just to update us who weren't there last year (I was there the year before), what was the fiasco last year?

Just to update us who weren't there last year (I was there the year before), what was the fiasco last year?

The entire event. They decided to let about a billion people in there(the line to simply enter weaved through three floors and ended outside the building), and it just was not any fun compared to previous years. I really don't get it either, since they always claim their sold out, so why was the crowd so huge last year compared to previous years?

The entire event. They decided to let about a billion people in there(the line to simply enter weaved through three floors and ended outside the building), and it just was not any fun compared to previous years. I really don't get it either, since they always claim their sold out, so why was the crowd so huge last year compared to previous years?

The hotel overbooked and oversold the event, it had nothing to do with the Sox selling extra tickets.

Went the past three years, but due to the fact that they raised the prices, not going this year.

 

^^^

If I wasn't such a cheap bum I'd go. Anyone wanna stay home and just give me all their tickets? Thanks in advance

The hotel overbooked and oversold the event, it had nothing to do with the Sox selling extra tickets.

 

Thanks to that debacle, my wife will never go to with me to SoxFest again.

 

'05 SoxFest was an absolute nightmare. Couldn't walk anywhere or sit anywhere without navigating through the ridiculously long lines that didn't exist in previously sold out Fests.

 

Hope the ones that are going to this yr's don't experience that.

I hear ya; nothing is more insulting than somebody totally overselling an event like that. I'd ask for my money back.

Looking forward to the weekend... will be there on Friday and Sunday. A little disappointed that Dye and Thome are not on the list as of right now, but El Titan De Bronze in attendence is a huge bonus.