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QUOTE (ewokpelts @ Apr 27, 2015 -> 01:46 PM) The 4/25 postponement will help in the long run. I expect at least 20k, if only for the blanket. And with the 2005 reunion that weekend, you at see more people hitting both games that day. You know its a sad state of affairs when we are shooting for just 20K!!

QUOTE (raBBit @ Apr 26, 2015 -> 03:10 PM) They no longer play this. Or at least they haven't at three losses I have been to. They played it as Volquez was exiting.

Oh, how sweet it is to hear "Na Na Na Na, Hey Hey, Goodbye!" because our offense chased a pitcher!!

I do like Adam's stroke against right handlers.

W-O-W

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 26, 2015 -> 08:28 AM) I do know there was an incident where a gun was supposedly fired from the now torn down Robert Tayler Homes and it did a little damage in the upper deck. It occurred on a non game day. Operative word: "supposedly". I believe that rumor was from way back in season 1 of the "new Comiskey Park". If memory serves me correctly, someone called the Jonathan Brandmeier show and merely said it happened, but obviously with no evidence to back it up. It was quickly debunked and dismissed by the team, and the story pretty much ended at that.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 24, 2015 -> 10:06 PM) You know it's going bad for LaRoche when I google his contract terms to make sure it wasn't a 3 year deal. LOL!!

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 24, 2015 -> 09:49 PM) He has the tools. Just cannot identify pitches. That's a huge problem. Hopefully he can develop that with experience. He's still only 23 and without the benefit of a full season in the Major Leagues, so you would think he does have time, with experience, to fine tune those tools and then recognize his talent. The problem I have at this point is trying to get him to do that underneath the pressure of being a middle-of-the-order hitter. I think he needs to be down around 7th in the order at this stage of his career.

Top of the order coming up! Let's defy the elements and take it to Mr. Duffy right here, right now!

Ugh - these cold & rainy April nights at the 'ol ballpark. Blech!!

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 24, 2015 -> 07:49 PM) It's exactly like that. Exactly. Piranhas V 2.0

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Apr 23, 2015 -> 10:40 PM) I f***ing hate Ventura. Alexei bunt/Beckham steal attempts in late innings are prolly not going to put you in "Manager of the Year" conversations.

In all of the years that Alexei has been here and in situations like this one, I honestly don't ever remember him getting a bunt down successfully. Maybe, just maybe, they ought to think about scrapping any such plans in the future.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Apr 23, 2015 -> 10:31 PM) Really like Gordon in this new role. It's the right fit. +1

Sort of reminds me of that game in April 2000 when the Sox were off to a sluggish start. There was a fight between the Sox and the Tigers (Keith Foulke involved), and it seemed to wake the Sox up and propel them onto a nice run, eventually leading to the division title. Here's to hoping of going onto a similar nice run with similar seasonal results!

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 23, 2015 -> 01:40 PM) If he said that, it is a lie. Mr. Reinsdorf said the exact same thing to me way back in '96 or '97 (I can't remember which year) at a season tickets holders get-together in the Bullpen Sports Bar right after the end of the season. I asked him why they didn't point the stadium in the direction of downtown, and he, too, said it was because of the sun. That answer, of course, never made sense to me, given that the old park faced that direction for 80 years.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 23, 2015 -> 09:21 AM) I think the biggest problem with the White Sox upper deck, and the entrance you mentioned would have been better, but the complaining would have still occurred, is the fans were used to the upper deck at the old park, which was probably club level high at most. That started the snowball rolling, and it has never stopped, and I don't think ever will. The fact is many if not most upper deck seats pretty much suck in most parks in baseball. There are seats just as bad as the bad seats at USCF in each park. I have often wondered, had the park been built in the direction facing downtown, by which in almost every seat in the upper deck you'd get the most spectacular view of the city's beautiful skyline, if any of this negative stigma with the UD would have ever developed. Think of the view you get to see when walking down the ramp of gate 3 (I think it's gate 3) after a ballgame. It's pretty awesome given the park's location in relation to downtown. Maybe you'd still have some complaints about the steepness here and there, but I really think people would have been far more forgiving of the flaws in the deck's construct if they had that view of the city to gaze upon any time they sat up there.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Apr 23, 2015 -> 08:12 AM) This has been a complaint about our park that I have never understood. I have never been to any other park where the upper deck was significantly better than the Cell's. The problem with our upper deck, at least initially when there were the extra nine rows at the top, was that the entrance was at the base of the deck, not somewhere in the middle. If you had seats towards the top of the deck, the combination of having to start at the bottom and walk all of those steps up at the rather steep incline of this particular deck was not ideal. It certainly wasn't good in any manner for anyone elderly or over weight. It just wasn't. So with that quickly came the oft-heard maligning of the upper deck, leading to a negative stigma that still has residual effect to this very day.

Jose Abreu at-bats are like a work of fine art!

You're going to win 54...you're going to lose 54...it's what you do with the other 54 that matters. This was one of THOSE 54, and we won it. Very promising, indeed!!

QUOTE (InTheDriversSeat @ Apr 12, 2015 -> 04:45 AM) Does anybody remember watching SportsVision? Surprised by the lack of responses to this question? You shouldn't be. "SportsVision" was one of the best kept secrets of the early '80s, and that's because hardly anybody watched it. They didn't watch it because they didn't have it. It was just way too expensive to sign up for, and therefore it never took off to become the money maker that the current ownership group "thought" it would be. They "thought" they'd have 50,000 households signed up after just the first year in 1982. Meanwhile, even after the success of the '83 season, they still only had a measly 17,000 households signed up. Needless to say, this get-rich quick scheme didn't work, and SportsVision would go the way of the do-do bird shortly thereafter. Of greater consequence to the franchise with this display of strategic genius to go the SportsVision route by the current ownership was that they also surrendered both Harry Caray AND the exposure in 28,000,000 households at the time on WGN solely to the Cubs (note: 28M households vs. 17K). (This after Caray helped deliver record TV ratings for the Sox in '81 when the Sox were still on WGN, btw.). But this decision to essentially hide the Sox in the obscurity of pay TV while the Cubs enjoyed unchallenged access to games free of charge dispensed the Sox to the bin of irrelevance during this crucial period. Caray actually mentioned at one time that if the Sox had been on WGN during that '83 season, they would have "owned the city". Maybe he was right, and maybe he was wrong. We'll never know. What we do know is the current ownership group thought it wise to go the SportsVision route at the time, but they couldn't have been more wrong as it turned out. They would suffer the lack of exposure on SportsVision and the missed opportunity of exposure on WGN (with Caray at the helm) for many years. Hindsight, of course, is 20/20, but boy oh boy. What a strategic blunder of immense proportion the whole SportsVision idea turned out to be.

QUOTE (AustinIllini @ Apr 4, 2015 -> 11:10 PM) Stop living in the past. The current Sox organization is brilliant. The core of the team is locked up in team friendly contracts going forward. Rick Hahn isn't just smart, he's brilliant. It was Kenny Williams who continually sold his soul trying to "win now". Lol - for your information, "current Sox organization" = past Sox organization. Jerry + Kenny + Rick = Jerry + Kenny + Rick Don't get me wrong - it would appear this triumvirate, after many years of trying, have been making better decisions in the past year and a half or so then they have in a long while. However, I wouldn't assign "brilliance" to anything just yet. I prefer to be "results oriented" when it comes to Jerry Reinsdorf-run baseball organizations, based on three and a half decades worth of unimpressive results, including those of the most recent decade. For me, I will only declare "brilliance" once I see this team finally in some state of sustainable success. That means win, and win often. Make it to the postseason in consecutive seasons for the first time in our lifetimes. Win and invigorate a dormant fan base which will then translate into more fannies in the seats. That's what I mean when I say "results oriented". Once they accomplish that, I'll join the "current Sox organization is brilliant" bandwagon faster than Grant took Richmond!!

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 2, 2015 -> 08:04 AM) Decidedly average, is the answer. But I can't really complain. Honestly, maybe I'm drinking the Kool-Aid, but I think the White Sox just make smarter business decisions than most teams. Chris Sale and Jose Abreu have two of the best contracts in baseball. http://deadspin.com/2015-payrolls-and-sala...dium=socialflow Team 2015 Payroll 1. Los Angeles Dodgers $272,789,040 2. New York Yankees $219,282,196 3. Boston Red Sox $187,407,202 4. Detroit Tigers $173,813,750 5. San Francisco Giants $172,672,111 6. Washington Nationals $164,920,505 7. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim $150,933,083 8. Texas Rangers $142,140,873 9. Philadelphia Phillies $135,827,500 10. Toronto Blue Jays $122,506,600 11. St. Louis Cardinals $120,869,458 12. Seattle Mariners $119,798,060 13. Chicago Cubs $119,006,885 14. Cincinnati Reds $117,197,072 15. Chicago White Sox $115,238,678 16. Kansas City Royals $113,618,650 17. Baltimore Orioles $110,146,097 18. Minnesota Twins $108,945,000 19. Milwaukee Brewers $105,002,536 20. Colorado Rockies $102,006,130 21. New York Mets $101,409,244 22. San Diego Padres $100,675,896 23. Atlanta Braves $97,578,565 24. Arizona Diamondbacks $91,518,833 25. Pittsburgh Pirates $88,278,500 26. Cleveland Indians $86,091,175 27. Oakland A's $86,086,667 28. Tampa Bay Rays $76,061,707 29. Houston Astros $70,910,100 30. Miami Marlins $68,479,000 "I think the White Sox just make smarter business decisions than most teams." Really? And how do you arrive at this conclusion? Based on the club's overall success? The Sox have one playoff appearance in the last DECADE since the WS in '05, and that appearance lasted all of one minute. And the 24 years prior to '05, this current Sox ownership saw their team reach the postseason a measly three times, combining for just three wins in those appearances. Real "smarter business decisions" contributing to that unheralded record, I must say. And as of today, this supposed record of "smarter business decisions" has this big market team almost dead last in the Majors in attendance and TV ratings as we speak. Not to mention, but a team payroll going into this season almost identical to that of the Kansas City Royals AND Minnesota Twins, and less than that of the Reds, Blue Jays, Mariners, AND former Montreal Expos, the Nationals. But god are we "smart", we managed to get Sale and Abreu to sign for under market. Whoopie...for the investors!! Not so much for we, the fans.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 2, 2015 -> 01:48 PM) I know I am outdated, but they could go back to all organ music, and I would be OK with that. I wouldn't say you are outdated at all. There's nothing wrong with associating organ music with the classic baseball experience. For years, part of the enjoyment of a day out at Comiskey Park/U.S. Cellular included being entertained by the one and only Nancy Faust. I would take her creative stylings on the keyboard over any canned song any day of the week.

QUOTE (ewokpelts @ Jan 31, 2015 -> 09:10 AM) When the owner says "jim thome will be a manager one day", that's when you know he's ventura's replacement. If that's the case, why is Thome wasting time in this nebulous "special assistant" position he's in and instead learning the finer points of the craft by managing one of the team's minor league teams? Must the only criteria for a White Sox manager be simply "Former Sox player/Reinsdorf favorite/no prior managerial experience"?