Today was my 55th straight Opening Day. They're always more fun when the White Sox win. I'm hoping Montgomery and Teel or Quero are brought up and if they produce this team could really be good.
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Getz traded Cease and Crochet. As of now the White Sox don't have one member on their roster who they received from those trades. I've requested an interview in the past with JR to be the White Sox GM. I think I could have done a better job trading Cease and Crochet than what Getz did.
I'm still hoping new ownership will take over sooner rather than later. The franchise needs a shot in the arm. If anybody doubts me go look at the advance ticket sale on ticketmaster for the White Sox home opener. It looks like half of the stadium is not sold out.
A healthy lineup of Robert, Benintendi, Vargas, Drury, Vaughn and Meidroth should be decent. I'm disappointed that Teel and Quero didn't make the team. Hopefully they will be brought up soon.
1) The Cubs draw at least 20% of their attendance from out of state fans. The White Sox have only said that out of state fans are LESS than 10% of their attendance. The perception that the area around the White Sox stadium has always hurt them attendance wise. 2) Everybody seems to assume that the new owner will want a new stadium at the 78. Maybe not, perhaps he will want to build anew stadium in some suburban area. I don't know where but I think its a possibility.
The original design of the present White Sox stadium didn't have this miserable upper deck. JR had the design changed because he wanted another level of suites. I remember when somebody named the upper deck the Reinsdeck.