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1) I noticed when I was watching todays game against Oakland, Stone and Benettie were giving a number of items away if you won that contest they have every game. One of the items was a Bill Veeck bobblehead. Does anybody know if the White Sox are going to have a Bill Veeck bobblehead for sale? I noticed that the bobblehead box of Veeck had White Sox logos on it. I wasn't a fan of Veeck but I would want the bobblehead to add to my collection. 2) I followed up with my season ticket rep today (Monday, 8-22-16) and he said the team didn't have anymore Bill Veeck bobbleheads. The one they gave out was evidently a one of a kind bobblehead.

I keep reading and hearing that Abreu is happy that his son is with him in Miami. The son has some type of visa from Cuba. I can't help but wonder, if the son is here in the USA now, why doesn't he just stay here? I don't know if this forum is the place for this but still if somebody can answer this for me I would really like to hear it.

JR settled for the present site after Addison/Dupage County didn't workout. If he would have accepted the South Loop site that was offered to him at the start of looking for a new stadium by the City of Chicago, The White Sox would have been playing in the South Loop these last 25 years. He rejected the South loop site because he wanted to have the stadium built in Addison on land that he owned. He also left Sarasota Florida where the White Sox had their spring training for many years. He moved them to Arizona and had them playing in a stadium on land that he owned.

It was absolutely nuts when JR turned down the City of Chicago offer to build a stadium in the South Loop at Roosevelt + Clark in the mid 1980's. I don't know if that sight would still be available. But a few years ago the Village of Rosemont offered to build a new stadium for the bad guys on the Northside. What happens if Rosemont offers to build a new stadium for the White Sox? I would think the owner of the White Sox would seriously consider it. I would rather have a new stadium in the South Loop. But if that didn't workout, I would rather have a stadium in Rosemont than 35th + Shields.

To the best of my knowledge they had 2 sizes, XL and Medium.

The batting practice jersey that was given out last night was AWESOME. This was the 3rd shirt/jersey they gave out this year and it was definitely the nicest of the three.

1) I wish they would have had a statue day. Statues of Comiskey, Baines, Fox and Aparicio have yet to be given out. I even wrote JR about it. I was hoping they would give one of them out on Fan Appreciation Day. 2) The giveaways they have had this year have been good. The shirts and jerseys have been nice.

No!!!! All they have to do is get hot the next 2 months and get into the 2016 Playoffs. Once that happens everything will be fine.

I went to ticketmaster and most of the decent seats (on the lower level) are already sold. I don't sit in the upper deck at White Sox games. I don't want to sit in the upper deck for the NIU game. I find it hard to believe that most of the lower deck seats have already been sold. I wonder if you can buy tickets for the FB game at the Cell ticket office? I'm going to the game Friday night and i will look into it.

Maybe Hahn will fool us and trade Carlos Rodon for some hitting. I would like to think he would bring something decent in return. I would rather see Rodon traded than Sale or Quintana.

1)Trading Chris Sale would be the biggest PR blunder since the White Flag Trade. It took years for White Sox fans to forget about that trade. Trading Quintana would also be a PR disaster. . 2) After starting off 23-10 this season, did anybody see this coming? It's obvious to most people that the White Sox are going to be sellers this year and not contend for the 2016 Playoffs.

The more I've thought about this I have to change my opinion somewhat. The White Sox are not only going to go to the 2016 Playoffs, but I'm convinced that they're going to represent the American League in the 2016 World Series. This is going to be 2005 all over again.

I figure the White Sox will go on a winning streak and basically have the 2016 playoff spot wrapped up by Labor Day.

From what I have seen of him he appears to be Hall Of Fame bound.

Robin Ventura gets replaced by Terry Bevington.

Last night the Yankees played the Rays in St. Pete. A Friday night crowd of 14,000 turned out. That has to be disturbing to the owners of the Rays. That particular area has a ton of Yankees fans living there. There are alot of retired people in the St. Pete area from the east coast. The Yankees have had their Spring Training games in that area for many years. I know the Rays are trying to get a new stadium and I don't know what's going to happen in that regards. I would think if they don't get a new stadium that franchise won't be around too much longer. I've been there a number of times and the place is a hole. The last time I was there they announced a paid crowd of 10,000. That was tickets sold. They didn't have a 1,000 people there in actual attendance. And to think the White Sox came very close to moving there.

I noticed in tonights game against KC they flashed a picture of Anderson on the screen with his huge statistics. Hawk and Stone both pointed out how hot Anderson has been recently. Perhaps he might be brought up after this road trip. Who knows, he might even be our new DH.

Nobody is talking about this but Baltimore isn't drawing as well as they should because people are afraid to go there. The stadium is not that far from where the riots were last year.

The attendance is definitely trending upward. Especially when you take into account that most of the people coming to the games now are not Season Ticket holders. I doubt that the White Sox have 10,000 Season Ticket holders. Most of the people coming to the games now are buying individual tickets and are walk ups. I heard on the TV that the team has already sold 1.9 million tickets for this year.

1) It's a no brainer. Bring him up. 2) The only good thing that has happened the last couple of games is that Abreu has started to hit. 3) Even if Abreu keeps hitting the lineup has too many outs in it. 4) Neither of the present White Sox shortstops can hit. Anderson CAN Hit. If he can just make the routine plays at shortstop everything will be fine. 5) I don't see Hahn making any immediate trades to help this teams offense now. It seems to me the best way to help this team offensively right now is to bring up Anderson.

Don't be too sure that the Cubs won't lose some of their fanbase when they have their network. I'm under the impression that all of their games will be on their network. They won't have any of their games on free TV. If this actually happens the White Sox will be the only team in Chicago on free TV.

Sportsvision was ahead of its time. It failed because the Chicagoland area was not wired for cable at the time. Sportsvision should have been postponed until the area was wired for cable.

He has certainly been a wonderful addition to the White Sox. I can't understand why Oakland traded him to the White Sox. It doesn't appear as if the White Sox gave up alot to acquire him.

If Avila is out for some time and Smith doesn't work out, I can't help but wonder if the White Sox will try to acquire AJ from the Braves.

This tells me that the White Sox brass can't be too pleased with the bottom of our rotation which consists of Danks and Latos.