Posted on 05/20/2005 10:20:51 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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Agreed. Everything Telander is talking about was already there, and was destroyed when they built the new park. The Two Jerries have sucked pretty much everything out of what was the character (good and bad) of a Sox game, and made it into a generic Sox-Mart. It's doubly sad because the team itself has been genuinely entertaining much of the time.
It is and always shall be comisky park, no matter what the city calls it.
Are you aware that there are more corruption investigations of the daley administration than any other in the country, including New Fallujah?
Go White Sox!
Just another thing for White Sox fans to complain about. It's no wonder Cubs fans can't stand you guys...
White Sox fans of the past: humorist Jean Shepherd and blues great Muddy Waters.
I have been to both Comiskey (new) and Wrigley. Comiskey is modern but seemed to lack the charm of a Wrigley or a Fenway.
(Been there a couple times, upper deck--saw my Red Sox,
with Pedro Martinez, beat the pale hose). Wrigley reminded me of Fenway, complete with horse-trough urinals in the men's room (and one guy throwing up in one). The last time I was there, then-Cub Sammy Sooser, er, Sosa, hit 3 HRs in the game.
"Dying Cub Fan's Last Request"--Steve Goodman. ("give me a doubleheader funeral on a bright sunny winter day--no lights. Have the organist play the National Anthem--then a little na na na na ,hey hey, GOODBYE...have Keith Moreland drop a routine fly...The dying man's friends told him to
cut it out. They say, 'Don't cry, we'll meet by and by.
In the heavenly Hall of Fame. I've got season tickets to watch the 'angels' now...but you the living, you're stuck with the Cubs. So it's me that feels sorry for you."
oops, HE said "Don't cry"...
GO GO WHITE SOX !!
My old neighborhood. Grew up there. Kenmore and Grace.
I especially like the personalized food and beverage service in the Club Level at the Cell. Open a tab on your credit card, order sandwiches off a menu, drinks lots of beer, eat a ton of peanuts -- and get one bill at the end of the game, Sure beats fumbling for change every time you get thirsty.
Whaddya mean "you guys" ...
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Good guys and girls wear black! (I bleed black, but may not be good).
We tailgate at Comiskey, and have a great time with the barbeques, coolers, neighbors. The ballpark is big and very clean, and the hotdogs are fresh.
Too crowded and trendy at Wrigley.
Do they still have the ball dispenser that comes up out of the ground behind home plate in the new Comiskey Park or whatever they call it? When I was a kid, I was always fascinated by that!
Why are you blaming Daley for the change of the name of Comiskey Park? That was Reinsdorf's deal, not Daley's.
Ha, yeah. There's plenty of other stuff that can be rightly pinned on Daley.
Yes, and Sen. Peter Fitzgerald's legacy is closing in on that. But Daley doesn't wear the jacket for this one.
Sorry, that wasn't directed specifically at you, just at all Sox fans.
BTW don't you get tried of the chicago media giving daley a passw whether it is millennium park miegs or the runways at ohare.
If it was pubbie mayor it would be front page stuff all the time.
Chicago press is such lapdogs that when he takes time them nasty they think its a bone and roll over and wait for their stomachs to be patted.
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