Posted: 1/3/2011 5:24:12 PM EDT
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I don't know when tickets go on sale but let me say this, save your money for something else.
They refuse to invest in good young talent in the minors, have a zero percent chance of doing anything this year, and you get a much better view on the game from your lazy boy. Ticket prices are going up again this year and I couldn't justify 100-150 for my wife and I to go to a game and watch a shitty ball club. All of the above is coming from a lifelong Cubs fan. |
| The "sox fan chip on the shoulder" is always an interesting study. If the sox were really a team to support and be proud of, their fans would fill their park instead of trying to put down the Cubs. Wrigley was expanded. The sox had to tear down a level of their park to make it look less empty. |
| I have no desire to buy professional sports team tickets. It makes as much sense as paying taxes. Baseball and Football have become just like our government. They are focused on making sure no one can win and excellence is penalized so every team is "equal" via the draft. I'll settle for letting someone else to pay for tickets, or watching on TV. |
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Quoted: The "sox fan chip on the shoulder" is always an interesting study. If the sox were really a team to support and be proud of, their fans would fill their park instead of trying to put down the Cubs. Wrigley was expanded. The sox had to tear down a level of their park to make it look less empty. This attendance shit again. What do you think Wrigley's attendance numbers were like until Corky "Steroids" Sosa and Mark McJuice had their home run race in 1998? |
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Quoted: I have no desire to buy professional sports team tickets. It makes as much sense as paying taxes. Baseball and Football have become just like our government. They are focused on making sure no one can win and excellence is penalized so every team is "equal" via the draft. I'll settle for letting someone else to pay for tickets, or watching on TV. The leagues are in the business to make money. What good does it do if the disparity is so great between one team and all the rest that nobody outside the dominant team's market watches the games? |
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I have attended and enjoyed sox games. The sox organization treated my family well when we attended the games.
I find it interesting that a lot of "so called sox fans" dont go to games, and talk a lot of junk about the cubs, but cant support "their sox". The sox will always be looked at as the second team as long as their fans treat them as such. Yes, its the attendence thing. It reflects the way the fans look at their team. You cant tell me that the players dont notice? 
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You ever hear a player say I wan't to play at the Cell? I still call it Comisky.
Why yes, they may be drunk fans, but they really are Cub fans. Anyone can go to a ballpark and drink. I guess they want to watch the Cubs as they drink. I don't think the players on the field care if the fans are drunk. They see folks in the stands, cheering. Full house. I've been to other parks where the seats were empty and they had a better team than the Cubs. But when the Cubs play in that city, the stands aren't as bare and there are Cub fans enjoying the game. I guess Cub fans are loyal , they want to see them win. Cubs win 95 games this year. |
Amazing how my feeble attempt at a joke ignites the Cubs vs Sox debate!  I personally don't go to many Sox games strictly be cause of the cost and time involved. The Sox have been in two World Series in my lifetime so you older guys out there know what I'm talking about. Costs and travel times have skyrocketed. You have to budget for it now,at least in my case. I also don't go when the team sucks. If enough people don't go the team will be forced to do something. Witness the 2005 Sox[or the 2010 Blackhawks]. The Cubs were on TV nationally way before cable and satellite tv became popular and this helped develop their popularity. The few Cub games I've been to[courtey of free tickets] didn't impress me. Atrocious parking,crowded concourses and feeling like I was in The World's Largest Beer Garden. Rant off and sorry if I hijacked the thread. Go Sox! Go Bears! Go Blackhawks! and yes,Go[I think?] Cubs!
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Wrigley will always be 39 thousand plus strong... and win or lose we still booze.. and if you don't come to the stadium for sheer enjoyment and a fight (if your a sox fan you will definately get your ass beat)... you cannot beat wrigleyville... there is no way And this one too- 
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Its usually (but not all the time) a sox fan that starts the debate.
Blago  is a cubs fan. (I'm embarassed to write it) '
I seem to remember that the state supported the sox in order to keep them in chicago. If you are a sox fan, doesnt that make you a welfare recepient? Typical democrat liberal move with throwing our tax money at a problem backed by a liberal RINO (thompson). .
But all kidding aside, I like going to a sox game, you can always get a good seat, and always find a parking place. I like going to wrigley because its fun, but a hassle finding a ticket or a parking place. Fun is what you make of it, win or lose. |
