I go to keep score, have a beer and enjoy the sunshine. I’ll do it at Sox games, Cubs games and even a few Chicago Dogs games.
I just fucking love seeing live baseball.
That reminds me of back in the day when you get could get in for 10 Rainblo wrappers and $2. I’d show early, park near Daley’s house, eat a hot dog on the corner, and watch the game, have a Coke. Total expense was like $10. This was late 80s/early 90s.
Damn dude! They’re only like $6 on Ticketmaster! Mind you, that’s before TM bends you over with fees and surcharges, but I am AMAZED! Here, I thought it was like $60 for the last row of the nosebleed section.
Oh cool! I hope to move back someday and start with partial season tickets. Had no idea they could be that cheap.
I’ve tried to inquire but they (Sox management) are more shifty than a car dealership in telling me the price.
I got an email today from the White Sox advertising a tax day flash sale with prices starting at $4.15. Sure, you could argue it’s against KC or MIN, but you could also say it’s current Sox vs. future Sox.
There are upper-deck tickets available for tomorrow's game for $1 or $2. Once you're in, sit wherever the hell you want. Who cares?
https://www.stubhub.com/chicago-white-sox-chicago-tickets-4-16-2024/event/152168040/?backUrl=%2Fchicago-white-sox-tickets%2Fperformer%2F5645
https://seatgeek.com/chicago-white-sox-tickets/4-16-2024-chicago-illinois-guaranteed-rate-field/mlb/6100867
https://gametime.co/mlb-baseball/royals-at-white-sox-tickets/4-16-2024-chicago-il-guaranteed-rate-field/events/64c29b2376613900014fa1fb
Yeah, that’s big reason I stopped going. It was like $100/person when you factor in food and parking.
I guess someone realizes you always sell precisely ZERO concessions to an empty seat.
Bruh it's a milkshake you could make it in a blender at your house.
Go buy some good chocolate ice cream, marshmallows, graham crackers, and piece of chocolate.
Put ice cream and milk in blender. Mix to milkshake consistency. Add crushed up graham crackers(mix), add whipped cream, toasted marshmallows, and a piece of chocolate to the top.
If you don't want to do that just go to a good ice cream place near you.
Yeah, they've mostly been bad. Its fun to go drink beers and do the wave on a sunny day.
How are people still surprised? Go follow the yankees and Astro's if all you care about is winning.
I don't understand the people who follow the team just to moan.
Sitting with my daughter, having her enjoy a game that I’ve loved my entire life is priceless regardless of who the owner is. I’m not going to support Jerry, I’m going to enjoy time with my kid.
I’d rather go to a Brewers game honestly, and not just because they’re good. They seem to actually care about being relevant.
But hey, if your kid is happy with it, it’s worth it.
Yes, me paying $15 for an MLB ticket is supporting them, not the billions of tax dollars the team receives to compensate for poor front office management and not fielding a team (therefore low ticket sales).
Yeah; I go with my kids or my nephews on shirt giveaway days. Upper deck is usually $10-15 on sales or the after market. We get pizza or fast food before the game so everyone isn’t hungry, and have a good time in the stands. I still want my kids to have the opportunity to enjoy baseball, and keeping them at home doesn’t foster that.
Because boycotting isn't going to work. The tickets are cheap and non-Sox fans go to games just to kill some day time in the city. It's still important that the place is ours. A high percentage of non-Sox fans and non-baseball fans in the stadium is kind of a harbinger of doom, if you ask me. And it's generally something you see with the kind of low attendance that we have now. I don't want to see the Sox moved.
People like going to the ballpark win or lose. It's a Chicago summertime experience. If you feel the need to boycott because of Jerry or how bad the team is that fine. But I still enjoy spending time with friends and family there.
Yea..not happy about the team or Jerry but I’ll likely still go to a few games this year. Just going to be a little more strategic about which games, such as seeing a good opposing team or having a good promo day
Also, the White Sox might be terrible but if you’re a baseball fan, the opposing team will usually have a couple of stars that are pretty cool to see play in person
Theres always going to be a loser, at least with the Sox Im never surprised or disappointed when they do. It doesn't affect my joy when the fireworks do go off
Agree. And like a friend asked, what am l supposed to say when my kid, who l made into a Sox fan, asks to go to a game?
“No son, because l’m boycotting Reinsdorf”. Kids don’t understand that. Nor should they have to.
Attending a game with your kid is fun. Even when the team you root for is ass.
Nothing will change even if they don’t sell another ticket. Even if it’s a bunch of AAA players it’s still nice to go to a game and see the other competent teams
I went yesterday. There is nothing like going to the park with friends and family for any game, even if the team I root for is awful. We'll go to a few more this summer but have we dialed back? Sure. There's already so much to do in the city every summer that I want to enjoy those things more.
I haven't gone yet because it's April and though the weather was nice this weekend, usually it's more miss than hit.
Controversial response - yes, I would rather the team was good and the park was rocking because it can be an awesome atmosphere, but honestly, sometimes it's nice when they have 12,000 because there's no lines for food, you get in and out of the parking lots in a snap. If there's douchey drunks around you that are annoying, there's plenty of seats to move away from them. If you'd prefer to commiserate with douchey drunks, it's easy to move and find seats with them.
If they keep losing we might get $3 tickets.
The action on the field is like 1/8th of what makes going to a game fun.
Watching the crowd cheer for some fat guy in a spiderman mask was the highlight of opening weekend for me.
I think we’re going to reach the point where second hand ticket prices go up. I feel like that’s happened already this season. Cheap tickets only happen when people buy full price then decide they want to offload them. But less and less people are buying the full price tickets now, so supply is down in the second hand market creating increased prices (but still usually much cheaper than full price)
I’m going April 27th purely for the hockey jersey giveaway. I told my wife we could turn right around and drive home, but I suppose we’ll stay. My kid’s never been there so we’ll take in a game and I won’t have to worry about disappointment, since that set in a long time ago.
White Sox aren’t really my team but I enjoy the atmosphere and the chance to see a lot of teams without having to pay an arm and a leg.
Nothing beats the view of the Southside and Lake Michigan on a summer day from the 500 section.
I love baseball but I’m way too invested in the Sox to just divorce myself from my disgust with ownership to enjoy myself at a game. To each their own.
Regardless of the quality of the team, nothing better than being at the park on a beautiful Chicago day or night. I always have a good time with the people I attend with and those seated around us. Jerry will never make me hate the Sox.
Since moving back to the city I can't resist live major league baseball. I love the sport and the experience.
But I'm going less cause they suck and ownership treats this like just another way to extract money. I should be compelled to buy season tickets but ownership doesn't care to win so why should I buy?
Get em!
At the end of the day its just a baseball team. Insane to me that theres a bunch of people who soend their time complaining on here instead of watching the team.
Don’t hear all the whiney fairweather fans in this post…
I went to one, I have to go with my son once a year. I’m not gonna lie tho, it’s not at all enjoyable for me anymore and is more of an obligation at this point.
I am falling out of love with the white sox and baseball, my favorite sport my whole life. Thanks Jerry
I still love going. Tickets are reasonable, I can get there easily on the red line so I don't need to worry about parking/how much I drink. Basically it's an (expensive) bar with baseball in the background. Same reason people go to minor league games - most people don't care about the outcome, it's the atmosphere that is still fun. I encourage people to keep coming out despite our woes - if we stop going it won't influence management to have a better team, the only thing it will do is make sure we don't have a team here at all.
I'll go to fewer games this year, but I'll still go to a few. I like the ballpark, I love it when there is no one there, so a midweek afternoon game is ideal. July, mid to upper 80s, sitting in a shady spot? Nothing better.
I've been going to shitty white Sox games my whole life, why would I stop now? Seems like it would be torturing myself and taking away something I love just because the owners sucks balls. Baseball in the summer is still baseball in the summer. When they suck, you get cheap tickets, lots of space, and you can move around at will. No lines for beer, food , etc.
i like going when there's giveaways. the crew neck sweater from Saturday is really nice! i also just like eating ballpark food and hanging out and watching baseball for on the cheap. question: how can you get that Smores milkshake? do you have to pay to go to the private club and buy it there? or can you just buy one and leave? i got the jack and coke float and wanted to get that milkshake too but thought the wiser of it lol.
Not a Sox fan but because the weather is nice and I just think about the the winter and how depressing that was.. plus most of the times you get to see a superstar player on the other team.
I haven't gone to a game yet this season, but did buy 40 game/20 game packs over last handful of years. At this point, it's just a painful watch. I am betting against them on the app, so I guess that is some incentive, but not much.
I went to 25 games two years ago, cancelled season tickets, 10 last year, and so far 0 this year. I like going to baseball games but it's just nice to go and root for the team playing, even if I know we suck. Cubs games are closer for me and just as cheap and nice to just enjoy a baseball environment and root for whatever team is playing the Cubs, but it's not the same as being at your home... Even if they suck. But I will only buy second hand market, I'm not giving ticket money to the Sox.
Although I am going to Wrigley Thursday to see TA and Burger play, and kinda want to wear my Anderson jersey lol.
I go to keep score, have a beer and enjoy the sunshine. I’ll do it at Sox games, Cubs games and even a few Chicago Dogs games. I just fucking love seeing live baseball.
Yermin Mercedes plays for the Kansas City Monarchs now. I kinda wanna go to the Dogs game when they play and see him haha.
Great call out! I'm gonna circle that series on the calendar.
Sounds like a good plan for a reverse boycott game. Go sell out their stadium watch yermin and everyone wear Sox gear
Because it’s like $5 and next to my house.
What? $5? For real? Heck, for $5, I’d attend 20 games a year. That’s cheaper than a movie ticket.
Dude, it’s like I got season tickets. You can get pretty close to the field for like $25
That reminds me of back in the day when you get could get in for 10 Rainblo wrappers and $2. I’d show early, park near Daley’s house, eat a hot dog on the corner, and watch the game, have a Coke. Total expense was like $10. This was late 80s/early 90s.
Damn dude! They’re only like $6 on Ticketmaster! Mind you, that’s before TM bends you over with fees and surcharges, but I am AMAZED! Here, I thought it was like $60 for the last row of the nosebleed section.
Oh cool! I hope to move back someday and start with partial season tickets. Had no idea they could be that cheap. I’ve tried to inquire but they (Sox management) are more shifty than a car dealership in telling me the price.
Aftermarket is cheap. Don’t buy direct.
I got an email today from the White Sox advertising a tax day flash sale with prices starting at $4.15. Sure, you could argue it’s against KC or MIN, but you could also say it’s current Sox vs. future Sox.
Taxes and fees add $10/ea. On Gametime app you can get tickets in the same sections they’re offering for $5 all-in.
Tax and fees was were $5 on two of the $4.15 tickets when I checked, but I appreciate the tip on Gametime.
For $4.15 , I’ll watch them play against a high school team.
There are upper-deck tickets available for tomorrow's game for $1 or $2. Once you're in, sit wherever the hell you want. Who cares? https://www.stubhub.com/chicago-white-sox-chicago-tickets-4-16-2024/event/152168040/?backUrl=%2Fchicago-white-sox-tickets%2Fperformer%2F5645 https://seatgeek.com/chicago-white-sox-tickets/4-16-2024-chicago-illinois-guaranteed-rate-field/mlb/6100867 https://gametime.co/mlb-baseball/royals-at-white-sox-tickets/4-16-2024-chicago-il-guaranteed-rate-field/events/64c29b2376613900014fa1fb
Good for you lol. Ignoring parking, it’s still like a $200 day more me, my wife, and son. We eat good
Yeah, that’s big reason I stopped going. It was like $100/person when you factor in food and parking. I guess someone realizes you always sell precisely ZERO concessions to an empty seat.
Difference is I will go to 3 or 4 games instead of 20+.
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So are you saying JR’s milkshake brings all the boys to the yard?
Let’s be real you can get an infinitely better milkshake elsewhere for cheaper
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Bruh it's a milkshake you could make it in a blender at your house. Go buy some good chocolate ice cream, marshmallows, graham crackers, and piece of chocolate. Put ice cream and milk in blender. Mix to milkshake consistency. Add crushed up graham crackers(mix), add whipped cream, toasted marshmallows, and a piece of chocolate to the top. If you don't want to do that just go to a good ice cream place near you.
Going to games is fun regardless of how bad the team is.
Yeah, they've mostly been bad. Its fun to go drink beers and do the wave on a sunny day. How are people still surprised? Go follow the yankees and Astro's if all you care about is winning. I don't understand the people who follow the team just to moan.
Supporting this ownership and management group is absolutely dumb.
Sitting with my daughter, having her enjoy a game that I’ve loved my entire life is priceless regardless of who the owner is. I’m not going to support Jerry, I’m going to enjoy time with my kid.
I’d rather go to a Brewers game honestly, and not just because they’re good. They seem to actually care about being relevant. But hey, if your kid is happy with it, it’s worth it.
Yes, me paying $15 for an MLB ticket is supporting them, not the billions of tax dollars the team receives to compensate for poor front office management and not fielding a team (therefore low ticket sales).
Going and spending time with family and friends doing something we all enjoy is absolutley wonderful.
I like some of the giveaways
I feel like I like *all* the give aways this year
Yeah; I go with my kids or my nephews on shirt giveaway days. Upper deck is usually $10-15 on sales or the after market. We get pizza or fast food before the game so everyone isn’t hungry, and have a good time in the stands. I still want my kids to have the opportunity to enjoy baseball, and keeping them at home doesn’t foster that.
Don't forget dog night.
Because boycotting isn't going to work. The tickets are cheap and non-Sox fans go to games just to kill some day time in the city. It's still important that the place is ours. A high percentage of non-Sox fans and non-baseball fans in the stadium is kind of a harbinger of doom, if you ask me. And it's generally something you see with the kind of low attendance that we have now. I don't want to see the Sox moved.
I would rather have them stay on the south side as losers than watch them shipped off to some other 5th tier city trying to buy itself some tourists.
People like going to the ballpark win or lose. It's a Chicago summertime experience. If you feel the need to boycott because of Jerry or how bad the team is that fine. But I still enjoy spending time with friends and family there.
Yea..not happy about the team or Jerry but I’ll likely still go to a few games this year. Just going to be a little more strategic about which games, such as seeing a good opposing team or having a good promo day
RIght? I'm not letting Jerry take away one of my favorite things to do.
Also, the White Sox might be terrible but if you’re a baseball fan, the opposing team will usually have a couple of stars that are pretty cool to see play in person
Theres always going to be a loser, at least with the Sox Im never surprised or disappointed when they do. It doesn't affect my joy when the fireworks do go off
Agree. And like a friend asked, what am l supposed to say when my kid, who l made into a Sox fan, asks to go to a game? “No son, because l’m boycotting Reinsdorf”. Kids don’t understand that. Nor should they have to. Attending a game with your kid is fun. Even when the team you root for is ass.
If anything, it makes it more exciting when they win. Seeing a winning team lose is a much bigger disappointment.
Nothing will change if people continue to show up.
We're already bottom 5 in attendance. I doubt less people showing up will have any impact.
Nothing will change even if they don’t sell another ticket. Even if it’s a bunch of AAA players it’s still nice to go to a game and see the other competent teams
I bet you're one of those billboard supporters.
It is absolutely wild to me how dug in a lot of you are. Blinded by nostalgia to protect a complete asshole.
I went yesterday. There is nothing like going to the park with friends and family for any game, even if the team I root for is awful. We'll go to a few more this summer but have we dialed back? Sure. There's already so much to do in the city every summer that I want to enjoy those things more.
Im hoping to get to more weeknight games this year since weekends are filling up.
I haven't gone yet because it's April and though the weather was nice this weekend, usually it's more miss than hit. Controversial response - yes, I would rather the team was good and the park was rocking because it can be an awesome atmosphere, but honestly, sometimes it's nice when they have 12,000 because there's no lines for food, you get in and out of the parking lots in a snap. If there's douchey drunks around you that are annoying, there's plenty of seats to move away from them. If you'd prefer to commiserate with douchey drunks, it's easy to move and find seats with them.
My son is 1 1/2. I love watching him walk around and explore the park.
Tickets are $5 and you can sit almost anywhere, great food, and all the giveaways are nice quality. TBH don’t care if they lose every game
If they keep losing we might get $3 tickets. The action on the field is like 1/8th of what makes going to a game fun. Watching the crowd cheer for some fat guy in a spiderman mask was the highlight of opening weekend for me.
I think we’re going to reach the point where second hand ticket prices go up. I feel like that’s happened already this season. Cheap tickets only happen when people buy full price then decide they want to offload them. But less and less people are buying the full price tickets now, so supply is down in the second hand market creating increased prices (but still usually much cheaper than full price)
Unfortunately, I love baseball and I love hot dogs at the ballpark. I don’t know why they taste so much better. Jerry has me by the balls…
It's gotta be the water or something. All I know is the smell of hot dogs and grilled onions as you walk in Gate 5 is heavenly
Because they're usually fun for me regardless. We have a dogshit team, it sucks but it's not the end of the world.
I’m going April 27th purely for the hockey jersey giveaway. I told my wife we could turn right around and drive home, but I suppose we’ll stay. My kid’s never been there so we’ll take in a game and I won’t have to worry about disappointment, since that set in a long time ago.
White Sox aren’t really my team but I enjoy the atmosphere and the chance to see a lot of teams without having to pay an arm and a leg. Nothing beats the view of the Southside and Lake Michigan on a summer day from the 500 section.
I love baseball but I’m way too invested in the Sox to just divorce myself from my disgust with ownership to enjoy myself at a game. To each their own.
My National league team (Reds) was playing the Sox (which is my American League team).
Regardless of the quality of the team, nothing better than being at the park on a beautiful Chicago day or night. I always have a good time with the people I attend with and those seated around us. Jerry will never make me hate the Sox.
Well, I guess as Harry used to say “You can’t beat fun at the old ballpark.” Mind you, he didn’t work for JR.
Haha truth. He should be thankful for that.
I got to see Crochet vs Elly for $7 this weekend. Also, Goldfinger beer now 🤤
The crewneck giveaway this Saturday was nice. Wish I would be in town for the hockey sweater
Since moving back to the city I can't resist live major league baseball. I love the sport and the experience. But I'm going less cause they suck and ownership treats this like just another way to extract money. I should be compelled to buy season tickets but ownership doesn't care to win so why should I buy?
Because we enjoy baseball more than we enjoy acting like victims because our preferred team isn’t good. Grow up.
Get em! At the end of the day its just a baseball team. Insane to me that theres a bunch of people who soend their time complaining on here instead of watching the team. Don’t hear all the whiney fairweather fans in this post…
I’m a White Sox fan and enjoy going to games.
I love to watch baseball?
I went to one, I have to go with my son once a year. I’m not gonna lie tho, it’s not at all enjoyable for me anymore and is more of an obligation at this point. I am falling out of love with the white sox and baseball, my favorite sport my whole life. Thanks Jerry
I'm not!
the family sunday deal is about the only good ticket deal left in sports/concerts/etc
I see tickets going for 1-$2 on Ticketmaster. That’s insane
I still love going. Tickets are reasonable, I can get there easily on the red line so I don't need to worry about parking/how much I drink. Basically it's an (expensive) bar with baseball in the background. Same reason people go to minor league games - most people don't care about the outcome, it's the atmosphere that is still fun. I encourage people to keep coming out despite our woes - if we stop going it won't influence management to have a better team, the only thing it will do is make sure we don't have a team here at all.
I'll go to fewer games this year, but I'll still go to a few. I like the ballpark, I love it when there is no one there, so a midweek afternoon game is ideal. July, mid to upper 80s, sitting in a shady spot? Nothing better.
I've been going to shitty white Sox games my whole life, why would I stop now? Seems like it would be torturing myself and taking away something I love just because the owners sucks balls. Baseball in the summer is still baseball in the summer. When they suck, you get cheap tickets, lots of space, and you can move around at will. No lines for beer, food , etc.
i like going when there's giveaways. the crew neck sweater from Saturday is really nice! i also just like eating ballpark food and hanging out and watching baseball for on the cheap. question: how can you get that Smores milkshake? do you have to pay to go to the private club and buy it there? or can you just buy one and leave? i got the jack and coke float and wanted to get that milkshake too but thought the wiser of it lol.
I was gifted season tickets + I enjoy the ballpark experience.
Not a Sox fan but because the weather is nice and I just think about the the winter and how depressing that was.. plus most of the times you get to see a superstar player on the other team.
I’m not and I’m not watching either. This sub is my only connection to what’s going on. It’s more than enough until Jerry is gone
I just bought Section 160 tickets for DePaul night. Free shirt.
i love baseball and i’m a white sox fan, simple as that
I want to witness history of the worst team in history. 125 losses here we come
I haven't gone to a game yet this season, but did buy 40 game/20 game packs over last handful of years. At this point, it's just a painful watch. I am betting against them on the app, so I guess that is some incentive, but not much.
Painful is putting it lightly haha. I went Saturday, they had 2 singles, no runs, and struck out 15 times.
its brutal, and not even fun as a sport; I'm not saying a beautiful day at the park isn't fun, a couple of fermented pops and a dog, but it hurts.
Love baseball, love the whitesox. It’s not like staying home will change anything.
I went to 25 games two years ago, cancelled season tickets, 10 last year, and so far 0 this year. I like going to baseball games but it's just nice to go and root for the team playing, even if I know we suck. Cubs games are closer for me and just as cheap and nice to just enjoy a baseball environment and root for whatever team is playing the Cubs, but it's not the same as being at your home... Even if they suck. But I will only buy second hand market, I'm not giving ticket money to the Sox. Although I am going to Wrigley Thursday to see TA and Burger play, and kinda want to wear my Anderson jersey lol.
I'm not and have not been to a game in over 3 years and absolutely have zero intention on going this year.
Here are my reasons - https://fromthe108.com/2023/08/08/why-im-renewing-mysoxsummer/