White Sox to start games at 7:11

[SouthSideRyan]

The Sox fan stereotype is right to an extent. There are a lot of ignorant south side hillbillies. The best part is you get the rich people in the south suburbs and they carry the same air of superiority that the north siders do. It's just the best of 2 obnoxious worlds!!!

[Soriano12]

The best part is you get the rich people in the south suburbs and they carry the same air of superiority that the north siders do.

 

:lol: Tinley Park residents crack me up!

[J.R.]

Regardless of it being a few minutes, they're changing the start time of the games to accommodate a sponsor. That's it. There is no inherent benefit to the fans for this change.

 

I understand that baseball is a business and that it's all about making money, but the game itself shouldn't be changed. That's why it's ridiculous.

 

The game itself has not been changed. It's ridiculous to suggest it has. They don't require 7 outs or 11 strikes. The game is the same, the start time changed. Big deal. Why does there have to be a benefit to fans to justify any change? It's not like it's harmful in any way.

 

I know what you say, but I still think it feels added on, cheap, and tacky.

 

Kinda like their whole damned organization.

[PrimeTime]

The best part is you get the rich people in the south suburbs and they carry the same air of superiority that the north siders do.

 

:lol: Tinley Park residents crack me up!

 

 

Haha..Im from Tinley Park...I must say, I find the rich sox fans down here alot different from the northsiders..Everytime I go to the northside I have a blast, the people are alot more friendly and easier to get along with..Way more laid back...As for out here, everyone pretty much thinks they are Gods gift to women,very cocky and way to overconfident, no manners,just completely ignorant and almost all of them use mommy and daddys money to buy or get anything...Figures theyre Sox fans... But they are alot different than the upper class Northsiders...Also I dont know about up there, but down here every guy seems to 'roidin up lately, and the shaggy hair and popped collars are huge over here...I jsut laugh when I see it..It looks so stupid...Anyways its tough bein a Cubs fan around here, theres always a few,but the " rich" Sox fans are just as trashy and ignorant as the other hillbillies

[cjbucks]

My personal favorite is the 5th 3rd Bank 5th inning. Say that 5 times fast.

[Post Count Padder]

I, for one, am getting quite sick and tired of "subtle and new" ways of promoting.

 

Is nothing sacred anymore? You have stadiums named after corporations, parts of stadiums named after corporations, naming rights for highlights, innings (the Fifth Third bank sponsors every 5th inning on WGN radio), and countless other things. Enough is enough.

 

I would not be shocked to see team naming rights sold off in my lifetime. I could take my furture children to a game to see the Cubs play the Pittsburgh Pepsi's. Would that be ok then? Would people say "Oh, well they're just trying to make some money, so it's ok in the long run."

 

There are some things you just don't do.

It's unfortunately already been done. In the MLS the NY/NJ Metros became the Red Bulls, named after the drink.

[cjbucks]

I have a cousin that lives in Korea - apparently this is common practice there to name teams after businesses.

 

http://lifeandseoul.blogspot.com/

[Sammy Sofa]

Is nothing sacred anymore? You have stadiums named after corporations, parts of stadiums named after corporations, naming rights for highlights, innings (the Fifth Third bank sponsors every 5th inning on WGN radio), and countless other things. Enough is enough.

 

It's a dead horse, but as long as our team keeps playing at WRIGLEY Field, this type of complaining comes off a bit ridiculous. Pretty much since the beginning, baseball fields have been field with signs advertising commercial products. Baseball and advertising go waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back. I actually think naming parts of the stadium or the innings, etc. is actually LESS intrusive than most of the advertising baseball has been a part of and invited in over the last 100+ years.

[C.C.]

I think it's a great idea. Right after the game the Sox fans can go rob a 7/11 as a family night theme.

This is why I said the Sox were a joke earlier. If you were going to pick one baseball team to have a 7-Eleven tie in, it would've been them. Truth is stranger than fiction.

 

:ranton:

 

The whole Sox-fan theme with the fans committing crimes is a bit over the top IMO. Most of those Sox fans like the other teams in the city that Cubs fans do. I just think it's pretty funny how people say that Sox fans "rob convenience stores" and yet during basketball season, the Bulls have a phrase saying "Welcome to the United Center, home of the world's greatest fans!" I guess those people stealing beer in a convenience store and "beating their wives" are great fans in the winter, but not in the summer.

 

I understand hating the Sox for the crosstown reason, but to criticize a fanbase on a pointless stereotype which bashes Chicagoans as a whole, is unncessary.

:rantoff:

 

Then you must not know many Sox fans because the ones I know sterotype Cubs fans as "[expletive]'s" or "go to baseball games among the gays. "Or "Cubs fans don't watch the games."

 

Sorry I don't feel the least bit sorry for the sterotypical way Sox fans are portrayed. For me it never gets old and always good for a laugh.

[Andy]

Is nothing sacred anymore? You have stadiums named after corporations, parts of stadiums named after corporations, naming rights for highlights, innings (the Fifth Third bank sponsors every 5th inning on WGN radio), and countless other things. Enough is enough.

 

It's a dead horse, but as long as our team keeps playing at WRIGLEY Field, this type of complaining comes off a bit ridiculous. Pretty much since the beginning, baseball fields have been field with signs advertising commercial products. Baseball and advertising go waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back. I actually think naming parts of the stadium or the innings, etc. is actually LESS intrusive than most of the advertising baseball has been a part of and invited in over the last 100+ years.

Wrigley Field is named for the former owners of the franchise, not for the gum. It just happens that the former owners also owned the gum company.

[Sammy Sofa]

Is nothing sacred anymore? You have stadiums named after corporations, parts of stadiums named after corporations, naming rights for highlights, innings (the Fifth Third bank sponsors every 5th inning on WGN radio), and countless other things. Enough is enough.

 

It's a dead horse, but as long as our team keeps playing at WRIGLEY Field, this type of complaining comes off a bit ridiculous. Pretty much since the beginning, baseball fields have been field with signs advertising commercial products. Baseball and advertising go waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back. I actually think naming parts of the stadium or the innings, etc. is actually LESS intrusive than most of the advertising baseball has been a part of and invited in over the last 100+ years.

Wrigley Field is named for the former owners of the franchise, not for the gum. It just happens that the former owners also owned the gum company.

 

It's pretty hard to seperate Wrigley the man from Wrigley the gum/company, especially when the stadium was renamed. They can say all they want...old man Wrigley was no dummy. If he didn't know that name on the stadium wouldn't be a huge source of advertising, he wouldn't have been as rich as he was. Officially, it's named after the man. Unofficially, well, the guy also named his gum after himself, too. The Wrigley name was a huge product in and of itself back then. It's not like he was dead at that point and they were naming it in his honor. Hell, the place was known as "Cubs Park" before Wrigley slapped his brand on it...what was wrong with that? Or transferring over the old "West Side Park" name? It's a bit of a cheat to let companies that use a family name off the hook just because it is a family name.

 

Besides, I'll still stick with the rest of my post, too. Baseball and advertising all over the fields and stadiums have gone together practically since when professional baseball was first started. I simply don't understand how sponsoring a section or inning or stadium is somehow more intrusive than the ads in the stadium and around the field, something that has been around almost from the beginning!

[erik316wttn]

Is nothing sacred anymore? You have stadiums named after corporations, parts of stadiums named after corporations, naming rights for highlights, innings (the Fifth Third bank sponsors every 5th inning on WGN radio), and countless other things. Enough is enough.

 

It's a dead horse, but as long as our team keeps playing at WRIGLEY Field, this type of complaining comes off a bit ridiculous. Pretty much since the beginning, baseball fields have been field with signs advertising commercial products. Baseball and advertising go waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back. I actually think naming parts of the stadium or the innings, etc. is actually LESS intrusive than most of the advertising baseball has been a part of and invited in over the last 100+ years.

Wrigley Field is named for the former owners of the franchise, not for the gum. It just happens that the former owners also owned the gum company.

 

It's pretty hard to seperate Wrigley the man from Wrigley the gum/company, especially when the stadium was renamed. They can say all they want...old man Wrigley was no dummy. If he didn't know that name on the stadium wouldn't be a huge source of advertising, he wouldn't have been as rich as he was. Officially, it's named after the man. Unofficially, well, the guy also named his gum after himself, too. The Wrigley name was a huge product in and of itself back then. It's not like he was dead at that point and they were naming it in his honor. Hell, the place was known as "Cubs Park" before Wrigley slapped his brand on it...what was wrong with that? Or transferring over the old "West Side Park" name? It's a bit of a cheat to let companies that use a family name off the hook just because it is a family name.

 

Besides, I'll still stick with the rest of my post, too. Baseball and advertising all over the fields and stadiums have gone together practically since when professional baseball was first started. I simply don't understand how sponsoring a section or inning or stadium is somehow more intrusive than the ads in the stadium and around the field, something that has been around almost from the beginning!

 

I don't like it, but I can accept stadium naming and section of stadium naming and ads on the walls (as much as I hate them). But advertising is a forever escalating game. Everyone has to be the next trendsetter. I will bet EVERY penny I will ever make in my lifetime that within the next 20 years ads will show up on uniforms. I know they rejected that idea several years ago, but it'll be back.

 

And I stick by my franchise naming idea. I could very easily see a massive corporation buying a struggling franchise like the Royals or Devil Rays and naming them after themselves or one of their subsidiaries. It'll happen one day.

 

My prior question about nothing being sacred anymore was rhetorical. Nothing is sacred anymore, and the very few things that are won't be for long.

 

The bottom line is, as long as there is money to be made, it'll be done.