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    There's more access to the Sox now, but access to the Cubs is still much more widely available. Despite the MLB-mandated cutbacks, the Cubs and Braves still have more games on free/basic TV than anyone else, by a wide margin. The few Sox games that go national on WGN are so horribly done that they're actually like anti-infomercials for your franchise. See the Cardinals example. That empire was built on AM radio over 50 years ago, and their outposts are still standing for the most part. We'll all be long since dead and gone before things "even out" between the Cubs and Sox. The Cubs' domination over the Sox within the greater midwest alone is enought to sustain the situation for decades. The Mets seemingly owned New York in the late 1980s, but they always were the second-class franchise there. A Sox run like you described would undoubtedly prove profitable for Jerry, but it wouldn't make millions of Cub fans up and vanish.
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    Not gonna read it.
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    Hawk's numbers are what they are, maybe not HoF-worthy, but overall he's plenty amazing in my book. I think his career has to be looked at with his character, fire and pain threshold taken into account. Stuff like the blank check, the time he threw the bat rack at the Reds and the fact he did what he did on 85-year-old knees won't show up on baseball-reference, but it's all part of the reason people liked him so much. Shawon was one of Dusty's boys in the end ...
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    Yes. And Dawson was awesome. You had to be there.
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    I didn't. I said die-hards. Real fans. Whatever you want to call them. If the Cubs played in US Cellular, and had the pathetic marketing the Sox have had (admittedly), they'd be in the same situation as the Sox are. If you consider fans that are only fans because of the bar-like atmosphere, or because of national marketing for decades... do you honestly consider them real fans? I am not saying you should dislike them, but at least realize there is a distinction. Dude, there are probably more die-hard Cub fans in Iowa who have never set foot in Wrigley then there are die-hard Sox fans in the entirety of the other 49 states besides Illinois. The White Sox will likely never lay claim to a national fanbase like the Cubs, Cardinals, Yankees or Red Sox. I don't think you're grasping the scope of the Cubs' reach ... so many people in so many places live and die with this ballclub, and they know nothing of the "bar-like atmosphere." Why do you think long-distance fans aren't "real?"
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    I like them, I just wish they'd went all the way and banished the red trim too.
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    Good post. Plenty of today's players could stand to hear Ryno's speech, but then, so could many of his contemporaries. He's talking about the "Phillie Way," the principles drilled into him as a youngster in the Philadelphia system.
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    Thanks, man.
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    That's the most ridiculous thing I've seen posted here in a long, long time. But you see, Wrigleyville won't be a ghetto so long as the Cubs continue to draw with any level of decency. The area has been on the up and up ever since Wrigley became a hotspot in the 1980s - despite many rotten seasons in the interim - and the Tribune is taking steps to make sure it stays a hotspot. You'll see the Sox rebuild their upper deck at least five more times before anyone in Wrigleyville sees burned-out crackhouses, that's for sure. That's fine. Just don't pretend the Sox' fanbase can in any way compare with the Cubs'.
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    It's not that I'm trusting - I just don't care. The players themselves will have to deal with the consequences of using these drugs. I'm just there for the show. Besides, if getting to hit off of LaTroy Hawkins isn't an illegal advantage I don't know what one is.
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    BSG. I'm a diehard TPIR fan. The only place in league with Wrigley on my personal reverence scale is Studio 33 in CBS Television City.
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    For that, the "I've been Freyed and Zimmered" shirts, and all the times he banged Ryno's wife. Burn Raffy, burn.
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    This isn't a Cubs vs. Sox issue. It's no secret that Cub games have routinely crushed the Sox' ratings in recent years, both locally and especially nationwide. The Cubs' broadcast partner - CSN, formerly FSN - wants certain games for its audience, and negotiates for claims on certain dates well in advance of the season. (For instance, WGN has first choice and usually claims the Wrigley opener, leaving the season opener to the regional sports network.) WGN is then left with several open dates that scream for a ballgame, and throws the Sox up there. I'd prefer Bozo reruns, but that's not the point. There are so many ways to access Cubs TV feeds these days ... it seems silly to gripe about games on/off of WGN. I think the fanbase would be better served by a full slate on WGN, but MLB would never allow such. The other owners weren't too thrilled about 300 free Cubs and Braves games streaming into their markets every year.
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    Word was that O'Brien wanted the suitors' top two prospects in exhange for Dunn. Maybe that's justified, maybe not - I just can't believe they did nothing. A couple of their surplus sluggers should have netted a talent windfall given the tight market. No one wants to see the Reds as it is. Everyone around here knows the ownership is terrible, and sees no sign of a coherent plan for success. If they had any sense they'd blow the whole thing up and rebuild a new Red Machine from within. All the tools - ballpark, market, tradition - are in place in Cincinnati. They'd be dangerous if they only had a brain.
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    It's on now. Skinny guys, Bowa playing with Aviators on, NO ONE on the roofs ... so much has changed. I wish Costas still had a baseball job.
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    Read "Second to Home." Sandberg apparently despised the Sosa/Himes tandem. The speech is waiting in the TiVo for me. I'll watch it on the off-day.
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    No doubt, I just found it unnecessary for Gammons and the BBTN crew to get a chuckle out of dismissing it.
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    ?? What did he say? He was talking about how he felt about making his speech and whatnot, and not being in the mix. He said he was assured that Manny wouldn't be moved - and therefore assured that "nothing of significance" would happen, since neither Boston or the Yankees would be making big moves. He then said he wasn't all that broken up about missing that "Lawton for Garut blockbuster." Sure, it wasn't an earth-shattering move, but it just continued his tradition of marginalizing everything to do with midwestern baseball.
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    Gammons just pissed all over the deal. Kinda unnecessary.
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    I'm pleased with Lawton. I'm mocking the Reds. I can't believe those losers didn't do anything.
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    They better keep him out of Buckhead ...
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    Why not? I'm on the verge of wanting a deal just for the sake of a deal at this point.
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    Cincinnati's ownership and front office are the only things worse than their pitching.
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    The regulars don't bother me ... it's the trolls that I hate.
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