It's understandable, but that doesn't make it any less shameless.

Did ESPN 1000 do that when they had the Sox?

dont know, dont think so.

Plus, fact is does it really help when a radio guy tells u to go because you just should?

I don't think it helps at all.

Now let's go through all the reasons why people don't go to watch the White Sox

- Can't justify the expense
- Lives are too busy
- Its too cold out
- Its too hot out
- Too many drunks at the ballpark
- Too drunk to make it to the ballpark
- Prefer to watch it on TV
- Baseball is boring in person
- Afraid of being mugged outside the ballpark
- Afraid of being mugged inside the ballpark

Have I covered them all?

Now let's go through all the reasons why people don't go to watch the White Sox

- Can't justify the expense
- Lives are too busy
- Its too cold out
- Its too hot out
- Too many drunks at the ballpark
- Too drunk to make it to the ballpark
- Prefer to watch it on TV
- Baseball is boring in person
- Afraid of being mugged outside the ballpark
- Afraid of being mugged inside the ballpark

Have I covered them all?

or perhaps...

Its a small fan base in a city with another pretty popular team.

Next you are going to tell me that the constant apperances by Northwestern coaches and administrators is not a directive from management!

Now let's go through all the reasons why people don't go to watch the White Sox

- Can't justify the expense
- Lives are too busy
- Its too cold out
- Its too hot out
- Too many drunks at the ballpark
- Too drunk to make it to the ballpark
- Prefer to watch it on TV
- Baseball is boring in person
- Afraid of being mugged outside the ballpark
- Afraid of being mugged inside the ballpark

Have I covered them all?

Well, I'm not sure how popular that other team is. The Sox sold out opening day. One of your fellow Cubs fans is suggesting the "popular" team won't sell out theirs.

Wouldn't hosts urging you to go to the park be similar to them telling you to listen to B&B at 1, or Holmes at 6, and so on? It just seems like standard pro-company talk. That doesn't mean we have to like it, but I am wondering if it's just ordinary business/sales practice.

Next you are going to tell me that the constant apperances by Northwestern coaches and administrators is not a directive from management!

It's pretty shameless, but people probably should go to more games so I get it.

Wouldn't hosts urging you to go to the park be similar to them telling you to listen to B&B at 1, or Holmes at 6, and so on? It just seems like standard pro-company talk. That doesn't mean we have to like it, but I am wondering if it's just ordinary business/sales practice.

Wouldn't hosts urging you to go to the park be similar to them telling you to listen to B&B at 1, or Holmes at 6, and so on?

This Friday, come to MacO'Mulliguddyhan's for another Bud Light Who Needs Two Tavern Tour with Dan Bernstein, and filling in for Terry Boers, Laurence Holmes! Be there at the corner of 115th and Garfield in the ChicaGoff neighborhood! And if you're not there, come on, let's be honest about why you're not. Is it too expensive to go all the way to 115th Street? With those scary blacks? Could having a host named BERNSTEIN have anything to do with it? Say what you really mean, Chicago sports fans! Stop making excuses! Bud Light: HERE WE GO!

Eliminating one of the stupidest stadium rules in baseball would help. Can't let the peasants in the upper deck mingle with the slightly wealthier peasants.

It would if the Score didn't, whenever called on it, swear up and down that they have no relationship with the White Sox beyond carrying their games and that their regular programming has complete editorial independence from the White Sox. Thus, we are to believe that either the various Score personalities have independently arrived at the conclusion that White Sox attendance is mandatory and we must put aside our hatred of driving, parking, blacks, and Jews to spend money we may not have, or that someone is telling the hosts to say something about getting people to the games and that their purported editorial independence is a load of shit. So which is it?

Now if they told us to listen to B&B in a way that is similar to how they tell us to go to Comiskey, now that's A Thing!

Eliminating one of the stupidest stadium rules in baseball would help. Can't let the peasants in the upper deck mingle with the slightly wealthier peasants.

I think thats a very underrated reason why they have issues

I cant tell you how many times I was invited to Sox games with the pitch "Well just buy the 8$ seats and hang out on the concourse"

Sorry, JerrBear, but watching at home on tv is just way better than that Upper deck.

I almost never sit in my seats. If they had a standing room season ticket on the 100 level at say, $20-25 a game, I'd buy the whole season instead of the 30 or so I buy now. But they probably wouldn't do something like that when they have so many empty seats.

I do think the whole "different levels" thing hurts a team like the Sox, who- even though it isn't really true- likes to promotes themselves as a "blue collar team, Chicago tough". Then you treat the guy on the concourse like a fucking criminal and shut off his beer early while the CEO in the skybox can drink Scotch and sodas until after the last pitch.

The best part of being in a box is drinking the booze until the whole park is empty and the staff has to finally kick you out after several warnings.

I almost never sit in my seats. If they had a standing room season ticket on the 100 level at say, $20-25 a game, I'd buy the whole season instead of the 30 or so I buy now. But they probably wouldn't do something like that when they have so many empty seats.

While they're begging me to attend more games so I can be treated like a Ligue.