As a marketing director, do you feel good about yourself when you rip off other teams ideas? or come up with something like Southpaw? or the lightest marketing achievement of losing Bacardi as a sponsor, then not being able to find one and calling it ChiSox Bar and Grill. You couldn't even work a deal with your buddies at Gibson's to call it Gibsons at the Park? and they provide the food.

While it can be sponsored to make more $$$, so can an ATV hauling a platform of hot chicks shooting T shirts into stands, or a simple target toss game for fans between innings.

Oh, I forgot, Hawk, DJ, Stone and Farmer are beloved symbols of White Sox baseball and sell the brand. That will be Rick Hahns next mess he has to clean up. Sox are lucky Hahn wanted to live in Chicago and stayed here. I am guessing it is the fond memories of the numerous Sock Ball games played as a youth in Wilmette.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

I kind of like this... and I think they are more self-aware of the make-funability factor than some would have you believe. I'm not reallya fan of mascots-- any of them,but these are the same people that brought you Benny the Bull, and he's been pretty good for some fun-bad oh shit moments.

Didn't he drunkenly run over some people at the Taste a few years ago?

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100% wrong, there are totally unaware of it. if they were ever aware of things, they would have media people that are good...or at very least that like each other. The humor is in the fact that they want people to like their radio and TV people, but the radio and TV guys don't like other. Even worse for them is that the TV guys, who get way more exposure than the radio crew, really don't like each other. I am sure some will have some other version of this, but reported and factually speaking the owner has had to meet with them each 2 times now about working together. I think it is the ultimate case of 'Jerry likes them, so you will like them'.

And to say they are the same people who brought you Benny the Bull, wrong again. Benny the Bull has been a Mascot since, at the very least the 70's, since before Reinsdorf owned the team.

It's not that it is a bad idea, it was someone elses good idea that the Sox took down a notch and yet continue to try and sell their product with terrible salespeople.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Wasn't Pat Williams the guy behind Benny the Bull? B&B have him on every year or two.

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This will be the only race going on at the Cell this summer.

Yes, but I am going to say a number of people don't remember the original Benny. There was even a time the Bulls had old Benny and Evil looking Benny running around.

When I was a yute, Parents took me to Bulls game because nobody went and they probably got the tickets for free.

The real mascot though was "SUPER FAN"

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

You are so full of shit. You don't know this to be 100% true. Only way you know this is if you actually work in the Sox marketing department, but since you posted that you were "RETIRED" that cannot be the case.

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Are jean skirts on male announcers as bad as no pants on a bear?

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Kenny Williams fell for the banana in the tailpipe

Give us more of your infinite wisdom please, Mr. Tutone.

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Did they race today? or do they even race?

I wasn't paying the utmost attention to the game, but I would think a marketing genius like Brooks would make sure the races are on TV?

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

I haven't watched much of either game either, so not sure if they showed it.

I would guess Hawk doesn't like it, thus he told Boyer, "We're not showing this shit on TV." He probably also told him that the Hawk has to have the winning record at the end of the year.

Since when is Stone taller than Hawk?

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"It's not exactly a rocket surgery." D.J.

Even though it is a rip off, it works. I know fans will like it, if it is on TV. Could have just missed it.

You can ask why they had to be penis shaped? You could have just made a likeness of Hawk, DJ, etc. In Milwaukee they are sausages, thus the tube formation.

Not sure why the Sox did the same shape as a sausage?

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

The marketing department is subliminally trying to message that the announcers are dicks.

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"It's not exactly a rocket surgery." D.J.

nothing subliminal there at all.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Has spmack read this section over the last few days? I just want to make sure he sees how much Cubs fans don't care about the Sox....

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I care about the Sox. I want to see them win the World Series. I have made that very clear.

But more important did they run the announcing sausages yet on TV?

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

If they race and no one is there to see it, is it still a race?

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Yes, but looking to see if it has been on TV.

They always show the races when the Cub play the Brewer

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

I think they only race if more than 20k show up.
Tomorrow morning Coop is gonna be on Hanley and Roz to tell fans they need to show up to justify the expense of buying the new announcer/sausage/dildo costumes.

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What's the next thing the Sox rip off from another team? You think they will have Paulie slide down into a tub full of beer after a White Sox homers?

They're gonna have a "rally orangutan" for the playoff run this year.



Or an actual green monster in place of the real green monster in Boston.


Wait.......

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Its a good thing the Cubs never rip off other teams. They were, after all, the first ones in town to come up with a restaurant/bar in the park, a party area in center field, a mascot....oh wait.....

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I don't think the Brewers show every sausage race. Sometimes they'll show a clip of it coming out of a break.

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The idea that the White Sox mascot is stolen from a literal wall in Boston is one of the most hilariously awful connections I've ever heard.

Did the Cubs steal Clark The Cub from Superman or the candy bar?

If anything, it is a take on the Philly Phanatic since it was the same design company that did the predecessors.
http://www.southsidesox.com/2013/3/16/4106198/white-sox-history-the-sad-story-of-ribbie-and-roobarb

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

The idea that you thought I was serious is...well, not really that hilarious but yet still awful.

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You've mentioned it before I believe.

Glad to know you are joking.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I don't believe I have.

Glad to know you think my posts are memorable!

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I don't think Southpaw is a ripoff of any one mascot. It's just an attempt to have a Pansexual Non-Threatening Spokesthing like other teams. He's more of a pastiche than anything.

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