The Cubs jumbotron is a blight on the neighborhood and a total money grab. They should be ashamed of themselves.

Buuuuuuuuuuut, if they can do it, why can't we!?! And get the taxpayers to pay for it!

The White Sox plan to unveil an array of new digital boards this spring -- including a massive primary board in center field complete with digital pinwheels. The new video board vaults the Sox from second to last in terms of size (the old boad was 1,484 square feet and was installed in 2003), to No. 7, with a size of around 8,000 square feet. For comparison the left field board installed by the Cubs last year is nearly 4,000 square feet.

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“When I showed a video to one of our players it was, ‘Hey, look, a big-league ballpark,’” White Sox senior vice president of sales and marketing Brooks Boyer said. “We’re going from one of the smallest boards in baseball to one of the best.”

One of the five biggest in baseball, in Boyer’s estimation.

According to Lou Bertuca, CEO and executive director of the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority, the project cost around $7.3 million and includes a pair of 2,400-square foot boards flanking the main attraction. ISFA a government entity and is the owner and developer of U.S. Cellular Field and funded the recent renovations to Soldier Field.

Bertuca said the U.S. Cellular Field project, which originally was budgeted for $11.4 million, was paid for through a capital construction fund, which is funded in part by the rent the White Sox pay and a 2 percent levy on city hotels.

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