I wish I were on Twitter....been journalling about Old Comiskey lately.....

goddamn fucking jew owner robbed generations of sox fans of this experience and may he rot in hell forever as punishment.

You are weird. Comiskey needed to be replaced.

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with a giant slab of concrete?

I sure like the way the park looks today. It's beautiful.

Comiskey was pretty great, though....apart from the bad sightlines.

First MLB game I attended in person was there. Sox vs. Tigers. Chet Lemon and Carlton Fisk hit homers

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1st game for me also. 1978 against the Indians. I have the ticket stub somewhere

Sox and Tribe in '78? That's a rough game.....

Don't miss it. New Comiskey as it stands today is worlds better.

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Except for 2/3rds of 1977, they all were in the seventies.

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Right?

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He's too young to know that.

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Couldn't they have renovated Comiskey instead of demolishing it.

The new park is the big box store of athletic venues. Antiseptic atrocity.

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I think it was too far gone and would've taken multiple years to renovate. Plus Jerry wanted his skyboxes.

The park as it is now is fine.

It was built a year too early.

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My memories

1. The smell of pot. Didn't know what that smell was at the time. Asked my Dad, he said he didn't know.

2. Lots of drunk people.

3. Fights.

4. Andy the Clown in a dirty ass stained costume giving me candy.

5. Carlton Fisk always being an ass hole to us kids when we begged him for an autograph.

6. Seeing a Frank Thomas home run in his rookie year. His 7th of his career. Yeah, I remember it was his 7th.

7. Bad Sox teams. Except for 1990. I loved that team. That team won 94 games and lost to the A's by 9 games. That was when you only had two divisions and no Wild Card teams.

Also my memory of my first board outing.

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My all-time favorite sports team--by far--right there.

Absolutely nothing tops 2005.

Those guys are second though.

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I think for me it being the last year at Comiskey added into it, as well as the feeling that Something Big was beginning and the sheer unexpectedness of their sometimes brilliant play. I remember 1990 so much more clearly. I was also working about a mile and half down the road, so I used to head over a lot.

Sad.

Comiskey was the best. Never going to that new shitbox. Old place had great seats in upper deck as in close to fucking field. What a great concept. Seats near the field.
Sightlines meme is bullshit. Don't sit there.

And other crimes against fans...

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The team that always played good defense. 2nd favorite.

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In 1981 I watched the Karl-Heinz Granitza led Sting play at Comiskey with nearly 40,000 fans. It was great. Funny how I have no interest in The Fire.

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I can still hear Al Lerner losing it on the Saturday night they won the NASL title.

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My first MLB game as well. Saw Ivan Calderon hit a home run and Gary Redus hit a grand slam to win the game. I was hooked as a White Sox fan from that moment onward. I remember being sad to see it go at the time, but the only thing that park offered that the the new one doesn't is nostalgia.

Great names in this thread. Al Lerner, Ivan Calderon. Those Sox uniforms in 1990 sucked but that was a fun team.

Question - when they move into a new yard and tear down the current stadium, will it suddenly be fondly remembered? Usually happens like that. For example, the last Yankee Stadium everyone hated, said it wasn't the same as the original one. Then when the built the new current one and tore down the 'middle' one, suddenly it was a great stadium with great memories. Everyone forgot how people complained about it.

First game was there, too—they gave free tickets at my school,for good grades or attendance. Also smelled pot for the first time there. Ralph Garr was in left field. I think George Orta was also on that team, but I could be wrong.

Also went to the last game at the park—it was pretty cool when the players walked around the warning track after the game. “Years from now, you’ll say you were there.”

Got my first ever autograph from Vance Law. Was so awesome.

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1993 was my favorite.

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Can't compare new Comiskey to the old Yankee Stadium; sure they changed the exterior and the outfield dimensions, but the bones of the place built in 1923 still remained. Greats like Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle, etc. played there. New Comiskey has none of that history or charm. Nice place to bring the family and watch a game, but no attachments to it. Hopefully when they learned their lesson in focusing on charm and uniqueness over a corporate environment when they decide to build a new stadium.

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I remember playing De Lasalle literally in the shadows of the stadium in Armor Park. It added a cool dimension to playing them.

It seemed that every game I ever went to there was an old guy smoking a cigar, drinking a beer and keeping score next to our family.

It was torn down while I was still in my youth so I never went to a game on my own. My parents would never pay for stadium food. My mom would pack bagel sandwiches and maybe buy us a soda to share. Soda was served in a paper cup with some cartoon drawing on it. It had some flimsy, clear plastic film to cover it from debris falling in or drink spilling. You had to drink it fairly quickly because the cup would start to become saturated and get mushy.

The crowd seemed rough for me as a little kid. Fights were an almost daily occurrence. It also seemed that a fan would run onto the field every game and get absolutely pummeled in full view of everyone by off duty cops working security.

I distinctly remember going to a game against the Tigers. It was chippy throughout and the crowd was turning ugly. Ed Farmer came in to relieve and hit a batter. A brawl started...a real brawl. I can still picture seeing Farmer being helped off the field by a trainer holding a bloody towel up to his face. We would never leave games early. We left that one early as it was the anger was palpable.

I remember the South Side Hit Men t shirts people used to wear. I had no idea what it meant

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