Glendale, Ariz. – Dialon ceasefire and Michael Copeek will probably not be when White Sox opened its proposed South Loop Ballpark from now.
Seas business has been the theme of rumors, all offsen Kopec will be a free agent after 2025, and even if he removes it, Sox is not known to hand over a long -term extension to his early pitcher, as Carlos Rodon and Lucas Giolito learned.
But Ceee and Copek started their major-League career on the South Side in Sox Park and developed a intimacy for Ballpark that is unaffected by so many Sax fans-and obviously also as Chairman Jerry Rindorff.
“This is a house for me, so I always look forward to going for it,” Seae said in Caiz on Saturday in Cameback War. “Are there things that can be improved? Yes, perhaps. But it is mostly like things in life.”
Copek said that “the atmosphere on how the stadium is established is very good, very unique” between the major-league parks.
“Personally I like how our batsman’s eye is installed,” he said. “It has always been one of my favorite stadiums. I am used to it, I think it is difficult to repeat the same feeling in a new park for the first time.”
Seas and Kopek have seen how the electricity guarantee rate can be the area when its filled and the season is on the line. The game 3 of the 2021 American League Division Series against Houston Astro was one of the best days in the 32 -year history of 3 ballparks.
While there is some indifference to the former Sox players for the old Comisckey Park, as clarified by the “final comici” documentary, some Sox players or coaches mourned at the end of the 1980s at the end of the 1980s, even many fans were heartbroken.
Former bench coach Ed Brinkman once defeated Tribune Sax to reporter Ed Sharman: “You can’t see one thing from our dugout. If you are sitting on the bench, you can’t see the outfield, and you can barely see the second and first base. Any other dugout is not quite bad. It is definitely the worst seat in the house.”
Guaranteed rate area
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A white sox gives a flag wave before a game against giants in the guaranteed rate area on 6 April 2023.
St. Petersburg, Fla. After threatening to go into, the SOX received public funds to create a new Comiskey Park, which we were told that it would be state -of -the -art and will provide players with many features that were lacking in the old parks. The players liked the new feature, but the height of the upper deck criticized a lot, and the generic structure – without any view of the Chicago Skyline – was widely restricted. A year later Baltimore Oriols opened the Camden Yard and entered the era of retro parks.
Even after a renovation, some issues have been fixed and made Sax Park a more fan -friendly, it has become difficult for the team to draw in most years. He finished 24th in 2023 with an average of 21,405 per game after finishing 19th in 2022 (24,704) in 2023. The last time the SOX was more than 30,000 on average, in 2008 (30,877), the last time he made a playoffs before 2020, was a season played at the vacant ballpark due to the Kovid -19 epidemic.
Sox is proceeding relatively quickly with its plans for the new ballpark, which they expect to construct on the “78” site in the south loop. The rendering was recently released, and the Crane’s Chicago Business said on Friday that Rindorph is expected to ask for about $ 1 billion in public funds for funding, a subsidy is unlikely to win over tired taxpayers, who received public funds for renewing the new Comiskey Park and a military sector.
A SOX spokesperson said on Saturday that the team did not comment on the crane report.
The lease for the guaranteed rate field ends with an option year in 2030 in 2030, so it is time to get things before finding a new house for SOX.
But in contrast to the late 1980s, when Rinsdorf village. Gym Thompson and House Speaker Mike could rely on political friends such as Madigan, so that weapons could be diverted and adjusting the clock to a time limit deal, it is now a very different environment for the city and state. Gov. JB Pritzker should consider his future political aspirations before handing over money to a $ 2 billion team.
As the leak continues, the issue of the stadium should be on the front burner as reconstruction of the head of reconstruction in the 2024 season. Assuring fans to get into the Games will be a difficult sales if the team leaves for a poor start. And except for the cheap seats of very debate in the upper deck, some wonder whether Sax really requires a new ballpark anyway.
Kopek said he heard about the new stadium plans, but admitted that he had not followed it.
“I hope I’m around it, but who knows?” He said. “If everything works well …”
Seas has seen and impressed for the proposed South Loop Park.
“It looked really good,” he said. “It would be difficult to argue that it will not be upgraded to us. But for me, it has been my home for the last few years, and I do not want to go there personally.”
Seas and Copek stated that they are fans of the old school ballpark and have mentioned Fenway Park and Wrigley Field as their favorite.
“I like the apathy of the old people,” Kopek said. “Fenway and Wrigley are very unique. I am not a fan of the new Yanki Stadium. It seems a bit disorganized. Older people like Fenway and Wrigley feel more like a baseball environment.”
The conflict agreed that some new ballparks opened in his career do not depend on their perspectives what fans or players need.
“They almost feel like a shopping mall for me,” he said. “They do not have that baseball character, such as a fenway or wrigley or dose stadium. Most stadiums have something unique about them. I like Pittsburgh and (San Francisco) veteran stadium.”
This is going to be a long summer and political front for Sax on the ground as the team fights for relevance and a new state -of -the -art ballpark.
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