One of the Best Nights in Baseball

[sox83cubs84]

Re: One of the Best Nights in Baseball

One down, two to go...bye, bye, Bosox.

The first two rounds (I hope) will see the elimination of the Yankees and Phillies, eaning that none of ESPN's East Coast bias favorites will be around to hype us into oblivion with.

Personally, I'd most enjoy Detroit/Tampa Bay against Milwaukee.

Dave Miedea

[jake33]

Re: One of the Best Nights in Baseball

Dave is Francona going to interview with Chi Sox now?

[sox83cubs84]

Re: One of the Best Nights in Baseball

Dave is Francona going to interview with Chi Sox now?

Lots of anticipation, but nothing official yet.

BTW...the White Sox coaching staff is somewhat up for grabs. Pitching coach Don Cooper and 1st base coach Harold Baines have been extended. Bench coach Joey Cora is expected to follow Ozzie to Miami, and Greg Walker has resigned as hitting coach. No word on 3B coach Jeff Cox, bullpen coach Juan Nieves, nor bullpen catcher/catching instructor Mark Salas as of yet.

Dave Miedema

[kellsox]

Re: One of the Best Nights in Baseball

One down, two to go...bye, bye, Bosox.

The first two rounds (I hope) will see the elimination of the Yankees and Phillies, eaning that none of ESPN's East Coast bias favorites will be around to hype us into oblivion with.

Personally, I'd most enjoy Detroit/Tampa Bay against Milwaukee.

Dave Miedea

I've brought this up before and no one has given an explanation - why are people insistent that espn has an " east coast bias". And if they do, what's wrong with it?
You named the sox Yankees and phillies. All happen to be close geographically and all have been championship contenders for the last several years. They also draw the highest attendance in the league when visiting other teams. In other words, they are good, have big fan bases and people want to see them. Why wouldn't the biggest sports network in the us put their resources into extensively covering them?
Tampa was in the wild card hunt during the last few weeks and for a huge game with playoff implications on Tuesday night drew less than 23,000 people. If the hometown fans don't come out to see their team, why should national networks give additional air time/ resources beyond what they normally would to cover them??
In simple terms, if a team is good and people across the country want to see/ hear about them- espn will cover it.

[gingi79]

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Francona and the Red Sox are parting ways. Dude won 2 titles for a team that suffered 86 years without one. I hate Boston as I root for the Canucks (Bruins Finals) and the Dolphins (Stupid Patriots) and I denounce the fact all of their titles seem to come with cheating innuendo but Tito was a classy guy who deserved better.

This on the heels of the mental midgetry in keeping the entire Braves management team, including the douche bagel Fredi Gonzalez after their collapse. At least the Sox will hold their Manager responsible right or wrong. Oh how I wish Frank Wren would pick up Tito and dump Gonzalez.

[cubbs1232]

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Tampa was in the wild card hunt during the last few weeks and for a huge game with playoff implications on Tuesday night drew less than 23,000 people. If the hometown fans don't come out to see their team, why should national networks give additional air time/ resources beyond what they normally would to cover them??
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Its always funny to me when people who have probably never been to the Tampa Bay area or only visited once or twice to see their grandparents make such ingnorant comments about the attendance in Tampa. To continually see espn, fox sports, and all the so called sports writers bash this area shows how little fact checking and research they do.

Tampa Bays economy is one of the worst in the country. our unemployment in over 17% and our underemployment is 20+%.

Tampas filled with red sox, yanks, cubs, cards, and phil fans who WONT change the teams they root for even though they live here. Then they raise their kids to be fans of those teams as well. So now those kids grow up to be fans of the red sox, yanks, etc. its a never-ending cycle

I could go on and on with whats wrong but i'll stop now. Oh and by the way check out the Bucs attendance it sucks too!