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Re: White Sox Spring Training - 2012
« Reply #75 on: March 07, 2012, 10:00:06 am »
Ditto. My vision is like the song goes "A bad moon a rising"

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Re: White Sox Spring Training - 2012
« Reply #76 on: March 07, 2012, 03:30:23 pm »
I'm rooting for an "0-fer" in the cactus league.   That would be sweet.  So far, so good.

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Re: White Sox Spring Training - 2012
« Reply #77 on: March 07, 2012, 07:32:52 pm »
Well if that's our goal, we're 3-for-3 so far.

Pitchers, hitters, one ahead of the other this time of year, etc. However that saying goes, someone should say that.

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Re: White Sox Spring Training - 2012
« Reply #78 on: March 07, 2012, 09:19:42 pm »
Yawn, wake me up when ST games matter.l

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Re: White Sox Spring Training - 2012
« Reply #79 on: March 08, 2012, 07:56:36 am »
Could be our worst season since the 1969 and 1970 seasons. We may have been that bad in others, but I remember them well.

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Re: White Sox Spring Training - 2012
« Reply #80 on: March 08, 2012, 09:10:55 am »
Were those teams worse than '76?  This team has starting pitching, we will not be anywhere close to what we put out on the field in 1976.

<Harry Carey dejected voice on> "He (Alan Bannister) it away.  He could have walked the ball over to first in time and he threw it away."

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Re: White Sox Spring Training - 2012
« Reply #81 on: March 08, 2012, 03:46:44 pm »
Were those teams worse than '76?

Yes.  They were atrocious, esp 1970

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Re: White Sox Spring Training - 2012
« Reply #82 on: March 08, 2012, 06:32:19 pm »
Dunn hit a 3-run homer off Neftali Perez today? and a double??

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Re: White Sox Spring Training - 2012
« Reply #83 on: March 08, 2012, 07:09:35 pm »
Yawn, wake me up when ST games matter.

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Re: White Sox Spring Training - 2012
« Reply #84 on: March 09, 2012, 09:44:23 am »
Game on TV today, right?

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Re: White Sox Spring Training - 2012
« Reply #85 on: March 09, 2012, 10:02:38 am »
Any recommendations for a first-time Spring Training attendee?
Looking to be in Phoenix for 3/22.

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Re: White Sox Spring Training - 2012
« Reply #86 on: March 09, 2012, 10:32:47 am »
There are some GREAT Mexican restaurants there. Research those definitely.

The Pink Pony is an old school steakhouse with a lot of history behind it. Popular with players, announcers, etc. at one time. Don't know if it still is. Looking at the menu, they've modernized it a bit. Wonder if they still bring out the relish tray for starters. You can probably get a better steak deal elsewhere, but it's still a slice of history.

Taking the drive up to Sedona is WELL worth the effort. Fantastic hiking, all distances and skill levels. You also definitely want to continue farther up to historic Jerome. I can't even begin to describe that place. Lots of hippies that went up there and stayed up there.

http://www.azjerome.com/

Pinnacle Peak is a kitschy-fun restaurant. It's the place where they have all the ties (that have been snipped off of customers) hanging from the ceiling.

Cave Creek is an interesting little town.


 It's probably worth also taking in a ballgame or something, but I'd think that would only be mildly interesting for a couple of hours or so. I'd make sure I did Sedona and Jerome first. Prescott is also kind of a cool town.

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Re: White Sox Spring Training - 2012
« Reply #87 on: March 09, 2012, 10:36:44 am »
I should clarify.
I'm driving a car back from the Los Angeles area that week.... leaving Irvine on 3/21, spending 1 day in Phoenix (3/22), and driving back to Michigan starting on 3/23.

The Sox play at 1:00 PM local time on 3/22.

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Re: White Sox Spring Training - 2012
« Reply #88 on: March 09, 2012, 10:39:51 am »
Then you should save yourself the grief of watching the sox play... and start on your drive sooner :P

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Re: White Sox Spring Training - 2012
« Reply #89 on: March 09, 2012, 10:47:37 am »
Given the limited time, I'd do the Sedona / Jerome thing.

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Re: White Sox Spring Training - 2012
« Reply #90 on: March 09, 2012, 01:52:20 pm »
If it's a Sox home game buy the cheapest seat you can (I think that's sitting on the grass in the outfield).  Unless they are playing the Cubs or possibly somebody else that is good who would attract their own fans, 2/3 of the seats will be empty.  All ticket holders enter thru the same single gate.  Once you get inside you can sit anywhere you want as they never check tickets again (this would likely not be true for games like the Cubs that are sold out.)

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Re: White Sox Spring Training - 2012
« Reply #91 on: March 09, 2012, 02:03:06 pm »
Rawhide Western Town and Steakhouse- kitschy fun

Drive the Apache Trail- very scenic

But the one thing I would if I had just one day would be Taliesin West

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Re: White Sox Spring Training - 2012
« Reply #92 on: March 09, 2012, 05:19:28 pm »
Yeah, metropolitan Phoenix has a lot of interesting, historic attractions.  I hear that some of the old houses and downtown buildings go clear back to 1971.

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Re: White Sox Spring Training - 2012
« Reply #93 on: March 09, 2012, 05:24:30 pm »
It's also believed that Phoenix pioneered the big-box store.  There are some old-time Targets and Home Depots there that go back maybe 10 or 12 years.  Check 'em out.  There's also a museum dedicated to the history and development of the large asphalt parking lot, tracing the evolution of materials and parking-place striping (angle vs. straight on).

And if you can get to it after seeing all of the other stuff, I hear that the original Red Robin restaurant still stands somewhere on the suburban outskirts.  Of course, it's been remodeled, but still... bask in fact you ARE THERE.

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Re: White Sox Spring Training - 2012
« Reply #94 on: March 10, 2012, 09:40:24 pm »
I've been to Jerome.     Has a blast in Prescott.


Agree w/ PW -- buy a cheapie and move around all game.

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Re: White Sox Spring Training - 2012
« Reply #95 on: March 12, 2012, 07:27:14 am »

from CBSSports.com:




Infante out indefinitely with oblique strain:

White Sox reliever Gregory Infante left Sunday's spring game against the Rockies due to a strained left oblique and will be out indefinitely. He left after striking out the only batter he faced.
(Updated 03/11/2012)

http://fantasynews.cbssports.com/fantasybaseball/players/playerpage/1670551/gregory-infante

Also at: http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120311&content_id=27191120&notebook_id=27202306&vkey=notebook_cws&c_id=cws



 

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Re: White Sox Spring Training - 2012
« Reply #96 on: March 12, 2012, 08:33:10 am »
This team is not hitting worth a damn, and this is in Arizona. How are we going to hit in cold weather??

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Re: White Sox Spring Training - 2012
« Reply #97 on: March 12, 2012, 08:52:42 am »
Dont worry... Nestor will save the season.

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Re: White Sox Spring Training - 2012
« Reply #98 on: March 12, 2012, 09:14:18 am »
This team is not hitting worth a damn, and this is in Arizona. How are we going to hit in cold weather??

We arent going to.

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Re: White Sox Spring Training - 2012
« Reply #99 on: March 12, 2012, 09:54:55 am »
original Red Robin

I've been to the original Red Robin, in Seattle, Eastlake near UW. It was actually good way back when. Good day to you sir.

 

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