Chip Shots: Quickshots: FM Is No Place For White Sox Baseball

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Chip Shots: Quickshots: FM Is No Place For White Sox Baseball

Quickshots: FM Is No Place For White Sox Baseball

This item scares the hell out of me . It should be a slam dunk, provided the money is fair, that the White Sox re-sign with the Score. It, after all is a fifty thousand watt radio station that gets to many parts of the country where loyal, displaced Sox fans can listen to the games. Should the Sox, for some inexplicable reason decide to go with an FM, all Sox fans outside of Chicago are screwed unless they want to sit in front of a computer. I can't emphasize enough that continuing to bring fans games on free, clear channel radio is vital to the fan base. I live in Wisconsin, west of Milwaukee and I listen to the games in my car, in my garage, in my living room. etc. If the Sox go to FM, the only games I'll get to see and hear are the ones on WGN, ESPN and Fox. In the past, I've lived in Nashville and Birmingham and still could tune the Sox in. I can give you a hundred reasons why moving the Sox is a good idea for some other station, but the biggest one against it is that if the Sox become a "Chicago Only" brand, those of us not living there will suffer a huge disconnect with the team. In my professional opinion, sports on FM is a waste of a frequency.
Proof again professional sports owners are just a bunch of fantasy hacks . I wouldn't allow them on the field. Ever. (Foulballs)
Now that NFL on cable tax dollar waster Arlen Specter (D-Comcast) has been sent away, let's focus on Sen. Orrin Hatch and Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) who want to conduct hearings on the BCS . Bill Hancock is 100% right, the government should not be involved in college sports. Of course, they shouldn't be involved in health insurance either, but they obviously didn't get that memo.
Why, after crashing and burning in Washington and having similar experiences in Chicago and Detroit, why would Doug Collins want to ever coach again, let alone in Philly? This may shed some light on that (Five Tool Tool)
Hockey seems to finally have recovered from the strike era . Of course, having markets 3,5 and 7 in the conference finals may help too.
Brian Urlacher better hope Gale Sayers doesn't send his friend Butkus to shut him up. Worse, Sayers could send Ditka. Why can't we all just get along? Personally, I think Urlacher should have just let it go and not said anything about Sayers' comments. It's another reason we have a dog named Butkus and not Urlacher.
Some of the best managers in baseball were lousy players . Tommy Lasorda, Sparky Anderson and Tony LaRussa are just a few examples. Hanley Ramirez knows not of which he speaks.
This sounds like what White Sox fans will be doing if they don't start winning.
Gee, Brett Favre's plans are still in the dark. Imagine that!
Speaking of the Elderly Hillbilly, new bear Chester Taylor thinks Favre and Jay Cutler are similar . The question is can Mike Martz (or whoever succeeds him next year after Lovie and Co. are fired) do for Cutler what Mike Holmgren did for Favre?
Five managers who may join Trey Hillman in the unemployment line soon . None are named Ozzie or Lou.
Hippies picketing hippies . Who would have thunk it?
On a related note, what kind of idiot pickets a sports team playing a game away from home . Like they had anything to do with it? Like they are going to go back to Phoenix, call their state representative and say "this law is unjust. Please fix it. I don't like these protests." Come on people, THINK.