Bad White Sox Season Is Bad For Illinois

You guys probably know that the Good Guys on the South Side play in a State-owned ballpark, but it turns out there are incentives in place.

Turns out that the Sox have to sell a certain number of tickets for the State to take a piece of the action.

The 2014 season also will mark another season that the White Sox avoid having to pay ticket fees to the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority, which owns the taxpayer-funded U.S. Cellular Field.

In addition to the team's annual rent payment of $1.5 million, the Sox must pay a fee of between $3 and $7 for every ticket sold above the 1.9 million mark.

It hasn't done so in years. Even when the Sox topped 2 million in paid attendance in 2011, it fell short of the ticket fee bar because the total included about 130,000 "comp" tickets — those given away to sponsors or sold for less than $3.

Chicago City Clerk Susana Medoza Is Still Cooler Than You, Throws Out First Pitch At White Sox Game

Susana Mendoza continues to be a pretty cool City Clerk.  You'll remember she was rockin' out at the Jack White concert earlier this summer.  Then...Last night, she got to throw out the First Pitch at the White Sox game.

And she did it from the mound.

And hit the catcher's mitt without him running around to catch it.

Let us repeat that:  she threw the pitch FROM THE MOUND.

Pretty impressive.

She ain't no BabaBooey, that's for sure!

State Representative Ed Sullivan Is Odd Man Out On White Sox Day

As posted on Ed Sullivan's Twitter feed:

On the very same evening as the rest of the normal folks in State Government were taking in a game on the South Side.  As evidenced by this FB post by State Representative Ron Sandack:

The coincidence isn't lost on us, Ed.