Can we please bring back the "Park" naming convention? Sick of calling it Rate Field. Some corporate bozo, I'm sure, introduced Field back when they originally sold the naming rights.

For me, and I’m someone who’s never been to a game before.. I’d like for us to stay.

I’ve heard it all before, the ballpark is facing the wrong way, there’s nothing surrounding the ballpark, yadda yadda yadda.. man idc. I feel like Rate gets a lot of unnecessary hate.

One of the biggest reasons I’m a Sox fan is that when I’d go down to the South Side as a kid on the Dan Ryan, I’d always pass by the ballpark. I thought it was Wrigley bc I wasn’t into baseball yet and I was like.. fucking 9-10 years old.

I love the surrounding area, I don’t think there needs to be anything special around it. Isn’t that why you go to a game in the first place? For a special experience AT the game?

At the very least, I think our ballpark is in a better spot than Wrigley. I used to live right by Clark and Grace, and every time I pass by it I can’t help but think that it looks like it was just slammed down there from the sky in the middle of all these restaurants and buildings and we just said fuck it. It’s the only ballpark/arena/stadium in Chicago that looks very out of place to me, no matter how many times I see it. Maybe that’s just my own opinion.

And I think Armour Square, Bridgeport, and the other surrounding neighborhoods are very beautiful and nice. It’s hard to imagine us playing anywhere else. Sox-18th or Sox-Roosevelt wouldn’t hit the same, but obviously I’ll take the new park over playing in fucking Nashville or something. I really don’t think we need something flashy regardless like this looks, I feel like Rate/The Cell/Comiskey/whatever you want to call it.. it IS the Sox. It is our identity, it fits what this franchise is, and represents the best people who work hard to make a living. That’s what we are as Sox fans. That’s who Chicago is.

I say this as a fan of the Sox and baseball since 2021, but I was watching games on WGN with Hawk since Steve when I was 9-10 years old. I wasn’t a fan that young because baseball was boring to me at the time. Just because I’ve never been a game doesn’t mean I doesn’t mean I can’t have an attachment to the ballpark I’ve seen this team play in majority of my life, and seen so many memories at on my TV.

What do you guys think about here Sox hats?

This new ballpark would be great for the White Sox and Chicago

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