Lord knows it won’t be anything good or authentic like McCuddy’s…

“The social history of baseball cannot be told or written without mention of Ma McCuddy and her family. Baseball players called her “Ma” with real afffection because she was for several decades, a mother to many of them. She created a little way station where there was love, kindness, good cheer, fun and understanding. She has meant much to some of these players, and hence to the game itself. It is no exaggeration to characterize her as one of the living legends of baseball.

“Mother,” Babe Ruth often used to say to her, “you’re the best woman in the world.”

Sometimes when Babe was playing in Chicago, he would send a message across the street. “Tell Ma to put six bottles of beer on ice – it’s two out in the ninth.”

http://southsideadventures.blogspot.com/2005/03/mccuddys-tavern.html

To pour one out for Ivan, Carlos Martinez, and um, Joe DeSa.

And I’m sure the first few places to come in will be lame. But I think you need to look at the bigger picture.

We get a couple bar and grill type places, a Buffalo Wild wings or whatever, a couple chain bars established, then it’s a lot easier for a non-franchise bar to come in. With the reputation that area has, you need the whole area to be improved, it’s not like you can just throw in a bar and it will survive on it’s own.

With a black guy in a Cub’s hat.

Nowadays not so much. Probably a Disney store c

oh my god that would be fucking gold….my favorite bar outside of my 2nd home.

I agree with almost everything you just said. Yeah, bring in money any way possible (w/o cheating) but I NEVER want the frat boy morons. Bring on the noobs. Bring in the clueless. That’s fine, we can teach them the game, the team and the Sox tradition (whether that’s what it is now, or what it will be). But for fuck’s sake, no drunken frat boy morons please.

there are already so many frat boys who go to white sox games. i mean, the place is becoming overrun with them. if there were bars right outside the stadium, it would just become a frat boy convention. isn’t this obvious? and people would suddenly become fans of the white sox because there are restaurants outside the stadium and then there would be all these fair weather fans. all this is perfectly logical. i can’t understand why you don’t see it. don’t you remember how putting up all these monuments and statues turned the team into the yankees?

And I don’t know why everyone is acting like our fanbase is so sacred. “Oh noes, there will be slightly more drunk Irish/Polish douchebags at the game! I won’t be so unique!”

I’m all for making the area nicer, just would prefer if it didn’t turn into a strip mall.

Just like the Cell itself does…. job creation is key right now if we are busting out of the recession

I really hope this happens personally. Tailgating is fun, but not always an option, especially for people like me who usually just take some kind of public transport into the city