White Sox

[bz]

I can imagine Santo saying anything. I once heard Santo scream look at that! Look at that! Look at that! Wow, I cant believe that. And then Pat went to commercial. Mind you this was radio.

[jstraw]

I grew up living just south of Lakeview and going to school in Lakeview. I sure don't remember it ever being a shithole.

[rok]

What time period are you referring to? I said early 80s.

[Kid]

It's when Straw was a kid, so you have to assume the fire changed everything.

[jstraw]

What time period are you referring to? I said early 80s.

 

Late '60s (19, not 18) and most of the '70s. We were there when gentrification began. Prior to that, it was all pretty nice, middle class and a lot of blue-collar. It wasn't a shithole. It just wasn't yupscale.

[funkster]

He was already shouting at people to get off his lawn.

[funkster]

 Unlike Trump, he holds no real power.

Is this what this is all about?  I wasn't honestly comparing him to Trump.  It was a joke.  You said he's an asshat, that's exactly how I feel, I just said it more angrily.

[jstraw]

He was already shouting at people to get off his lawn.

 

Now I actually have a lawn.

[rok]

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="rok" data-cid="327787" data-time="1517114690">
What time period are you referring to? I said early 80s.

 

Late '60s (19, not 18) and most of the '70s. We were there when gentrification began. Prior to that, it was all pretty nice, middle class and a lot of blue-collar. It wasn't a shithole. It just wasn't yupscale.</blockquote>When I was growing up (mid-80s) we lived a few miles west on Barry, which was a typical bungalow belt middle class area, but the area just north of the ballpark (between Montrose and Irving) was not nice. My point is that Bridgeport was always at least on par income and property value-wise as the North side. The highway cuts through the neighborhood and keeps the rougher Bronzeville neighborhood separated from the ballpark. The fact their fans blame the location for poor attendance is silly. They play mostly night games, are located right off of the expressway with almost unlimited parking and 2 EL lines with stops on 35th street. Bridgeport is not a dump. Their fans suck.

[jstraw]

One of the reasons Bridgeport isn't and really hasn't ever been a dump is that it Was Daley's neighborhood.

[funkster]

And it's mobbed up. It's a traditional Italian/Irish neighborhood.  There are still a ton of Italian-American social clubs out there.

[VanSlawAndCottoCheese]

And it's mobbed up.

 

Which attracts the hell out of baseball fans.

[rok]

Yet it keeps property values quite high.

[funkster]

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="funkster" data-cid="327813" data-time="1517246995">
And it's mobbed up.

 

Which attracts the hell out of baseball fans.</blockquote>
I was responding to Straws comments about it being Daleys neighborhood.

[VanSlawAndCottoCheese]

 

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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="funkster" data-cid="327813" data-time="1517246995">
And it's mobbed up.

 

Which attracts the hell out of baseball fans.</blockquote>
I was responding to Straws comments about it being Daleys neighborhood.
 


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I know.