This name is terrible, but there are MANY stadiums across all sports that have terrible corporate names. I don't even know what Jacobs Field is called anymore.

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That's fair. You don't watch a lot of baseball.

Also, Progressive Field is a fine name for a stadium.

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In my best Bernstein voice:

It's not only that Guaranteed Rate Field is a terrible corporate name. It's that this isn't New Orleans, Salt Lake City or Louisville where there are a dearth of corporate behemoths. Chicago is home to MANY enormous multinationals and they wanted nothing to do with that mess at 35th and Shields.

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It looks like this company is a private company but based on projections it is much larger than a company like Wintrust who gives both the Cubs and Sox a lot of advertising revenue.

I think a lot of people think this company is like 3 guys with a website.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

CFMB Park!

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Waddle mentioned Guaranteed Rate is his mortgage company. I don't think many are intelligently ripping the company. It seems like a strong company.

But the name of their company...and their logo...don't fit well with sports stadium branding.

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Who cares what they call the field or if the logo for the stadium is pointing down? The team is bad. One time in the playoffs since 2005 and that required a tiebreaker game to beat the Twins to get in. Since 2005 the Cubs have been in the playoffs 4 times if you count this year. Until the Sox come up with a plan that replenishes their minor leagues the team will be bad. The fans are bad. The only time the park is sold out is when they play the Cubs or opening day. And now that the Cubs are the best team in baseball the Sox fans are just going to have to eat it if the Cubs win the World Series.

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Nice

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At least bigfan wouldn't have tried to steal that back.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Giveaway ideas:

Sunsweet® Prune Night
Menards Paper Bag Night
Community College Night
T-Shirt Night for the first 12 Fans ... maybe
Scripps National Spelling Bee Night, sponsored by Barnibyis

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8/26/16, 9:28 AM
Maybe it should be called Guaranteed Idiot Field, writes @dan_bernstein http://cbsloc.al/2blrx90

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

What a dopey cocksucker.

This is an epidemic that has happened 3 times in 14 years? The horror!

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Bernstein hit the nail on the head, and Sock fans can't handle it.

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http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2016/08/26/ ... iot-field/



I know it happens in other places, but Thursday night was too perfect for the South Side ballpark long beset by the related issues of naming-rights changes and moronic fans running onto the field during games.

It was still Comiskey Park when William Ligue and his son jumped out to attack Royals first-base coach Tom Gamboa in 2002, but it became U.S. Cellular Field after that season, with the easy and early nickname of “The Cell” reminding of that ugly incident, nevertheless.Then in the first weeks of 2003, four drunken fans stormed the field during another game against Kansas City, this time trying to go after umpire Laz Diaz. The multiple arrests for aggravated battery and criminal trespassing further cemented an image of “The Cell” that the team would work against for years.

And so it was again Thursday night, timed just right with the clumsily-handled announcement Wednesday that the park will become Guaranteed Rate Field this fall. Three more fans raced out to challenge security — two shirtless and one with his pants drooping, as if sent from central casting — delaying the game in the top of the ninth.

Call the place whatever you want, but with White Sox fans, some behaviors prove all but guaranteed.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

I've never hated you more than I do right meow.

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I've never hated you more than I do right meow.

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The irony of Cub fans mocking this: The urinal that is the Shrine has been named after a freaking gum company, and its cheap ass owner, since 1926 that hasn't paid them crap.

Ligue Field

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This is where you rethink your premise.

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Why was it "clumsily handled"? And is he really trying to asscoaite druunken fans with corporate naming rights? Was the guy who attacked Randy Myers chewing Wrigley's Spearmint?

bernstein's world:

Nuveen sign and GIANT TELEVISIONS defacing Wrigley: Sheer Jewish Genius displayed by goyim named Ricketts and Kenney. Maybe Theo is rubbing off. Monetize everything. Keep the revenue streams running.

Sox change corporate stadium sponsors: Sad and clumsy. Unfortunate.

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Yeah, its a dopey logo and the company doesn't have much name recognition. Make fun of that, it has nothing to do with idiots running on the field.

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This.

There was a press release.

What is "clumsy" about that?

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Wrigley has never looked better.

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