Tonight begins a pretty exciting weekend for the White Sox. Not only are welcoming the Yankees to town for the first and only time this season, but Sunday is Frank Thomas Night.
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In 16 seasons with the White Sox, the future Hall of Famer hit .307/.427/.568 with 448 HR and 1465 RBI. He also won two MVP’s and was part of their 2005 World Championship team. He was the face of the franchise for almost two decades and clearly, fans on the Southside are excited to honor this White Sox legend.
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Tickets to see Thomas’ no. 35 retired are selling for 78% more than their regular season average, and 21% more than Friday’s game when they are honoring another Chicago favorite, the 2009-2010 Stanley Cup champion Blackhawks.
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Session 1 — Session 2 — Session 3 — Session 4 — Session 5 — Session 6 — Session 7 — Session 8 — Session 9 — Session 10 — Session 11 — Session 12 — Session 13 — Session 14 — Session 15 — Session 16 — Session 17 –  Session 18 — Session 19 — Session 20 — Session 21 — Session 22

Women’s Semis — Men’s Semis

Women’s Finals — Men’s Finals

Tonight, Johnny Damon makes his first trip back to Yankee Stadium since winning the ‘09 World Series and then moving on to the Tigers.
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This got us at TiqIQ thinking about the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry and if Damon’s visit would impact ticket prices in New York as much as it did in Boston.
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As you can see to the left, the Red Sox clearly won this one. Not only did Red Sox Nation fork over 144% more than Yankees fans to see Damon and the Tigers, but fans in the Bronx appear mostly disinterested in this series, and are paying 35% below their $110 season avg. Maybe Sox fans wanted to welcome their self-proclaimed Idiot back to Fenway in something other than a Yankees uniform.
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A-Rod hit his 599^th homerun on July 23^rd.  He finally connected for 600 yesterday. While separated by only 13 calendar days, the gap between 599 and 600 also contained 46 At Bats, four different opposing teams and 103 specially-marked ‘A’ balls.  For Yankees’ fans, the wait felt like an eternity, and relatively speaking, it was. Willie Mays, who was the next slowest, did it in 21.  The Babe did it in one.
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Over the course of his prolonged pursuit, interest from fans also waned.  The Average price for the first Yankees’ home game with A-Rod at 599 was $71.  After four home-games and one road-trip, the average price for the chance to witness baseball history was $46.
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For A-Rod, the thousands of popping flashbulbs that captured every pitch and swing had clearly become a burden.  Prior to the homerun, he had been mired in a 1-for-20 slump that had a few wondering if he’d still be the youngest man to hit 600 when it actually happened.   When it finally did, on a 1^st Inning, 2-0 pitch from Shawn Marcum, the weekday afternoon crowd was barely in their seats.  As ‘A-104′ came to rest in the netting above Monument Park, A-Rod rounded first base with outstretched arms, as if asking the baseball gods ‘what took you long’?
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As long as the wait seemed, it’s over now and Rodriguez stands alongside Bonds, Aaron, Ruth, Mays, Griffey and Sosa in the canon of homerun heroes.  Some will argue that, along with Bonds and Sosa, A-Rod’s 600 shouldn’t count the same as Ruth’s, Mays’ and Griffey’s.  Regardless of the performance-enhancing discount one applies, though, 600 is an achievement worthy of significant recognition.  For anyone able to catch yesterday’s August afternoon ballgame in the Bronx, it was also probably worth the $46 bucks (on average).

A look at the Mets Series, DomZone view:

Game 1
Game 2
Game 3