Stadium 21: US Cellular Field and Homer announcers...

Baseball has 162 games and for those who watch it religiously. the guy on TV calling the game for you becomes a part of your household. Rich Waltz and Tommy Hutton have been those two guys for me over time.


If you hear someone else calling the game you cringe... and you could be watching a random Saturday college football game, hear his voice and know who it is.

You definitely want your announcers to get excited for when the game ends and your team wins on a walk off and show disappointment as you feel when something goes wrong. Example Stanton walk off grand slam:

Pretty damn exciting and the announcers let you know it! 

Then on the radio side, you have hall of famer Dave Van Horne making a call on one of the most exciting plays in baseball:

Sticks to  true professionalism and does not let the most exciting play in baseball phase him.... I'm a fan of homer calls I really am, and I wish I could get more on the radio call....

There is homer and then there is this guy:

Ken "The Hawk" Harrelson who is as homer as they come during Chicago White Sox games. Flat out depressed when they win and super overjoyed when they win. You be the judge on The Hawk

So you don't have to watch it all, you get the angry side at first, the depressed side at 4:45 and then happy from 7:15 on... 

I applaud him and I'm sure he lives and breathes White Sox baseball so I commend him for what he does. 

Stadium 21: US Cellular Field in Chicago, Illinois.

Home of the Chicago White Sox since 1991 and is located in the oh so scary part of South Chicago. Driving through there is immensely scary. Also the White Sox make it easy and tell you to take the train there since they charge a whopping 22 dollars to park which was the most I've paid throughout my stadium adventure. There is also another part of the park I found strange.... Once you make it to the upper level, they make it thoroughly impossible for you to come back to the lower level. This is the only stadium in which I saw this.

Thanks to some immense begging, they let me move down to the 100 level. Seriously no one else could say that. 

Those are the major pitfalls. The good parts is that the stadium has gone through major renovations over the years and continues to be modernized. There is really no view out there but the atmosphere is quite pleasant. They do enjoy their White Sox and you better not mention the Cubs anywhere there. Unacceptable. 

It still is an older stadium that offers zero sightlines of the city and with its whopping parking and strict no moving to better seats policy, it has to stay on the lower side of the scale. 21

Next up: Back to the Lower right heart of Texas