Everyone who is anyone is gearing up for the 2006 MLB season. My first step is going to be purchasing my Chicago White Sox Opening Day tickets. It is a tradition in my family for us all to take the day off of school or work to head down to the US Cellular Field for the White Sox Opening Day. Even when they were playing at Comiskey Park, we’d all hop in the car and get to the park early to celebrate the return of baseball.
This year’s White Sox schedule looks exciting with the White Sox meeting the Arizona Diamondbacks six times. The Chicago White Sox regular season home opener will be April 2, 2006 against the Cleveland Indians. After the Sox winning the World Series in 2005, fans are going to have some pretty high expectations for 2006. Some say White Sox tickets sales will be up for every game no matter who we are playing. Can you imagine a sold out Sox versus Colorado Rockies game?
April’s schedule begins with White Sox versus Atlanta Braves at Turner Field, three Royals games in Kansas City and I’ll be buying Tigers tickets in Detroit for the grand finale of our first regular season road trip. We have a three game road trip to battle the Seattle Mariners at Safeco Field. Hopefully there will be some May flowers blooming when we host the Chicago Cubs and Oakland A’s. Come July, I will be wishing I had bought White Sox box seats as the weather heats up and we head out to the ballpark with our tickets to Baltimore Orioles versus Sox games from the 3rd to the 6th.
All things considered we have a pretty great schedule and with Joe Borchard, Tadahito Iguchi and Pablo Ozuna on the field we should be able to repeat our 2005 record. Mark Buehrle, Freddy Garcia and Javier Vazquez are our top pitchers and we are looking for them to be big producers at-bat as well. It is hard to imagine our pitching core needing improvement, but hard work is being done to try and repeat a winning season. I will probably attend more Chicago White Sox games this year than I have in many years.
In Illinois there are plenty of sports teams to keep a baseball fan busy in the off season. But, going to Chicago Bears home games or watching Chicago Bulls basketball and Blackhawks hockey games on TV, really never compares to watching my favorite baseball team try to make it to the World Series year after year. White Sox baseball games are a part of my history and of my future. I bought World Series tickets in 2005 and spent the next two days celebrating with friends in Detroit. The White Sox have the potential to dominate all of the more powerful teams, so you might find me joining the Sox on the road with New York Yankees tickets, Atlanta Braves baseball games and tickets to Houston Astros home games.
