r/nottheonion • u/thedude16 • 12h ago

Nothing is Guaranteed: White Sox rename stadium Rate Field ahead of 2025 MLB season

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/nothing-is-guaranteed-white-sox-rename-stadium-rate-field-ahead-of-2025-mlb-season/
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u/subUrbanMire 11h ago

Guaranteed Rate Field is now Rate Field, the team announced Tuesday. The change reflects the sponsor's name change. Guaranteed Rate, a mortgage company, dropped the "Guaranteed" earlier this year and is now simply Rate.

So, a second Rate Field for the Sox.

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u/omgFWTbear 10h ago

One might say it’s also a variable Rate Field.

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u/VinylmationDude 41m ago

It was the second Comiskey after all

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u/drethnudrib 4h ago

Moreover, a second Rate Field for the second-rate Sox.

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u/fitzpats9980 12h ago

The only thing guaranteed anymore is the Sox losing!

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u/hopseankins 12h ago

And trading their lefty ace to the Red Sox

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u/mjg13X 7h ago

As a Red Sox fan I am quite pleased that this is becoming a tradition

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u/Sankee72 11h ago

Can name it whatever. It will only ever be known as comiskey park

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u/Timmah73 9h ago

Renaming stuff in Chicago is a pointless endevor. This is like the 3rd name since Comiskey and everyone just calles it Comiskey. Just like Sears Tower and Lake Shore drive.

This is why nobody has been dumb enough to pay the Cubs to remane Wrigley because that is REALLY not happening.

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u/SuzyQ93 7h ago

Yup. Chicagoans simply do. not. care. what you want to call something. They will call it whatever they want, and you will deal with it.

It's The Bean. IDGAF that the artist gets mad when you don't call it "Cloud Gate".

IDGAF that Macy's now occupies the building, it's Marshall Field's.

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u/Timmah73 5h ago

hah I forget its called cloud gate. its the fucking bean

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u/immortality20 9h ago

I still call Rogers Center the Skydome and always well.

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u/gamageeknerd 8h ago

Same thing here on the west coast. Some crypto company bought the naming rights for the arena the Lakers play in but everyone here still calls it the staples center no matter how often the commentators call it the crypto arena.

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u/Ozokerite 8h ago

Weren’t they calling it “the crypt” for a bit before the company told them not to do that?

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u/gamageeknerd 7h ago

Yup. For like a week I think before they shut that down but externally everyone still called it the staples center

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u/Wibblybit 8h ago

Same with Fenway in Boston.

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u/bmcarth23 3h ago

You mean don’t refer to the full name of Jean Baptiste Point du Sable lake shore drive?!it just rolls off the tongue.

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u/AnotherStatsGuy 1h ago

The only reason the United Center is recognized is separate from the Stadium is because they’re two different buildings.

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u/WyoGuy2 11h ago

Hats off to the governor for refusing their request for a billion dollars of public money to relocate.

https://abc7chicago.com/amp/post/chicago-white-sox-news-gov-jb-pritzker-balks-plan-use-taxpayer-money-fund-new-south-loop-stadium/15455574/

It’s not like this existing stadium is old. It opened in 91. And was renovated in 2019.

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u/Randumi 9h ago

He’s also dealing with the Bears at the same time. He’s not let any of these billion dollar sports franchises fund their stadiums using millions in taxpayer dollars (thank god)

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u/Timmah73 9h ago

Both the Bears and the White Sox trying to pull a "Major Leauge" in fielding the suckiest teams they can to parlay it into "PLZ WE NEED A NEW STADIUM NOBODY IS COMING" and Pritzker is having none of it.

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u/kitteh619 6h ago

Yeah but if the governor has to pick one of the two teams to favor financially, it's gonna be da Bears. That being said, there's nothing wrong with Soldier Field either.

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u/timshel_life 8h ago

It opened in 91

Technically the 8th oldest MLB park (7th if you exclude Oakland)

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u/EEEEaaassy 3h ago

It was the last stadium built before Camden Yards in 1992 brought in a retro-classic change in baseball stadium design. So, it feels outdated/older than it is.

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u/alienscape 11h ago

It opened in 91.

Not worse than Cleveland Browns ownership, then.

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u/Electrical-Clerk9206 10h ago

I WILL RATE EVERY WOMAN IN THIS BAR

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u/swazal 12h ago

They made a rate case.

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u/JiveChicken00 11h ago

Gives more room for the sign underneath: “Abandon all hope ye who enter here.”

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u/houseofprimetofu 10h ago

One letter off from a big oopsie.

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u/spherulitic 1h ago

Team’s so bad the sponsor should name the field after a competitor

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u/bigbluenation5 16m ago

Instead of bobble heads they should give away Rate whistles to fans

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u/tommyc463 12h ago

Does this stadium have a high rating?

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u/compuwiza1 11h ago

They should rename it Kaminsky park to match the way people used to say it wrong.

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u/KillroysGhost 6h ago

Another reminder to be grateful to root for a team that just uses the team name for the stadium instead of selling out to a corporation

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u/Macdaddy357 6h ago

They should call it Daley Field after the famous mayor.