The
White Sox have just hired Jason Benetti to replace Hawk Harrelson in the
broadcast booth for home games this year.
At the tender age of 32, Benetti was all of seven in 1990, the last year
the Sox played in Comiskey Park. That
means virtually all of his I-remember stories will date to the Cell. Benetti will have next to no memory of
watching a game under the left field grandstands in the Picnic Area or how the
smell of fried food wafted up to the stands or how taking three or four steps in
from the entrance on 35th and Shields brought you within sight of
the field in all of its emerald-green majesty or…
But this is the way
of the world and certainly no fault of Benetti, who has a chance of becoming
the voice of the franchise if he’s any good.
All of my daughter’s memories of the White Sox are tied to the Cell,
too, for that matter. The Big Hurt,
Paulie, Gordon—their only context for Clare comes with a concrete saucer. It’s her loss, and mine.
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