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Adam Newman reports from the White Sox home opener:

I attended White Sox opening day at U.S. Cellular Field (aka "The Cell", still called by many "Comiskey Park") yesterday. It was a typically cold Chicago April day (although much nicer than last year's), but that didn't stop me from leaving work early and taking the train down to the ballpark - and when I got off the train, I was amazed at what I saw.

This off season was the 4th year of a planned 5 year renovation project that has altered almost every aspect of this unfairly criticized park. This year's renovations were the biggest yet, with the top 6 rows of the upper deck (consisting of 6,600 seats) were removed and replaced with an old-fashioned looking flat roof with iron work on the front. They also enclosed the upper deck concourse with new fiber optic panels that are supposed to light up at night (although I didn't see that). The overall effect makes the upper deck much smaller and friendlier. There were some other smaller changes, too, like adding additional levels to the popular "fan deck" in center field and adding a balcony to a party room. Along with this, the team continued their recent trend of making everything in the park green (as opposed to the original blue) by changing all the padding in the park. At this point, the only blue left is the seats themselves, which are strongly rumored to be changing in the next few years.

My seats were in the aforementioned upper deck, 6th row directly behind the plate. In other words, almost perfect. I got myself a kosher hot dog with grilled onions and a beer and watched the pregame festivities. First, the lineups announced by the best PA announcer in the game, Gene Honda. Kansas City was first, and aside from Tony Graffinino (who spent the last few years on the Sox and was generally liked by all), all the players got a round of boos. Then, the White Sox. Unlike last year, (which the Sox opened with a horrible road trip), people were generally cheering for everybody. The most mixed reaction was probably Billy Koch, who's pitched well this year but has to pitch well for a lot more than a week to make people forget last year. Some of the biggest cheers were the obvious stars, Magglio Ordonez, Frank Thomas, Carlos Lee, Mark Buehrle, Esteban Loaiza. The biggest one of all, though, might have been former Sox shortstop Ozzie Guillen, in his first home game as manager.

The Ozziefest continued with the first pitch, which was thrown out by the three White Sox Venezuelan all-star shortstops, Chico Carrasquel, Luis Aparicio, and (of course) Ozzie Guillen. The pitches were caught by Davey Concepcion (another Venezuelan all-star shortstop, and Ozzie's hero growing up), Magglio Ordonez (not a shortstop, but certianly a White Sox Venezuelan all-star), and (in a surprise to everybody, including Ozzie) Carlton Fisk (and you all know who he is). At this point, the crowd started an Ozzie chant that lasted until he tipped his cap to the crowd.

And then, the game. I won't go into huge details about the game, because this is already very long and you can easilly find game details elsewhere. I will say it was one of the more fun games I've seen in a while. White Sox starter Esteban Loaiza didn't have good stuff at all, giving up 5 ER (on 4 homers) in 6 innings. It was enough, though, because the high powered White Sox offense scored 12, including a dramatic 2 out 3 run homer by Paul Konerko. Every Sox starter got at least one hit, and every one scored a run except Magglio Ordonez. It was a 12-5 final, and the big opening day crowd went home cold, but very happy.

The White Sox's park was built a couple of years early. It was modeled after the Royals park, which at the time was considered a gem. Good to see the club is trying to adjust to more modern expectations in the stadium.