Not only that, but as a South Side resident for the last 15 years, I can assure you that the White Sox are also heavily reliant on being good enough that those families have a plausible excuse to skip out on a summer of graduation parties, weddings and other family events.
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In fact, the technology to skip commercials on recordings from TV has been available for years.
You can watch from beginning to end or skip around on the timeline.
Use the music control app to play, pause or skip tracks on your phone with the touch of a button.
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Another assumption is that Apple may skip out on 3D because of the clunky glasses that are required to view the eye-popping images.
It is easy to search by word or phrase and skip around on a tablet, or pull up references such as a dictionary or thesaurus.
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You may feel more inclined to skip out on attending if even the email sent out is exactly the same as it was the year before.
That means Mars-bound astronauts will also have to skip out on the ground-based psychological support sessions that astronauts and cosmonauts working on the international space station routinely have just to make sure microgravity has not gone to their heads (Before Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space in 1961, experts were afraid weightlessness might cause schizophrenia, explained one doctor).
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To keep his top pitchers on normal rest, Collins will skip Jeremy Heffner on Thursday in favor of Jonathon Niese, while the Rockies will counter with Jon Garland.
Chief Executive Ken Potashner says the company would be required to turn over data on what programs ReplayTV owners watch, how many commercials they skip and so on, data that would traceable back to individual devices.
That corresponds with the five seconds many advertisers have before a user can skip an ad on YouTube.
The men are the current world champions and have beaten Canada skip Kevin Martin on the last four occasions so they definitely have a psychological edge over him.
The networks are also suing Dish for its Hopper product, which allows satellite subscribers to record and watch primetime programming the next day, and to skip over commercials on playback.
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Since Web Utopians usually brag of their egalitarian instincts, they might reflect, between sips of cappuccino, on who shoulders the cost of public services when we skip paying excise taxes on items delivered online.
This year, on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, a lot of people decided to skip the malls and shop on Main Street.
Dubbed SKiP, the service relies on Osaifu-Keitai (literally "wallet mobile") technology developed by comms giant NTT.
Hit up the galleries for the hands-on imagery or skip past the break for video of the S1100pj's projector in action.
Based on journalism by Skip Hollandsworth, who wrote the screenplay with Linklater.
The organization will be sending Marine's on Disney trips in Skip's honor.
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Under current law, donations of assets that have risen in value, such as shares of stock, often qualify for a deduction at the full market price, enabling donors to skip paying capital-gains tax on the appreciation.
They pulled back on finding Gerald "Skip" Murphy, who said he was armed with a gun and explosives and had three unidentified people with him - a 16-year-old girl, a four-year-old boy and a woman aged 18.
But now she decided to skip her post-class musing-on-the-mats routine, head straight for the Serenity Posse II meeting on Amsterdam.
You prefer the shuffle mode on your iPod and you skip the boring parts of The Tonight Show with your TiVo.
Canada's men's game hinged on the fifth end with skip Kevin Martin stealing two against the hammer to give his side a notable advantage.
Nine percent of workers who played hooky wanted to skip a meeting, spend time working on an overdue project or avoid the wrath of a boss or colleague.
Unfortunately, it does mean that live bloggers spend their first 30 minutes frantically typing things that they already know to update an audience in real time on things they would rather skip through.
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You may then choose to endorse them for some of all of those particular skills in just a click or two, or type in other skills not already on the list, or skip it altogether.
The developer, Irrational Games, said it would skip this year's event to concentrate on bringing the product to market.
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