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Kayla
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Hey.. they were caught up in the moment. 
and the White Sox win!!
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gangrel441
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ScubaTexan:Better preface that, Jake -- you only dominated ONE of our teams. The other one kicked the Chisox sideways the day I went to the game...
Yep. That's why the Rangers took their division and gave the Sox such a tough time in the playoffs, eh?
Congrats to m'boys! Been waiting since I was 7 years old to see this....hell...my dad's been waiting all his life for this. He was born 8 years after they won their last World Series.
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gangrel441:Yep. That's why the Rangers took their division and gave the Sox such a tough time in the playoffs, eh?
Congrats to m'boys! Been waiting since I was 7 years old to see this....hell...my dad's been waiting all his life for this. He was born 8 years after they won their last World Series.
So will they go to Disneyworld for their honeymoon?
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gangrel441:Yep. That's why the Rangers took their division and gave the Sox such a tough time in the playoffs, eh?
Let's see -- Rangers took 6 out of 9 against the White Sox and 4 out of 6 against the Astros. I'm satisfied....until next year. LOL :laughing:
I grew up in Detroit, back in the days when there were only 20 teams in baseball. The White Sox were rivals of my beloved Tigers and one team about whom, as kids, we harbored recurring fantasies of plane crashes and STD's. "Luis Aparicio" was an insult in my neighborhood, an epithet used with caution because you knew a fight was likely to ensue. We really didnt like the White Sox.
The calendar moved on and the American League adopted the Handicapped Pitchers Rule, which may have started my slide from youthful liberalism to adult conservatism. At any rate, eventually I moved away from Detroit to some cities where there were no baseball teams and found myself more and more often rooting for the National League whenever there was an inter-league game on television.
Eventually I ended up in Chicago, a town with two baseball teams. Bliss. I discovered that I was frequenting more Cubs games than Sox, not just because I lived on the north side but because the park was a slice of heaven and a National League park, at that. The fact that the Cubs - possessed by what can only be described as a loathsome loser ethos - play at Wrigley with irritating regularity is a negative but serves to make it easier to root for the visiting team. Thus, a National League fan was created.
Not that the White Sox, who often gave the Cubs a run for mediocrity, were much better than the Cubs. The Sox even built a new stadium, an homage to Soviet era architecture that looks like a flying saucer making crop-circles out of housing projects. Sitting in the very steep upper decks you don't dare staunch the blood dribbling from your nose with Kleenex because you know it will serve as a flag for the gang-bangers living in the projects just across the Dan Ryan, targeting the crowd and itching to take a shot. You also know that if they do take that shot you won't be able to stop yourself as you tumble down thirty rows of stairs and over the edge to your death on the field below. No wonder its called the Cell it has all the look and charm of a prison and many of the games have seemed like the Sox were playing sissy in the showers. At least most years my now-hapless Tigers could count on an easy game when they came to Chicago.
Maybe Reinsdorf has started to feel his own mortality and realizes that his future isnt limitless, but the Sox ownership seems to have made a great baseball decision: give one of their own a chance in the managers slot and start assembling a team of good, solid, under-valued players. This occasionally volatile crew of nearly-weres and havent-yets coalesced as a team under the truly spectacular trust and encouragement that their manager showed them, survived a classic post-All Star Game slump and showed the cool grit of champions. Redemption through victory, play for the team or die. Maglio who? Frank who?
The Astros are a better team than their record in the Series shows and most any of the games could have easily gone either way. The umpiring X-factor aside, the fact that none of the games DID go the other way isnt a measure of the Astros incapacity but, instead, a measure of the Sox heart and steely resolve. Little ball, indeed.
I'm not ready to call myself a Sox fan just yet, if for no reason other than to aggravate Scubina, my Southside Sweetie. Nonethless, this was a better team than anyone expected and, if they can be held together, they show the promise of becoming one of those historical anomolies: a great team without any great players. The Cell, however, will always look like a prison, no matter how much they try to dress it up.
The Curse of the Bambino was broken last year, the Black Sox curse was broken this year, the last great curse in baseball remains the Curse of the Goat on the Cubs. Could next year be the one where Hell freezes over? Nah, not while the Tribune owns the club.
Thanks, Sox, you done good. It was fun to watch.
The calendar moved on and the American League adopted the Handicapped Pitchers Rule, which may have started my slide from youthful liberalism to adult conservatism. At any rate, eventually I moved away from Detroit to some cities where there were no baseball teams and found myself more and more often rooting for the National League whenever there was an inter-league game on television.
Eventually I ended up in Chicago, a town with two baseball teams. Bliss. I discovered that I was frequenting more Cubs games than Sox, not just because I lived on the north side but because the park was a slice of heaven and a National League park, at that. The fact that the Cubs - possessed by what can only be described as a loathsome loser ethos - play at Wrigley with irritating regularity is a negative but serves to make it easier to root for the visiting team. Thus, a National League fan was created.
Not that the White Sox, who often gave the Cubs a run for mediocrity, were much better than the Cubs. The Sox even built a new stadium, an homage to Soviet era architecture that looks like a flying saucer making crop-circles out of housing projects. Sitting in the very steep upper decks you don't dare staunch the blood dribbling from your nose with Kleenex because you know it will serve as a flag for the gang-bangers living in the projects just across the Dan Ryan, targeting the crowd and itching to take a shot. You also know that if they do take that shot you won't be able to stop yourself as you tumble down thirty rows of stairs and over the edge to your death on the field below. No wonder its called the Cell it has all the look and charm of a prison and many of the games have seemed like the Sox were playing sissy in the showers. At least most years my now-hapless Tigers could count on an easy game when they came to Chicago.
Maybe Reinsdorf has started to feel his own mortality and realizes that his future isnt limitless, but the Sox ownership seems to have made a great baseball decision: give one of their own a chance in the managers slot and start assembling a team of good, solid, under-valued players. This occasionally volatile crew of nearly-weres and havent-yets coalesced as a team under the truly spectacular trust and encouragement that their manager showed them, survived a classic post-All Star Game slump and showed the cool grit of champions. Redemption through victory, play for the team or die. Maglio who? Frank who?
The Astros are a better team than their record in the Series shows and most any of the games could have easily gone either way. The umpiring X-factor aside, the fact that none of the games DID go the other way isnt a measure of the Astros incapacity but, instead, a measure of the Sox heart and steely resolve. Little ball, indeed.
I'm not ready to call myself a Sox fan just yet, if for no reason other than to aggravate Scubina, my Southside Sweetie. Nonethless, this was a better team than anyone expected and, if they can be held together, they show the promise of becoming one of those historical anomolies: a great team without any great players. The Cell, however, will always look like a prison, no matter how much they try to dress it up.
The Curse of the Bambino was broken last year, the Black Sox curse was broken this year, the last great curse in baseball remains the Curse of the Goat on the Cubs. Could next year be the one where Hell freezes over? Nah, not while the Tribune owns the club.
Thanks, Sox, you done good. It was fun to watch.
DiveGolfSki
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reefraff:
You have a GF named Scubina? Wow, that's a match made in scuba heaven.
gangrel441
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Nice Post, reef. Welcom to the greatest ride in Chicago sporting history!
Just to clear up a coupoe of pieces of info that the media here loves to overlook, and the media here and nationally don't do much to fix it....
Cubs Sub-500 performaces since 2001
2005 - 79-83
2002 - 67-95 :11doh:
White Sox Sub-500 performances since 2001
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Cubs wins, 2001 to present
405 - Average 81/year
White Sox wins, 2001 to present
432 - Average 86-year
And just for you....
Years Detroit finished ahead of White Sox in standings, 2001 - present
0
The Sox have rarely been the medeocre team the media has made them out to be. I am going back to 2001 here. If we go back to 2000, they had another division championship. They have just had this obnoxious tendency to beat the Yankees and Indians and Twins, then let a team like Detroit come in here and sweep them once in a while. Did it this year, too. Not sure why that is.
My point is, don't believe what ESPN has been telling you (or not telling you at all) about the White Sox all these years. These guys have been under-the-radar perennial contenders. Words can't really sum up how happy I am that they finally got the spotlight they have deserved for some time! :14:
reefraff:
Just to clear up a coupoe of pieces of info that the media here loves to overlook, and the media here and nationally don't do much to fix it....
Cubs Sub-500 performaces since 2001
2005 - 79-83
2002 - 67-95 :11doh:
White Sox Sub-500 performances since 2001
-
Cubs wins, 2001 to present
405 - Average 81/year
White Sox wins, 2001 to present
432 - Average 86-year
And just for you....
Years Detroit finished ahead of White Sox in standings, 2001 - present
0
The Sox have rarely been the medeocre team the media has made them out to be. I am going back to 2001 here. If we go back to 2000, they had another division championship. They have just had this obnoxious tendency to beat the Yankees and Indians and Twins, then let a team like Detroit come in here and sweep them once in a while. Did it this year, too. Not sure why that is.
My point is, don't believe what ESPN has been telling you (or not telling you at all) about the White Sox all these years. These guys have been under-the-radar perennial contenders. Words can't really sum up how happy I am that they finally got the spotlight they have deserved for some time! :14:
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