Posted on 10/16/2005 8:52:11 PM PDT by carlo3b
The "Go-Go White Sox" reached the World Series in 1959. Go back further, to 1917, for the last South Side champs.
i guess you have a fragile psyche too, Sox win. woo hoo.
That was the guy they traded for Ted Kluczewski. I believe Ray Boone is (or was) Aaron Boone's grandfather.
Funny you say that about bankers. I got invited to the WS game by the bean counters at my company on touhy ave.
Go White Sox.
Excuse me, I just Love all of Chicago. Great people, great people and just an overall great experience.
They do know how to cram people into small houses though.
Sox win handed victory by the umps. woo hoo
You can try to gloat all you want. You will never remove the cloud or the asterisk.
Maybe next year they can win without help. But not this year.
That's what they said about Bush in 2000. It didn't happen then and it won't now.
Ever been to Brooklyn?
Spent two years in Chicago and enjoyed it immensly. As a New Yorker, I truly believe that there are only two real cities in the U.S., New York and Chicago. Pittsburgh is a great town though.
Which asterisk is that?
That the Sox had 4 different pitchers pitch a complete game in one series?
That their combined ERA was 1.62?
Sox win woo hoo
Meg -
I think the White Sox are going to win the series. still, if Houston wins the NL there will be a great World Series. Think of the pitching matchup! I wont miss a single game. You going to watch?
That would be asterisk that handed those pitches those games.
Had the calls been rendered correctly, the outcome would have been very different. The fact tht the manager kept the pitchers in suggest he might have known the fix was in.
It is very unusual to have pithers playing full games at this juncture. But if you knew they couldn;t lose, it makes more sense.
Maybe yes, maybe no -- but like I said, take away those not just BAD but HISTORICALLY UNPRECENTEDENTLY HORRENDOUS calls
and ?quien sabe?
Take away from it what you will. If it helps you to sleep to think that the Sox didn't win as a result of bad officiating, fine.
But anyone with eyes and a brain will always know otherwise.
I know, how about you go start another whining thread instead of polluting this one with your whining losers excuses...
How about the 3rd String catcher allowing the stealing of second base while not even attempting a throw in that same game.
How about escobar throwing a meatball to Crede with an 0-2 Count...
can't blame those on the ump, who by the way made the correct call.
How about the phenomenal call that same ump made calling Rowand out at the plate.
How about the correct call today when the STUPID BUSH LEAGUE PITCHER TRIES TO CHEAT BY TAGGING THE RUNNER WITHOUT THE BALL IN THE GLOVE...
How about Great Pitching by the White Sox with 4 Complete games in a Row. Even the Angels only had three all year long. Oh I guess that's the umps fault too....
Talk about Cheaters... face it the Angels tried to cheat tonight, and even their Manager comes out screaming on a play so obvious, its' almost ridiculous....
So as for clouds, go look in a mirror, and face the truth....
The only Clouds out tonight were the ones with rain in them on the Angels Parade.
Facts are facts, something you can't seem to acknowledge....
Losers make excuses. winners take responsibility.... You can't seem to do that. So please explain what the Angels did wrong, please.... If you have any integrity to do so, that is?
NOW.... BACK ON TOPIC...
Angels Go Home... White Sox Go to the World Series.....
SCOREBOARD........
take off the tinfoil hat and step away from the keyboard
Really? I've always been a White Sox fan. Even though I lived in NYC! To my knowlege, Hillary's NEVER been a White Sox fan...more the better!
Oh and while we're here about cheating, How about the the 2nd baseman pretending to tag out Aguchi at second base while the ball bounces off his glove.....
And how about the CHEATING ANGELS FAN in RED Reaching over, grabbing the ball in the field of play thus not allowing a Great fielder the chance to throw the guy out at Home, and then the umpire allowing the runner to score the run, tying the game, even though he had not yet reached third base....
Yeah, talk about Asterisks all you want....
Losers make EXCUSES, Winners Take Responsibility...
It is obvious to at least me which side you RESIDE ON.
bWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA..... tHANKS FOR THE CHUCKLES THOUGH, YOU ARE QUITE HUMOROUS....
Go --- Go ----- White SOx.....
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