Posted on 10/16/2005 8:52:11 PM PDT by carlo3b
As we say in Chicago: "Only Suckers Beef!"
I was at the third to last game at Comiskey Park. My girlfriend at the time, (now my wife) couldn't understand why I didn't want to leave the stadium. (She wanted to beat the traffic.)
I married her anyway.
Sox played well all year and in this series. Too bad they lost any respect they earned. Excuse Me??? Hillary is Cubs Fan. Secondly, We don't want your respect. If I could say what I want to say to you, I would get banned by Jim Robinson. But I think the nonsense in your post explains everything.
GO WHITE SOX!!!
"I might just go to one of the games back home in Chicago, and here in Houston if Houston wins.. They better have a mountain of Beef Sandwiches, Kosher Hot Dogs, Deep Dish Pizzas, and Italian Lemonade when I get up there!!!.. Yummmm :)"
Al's Italian beef, Uno's stuffed pizza, any Chicago dog from the hot dog stands, Peterson's Ice Cream Parlor in Oak Park, Manny's Deli, Old Taylor Street (little Italy) for your pasta fix, and don't forget Chinatown, Greektown, Cermak Road for Mexican, Marquette Park area for Lithuanian, all the Bohemian restaurants along 22nd Street, Germantown up north. Plus every other conceivable ethnic food you can think of. Chicago is an eater's paradise. And therefore a very dangerous town. You can stuff yourself to death, but what a way to go. Speaking of ways to go, GO WHITE SOX, this Chicago Freeper is extremely proud of you. 4 more... that's all.
I understand they don't want respect.
That's what's so sad. Their Bush league play makes all their great accomplishments seems inconsequential.
They won more games than any team all year. They took apart the Sox.
Their pitchers did very well (an understatement).
Yet all that will be remembered is some scamming bush league play where their catcher ran to first after the players left the field when he knew he was out.
Black Sox.
Congrats Black Sox.
I live in FL (since 1977), but grew up in Michigan across the lake from Chicago. I have been a die-hard St. Louis Cardinal fan since I picked up the opening day game of 1967 St. Louis Cardinals baseball season on KMOX on my little GE AM clock radio. Harry Carey, and Jack Buck made me a Cardinal fan.
But 45 or so miles across Lake Michigan was the city of Chicago, and all the media influence of it. TV, radio, newspapers were all pretty much dominated in my little SW corner of Michigan by them.
My first MLB baseball game was the first game after the All-Star break in 1968.The game was at Wrigley Field and the Cubs played the Los Angeles Dodgers. We sat on the left field side,(Dodger's side), and were 3 seats away from the bulpen pitcher's mound.In the 7th inning, Don Drysdale was made to warm-up in the bullpen ( I think so that folks who came to see him could at least say they saw him right before he retired), and to be less that 10ft away from him durring an actual MLB game was and is a very cherished memory.)
This next statement is coming from one of the most die-hard Cardinal fan's you will ever meet(me), but in this freeper's VERY humble opinion, I wish that every baseball fan could be indoctrinated to the game my having their baseball game virginity "lost" at Wrigley Field.
I've seen at least 50 games there( a VERY conservative #), maybe six games at 35th and the Dan Ryan(5 at the old Comiskey, and one game in 1992 at the new park), one game at Shea in 1984, and two games in Atlanta's Fulton Co. Stadium, and one game at Tropicana Field in Tama-St Pete,
but there is nothing to compare a baseball game at Wrigley Field.
I have never been to Busch Stadium, and looks like I will never get the chance since they are tearing it down two weeks after the Cardinals last 2005 season game,( and with a team RISP average of 3 for 35 ( or something just as comatose) that sorta means I will never get to attend a game there.
But really I have been to Busch Stadium in a way that I will NEVER forget, because two wonderful men and a 50,000 watt clear channel AM station from St. Louis Mo, took me there and every other ballpark the Cardinals played in while the two of them worked there. This freeper was made not just a Cardinal Fan by Harry Carey and Jack Buck, but a TRUE BASEBALL FAN by them.
...and that's why this die-hard Cardinal's Fan wishes that every one could see their first game at Wrigley Field. It's almost the last real pure, natural, almost untouched by time place to enjoy a BASEBALL game, no matter who is playing on the field.
...And in answer to your post,(....finally after my rant), I too miss the "big city", and mostly because of BASEBALL, IMHO the greatest "game" of all.
On the bright side, any damage rioters do to the Southside of Chicago could only increase property values.
Excuses are for losers and liberals... which one are you?
Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"?
Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath-of-God type stuff.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.
Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling.
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, the Cubs versus the Sox in the series - mass hysteria.
Back when Hill'ry was still a Rosemary's baby, we lived in Edison Park. My Dad used to say you could spit across the street and hit Park Ridge.
If we'd known then what we know now, I would've.
The comedian/actor Robert Klein used to do a bit about him. Klein said that Minnie had a stance that put his head in the strike zone.
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Are you sure about Gary Peters? He was the American League Roookie of the Year in 1963.
If he was on the '59 roster, then I've surely learned something today. Peters and Mike Hershberger were my favorite Sox players in the early to mid 60's.
GO GO SOX!
This has gotta turn you on, Chef Carlo, LOL.
It's better than S#%.. :)
Get over it.
What a bullpen.. The Astro's better eat their Wheaties, assuming they finish it off... Gulp
You are killin me... :)
Peasant food Paradise.. I became a ghetto gourmet, long before I became a master chef.. :)
Peasant food Paradise.. I became a ghetto gourmet, long before I became a master chef.. :)
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