SOX PRIDE !!!
CHICAGO WHTIE SOX ...that is.
October in America brings alot of things ...
Fall
Halloween
And Sometimes Snow ( in Chicago at least )
And ...Playoff Baseball !
Now, for those that live outside of cities like Boston, New York, St. Louis, and Atlanta...may have no idea who the most successfully challenged baseball city in America ...is Chicago.
Granted we have two teams, but the Cubs really don't count as a major league team...and when you want to cheer for a team that even REMOTELY has a chance...you cheer for the White Sox.
Year in and year out, the Sox are in contention, until the final moments of the season, and they crap out. In a town where the "cute" team on the outside side of town gets all the publicity and most of the support, it's hard to tell that the White Sox are indeed the best team in town...when they are treated as the red-headed step child.
I've always cheered for the underdogs....Bears, Bulls ( well for a while they weren't and it was a really good time, too bad they are gone ), the Sox...and even my Purdue Boilermakers ( God help us ).
Soo here we are October 2005, and my tears are now of joy and hope.
As the potential for success on the Blue Collar, South Side of Chicago is as high as it's been in 12 years.
Every year there is a mantra that the most Cubs fans preach, in the off chance that it comes to fruition...and this year I am stealing it...." This is our year. "
This White Sox team happens to be the best since the last time I was uncontrollably giddy over baseball...1993 ( 12 years ago ).
In addtion...it has been 46 years since our last playoff win at home....until today.
We have the best record in the American League (1st time since 2000 )
Central Division Champions ( 1st time since 2000 )
And now we have home field advantage throughout the playoffs.
This could be our year.
Every year one can count on hearing about New York and Boston and how they are the teams to beat.
Last year everyone went crazy about how the Red Sox, "suffered" for sooo long after not winning a World Series in 86 years.
Well, as I mentioned earlier...Chicago is the most successfully deprived city.
To date, the last White Sox World Series win was in .... 1917...yes... 1917...88 YEARS AGO !! ( only the Cubs have suffered longer, 1908, but no one really expects them to win anyway....so it's different )
88 years of doing well, but just not well enough.
Dear God....I REALLY hope THIS is our year !
GO GO SOX !!
and....if you don't hear from me for a few weeks....I'll be Root...Root Rooooting for my White Sox !
And if any of you out there in tv land, are sick of hearing about Boston and New York, and/or St. Louis and Atlanta...please feel free to join in. ; )
October in America brings alot of things ...
Fall
Halloween
And Sometimes Snow ( in Chicago at least )
And ...Playoff Baseball !
Now, for those that live outside of cities like Boston, New York, St. Louis, and Atlanta...may have no idea who the most successfully challenged baseball city in America ...is Chicago.
Granted we have two teams, but the Cubs really don't count as a major league team...and when you want to cheer for a team that even REMOTELY has a chance...you cheer for the White Sox.
Year in and year out, the Sox are in contention, until the final moments of the season, and they crap out. In a town where the "cute" team on the outside side of town gets all the publicity and most of the support, it's hard to tell that the White Sox are indeed the best team in town...when they are treated as the red-headed step child.
I've always cheered for the underdogs....Bears, Bulls ( well for a while they weren't and it was a really good time, too bad they are gone ), the Sox...and even my Purdue Boilermakers ( God help us ).
Soo here we are October 2005, and my tears are now of joy and hope.
As the potential for success on the Blue Collar, South Side of Chicago is as high as it's been in 12 years.
Every year there is a mantra that the most Cubs fans preach, in the off chance that it comes to fruition...and this year I am stealing it...." This is our year. "
This White Sox team happens to be the best since the last time I was uncontrollably giddy over baseball...1993 ( 12 years ago ).
In addtion...it has been 46 years since our last playoff win at home....until today.
We have the best record in the American League (1st time since 2000 )
Central Division Champions ( 1st time since 2000 )
And now we have home field advantage throughout the playoffs.
This could be our year.
Every year one can count on hearing about New York and Boston and how they are the teams to beat.
Last year everyone went crazy about how the Red Sox, "suffered" for sooo long after not winning a World Series in 86 years.
Well, as I mentioned earlier...Chicago is the most successfully deprived city.
To date, the last White Sox World Series win was in .... 1917...yes... 1917...88 YEARS AGO !! ( only the Cubs have suffered longer, 1908, but no one really expects them to win anyway....so it's different )
88 years of doing well, but just not well enough.
Dear God....I REALLY hope THIS is our year !
GO GO SOX !!
and....if you don't hear from me for a few weeks....I'll be Root...Root Rooooting for my White Sox !
And if any of you out there in tv land, are sick of hearing about Boston and New York, and/or St. Louis and Atlanta...please feel free to join in. ; )
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