The White Sox continue to run their mouths

[CubinNY]

Because they have no traditions.

Didn't they have mullett night a few years ago.

 

Then there's the father and son smoke all the crack you can before a game beat the 1st base coach night.

[Mizzou]

I read that the Sox draped a big "L" flag over a counter after Friday's game. I try to be objective, but the White Sox have to be #1 in lacking class.

Wait... they put an L flag up after they won? That's hilarious. The Sox beat the Cubs, but rather than putting up a flag (or doing anything) signifying their victory, they do something pointing out that the other team lost? That really makes me laugh. What a terrible organization.

[seamus]

I read that the Sox draped a big "L" flag over a counter after Friday's game. I try to be objective, but the White Sox have to be #1 in lacking class.

 

Where did you read this?

[evv98]

Because they have no traditions.

Didn't they have mullett night a few years ago.

 

Then there's the father and son smoke all the crack you can before a game beat the 1st base coach night.

 

Have you seen the people that attend White Sox games? It's mullet night every night.

[areilly]

I read that the Sox draped a big "L" flag over a counter after Friday's game. I try to be objective, but the White Sox have to be #1 in lacking class.

Does anyone know why we don't use any of their traditions against them in the same manner as them draping the L flag?

 

Because they have no traditions.

I guess we could run onto the field and try to beat up the umpire or first base coach. Or we could accuse them of cheating. Those seem to be the only White Sox traditions I can think of.

 

And I've always been amazed the Sox never got in the market of selling the blue "L" flags after the "W" flags starting appearing. For a team that hates the Cubs as much as they do, it seems like a no-brainer.

 

But Dybas and Ligue stole that tradition from Cub superfan John Murray. And for an interesting read, go read about which team those tools root for and where they'd been all day prior to their infamous nights at Comiskey.

 

Anyway, there actually are a few traditions around Sox games:

- Halfway to St. Patrick's Day

- Dog Day

- Elvis Night

- Mullet Night (either the most embarassing or most brilliantly self-deprecating promotion in baseball; not sure which)

- "Na Na Hey Hey" when the opposiing pitcher is yanked mid-inning

- Fireworks after Sox home runs and victories

- "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the 7th inning stretch, but the Cubs already co-opted that one

- Hawk's terrible announcing, but again Santo seems to have that one locked up too.

 

I realize none of these are as clever as flags or throwing garbage, but we seem to like them just fine.

[SouthSideRyan]

I read that the Sox draped a big "L" flag over a counter after Friday's game. I try to be objective, but the White Sox have to be #1 in lacking class.

Does anyone know why we don't use any of their traditions against them in the same manner as them draping the L flag?

 

Because they have no traditions.

I guess we could run onto the field and try to beat up the umpire or first base coach. Or we could accuse them of cheating. Those seem to be the only White Sox traditions I can think of.

 

And I've always been amazed the Sox never got in the market of selling the blue "L" flags after the "W" flags starting appearing. For a team that hates the Cubs as much as they do, it seems like a no-brainer.

 

But Dybas and Ligue stole that tradition from Cub superfan John Murray. And for an interesting read, go read about which team those tools root for and where they'd been all day prior to their infamous nights at Comiskey.

 

Anyway, there actually are a few traditions around Sox games:

- Halfway to St. Patrick's Day

- Dog Day

- Elvis Night

- Mullet Night (either the most embarassing or most brilliantly self-deprecating promotion in baseball; not sure which)

- "Na Na Hey Hey" when the opposiing pitcher is yanked mid-inning

- Fireworks after Sox home runs and victories

- "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the 7th inning stretch, but the Cubs already co-opted that one

- Hawk's terrible announcing, but again Santo seems to have that one locked up too.

 

I realize none of these are as clever as flags or throwing garbage, but we seem to like them just fine.

 

Ligue is Alsip trash, he's definitely a Sox fan. Dybas was like the 5th guy to run on the field that game, certainly all drunk Cub fans looking for their cell phones on the field. I'd also love for you to let me know where Ligue was before the game. Probably at Mackell's. Unless your implication is that he was at the Cubs game and then went to the Sox game afterward. Seems like a tight squeeze to fly in from New York in order to catch the White Sox night game, but you know us Cubs fans, never turning down a chance to get drunk!!!

 

And Murray only stole the tradition from Disco Demolition night, a proud day in White Sox history. Though I should probably look up what team those 50,000 morons were fans of, probably all those stupid drunk Cub fans.

Edited June 30, 2008 by SouthSideRyan

[MPC]

dybas was a cubs game but the ligues were not.

[areilly]

dybas was a cubs game but the ligues were not.

 

You're right; I stand corrected.

[areilly]

And Murray only stole the tradition from Disco Demolition night, a proud day in White Sox history. Though I should probably look up what team those 50,000 morons were fans of, probably all those stupid drunk Cub fans.

 

My guess is they were just fans of rock, punk, metal, and/or Steve Dahl, because both the 1979 Sox and Cubs

a) were terrible

b) drew poorly (16k/game for the Sox, 20k/game for the Cubs)

[moochpuppy]

I guess we could run onto the field and try to beat up the umpire or first base coach. Or we could accuse them of cheating.

 

 

Or you could try attacking your own pitcher on the mound or steal opposing teams hats. :wink:

[BaseballBob]

The singing of "Take me out to the Ballgame" was started by Harry Caray at Comiskey in the 1970's when he was the Sox' play-by-play guy. It was the Cubs who "co-opted" it, not the Sox.

 

The "L" flag was waved by the Sox dugout over the weekend by Sox fans, not the team itself.

[Joe_Cub]

Wrong -

 

The Sox draped a blue L flag over the front desk in their ballpark lobby after Friday's victory in a not-so-subtle shot at their crosstown rivals.

 

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/cs-080627-ozzie-guillen-chicago-cubs-white-sox,0,1621550.story

 

Stay classy, white sox.