Andy

There's no such thing as karma where the Sox are concerned. A team full of rejects from other teams shouldn't be this good to begin with, nor should they have caught all the breaks they did in the regular season, nor should they have caught the Bill Buckner II break in the LDS, nor should they have BSed a win in Game 2 of the LCS, nor should Dye have been awarded first base, nor should Roger Clemens have been injured for the first time in eons, etc. etc. Not only will the White Sox not catch bad karma, but they will catch key breaks that will win them Games 3 and 4 of this series too.

Surprising, I thought my comments about the Sox being lucky would be the ones you guys would take issue with. In any case, those "big bullies" are not bullies at all, but it is incessantly annoying that I and most other Cub fans are going to take epic amounts of crap about a World Series championship that was won largely due to extra outs being granted them by umpires and Graffaninos and by the other team choking with RISP time and time again. Ozzie Guillen said he hated Wrigley Field recently. Check out SI.com's Scorecard Daily in the Truth and Rumors section for today (10/24). Even the Sox manager is obsessed with the Cubs in the MIDDLE OF THE WORLD SERIES!

Small sampling of the school records broken at the ND/BYU game: Quinn - Most passing yards in a half, breaking his own record from the Purdue game Quinn - Most TDs in a game, six, breaking his own record of five from the MSU game Quinn - Most TDs in a season, twenty Stovall - Most receiving TDs in a game, four Stovall/Samardzija - First time that two receivers had double digit catches That was fun. I was surprised at the BYU turnout...the Coug fans were pretty loud there for a while till ND took over. Brady Quinn, Maurice Stovall, Jeff Samardzija, Darius Walker - Four reasons why Ty Willingham was fired Speaking of Ty, who else noticed that he came closer to beating SC on Saturday than he ever did at ND? 8)

We've been losing forever ... but this is different. I love this team, and I don't want to see those who have been spitting in our collective face for generations derive joy from a championship they frankly don't deserve. If the Sox win, most of those overjoyed with the conclusion will be people who despise the Cubs, and most of those despondent over the conclusion will be dyed-in-the-wool Cub fans. I don't know how anyone with Cub ties can miss that. Absolutely correct. If the Sox win this damn thing I have at least two obnoxious White Sox fans I have to deal with. If the Stros win I don't have to deal with anyone making fun of me. The Sox are the only fan base in all of American sports that cares more about another team losing than their own team winning. I think if you injected a Sox fan with truth serum and asked him which he enjoyed more, this season or the 2003 Cubs collapse, they'd say the Sox...but not by much. In addition it burns me up that the Sox are winning a lot of their games with help from the Baseball Gods. When was the last time: - That an ump overturned his own call for no discernible reason? - That Roger Clemens left a game (and it looks like, an entire series) with injury? - That a ball fouled off a bat was called as a hit by pitch? - That about ten players on one team had career years at once while that same team also had exactly one semi-major injury the whole year? This team has no business being in the Series, but I'm going to have to hear them called the greatest team ever for the next six months because all of this crap happened this year...

Well, I'm off for the weekend, will be at the ND/BYU game. GO IRISH!!!!

She's actually very attractive when she plays Mary Jane, but for some reason she looks like a 13-year-old in most of her other movies. Maybe she should go redhead full-time.

May be just a coincedence but all the offensive talent on this team (Lee, Ramirez, Barrett) have had their best seasons under Baker. They've all entered the age ranges of 29-33, generally considered to be a player's prime years. This has nothing to do with Dusty. Ask Corey Patterson, Jose Macias, Neifi Perez, Paul Bako, and Jason Dubois how much Dusty helped their offense.

No, this can't happen. Konerko needs to stay so I don't lose any reasons to hate the White Sox.

I bumped fists with Ronnie Woo Woo once when my buddy and I were getting tickets for a Padres game that we went to last year. That man lives and breathes Cubs baseball.

Thank you. I'm still in shock. I've had my heart ripped out of my chest so many times. I can't believe the Astros are playing in the Series. The World Series! I was 12 in 1986 and I've grown up with heart break. I guess eveything will feel a little more real Saturday. I have to admit, I haven't watched the Sox this year. I know most of the players from years past but I haven't seen them play as a team. On paper, it looks like a great matchup. Question. Is their rotation really that good? Everybody on ESPN picked their rotation over Oswalt, Clemens and Pettitte. That's a bold statement. Usually, picking Contreras, Buehrle, Garcia and Garland over those three + Backe would be a terrible idea, but unfortunately for you guys they have absolutely caught fire at the best possible time. Your pitchers will have to come with their A game every time out for you guys to win it all. I'm rooting for you though.

This is very distressing news, considering Bonzi is probably the third most famous Ball State alum in the world behind David Letterman and Papa John. :wink: Well, you guys would probably put him behind Brad Maynard as well for the regional loyalty factor... I briefly met Allen Rossum, Ron Powlus and Bob Davie at a meet the team thing in 1997. Rossum seemed very nice, Powlus seemed gracious, and Davie seemed pretty cool, although I still can't forgive him or Ty for what they did to the Irish over the last decade or so. :wink:

This is superb analysis: "Hawk suffers from the same problem Leinart does; he's so good and playing so flawlessly well, the he's not getting the credit he deserves." whaaaa? Haha that is stupid...ask Leinart how flawless he was in South Bend on Saturday. ND's defense almost made him look human - almost. How is a redshirt freshman from IU ahead of Jeff Samardzija on one man's All-American team? Even the most ardent ND haters fear Jeff.

I forgot to mention that one of my friends interned at ESPN Radio 1000 in Chicago this summer. He says he met Len Kasper and Bob Brenly. He said Len was about the nicest guy you will ever meet and that Bob was surprisingly shy.

When I went to the Brewers series at Wrigley in June, me and my two best friends got in a running joke with a Brewers lefthander named Crawford who wore 56...I can't find his first name on any Web sites so he was probably a career minor leaguer or something. Anyway, we went to all three games of the series and before the first one we bet him ten dollars that he would get into the game. He said he wouldn't and he didn't. The next day my friend tried to pay him but he of course didn't take it and then said again he wouldn't play. He had fun with most of our bleacher section before all three games and just seemed like a very genuine guy who loved being a major leaguer.

Sox in 6 but I really hope I'm wrong.

Over the last two years I have come to the opinion that there's hardly a classier player in the game than Todd Walker. He chooses the Cubs over many teams offering him more money and a starting job so he can have a chance to win it all, he, like Nomar, has offered to move to the outfield to stay here, he's said our fans are just as good as Boston's and nicer too (read "Cubs Nation" by Gene Wojchechowski), and he never to my knowledge complaind about the slide by Carlos Lee that knocked him out a month. He's all in all just a great guy and a pretty good baseball player too. I really hope he is still our 2B in 2006.

2004 was worse. That team could have and should have won the World Series but LaTroy Hawkins and the offense collectively decided that wasn't happening. Also the Sosa situation left me feeling very bitter with anything Cubs-related in the offseason. This offseason leaves me feeling anticipated. I feel like we have some unfinished business and that this off-season will make or break the Hendry/Baker era on the North Side. And for some reason I have positive vibes about it.

And doesn't miss this time.

I am an Astros fan for a while...

I wasn't going to either way. Anything that involves the White Sox is bad television. Even the Sox losing? That's the problem. They got hot at the absolute perfect time, so they're not going to.

I wasn't going to either way. Anything that involves the White Sox is bad television.

Good lord, even the PA announcer is playing "You'll Be In My Heart" by Phil Collins instead of congratulating Houston. What the heck is this?

Let's Go Cardinals is the chant. The "classy" fans would have applauded but STL has the best fans, it is inarguable according to the SI players poll.

Well the White Sox just won the 2005 World Series title. Damn it.

Spider-Man. His movies are better in addition to the reasons I gave in the discussion thread... :wink: