First, let me say congratulation to the World Series Champions…The Chicago White Soxs… and their fans. For the first time in many years, each of the World Series games were a nail biter to the end. The last game of the season was no exception.
Next, let me say thank you to the Classiest team in baseball. The Astros were written off early in the year. Many may remember the article in the Houston Chronicle with the tombstone saying the Stros were dead and buried. And yet we came back, and never looked back. They didn’t do it conventionaly, or always very prettily. But always with style. And they won, and for the first time, Texas had a World Series.
So here is to the fans of the Stros on C & F. We can be so proud of our Killer Bee’s. And we have so much to look forward to. Our club is a very young club. I was so impressed by the improvements of Chris Burke and Jason Lane. They are going to be real gems in our lineup next year. There is so much potential for our team. A real reason to keep our chins up and look to next year
So Congrats to the Sox.
We will see you in next years World Series
There was a really funny commentary on All Things Considered yesterday by the guy whose name I can never remember. He’s a Cubs fan, but, after the White Sox’s three Series victories, reluctantly jumped on the bandwagon. He had some rather explicit descriptions about Cubs’ fans opinions of the White Sox. The Cubs are on the north side, which is more gentry, while the White Sox are from south side, which is more working class. He said things like “The White Sox are the NASCAR of the major leagues,” and “Cubs fans eat, drink, and hate the White Sox.” It sounded as though that animosity is almost as deep as that between Red Sox and Yankees fans.
Watching those four games, it really seemed to me that the White Sox just plain wanted it more than the Astros. They definitely earned it.
Houston did a great job this year, and I was very proud of them, even though I’m not a fan of theirs per se. It would have been great to see them win, but to even come as far as they did was awesome.
The animosity DEFINITELY goes both ways when you’re talking Cubs vs. White Sox. I regularly listen to Chicago talk radio, and for the last couple of weeks, that has been all the talk - how the Cubs fans hate the White Sox fans, how the White Sox fans hate the Cubs fans, how the Cubs fans are really nice but White Sox fans are jerks, how the White Sox fans are really nice but Cubs fans are jerks, etc, etc, etc.
There are many Cubs fans (including myself) who are very happy for the Sox. But there are also, unfortunately, many others who are very upset that the Sox won because they just can’t stand them. The Cubs fans say it stems from '03, when the Cubs blew it big time, and the Sox fans they knew were all very mean to them (according to the Cubs fans). But of course the Sox fans come back and say they were only mean because the Cubs fans are so arrogant, and it goes on, and on, and on…
The Sox definitely have been the second team in Chicago baseball for a long time. Maybe now they will get a little more respect.
Come on guys the Braves haven’t won in 10 years. Even though I live in Jersey I used to live in the burbs of Atlanta, the Braves will be my team not the Yankees.
The American League rules. The five best teams in baseball are the Yankees, the White Sox, the Red Sox, the Angels and the Indians. The Cardinals are the only team who belongs with them,
