My history teacher is placing a $100 bet on the White Sox based on my predictions. I don't want him to lose so I gotta root for the White Sox. Suddenly, I'm attracted to Ozzie Guillén

You guys are weak.

Go stros.

Well said BG. Well said.

Also the image of Steinbrimer as the Borg Queen, thank you for inspiring that image.

Until they get rid of Hawk, I still want them to lose every single game. Well... except against the Evil Empire. And the Empire of Insufficient Good. And Toronto.

But that's it.

This is completely unrelated to rooting for the Bitch Sox.

But I am watching the series. And what the HECK is up with the terrible FOXTRAX pitch locator. It is not even close. Ever.

Oops

Astros just tied it in the ninth GOTTA GO

Neil, I agree.

Not to mention it is annoying to see a replay on EVERY STINKING PITCH.

GO ASTROS!

And something comepletely RELATED to rooting for the Bitch Sox...

I am a transplated South Dakotan Twins fan living in Austin, Texas. If you are a Twins fan, meaning someone who roots for baseball in all its forms, played the right way by the right guys, you would be hard pressed to root against the Houston Astros in any game.

Great pitching... Admirable veterans... Impressive youth.. Run-scoring toubles now and then... Great clubouse attitudes... True appreciation for the fans that show up every day... the Astros are the National League version of the Twins in this postseason. And I can't help but root for them.

They're still the Bitch Sox to me.

...

Podsednik just homered to win it. Crap.

As someone who has watched quite a few games on gameday (simply out of necessity), I have to say that I prefer the Astros 1) just simply out of principle and 2) because most of the players actually have pictures that are somewhat visually appealing. I mean, Biggio is actually smiling! And it looks natural! Before I watched this game, I thought that it was impossible for players to actually look happy! Go 'Stros!

No, I like the B*tch Sox. I'll like it even better when the B*tch Sox win the World Series. It's especially sweet that way. It's a great banner to win under.

It's a moniker that's stuck, and it should apply just as much during the regular season as it should during the world series.

It's a great nickname! Let's get behind that: Bitch Sox for the World Series!

Hey, those are the risks you take when you assign a team a moniker like the Bitch Sox. When they win the pennant, you've got to stick with it. Don't jump of the ship you built, batgirl! the captain always goes down with the ship!

Would Captain Kirk back down in the face of adversity? No! Would Captain Picard turn tail and run after throwing down the gauntlet with a nickname like the "Bitch Sox?" Hell No! Don't be Wesley Crusher, batgirl. Don't be the first one off the ship.

The BITCH Sox are doing great things in unbelievable fashion this postseason, and not having "Fever Pitch" type movies made out of it.

Let me put it this way: I won't change Yoohoo Santana's name to Johan when (not if) the Twins reach the series within the next two seasons. He'll always be Yoohoo to me.

Hold your head high, batgirl, and captain the ship you've built to better times.

I am pulling for the Bitch Sox if for no other reason than it makes us look better if the team who won our division wins it all.
I confess I enjoy seeing Ozzie motion for the "Fat Guy" (their closer) from the bull pen. But it offends me when I hear them refer to Ozzie Gullien as the "wizard of oz".
EXCUSE ME! That is Ozzie Smith and there is no other.

ditto, batgirl.

exactly how i feel.

...but if i was still in chicago, i'm sure their obnoxious fans would drive me to hate them just as much as ever.

The Bitch Sox are still the Bitch Sox to me.

On another note: What is up with the shoddy umpiring this postseason? It seems as if every other bad play is called in the Bitch Sox' favor. Like they all took a course taught by Hunter Wendelstadt.

Anyway, I hope the Bitch Sox take an Enron turn when they get to Enron...I mean Minute Maid Park. I have been a Biggio/Bagwell fan for a very long time, and I am hoping they get the World Championship before they retire. Clemens sucks either way.

GO STROS!

The point, of course, is that you are rooting *against a team from Texas*....

Um...

Why has EVERYONE gone soft???? These are the White Sox! Our MORTAL enemies! Doesn't anyone realize this? HELLO?

I think the matrix may have overtaken our collective thoughts and made it feel alright for (some of us...) to passively/aggressively root for the White Sux/Bitch Sox. Not this guy.

SNAP OUT OF IT!!

Do you realize that if these ass clowns win the World Series that we'll never hear the end of it?? Chants of Back-to-back-to-back futility (not that White Sux fans could spell or pronounce 'futility')?

Oh sure, '87 and '91 were great, but what have you done for me LATELY?

And does anyone REALLY think this Sux team is 'scrappy'? C'mon. They have Scotty Po to steal bases to make them a 'small ball' team, and then the rest of them swing for the fences.

Screw Ozzie Ball.

Let's all get some perspective and root-root-root for the Astros. If the White Sux win it's a shame.

And....scene.

My fear is just that if the Bitch Sox win, they'll be even more insufferable next season. *shudder*

I say, that this is good baseball, this series, and we should appreciate it for what it is.

But as a friend to many Sox fans, I have to root for the 'Stros, otherwise next season will be intolerable.

Ach, ya, I'll still be against the Sox on principle. Division loyalty? Nah. I like what Houston's done this season with that comeback and whatnot, so yeah, of course I'll root for them. Y'know, the little guys. I like the Little Guys, they've got spunk.

I'm really tired of hearing Joe Buck talk about how long it's been since the Sox were in a Series/won a Series. Come ON, dude! Not once did I hear a peep about Houston's never having seen a Series during the first game, and I wasn't actually listening tonight, since I had much more entertaining people to listen to while we watched. Was it mentioned, or was it just a bunch more Bitch Sox ass-kissing? Will that all change once the game moves to Minute Maid?

And Podsednik - you were one of the very few Sox that I never had a *real* problem with. Don't make me change my mind...

P.S. Although it was nice to actually see you smile for once during a game... Still, grand slams against the Astros are bad, buddy. Bad.

...Can I see you smile again, though? Just because?

I really want a "Joe Crede is my Boyfriend" shirt, but something tells me that'll never show up on this site :)

I'm not rooting against the Sox so much as pulling for my 'Stros. Right now, my heart is broken.

I feel like shooting myself in the head watching those assholes win. It pisses me off. I get very angry when the Whiney Sux win. I cursed a F-Bomb when the Sux lead on the grand slam by Knoerko.

God why do bad guys win in sports?

Were there no crying in baseball, I would not now be so happy for my White Sox. Which there is. Which I am.

All your bitch are belong to us.

It is good to see the good-natured sparring on this thread. And while it feels great to be so close to ending 890 years of futiliny, it behooves me to take comfort in the fact that someone set up us the bomb.

I believe it was either Dick Cavett or Tony Danza that said it best "How are you, Gentleman?"

I promise to all here, that Mark BUEHRLE would be 100% less of a bitch if people would spell Mark BUEHRLE's last name right.

And on another note... :)

-Pander
The "Post-Season-Road-Games-Are-Our-Friend" White Sox Fan.

If the Sox fans become more insufferable next year, so be it. It'll just make the rivalry more fun, and the satisfaction a little sweeter when the Twins knock them off their perch again. In the meantime, screw Clemens, Pettitte, and the state of Texas. I'm rooting for A.J. and Chicago, and my friend Martin, who has waited his whole life for this week.

Amen, Leslie.

twink has summed up my feelings entirely. *shudder*

I'm pulling for the Astros, but if the Sox win it it won't be the end of the world and I'll genuinely be happy for them and their fans.

After Konerko's grand slam last night I turned the game off, figuring it was over after that. Have I learned nothing? Granted, the game still ended with a Chicago victory but it sounds like it got a whole lot more interesting once I threw in the towel. Sure, Podsednik doesn't hit one single f'n dinger for my fantasy league all year, but now that it's the postseason and they no longer matter to me he's hit two?

As far as the there being an influx of insufferable Bitch Sox fans if they win the series, I'm not too concerned. The regular Sox fans we have here now (Shoeless Joe, Sox Fan-who hasn't been around in awhile, Pander, Kojak, MarkyMark, etc) are decent and behave well. The ones that come in and act like assholes are dealt with swiftly.

I do feel for those that will only be able to watch Twins games that Hawk Harrelson calls though and what I imagine will be an entire season of his crowing, win or lose. If he were a Twins announcer I'd be absolutely embarrassed, and apologetic to everyone from out of the market who hears him. Bremer and Blyleven are Murrow and Kronkite in comparison in terms of bias.

Cheer for the Bitch Sox? And even worse, call them the WHITE Sox?? NO! I refuse to do it. Once evil, always evil.

This is even worse than trying to make us feel sorry for Darth Vader at the end of the first Star Wars movies by making him a pathetic old man who turns back to the good side. He was the villain! You are supposed to hate the villain, no matter what. And the Bitch Sox will always be the villains to me. No matter how much we ramble on about their sad history and how it makes our division look better if they win and 'Ozzie ball' and A.J. is loveable and blah blah blah.

GO ASTROS! Oh, and the Sox fans will be insufferable next year win OR lose. But if they lose, I'll at least have some better come backs to their arrogant comments. . .

I agree with frightwig. I'm for AJ and the Bitch Sox. However, I have NO problem continuing calling them by their proper name. The only problem is that you'll very likely have to add "World Champion Chicago" to the front of it.

If AJ wasn't on that team. Then I can dream about rooting against them. But I'm on AJ's side.

Dear Bloody P,

Word.

Concurringly,
Jaer

Com'on......love the White Sox. You can do it.

You will love the White Sox. You will cheer on the White sox. You will support every member of the 2005 AL Champion Chicago White Sox. You will purchase 2005 World Champion Chicago White Sox caps and t-shirts.

Yes.....come to the White side. Abandon those tired "TC" caps. It is your destiny.

:)

When I opined on another website that I only wished both these teams could lose, an occasionally wise man wrote in response: "Which city would you rather see celebrate?"

That made it real easy for me: Chicago has given us great culture and the occasional statesman (Stevenson, Simon, Obama). Houston has given us... southern-fried petro-feudalism and Tom DeLay. Go White Sox, and let's just hope Jerry ReinSatan pees himself or something during the trophy presentation.

Sorry, dude, shake it off. Maybe it's just hard to hate when it comes to baseball. Maybe baseball is for...non-haters.

Go Astros! ... and Scott Podsednik ... and Freddy Garcia ... and AJ ...

Say it ain't so Batgirl! Say it ain't so!
Other than that, I agree 100% with Skorch.

Thanks, BG. Much appreciated. As a Chicagoan and a Sox fan, I've always thought the whole Twins-Sox rivalry was a bit of a fantasy. I've never felt animosity for the Twins. They play good ball. They're good sports. (And who could hate the team behind butt-shaking Cy-God Santana?) It's nothing like the Chicago sports rivalries of old with the hated teams of Detroit and Green Bay. Maybe it's just that Sox fans send all their bile to the North Side. The Central Division has some real baseball these days. Nothing like that East Coast crap.

Um.

Hear, hear?

-el diablo

What the Hell are we thinking? We've gone way too soft for any of us to be rooting for the Mini-Me of evil empires. Do not stop hating the Bitch-Sox.

"Did we give up when the Germans attacked Pearl Harbor?"

For those who didn't see it, there's an article in New York paper regarding the umpiring this postseason speculating that some nefarious schemes resulted in this group of umpires being given the honors this year. Granted it may be New Yorkers having no other scandals to report since one of their teams didn't make it this year, but it makes you think...

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/story/358408p-305438c.html

"Houston has given us... southern-fried petro-feudalism and Tom DeLay."

Come on, Jeff... you're not even trying. We've also given you George the Younger, arguably the two worst football teams in America, and a 100-mile traffic jam. And that's just this year.

-ex

Dear Jeff,

No.
No, I can't.
Never.
Not a chance.
No.
No, I won't.
No, it isn't.

bubblemint

It's sad to recall the Twins had an opportunity to play spoiler against the White Sox down the stretch but didn't (in Santana-less games, that is). I don't want to say the White Sox avoided the WORST COLLAPSE IN HISTORY (remember that?) thanks to the Twins, but I seem to recall that the Twins were the first team they started taking series from in September. (Of course, Cleveland suddenly got tight, too.)

Anyway, Go Sox! There's enough Texas in the air the way it is. Besides, success breeds complacency. Here's hoping all this fall's unstoppable White Sox train will result in an offseason as listless as the Twins' '04 offseason! (Beyond that, maybe they'll sign Garland to a 5-year, $60 million deal or something.)

-jianfu

p.s., Hey Sox fans, where's John Rooney going next season, and who's taking his place?

Don't go soft on us now, people. I like to come here and witness Batgirl and various Batlings rip my favorite team and their allegedly illiterate fans. Don't take that simple joy away from me.

On the other hand, I've had a lot of simple joys in the last couple of weeks -- oops, sorry. I'll have to monitor my insufferability quotient a little better around here.

Three comments:

1. I think the Borg analogy works pretty well for the Astros. Why, you ask? Look at their team. They all look the same - bearded white men. Seriously. I had a hard time distinguishing them.

2. As both a Sox fan and a baseball fan, I love this series. These two teams both play solid, fundamental baseball. They work their asses off too. Gotta love this series no matter which team you are rooting for.

3. Credo in Crede!!!

Can we steal Joe Crede for next year? And a little side dish of Scott Podsednik wouldn't hurt either...
I've gone soft too. But only because of the two reasons listed above. I still want to see them lose cuz of AJ.

Jaer,

Word is bond.

Bloody P

Skorch: Well said--and yes I am one who will have to deal with listening to the insufferable Hawk next year when Twins play Bitch Sox...

Did anybody else here McCarver use "pick to click on last nites game??" When they start saying "you can put it on the board" I shut off the TV.

Will the Bitch Sox ever get a bad call that goes against them?? Don Denkinger must be laughing somewhere.

My dearest batfriends, I too feel like a traitor and a softie. I have been rooting for the Bitch Sox the entire time. There are four reasons for this:

1) I truly love the city of Chicago and have had many good times there. Cheers! Houston, never been there nor do I care to go there.
2) AJ, my first "baseball boyfriend". Sure I've had admiring glances towards others before him, but none stole my heart they way he did. I still miss him dearly.
3) Their starting pitching is hot! hot! hot! And I think it's cute how they try so hard to be Johan Santana.
4) Central Division Pride. I love that an AL Central team is in the big dance. It's great!

I still call them Bitch Sox though and my love for them, like the leaves on the trees in autumn, will fade and die in time for Twinsfest.

I usually stop caring once my team (Boston) is gone, except for the Yankees...can't explain what's going on with you, Batgirl, except maybe fatigue. You know as well as anybody that it's fatiguing rooting against another team, especially a team that's gone 9-1 in their postseason...sometimes, unfortunately, a winning team just clubs you into submission. You're human. You'll recover. After all...isn't it more important that you love the Twins, than that you hate the Chi Sox? That's why I refuse to buy or wear a "Yankee Hater" shirt...

I call them the team who plays Twins baseball better than the Twins play Twins baseball. . . and we're the Twins.

I'd like to put together two teams of sentimental favorites some year for the World Series. Smoltz, Biggio, Torii,etc. etc.

I still have enough hate for all of us, I'm afraid.

I used to harbor secret fond feelings for A.J., but then he had to go and be involved in all of those, er, plays of questionable legality. I'm SO over him now.

"Can we steal Joe Crede for next year? And a little side dish of Scott Podsednik wouldn't hurt either..."

My GOD forMorneau, you can have them either of them, or both, for the low low price of someone like Jason Kubel, Justin Morneau or Scott Baker. Please, PLEASE tell me you're Terry Ryan, PLEASE!

Don't you want some postseason magic on your roster? We'll take that icky canadian first baseman off your hands, and you can be forCrede, instead.

And as I've said elsewheres, A.J. Pierzynski is the most rule bendingest catcher around (How's that for tortured Bitch Sox fan syntax?), and I love him for it.

MikeQ,
I'll give you Rivas, Juan Carlos Romero & Mulholland. That's all I give up. I know...it's not necessarily equal...
I'd give you Kubel, but my roommate has a huge crush on him...

Nicely said, Twink.

What really scares me is that my own parents are rotting for the sox. I also hate Joe Buck to infinity. That Yankee/Sox lover can ust kiss my a$$.

Nicely said, Twink.

What really scares me is that my own parents are rotting for the sox. I also hate Joe Buck to infinity. That Yankee/Sox lover should just shut up, and tell us about the game for a while.

The B-Sox, I just don't like 'em and I can't root for 'em. It's that simple. I watched part of Game 2 on Fox Sports Espanol last night to keep from hearing Buck 'n' McCarver, a.k.a. "The Idiot and the White Guy." My espanol, of course, is non-existant beyond bueno, mercado and "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL." But at least there's no espanol-speaking version of that little ani-runt Scooter. End of rant.

First off I have to compliment BG and everyone who is posting on this site for making my breaks at work filled with laughter and smiles. I love the White Sox but can appreciate the jokes at their expense and the other rambles on the comment boards. Most of them are on point. I appreciate the Twinkies because of their style of play - gotta love Yoohoo Santana - but I like their second and third place finishes a lot better than those AL Central Championships.
Welcome, BG and all the others, to the Dark Side (or would that be the White side???) if only for the World Series.
I love the borg analogy with the Yankees. Absolutely Beautiful!
To Fordhoiberg, I also can't stand the Fox nitwits constantly bringing up 1959 and 1917. Only I thought that they were rubbing it in and not kissing ass. Amazing how our perspectives can be so different. Same thing with Joe Buck and that boner Tim McCarver, it always seems like they're bashing the Sox. Now I realize I'm being too sensitive and they're actually trying to ram their noses up some peoples bottoms. Personally, I'd rather hear Hawk and DJ, but never realized how horrible it must be to listen to them from the other side. This blog aside, I've heard 2 people say they liked Hawk and DJ (a Giants fan and a Cubs fan) and 2 people despise them (both A's fans). Hey, at least they aren't the Giant's announcers. Those guys are even worse.
As for the p(l)ayoff umpiring, and it's not as if I'm complaining, I have to point out that the first base umpire blew the pick off call on Iguchi last night despite having perfect positioning. Don't know what the bozos at Fox said, but when they replayed it 25 times, it seemed to me that Iguchi made it back before the tag. So not ALL the calls are going for the White Sox, techincally speaking, just 90% of them and somehow the Sox seem to capitalize on each one. Taking advantage of opportunities is usually the sign of a good team though it would be nice if there was never any doubt as to the merits of the White Sox. Also, I can't blame the ump for the call on Dye last night because the guy's vision was blocked by the catcher's mitt. He should have talked with the 2nd base ump.
As far as the general feeling that Sox fans are awful, have you guys been around Yankees, Red Sux or sCrUBS fans? They are insufferable with a capital I (with appologies to Agramente because that was a classy comment with respect to Yankees Suck shirts). I'd like to think that Sox Fans, such as myself, aren't as bad as those guys, but maybe that's hoping for too much. Sorry if I'm that annoying, I didn't know.
Did anyone else notice that Mark Buehrle looks a lot like those borg Astros? I was sitting there talking about how I could never bring myself to root for the Astros in any situation because they're from Texas and they all look the same with those stupid beards...and then they showed Buehrle pitching and I felt like a total dipstick.
On a totally unrelated note, anyone notice that the Oakland A's had a total of 1 African American player despite playing in Oakland? Classic! This town embraced a bunch of white guys with bad hair and makes no apologies for it. Gotta love Oaktown.
Isn't Ozzie Guillen the Blizzard of Oz?
Sorry for the novel...
GO SOX! x 2

It's true -- the Bitch Sox we hated were the Bitch Sox of Frank Thomas, Magglio Ordonez, Jose Valentin, Robbie Alomar, Jerry Manuel, Billy Koch, etc., etc. Now that all of those guys aren't around, it's harder to find things to hate. So I am rooting for them this month (gotta go with your division/league, I guess, plus, they have A.J.), but it sure is going to be tiresome to watch their world-champion swagger in 2006. Hopefully they will collapse from the weight of it all.

"Until they get rid of Hawk, I still want them to lose every single game. Well... except against the Evil Empire. And the Empire of Insufficient Good. And Toronto."

Dude...I am I sensing I lack of love for my Jays?

~CJF

Craig-

Just great. Just when I'm all good and ready to really, really hate the Bitch Sox, one of their fans has to sound all reasonable, and normal, and not yelling about how bad the Twins are, and well nice, and it just messes it up for me. Well, it's not going to work! I'm not going over to the dark side, no siree!

Though I do have to admit that you are right that Yankee and Red Sox fans are generally much more annoying (not including the regulars here of course) and I was pretty happy that neither of those teams advanced. And well, you do have a point about the White, (oops, I mean Bitch) Sox being able to capitalize on the mistakes made by the umpires.

And, well, it is kind of cute how they think they are the Twins and all just because they have one player that doesn't hit home runs. (note to Ozzie Guillen, a grand slam and a walk off home run in the same game is not quite my definition of 'small ball')

Wait - See how I've gotten lulled into believing that they aren't so bad?? That is the "dark side" of the baseball force talking. They seem so innocent, and convince you that it's not really so bad, it's okay, you can call them the White Sox if you want. . . and then you run into a full-fledged troll or a Mark Buehrle, and you find you are sorely mistaken!

Nice try Craig, but I think I'll stay away from the dark side. Go Stros! (meant in good fun - nice post Craig!;-)

I'm going to make this real easy on all y'all:

If you root for the White Sux, there is NO way that you are a true Twins Fan. Period. End of story, yo.

They have whined excuses and bashed our boys every year except this year when they took off with the early lead in the division. If they win, we lose.

How you like me NOW?

I dig what you are laying down, Bloddy P.

I'm rooting for the White Sox. I think the seeds were planted when I took White Sox box scores for show and tell when I was in first and second grade.

After my family moved to Virginia, I really didn't pay much attention to major league baseball until a team moved to Washington DC this season. But when I went to a game against Houston, I wasn't impressed with the Astros fans I saw at RFK Stadium, or on Metro going home.

Maybe I ran into some bad examples of Astros fans, (and it may help that I'm a Nationals fan and haven't seen them play against the White Sox), but the fans helped make it easy for me to root against Houston and for the White Sox.

I plan on being exquisitely insufferable just as soon as the White Sox win, please g-d let it be so, just from that precise moment insufferable. I hope that everyone here will grow to appreciate that too, maybe, over time. Or maybe not.

The sweetness intolerant DARE not click my name.

Trying to be Helpfully I Almost Promise,

Flitcraft

Flitcraft, that's a photo caption contest just waiting to happen...

Oh my what is a Twins fan to do! Yes I dislike the bitch sox with all my heart, but I am a central division loyalist. East coast ball is snobby and west coast ball is well west coast. The central division has been dis for years. I feel we are sticking it to the big guys on the coast.
But then some one commented that Joe Buck is talking up the sox. Ick! Its hard, my hate for Joe Buck, Tim McGarver and Joe Morgan is sooooooooo great!
So like every good Minnesotan, I am ignoring the series and watching hockey. Come spring all my hopes and dreams will come true again. Ahh baseball will be back. Then I will just have to get controll of the remote to switch back and forth between baseball and hockey.
An added note for the baseball/hockey fans if you have the NHL Center Ice package in the spring you can pick up baseball games because hockey and baseball us the same channels, at least on Comcast.

Flitcraft! You missed the best part of that picture! (Click me - hopefully that works, otherwise http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a137/batlings/30172d5d.jpg)

Ah, Joe Sox Fan continues to live up to the current perception of Sox fans as pathetic lowlifes...

(click my name)

The guy was a doctor, he was obviously a yuppie north sider who just wanted to go to the world series.

As a side note the meth addicts who jumped the Royals third base coach those few years ago, were from my hometown - ugg...

The Cell is definitely a safe place to bring kids though, with the new additions and things there its actually very kid oriented and you'll see tons of kids at all the games.

Now I here the MLB is trying force Houston to open up the dome?

Why? It's their stadium. It's their atmosphere. Isn't that after all for the enjoyment of the fans (ie the people they're playing this game for...supposedly)

US Cellular Field: "Come for the excessive fireworks...stay for the abusive fans."

wildchild- strong work catching that part of the photo... talk about the Dark Side, that looked like the Emperor himself... who was that, Buehrle?

This was cool too:

"You don't slap a New Jersey girl and get away with it," Craig Biggio said in Houston. "My brother-in-law ended up putting him against the wall."

awwwwyeahhhh ;-)

Its aj gone wild! click my name or else go to

http://sportsbybrooks.com/A.J.Pierzynski.html

Someone's wife is getting some jewlery...

At least they weren't on a boat...

Just wanted to express, as a Sox fan, how embarrassed I am for that moron who attacked Biggio's wife. For what it's worth, my apologies for that. What an a**.

Like all sporting events, unfortunately, there is always at least 1% jerk-quotient. There was the ultimate moron, the one at US Cell who attacked the coach. There were the morons at Wrigley Mausoleum who started a fight with the Dodgers a few years before that, and ended with a dozen Dodgers brawling in the stands. There was the Boston/NYY bullpen fight last year. They are everywhere. I hope people don't think this is somehow unique to the South Side of Chicago.

The offender in this case was a Doctor? Yeesh. I think the AMA should pull his license.

I root for the White Sox as a Twins and Cubs fan.

Hard to imagine. But my loves are two: Twins and Cubs. To quote Belushi: when the Cubs aren't in it, I root for the Sox.

To love the Cubs is to hate the Astros. You may think division loyalty applies--as it does in the case of the Sox-Twins--but the Astros are a sort of b-squad Braves to the NL central division, spoiling the Cubs too many times. I would have preferred the Cards.

Plus if the Sox win, all the more reason to beat them in 2006!

Viva Los Astros!

Wow, Ovie.

Looks like all the ladies on here talking about A.J. being their boyfriend could really make that come true.

What a shmuck.

Catching up on a Bat-girl subject from earlier this summer:

GOD'S REVENGE FOR THE INVENTION OF CHICKEN FRIES!

"Burger King, the nation's No. 3 fast-food chain, has accused its franchisees of sabotaging the company's marketing initiatives, according to an official of the National Franchise Association."

Just an update from an earlier post, but this time more Bitch Sox. (Sorry, BG, but they are ALL Bitch Sox to me.)
click my name or visit
http://community.webshots.com/album/409039300MWNbzA

"Burger King, the nation's No. 3 fast-food chain, has accused its franchisees of sabotaging the company's marketing initiatives, according to an official of the National Franchise Association."

oooh, the best line:

The latest management team, which took over last year, "has been on double-secret probation" with the franchisee base, said Allan Hickok, formerly a restaurant analyst with Piper Jaffray.

Ovie,

Intriguing. Click my name for something I noticed...

Oh my.

What a world.

*Shakes Head*

This. Year. Never. Happened.

I'm pulling for four straight from the Astros, and while I know it will never, ever happen, I also know that I will never, ever cheer for the Bitches. (Except AJ - he's a Twin in wolf's clothing.)

And I seem to remember bitching coming from Konerko. Am I wrong?

The choke hold. The hair pull.

These bitches are the same bitches.

And hey, my name starts with a B.

Go 'Stros.

Why do I keep hearing the Imperial March in my head? Geoff Blum?! Seriously, the 'Stros can't stop Geoff Blum? Plus, they spotted Oswalt a 4-0 lead in the 4th inning and couldn't hold on. This is sad. Just sad. I just hope it's another 92 years before the Bitch Sox get this close again.

lets_go_mets: My sources say it is Buerhle, indeed.

We love you back Bat-Girl.

A Sox Fan

I can't wait to go to the Dome next season and pull the hair of all the ugly Twins wives/girlfriends. Their shrieks are like sugar to me.

Go White Sox...and take the Astros with you!!
Cubfan.