Ah, crap.

I believe that scream everyone just heard was the last bit of class on the South Side dying.

Didnt Guillen say he'd retire if they won? Ozzie can be one of the funny-looking guys they get rid of

I love you guys for inspiring our GM to fetch us a dream.

"Now, get rid of Konerko and a few of the funny-looking guys in the offseason, 'kay?"

Umm...no thankee. :)

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

dammit dammit dammit... I wish Santana was still an Astro...

Dear Mr. Boom,

Yes, that's right! Boy, BG sure hopes Ozzie's not a flip flopper.

Concerned,
Batgirl

And while you're getting rid of Konerko, make sure he heads over here.

Mmmm....Minnesota Twin Paul Konerko. It has a nice ring to it.

Komerko would look nice in a Twins uniform. Too bad Crede isn't a free agent too!

Anyway, Terry Ryan-time to get to work so the Twins can reclaim the AL Central and this time make it to the Series.

Congratulations to the White Sox, for sure. They played hard the whole way through, and truthfully played Twins baseball better than the Twins did this year. There were a lot of "wow" moments for me these past few nights. I have to admit I had goosebumps for a few moments afterwards when the final out was recorded.

I have a hard time believing Ozzie's really going to follow through on retiring now. Still if he does, they might be able to talk Jerry Manuel into coming back, likewise getting Roberto Alomar to come out of retirement (sending Brandon McCarthy and Tad Iguchi to the Diamondbacks for the sake of tradition). Maybe they can trade Buehrle to the Dodgers for Jose Valentin. Kenny make it happen!

I'd express my true thoughts right now, but BG's profanity filter would explode.

let us all take a moment and be thankful it wasn't the Yank's or the Red Socks.

Honestly, I am simply glad it was a team that has not won the WS in a long time. The game needs to spread that WS love around. So who's next to go that hasn't gone in a long time!

(sorry if that sounds too much like a preschool teacher.)

Ah, hell.

Wait til next year....

Yeah whatever. congrats BitchSox and all that shit.

When do pitchers and catchers report?

Watch out NY-Brian, that's the Cubs fan motto. Yankees aren't THAT far out, are they?

Dearest Bat-Girl,

It is so indescribably sweet. You should know; you had it twice in 87 and 91. So much pain washed away in so little time.

Sox fans have to thank the Twins. After they beat our brains in for three years, we finally decided to play like the Twins. Hell, we even bought ourselves a Twin! We had great pitching and could field the ball. If you don't think that's because of the Twins, you're crazy.

Thank you Minnesota, and God bless the White Sox.

-Shoeless Joe

Peace and Love to all in the Twin Cities from YOUR 2005 WORLD SERIES CHAMPION CHICAGO WHITE SOX.

Cheer up, you still have one more trophy than we do!

Until next year, anyway.....

[I LOVE TORII HUNTER! WHEN HE CRASHED INTO ME I FELT ALL TINGLY!]

[DELETED BY BG.]

Don't hold back Leslie, tell us how you really feel. Invoke Godwin's Law too next time, I mean, just for completeness sake. I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Ozzie is the moral equivalent of Pol Pot, and Paul Konerko says really mean things to small furry animals in his free time.

You don't have to like it, but do you have to take it to such melodramatic extremes? Saying you hate the White Sox like you hate Bin Laden is the first thing I've seen in this site that I've frankly been baffled at. While I understand that a rival team winning it all can be disconcerting, it should never make such a mental disconnect as to equate the winning team with someone like Bin Laden. If that's how you honestly feel, get help from a qualified professional.

Really, I don't know how any of us could hate the White Sox all that deeply, much less equate them to Bin Laden. The Twins beat up on them for the last 4 years, and there wasn't much of a rivalry between the two clubs before that.

The White Sox and their fans deserve their moment to bask in glory. They had the best record in the league, and capped it off with an 11-1 run through the postseason and a World Series sweep. Good for them. I tip my cap, and look forward to next Spring, when I'll be rooting for the Twins to knock the bitches down again.

Dear BG-

I am already in PAX BS funk...not so much because the Evil Ones won it all but because we'll have to wait another five months for a real baseball game. Sigh. Long winter ahead.

Thanks to you for another brilliant year of fun and insightful analysis.

Best,

Oh

In all honesty, I am not thrilled with this turn of events.

However -- all I really, truly wanted out of this postseason was for the Yankees to be eliminated quietly and early. I got that. It would be selfish to ask for more.

So, congratulations, White Sox. I do wish you had gotten to win without the half-dozen blown ump calls, if for no other reason than you could just call it a clean win. Be happy with your Series, let it soak away the shame of Shoeless Joe and the rest. Have a happy and pleasant off-season.

Because we are coming for you next year.

Congrats to the BSox. They played well for most of the year, got a few lucky breaks, and we got to watch AJ win a championship with some wild plays.

But, Carrie says we're coming for you next year, and if she says it, you'd better believe it. Remember Koskie's thumbs???

"When do pitchers and catchers report?"

The best comment so far was from JimCrikket.

Personally, I love the Bitch Sox. I love that we have a rivalry worth caring about. I love that it points out the stupidity of interleague play, and our "rivalry" with the Milwaukee Drunken Slobs. And I love that the AL Central gets some love. And the best thing about the Bitch Sox winning it all: It EMPHASIZES the ongoing ineptitude of the Cubs - the most undeserving recipients of national admiration in all of sport.

Lovingly,

Glove Boy

Congratulations to the winners. I didn't want you to win, because the rivalry exists that strongly, but I won't say that you didn't deserve it. You are a good baseball team--I just wanted it to be us. :)

*looks around at the bleak world without baseball* The offseason sucks. (115 days until pitchers and catchers. I can make it! Batgirl Book Club will show me the way!)

Thanks for the great year, Batgirl!

JustBeth

Pander:
"Saying you hate the White Sox like you hate Bin Laden is the first thing I've seen in this site that I've frankly been baffled at."

Have you not been paying attention to Twins Hottest Chick? I think I need the offseason to recover from seeing that, moreso than coming to grips with the baseball played by the White Sox over the last few weeks.

4 straight complete games by their starters, only one loss in the playoffs (after salvaging a tanking season).

Count me in as one of the people that wasn't worried about the White Sox in the postseason. It would come down to the Yankees, Angels, Astros or Cards, for sure. The White Sox would hopefully beat the Red Sox and lose promptly in the ALCS.

Count me in as one of the people who sorely underestimated the ability of this team to play in the clutch. Incredible pitching, incredible clutch hitting, and how about Jermaine Dye, Paul Konerko and Joe Crede? Wow. I am impressed.

Congrats to the 2005 Chicago White Sox. I would love to say "well, sometimes the best team doesn't win...etc." but for all but 4 weeks of the 2005 season, the White Sox WERE the best team (even though I hate admitting to it).

Best to all,
YankeeFan

At least they tried to win this time.

I think I've figured out why the White Sox had such great team chemistry this year.

Click on my name, yo. Or cut and paste this link:

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/photo?slug=hta19010270538.world_series__hta190&prov=ap

Once it became apparent that the Twins were out and those peksy 'Toons threatened to make a move, I started supporting the Bitches wholeheartedly.
I am feeling oddly satisfied this morning.

Nice: "Yeah, a month ago, they were calling us chokers," said White Sox poet laureate A.J. Pierzynski on a magical night in October. "But now they can call us something else that starts with a C-H -- champions."

(from http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2005/columns/story?columnist=stark_jayson&id=2204831)

btw- I'm detecting some bitching coming from this area right over here (drawing a circle around this thread). I mean most of the posts are very classy and sportsmanlike but come on... the sox played a better regular season than even the Evil Empire did and they played a monster of a postseason. On top of it all, the whole "can't we all just get along"/melting pot kind of feel-good human interest story is really good for baseball. So's the fact that they're a $75m payroll team.

Yay, Sox. Enjoy it while it lasts ;-)

Other enjoyable quotes from the aforementioned article:

"What an inning," Blum would say later. "It was scary. It was quixotic. What's that mean, anyway -- quixotic?"

and:

"I'm not sure what happened after that," said Jenks, "other than a whole lot of loudness -- and a bunch of guys hitting me on the head."

Then he looked up and saw his catcher, Pierzynski, sprinting toward him -- and (yikes) leaping into his arms.

"I knew he was coming," Jenks said. "I just had a feeling. I saw it in his face: 'Here I come.' "

"Hey, I knew he wouldn't drop me," Pierzynski said. "He might be the only guy in the league who's fatter than me."

"It didn't matter how big he is," Jenks said. "I could have picked up a car right then."

Come on, if these were the Cubs, or hell, just about any other team in baseball, you wouldn't be so upset.

Craptacular . . .but congratulations BitchSox none the less.

From Joe Christensen's write-up in the Star-Tribune:

"'This is a once-in-a-lifetime thing,' White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf said after grabbing that trophy from Selig."

We can only hope this means he's planning to pull a '97 Marlins and dismantle the team, not intending to win another. I can dream, can't I?

Yours in fantasy-land,

Skorch

from espn.com:

"We could start the playoffs again tomorrow and get knocked off in three games, because we aren't some unbelievably great team. We're just a team that played our best baseball when we had to." -Paul Konerko

That's the truest thing I have read about this Series...

YF

Congrats to the bad bad south side of Chicago - nice team you got. I didn't think anyone would figure out Roy Oswalt, but you knocked him around good.

Don't despair fellow Twins fans. We have a fine team, too, and I sincerely believe we're just a bat away (I'm thinking a Chili Davis, Shane Mack, Tom Brunansky, Paul Konerko, or possibly a healthy, confident Justin Morneau) from a fun division battle next year.

In tribute, here is a paraphrase (as best I can remember) of a story about ex-White Sox shortstop Luke Appling, from The Baseball Book by Bill James:

Near the end of his career, Appling was asked
what his saddest day in baseball was. He said
that he had one every year. It was the last
day of the season, when he knew there wouldn't
be a game tomorrow.

That about sums it up. When do pitchers and catchers report?

To all but one of the twins fans on here, thank you for kicking our ass year after year until someone finally began to take it personally and really try to build a team to take you on with. Screw the media, the AL Central is the best division in baseball. I don't think this rivalry is going to get any easier any time soon.

Obviously congrats to the winners and their fans...but, following on the heels of last year's one-sided contest, I'm fearing a long-term trend. I admit to being a bit spoiled by some of the most recent Fall Classics that have had great two-sided competition and drama, but I would settle for somewhere in between...like an NL team SHOWING UP for hell's sake.

I look forward to seeing all the crazed, happy ChiSoxer fans at spring training. Get clever with the boasting handmade signs and t-shirts for my viewing enjoyment please.

Pitchers and catchers in:

115 days, 15 hours and 9 minutes.

(also auroras birthday. *whistles*)

Pls, can we stop the GFWS love fest already. They're hosers, dammit, pretenders to the throne.

Ok, well, they did win. Shoot.

When does spring training start so we can get this bad taste out of our mouth?

Congrats to the White Sox and their fans.

Pitchers & Catchers report February 19. I'm off to hibernate until then.

This is a difficult day for men with crushes on Sheryl Swoopes, and Twins fans everywhere. But this "congratulations" and "respect" thing is a little much, no? Red Sox fans didn't congratulate the Yankees when they were winning the World Series every frickin' year, and folks in the Bronx who made nice after last October most probably had their Bleacher Bum nicknames revoked.

Referencing the greatest ancient hatefest in baseball is obviously a bit of a stretch to make a point about us and Chicago, but rivalries don't mean anything unless one team or the other is winning big. The Bitch Sox have been in our division all the way back to 1961, followed us through the West and Central realignments, ruined 1992 for us, came between me and my Chicagoland-native girlfriend in 2000, and were our primary reference point from 2002-04. Now that they aren't just a Dr. Dre fashion accessory anymore, and have hundreds of thousands of fans who retroactively were "there all along," maybe Twins-Bitch Sox will really start meaning something now.

Here's a motto for anyone with a T-shirt printer: 2006... IT'S ON, BITCH

Isn't this sign number two of the coming Apocolypse?

First, the Red Sox.

Then the White Sox.

If the Cubs win next year, I think we're done.

You Can Put it on the Board, YYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!
Let me just say that I'm in an absolutely blissful state after seeing my beloved ChiSox win it all. Although I hope this becomes more of a routine than a once in a lifetime event, I think I can be content for a long long time.
BTW, I think the Asstros did show up for the series as all of the games were quite close. The Sox just wanted it more. This was evident when Uribe caught that foul in the stands.
I'm off to work with one of the best hangovers ever; feeling this bad has never felt so good.

I'd say let the cubs wait a year or two...then they can win it in 2008, exactly 100 years after their last one...

Actually, the prophecy is now complete: "low socks, high socks, Red Sox, White Sox" is the order of the signs of The Seusspocalypse.

The best thing about this year's World Series is that it is now over..........
Now we can concentrate on what TR will do this offseason. :)

Dearest KW -

"Actually, the prophecy is now complete: "low socks, high socks, Red Sox, White Sox" is the order of the signs of The Seusspocalypse."

That has cured me from my blues - that was fabulous!

much love
WW

Here's my advice to Twins fans: become emotionally dead.

Dear BG

Mr Tejeda was the MVP of the All Star game and got a shiny new Vette, Mr Dye was the MVP of the Wolrd Series and got an ugly truck like thinger. Don't you think the WS MVP should have gotten the nicer car ?

mike

So, I'm thinking about taking a trip to Vegas and putting a crapload of money on the Cubs to win it all next year.

Anyone with me?

Seusspocalypse! Priceless!

Methinks "once in a lifetime event" refers to winning it all after an 88-year drought. IOW, there is plenty-o-wiggle room to win it all again next year. But it ain't happening.

So, for 24 hours, I'll say 'Yay, Sox' but then it's back to "do-doooo-do-do-doot, do-doooo.... we're gonna win Twins, we're gonna score..."

Do the White Sox have a cheesy song? I was mostly absent 'cept the AJ game, so if it was brought up this postseason, I missed it.

Wow, Jamie Burke, demoted to AAA Charlotte in May not due to injury but for his talent level, and now some imposter comes here to whine about what Burke himself said wasn't a cheap shot (and which Ozzie lauded as a good, hard play):
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=1847744

Now I completely get why they are the Bitch Sox. The team figures it out and goes out to get a good hardnosed player like AJ (whom the Giants out here should have kept) and it pays off for Chitown, and some whiny weiner of a southside fan visits this site to coopt Burke's name and contradict Jamie himself? On the night the team finally wins a title?

Good to see most of the Chicago fans on this site show a lot more class. Congrats to AJ, and I look forward to next year.

One good thing to come out of this is the recognition that AL Central isn't some branch of the minor leagues that fits in between AA and AAA.

This morning on Sportscenter, Peter Gammons (who in fairness has been kinder than most analysts in discussing the middle of the country) made a case for the White Sox as not just the World Series Champs, but also clearly the best team in baseball this year. (Now, I know, I know, that this would have just been accepted, not argued, had the Yankees had this kind of a season -- but stick with me.) His final point was that the White Sox led wire to wire in the AL Central, which was a collective 8 GAMES OVER .500 against the AL East. Now was that so hard?

If it takes a Wox series win to make that happen, well, it's an ill wind that blows nobody good. Not living in the Twins' viewing area, I depend on occasional national broadcasts to see the Central division in action. Maybe we can count on a few more broadcasts, and if there's a good Twins/Sox race next year, better yet. (Go Twins, though, of course!)

Weird. I ask the question here and surf around to my usual Thursday sites... and there's my cheesy Chicago White Sox tune (click name for audio).

Because I am a decent person I have to say congrats to the White Sox. Because I am a Twins fan I have to say screw the Bitch Sox, all except AJ Pierzynski. No, seriously though, I think the Sox deserved to win. They were the best team in the majors this year so cheers to them. But, may the Sox get their asses handed to them next season. Hopefully, by the Twins.

Here's to the AL Central being the best division in baseball next year. Even as a Sox fan, I happy to have great teams like the Twins and Indians, maybe even the Tigers (as soon as Leyland figures out he's now their manager). This just makes it more fun to be a baseball fan.

But until next April...it all ours!!!

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/5028848

It seems a similar controversy as last year is brewing in the home of the Paler Sox.

As a Sox fan, thank you for all the kind words. I hope you don't think I'm trying to rub it in, but I had to pass along a link to an article in today's Chicago Tribune. If there's any baseball site that would appreciate some beautiful writing, it's this one.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/chi-0510270173oct27,1,2537517.story

"Baseball is played in the summer but ends in the autumn, when the light starts to fail and kids are called inside early, taken reluctantly from their games in vacant lots and dead-end streets. The moments are precious because they perish. The joy is special because it's temporary. 'Death is the mother of beauty,' wrote Wallace Stevens. What makes today so amazing--the first full day after the Sox victory--is that it is unique in the history of the world. And will remain so. Cherish it, because it is moving steadily out of your reach."

Jeez, I'm gonna start crying again. Read the article; it's not for nothing that the writer, Julia Keller, won a Pulitzer.

Um, just out of curiosity, are all the old comment logs here so I can prove I'm not a fair-weather Sox fan for any who so accuse me? :P

Agreed about the Burke thing...clean hit last year, unnecessary but a statement-maker and, as mentioned, clean.

Pander
The "Been-a-Sox-Fan-since-1989-when-he-was-seven-years-old-I-SWEAR" Sox Fan.

I've also got to give Jenks his propers for being so freaking heads-up on the final out... pulling his hands back at the last second so Uribe could make the play (and I agree with whomever said that were it Jeter who dove into the stands, people would still be lining up to give him hummers.. ok, I paraphrased)... with all the adrenaline coursing through him at that moment, I'm very impressed that he managed to avoid channelling Bartman.

Dear Pander,

I believe the record is quite clear.

Sincerely,
BG

Aw, crap. Knew it was coming, but it still makes me feel slightly ill. Congratulations to the Bitch Sox and their fans.

Now could you all please just win with class and NOT rub it in our faces all year? Please? Just so you all know, 'winning with class' does not include comments like "you can put in on the booooaard, yes!" even if meant in jest.

Just as a general rule, anything that Hawk Harrelson says - not classy. Just so ya know.

Otherwise, I'm with JimCrikket, let's move on. Spring Training, here we come!!

"The bitchiest in the whole wide world"

Not a surprising comment but I still laughed plenty.

I was, however, fairly joyful for the B. Sox and their fans. I can still transport myself back to '87 when we won it for the first time. All baseball fans (except the gluttons that are Yankee fans) deserve to find themselves in that rich exotic state of "my team won the World Series Champs holy crap" euphoria.

I am hungry to enjoy that richness again, here in MN.

Now baseball is really over. May 115 days go swiftly.

yours in early spring fever,

kal

I want to ask all the white sox fans out there? are they really white sox fans, or just cubs fans jumping on the short bang wagon for the time being? Another thing, please enough with calling the white sox as a "small ball" club, they hit more home runs when they needed it than any team i can remember. PS Ozzie sucks, can anyone ever understand what hes saying? Can we please get a new outdoor ball park soon? Please?

Dear Mr. Karl,

If anyone knows that there are plenty of White Sox fans out there and have been for at least two years, it's Batgirl.

Sincerely,
BG

YES the white sox have a cheesy song, although it was lost after 1959 and only rediscovered this last year.

"let's go, go-go whiiiiite sox"

Um...

1. Thanks to BG and all else on the congrats - very classy. Aside from being proud of my Sox, I am also proud of the AL Central being the strongest division in the AL.

2. There are many true Sox fans, such as myself, who have been such since childhood. But there are also bandwagon jumpers. Just like with any other team.

3. People who actually think that a couple bad umpiring calls that went the Sox way (and there were plenty that went the other way too) is the reason they won obviously weren't paying attention. We went 11-1 in the postseason. Give me a break.

4. Ozzie is a bit psycho, he speaks English at about 50% proficiency and Spanish at 75%, and he doesn't filter much of his dialogue. But I think at this point that there is no denying the fact that the man understands the game at as high a level as any other manager in the game. Like him or don't, he's a gamer.

5. I am looking forward to next season in a BIG way. I see a tough battle in the Central, with not just CHW, MIN and CLE, but even DET maybe coming of age. I'd put money on an ALC team going to the series next year again.

6. Finally, thanks to BG and the fans on this site for providing much entertainment and a lot of class throughout the season, even towards a Sox fan like me. Cheers.

Wow.

You Twins fans have all been pretty classy and all in your congrats - unlike the stuck-up Cubs fans littering the Internet with the argument of "Yeah ... well ... at least we sell out every game ..."

That's the sign of a good rivalry.

I can't say I'm going to be rooting for you guys at all next season, but looking forward to another battle. Hopefully, you'll stay healthy and we'll make a solid race out of this thing.

We had 88 years of calls going AGAINST us - about time we got a few. :) And I agree with you hrunting - how about LESS of the Spankees, Borioles and Deadsox on EPSN all the damn time. Let's see some Central Division Wed night games of the week!

Can't wait for April 3rd to see the championship banner raised. Too bad we won't raise it Apr 21st. ;) See the Twinkies next year for another season of great rivalry.