iWiN4PreP Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 (edited) I'm interested to hear about the story of Soxtalk.com. Why was it created? How did this place get so popular. There are people with over 100,000 posts on this forum. I have been here for over 10 years. This place keeps activity even when the White Sox are not a good team. I know other teams have forums similar to this, but this sure seems to be a very good one relative to many others. Whenever I think of creating a forum I always wonder how I will attract people. How did soxtalk start? Just curious. I can't even recall how I ended up here. Edited February 12, 2016 by iWin4Ron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouCanPutItOnTheBoardYES! Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 This forum is f***ing awesome. I wish I would've discovered it much earlier than I did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Gage needed friends Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 A mommy and daddy Soxtalk loved each other a lot... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Beast Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 SoxNet was involved, as was the White Sox radio show that went on. I know banned WSI and whitesox.com users flocked to Soxtalk as well. I read more than I post but this place is the s*** for news, venting and discussion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoxAce Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 QUOTE (Brian @ Feb 11, 2016 -> 09:22 PM) Gage needed friends ^^^^^^^^ This. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowand44 Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 QUOTE (SoxAce @ Feb 11, 2016 -> 11:18 PM) ^^^^^^^^ This. Ya, that seems most likely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannerfan Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 For those of us who live outside of Chicago, this place is irreplaceable. What's unfortunate is that the site is better than the team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigHurt3515 Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 I would also love to know how this site was created and by who. Seems like it would be a cool story and I am curious how the board was during the 05 season. I am glad I found this board, it has been a lot of fun to read everyone's insight on baseball and a bunch of other stuff. I have also received a lot of help with information about Chicago when I first started visiting on my own. Also was able to find someone to take pictures of when I asked my fiancee to marry me in Chicago with the help of IlliniKrush (Brian, I still owe you!). Received some tickets in exchange for a promotion going on at the game I was in town for (thanks again, HickoryHuskers). There are some great people on this site and to me this isn't just a White Sox board, it is a community that a lot of us spend a lot of time on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Zelig Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Feb 12, 2016 -> 12:04 AM) I would also love to know how this site was created and by who. Seems like it would be a cool story and I am curious how the board was during the 05 season. I am glad I found this board, it has been a lot of fun to read everyone's insight on baseball and a bunch of other stuff. I have also received a lot of help with information about Chicago when I first started visiting on my own. Also was able to find someone to take pictures of when I asked my fiancee to marry me in Chicago with the help of IlliniKrush (Brian, I still owe you!). Received some tickets in exchange for a promotion going on at the game I was in town for (thanks again, HickoryHuskers). There are some great people on this site and to me this isn't just a White Sox board, it is a community that a lot of us spend a lot of time on. Chisoxfn is the owner and I think the creator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hi8is Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Feb 11, 2016 -> 10:04 PM) ...and I am curious how the board was during the 05 season. I for one was in my bedroom with plastic sheeting draping walls and bottles of champagne spraying everywhere. I live in a small California town with no other die hard Sox fans. So that happened and then in a drunken stooper, I wrote about it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiliIrishHammock24 Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 I don't know if my ban from SouthSideSox forced me to have to sign up here, or if I had an account but didn't use it much until then. Either way, former head of SSS under the name "The Cheat" or "Da Cheat" pushed me here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iWiN4PreP Posted February 12, 2016 Author Share Posted February 12, 2016 I am curious how the board was during the 05 season. Haha, it was crazy! I remember watching every single game and always having the SoxTalk game thread open to discuss every little detail. I learned a lot about baseball from those game threads when I was just 16 or so years old. I was living in Florida at the time, so getting a chance to talk to other White Sox fans about the playoffs that year was certainly irreplaceable. All the talk about the media bias, crazy Ozzie Guillen, the weird nicknames we had for players were great. The amount of activity on the board was very high too. Playing pick to click was fun. Great stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyyle23 Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 the truth is, Chisoxfn planted a virus redirect code in WSI and Whitesox.com and everyone came over to soxtalk thinking that it was thier normal site redesigned. Nobody is supposed to know this, but it has been 10 years and it is finally time to let people know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabiness42 Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 the truth is, Chisoxfn planted a virus redirect code in WSI and Whitesox.com and everyone came over to soxtalk thinking that it was thier normal site redesigned. Nobody is supposed to know this, but it has been 10 years and it is finally time to let people know Yeah, like he's bright enough to pull that off . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyyle23 Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Feb 12, 2016 -> 08:21 AM) Yeah, like he's bright enough to pull that off . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Feb 12, 2016 -> 08:21 AM) Yeah, like he's bright enough to pull that off . . . Why do you think the admin/mod staff is here. It quite literally takes all of us to prevent mass-Gaging of the board. Let us not forget the Gaging of 2004. May they all RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDF Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 now, i remember the time when it all started, but i will say, when the main group came over, the internet and different sport site forum was a little crazy then. it really was on some days, a free for all and posters will be posting about 100 post a day. i will tell you one thing, the soxtalk crew took all comers and usually won. now, the owners needed to get this rowdy group under control and it is thru him, and the yrs, sox talk has been bless in having good to great admin or mods to help keep this site fresh, having a common theme.... that theme is all sox and sox prospects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knightni Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 12, 2016 -> 09:42 AM) Why do you think the admin/mod staff is here. It quite literally takes all of us to prevent mass-Gaging of the board. Let us not forget the Gaging of 2004. May they all RIP. We lost thousands of posts/post counts when the system site transfer crashed, iirc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDF Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 QUOTE (knightni @ Feb 12, 2016 -> 05:10 PM) We lost thousands of posts/post counts when the system site transfer crashed, iirc. oh i remember that, but, at that time, this site was growing by leaps and bounds. i was surprise that anyone was able to keep up. wasn't that problem a server problem or was it hacked. the best thing jason did was getting the admin and mods to help..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hi8is Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Not sure where I heard about Soxtalk first but my hazy memory seems to recall it like this: I was posting on WSI... They were being their usual tyrant like selves... A poster there sent me a PM saying, "these guys are douche bags and you're cool. Come join Soxtalk, where douche bags aren't welcome." That was likely Jason. This site is the bees knees... I've met up with posters at games ( when the Sox play the Angles here in California ), had posters hook me up whenever I'm in Chicago, been banned for posting my loco muses of poop, and over all have had a wonderfully beautimous time. Long live Soxtalk! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eminor3rd Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 QUOTE (hi8is @ Feb 12, 2016 -> 12:46 PM) Not sure where I heard about Soxtalk first but my hazy memory seems to recall it like this: I was posting on WSI... They were being their usual tyrant like selves... A poster there sent me a PM saying, "these guys are douche bags and you're cool. Come join Soxtalk, where douche bags aren't welcome." That was likely Jason. This site is the bees knees... I've met up with posters at games ( when the Sox play the Angles here in California ), had posters hook me up whenever I'm in Chicago, been banned for posting my loco muses of poop, and over all have had a wonderfully beautimous time. Long live Soxtalk! poop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitesoxjr27 Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Chat crew will always be my favorite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iWiN4PreP Posted February 12, 2016 Author Share Posted February 12, 2016 Hm, some good conversation here, but still somewhat unclear on the soxtalk origin. I see it extended from WSI being a... negative place ... at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 A lot came from the whitesox.com offish message boards as well. Gage will hop on eventually to reminisce. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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