NO!!MARY!!!

I already own a White Sox World Series ticket, a stub anyway-for Game 6 of the 1967 World Series, to be played at "White Sox Park."

Speakest thou the truth. I don't read him unless he's crying about his Cubbies, and then only because I love to laugh at them. Then I read something like that comment in today's column and I feel a lot like that guy in the yellow sign in your left column. I really should stop. I'm ranting about him on the internet and he's laughing all the way to the bank. :banghead :banghead

Jay Mariotti, King of the cheap shots, takes his cheapest one yet in today's column. I wish I hadn't read it. I will supply no link, nor pollute these boards with a quote. I will simply go on record as saying he is a king s*** asswipe prick asshole in addition to a complete f***ing jagoff.

BAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BEVINGTON!!! BEVINGTON!!!!!!!!!! BEV......... :fyou :fyou :fyou :fyou :fyou :banghead :banghead :banghead

You're right about the Marcel Lumet one. But I think that this may be his most uncanny prediction: "In the New World, there will be a place called California, and a man named Joseph Cotten will become famous."

So Jay is now writing that Maggs might go to the Cubs? To paraphrase Claude Rains, I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you. Especially since I posted this: http://www.whitesoxinteractive.com/vbullet...12928post412928 On June 11, nearly a month ago. Amazing, my powers of foresight. I humbly award myself another "Aristonidis" award. For those who don't know, he was a 16th century prophet who, according to Woody Allen, once made the pre- diction "two nations will go to war, but only one will win."

I knew we were going to win. Really I did. Uh, yeah.

I am the eternal pessimist, and I get a very strange feeling that the Cubs will sweep. Let the sneering of the obnoxious Cubbie fans begin.

Chicago Media Jerk here. The 10 White Sox fans in Chicago have it worse, because there are no White Sox fans outside of the ghetto. *sneer* *sneer* *sneer*

That guy is a MORON!!!!! IDIOT!!!! GOOF!!! JERK!!!

He's a dumbass doofus idiot jerk numbskull moron knuckle-dragging neanderthal snorting beer-guzzling belly-scratching grunting GOOF!!!!!!!!!!!!! :fyou :fyou :fyou :fyou :fyou :fyou

As I recall, Michael Jordan did not travel with the Bulls, did he? It seems to me I remember reading that he had separate travel arrangements.

I say all except the last one will be in his next article about the White Sox, whenever that may be.

Nope. Sorry. That curse gets a big ZERO on the "Curse Cuteness" Scale. Billy goats and Bambinos are far more fun.

That was the worst. With that fight he hit a level so low and subterranean that I'm surprised that he didn't emerge in China. What a total goofball. Had I been the owner of the Sox, he would've been gone that night. Of course, had I been the owner of the Sox, I never would've hired a brain-dead moron goofus idiot jerk numbskull dimbulb peabrain dum-dum idiot goofus moron like him in the first place. Incidentally, I used to work at the hotel which right across from where Terry Doofington went to high school. I could tell, too because the closer I got to the school, the lower my IQ dropped. I did NOT like Terry Bevington.

I have had a couple of great-looking flight attendants in my day. If I wasn't the twerpy pipsqueak that I am, I definitely would've tried to get phone numbers.

No, he isn't. However, he IS obligated to get whatever facts he does put in his column CORRECT.

Damn! Funny! As for Jay, I'm sure you'll be in his next Sox rant. Of course, He'll most likely portray you as ready to kick ass and take no hostages.

The one thing I have to say to that is BAH!!!!!!!!!

I would have to say it is a toss-up between three teams. 1. 1983 was truly the most awesome Sox team in my lifetime. They were an unstoppable machine in the second half of the season. I didn't watch many games that year because we didn't have Sportsvision, but I listened to a lot on the radio and was at a few. (Witnessed Luzinski's first roof shot against Minnesota.) How that team got thrashed so badly in the playoffs is still beyond me. 2. 1967 End of the Go-Go Era Sox is my favorite team to read about, discuss, research, what have you. That season must have been a nail-biter from beginning to end. I still can't believe that they lost a DH to the Kansas City A's. Still, great games to read about from that season in both the win and loss column. And Eddie Stanky was one of a kind. If he were the White Sox manager today, the team would get fried in the media and Mariotti would take cheap shots at him and scream from on high that Stanky is the devil. 3. 1906 is my second favorite, the legendary Hitless Wonders. No team has pulled off an accomplishment of their magnitude and had it ignored. Imagine if the Yankees, Mets, Red Sox or cuddly Cubbies had pulled off a season like that. They would still be celebrated in plays, songs, poems and Norman Rockwell paintings. Billy Crystal would have even made a sickly nostalgic, barf-inducing movie about them. One of the great underappreciated teams in baseball history.

It is now alleged by a writer in a recent bok that the 1918 Cubs took a dive in that series, something that Bill Veeck aluded to in 1965 in "The Hustler's Handbook."

Lots of bad trades over the years, but some excellent ones too, believe it or not. Worst: 1. Johnny Callison for Gene Freese. 2. Norm Cash and John Romano for Minnie Minoso 3. Earl Battey and Don Mincher for Roy Sievers These three trades wrecked the farm system and set the White Sox back several years. Veeck's roll of the dice for 1960 came up snake eyes and the team did not recover. They had traded all their best prospects, who went on to stardom with other teams. The Sox, meanwhile, were forced to keep trading year after year to fill gapping holes. The prospects could have come in handy around 1964-67, when the team was in desperate need of hitting. Veeck blew it. Other bad trades: Bobby Bonilla for Jose DeLeon. Jose beat Roger Clemens twice in 1986 (when Clemens went 24-4) and faded, while Bonilla played for several 1st place Pitts- burgh teams and helped the 1997 Marlins win the World Series. Release of Denny McLain is a tough call. It was bad because they could have used him in 1967-69, but he later got involved with gamblers and was suspended from baseball. Toss up. Sammy Sosa for George Bell. The only comfort I can take with this one is that the insanely arrogant, narrcisscistic Cub fans who gloat about this one are un- aware of their teams own sorry trading history. But this one stunk. Sosa is an international icon and has made the Cubs lovable, lovable, lovable. Millions of people flock to Wrigley to see him. Granted, attendance doesn't win champion- ships, but maybe if we had him, they'd all come to Comiskey to see him play and the Sox would be top dog. Then again, if he were still with the Sox, he would be derided as a wife-beating, cheating, egomaniacal steroid abuser. Jay Mariotti would going on "Operation Run the Wife-beater Out of Town: Year 13" and up his quota to three feverish articles per week and 100 late-night phone calls. Still, what might have been. Purchase of Chick Gandil from the Cleveland Indians. Not a trade, but certainly one of the WORST deals in White Sox history. Gandil, of course, was the ring- leader of the Black Sox scandal. In fact, I could site any deal that brought one of the Evil Eight to the team, including the purchase of Claude "Lefty the Bagman" Williams form the San Francisco Seals. Lefty used to deliver payoff money to Seal teammates who had gone in the tank, according to Rich Lindberg. Of course, you'll never hear that from Eliot Asinof, John Sayles, the Burns brothers, Boob Costas or anybody else who has sanctified the actions of those crooks. Best Trades: 1. Aaron Robinson for Billy Pierce 2. Joe Tipton for Nellie Fox 3. Gus Zernial, et. al. for Minnie Minoso these trades acquired the three men who were the heart and soul of the Go-Go Sox and helped revive a moribund franchise. Tommy John for Dick Allen. I agree with a poster who stated that this trade also revitalized the team when it badly needed it.

I didn't realize that! I was also an extra in "My Best Friends Wedding" which puts me closer to Kev than I originally thought. Cool.

This is a cool thread. I appeared in a play with Robert Harris, the father of Ed Harris, who was in Apollo 13 with Kevin Bacon.