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We had no idea what 2000 was gonna bring. I'm talking about during the actual year, without hindsight. 2000 was a pleasant surprise, but no one was expecting that a year prior. It was misery, Comiskey was dead, no energy. The few fans that showed up were just showing up out of obligation, but there was no excitement there or anything. Not saying that last year was full of excitement or anything, but I will stand by what I said about 1999 being worse. Yall may disagree at first, but I ask that you search deep into your internal memory banks to recall what it was like to be a fan back then. It wasn't fun. 2005 softened last year's blows, there simply isn't such a high level of hopelessness anymore thanks to the title we all experienced. again, no one during 99 was saying "Don't worry, we'll win the division next year, #1 seed and break the record for runs scored!". No one. It was more like "Welp, no one's here again, but I have nothing else to do." Just apathetically going thru the motions.

You know, people have been saying 2024 was the lowest point ever, but IMO, 1989 was even lower, with 1999 being the lowest ever. Sure, we didn't lose 121, but the vibes were in the crapper for the reasons you said, which is worse than any loss total. Comiskey was crumbling, empty and truly depressing. The only hope was the upcoming new stadium, but there was little else besides that. We wore the bland Campbell's Soup unis, which stupidly replaced the 83s. Plus, the flubs were having another "magical year". 1989 was so sad and painful, worse than 2024, many don't realise this. 2005 has softened all blows since then, but that may have an expiration date. 1990-1994 was a great rejuvenation, but then the strike set us right back on an even worse downward spiral, with the nadir being 1999, the absolute lowest point ever, which hopefully won't be matched. This time, we didn't have the hope of a new stadium to fall back on, we were already in it, and it was unremarkable and hated by many. Sure, we had Frank and Mags, but they were afterthoughts to Shammy and Wood. Simply put, in 1999, we had absolutely nothing. an empty, soulless blue bowl, media irrelevance, and no hope for the future at all. 2000 and 2005 weren't just good moments, there were lifesavers for a franchise on the brink. Would we even still be here if it wasn't for that. all the complainers of the current era need to remember 1999. We weren't even a blip on the radar by that point. We were nothing. I made so many accts at so many sites that I've forgotten about. Baseball board, football board, sci fi, heavy metal, a Superman board, and some others I don't recall fully. I even tried to join northsidebaseball once, don't know if it went thru, it might have, but I never posted. Basically, if I surfed the web and found a discussion I wanted to get into, I'd make an acct there, then maybe never return again. Weird stuff. I did suggest to WSI to synergise with other baseball boards, unaware that reddit already did that with all their subs. I don't recall personalities of too many posters there, but I do remember creative handles like LoveYourSuit, 21towin, GetOnBackThere, CubFansareDrunk, IWantMagsBack, StillMissOssie, ExplodingScoreboard and FoulkYou. Love the creativity.

Why, there were some cool peeps there. There was a FL retiree there, NellieFox or Little Nell, who was a great poster, very informative and all around good guy. Frater Pertabo was good too, as was Fenway, the cameraman from Boston who was sadly banned despite being the most active poster there. I felt bad for the guy, he made pretty good posts often, and I think hung out with us more than his fellow Carmines. Granted, there were some insane trolls there like doublem23, and this one teenager who was a Tottenham fan. They were terrible, but not enough to sully the board IMO. My fav moment there was in The Parking Lot, where we got into a good WW2 discussion out of nowhere in an unrelated thread. The good posters made it worthwhile. and of course, among the goats there was Mark "the Encyclopedia" Liptak, who thankfully is here too. Good to see ya here, I've also seen some of your Youtube vids. Guys like him make message boards a fun place to be.

What's the URL, flyingsock doesn't work anymore I was banned there once for a week for saying a player played like a girl, and apparently that was mysogyny or something. I directly pleaded to FarWest to please preserve the archives, since it was one of the few boards that had real time reactions to 9/11, and tons of other 2000s nostalgia. That stuff grows more valuable as time passes, but I thought it was nuked. Those early 2000s threads provide a glimpse into a forgotten world that you can't get thru conventional media. Home movies would be the closest, but even then, there aren't 50 people sharing their unfiltered thoughts like in a message board thread. IIRC, richard roeper and len grobstein posted at WSI, as did Nancy's replacement.

How long did that last before they went to wsns44 WTF, when was this, and what exactly happened are you talking about piracy Huge punch to the gut, I was watching almost every game, now nothing. F them, now I'll laugh if we lose 121 again. Yup, this is huge. Every cub game was on throughout my childhood, summer and baseball were intertwined like pbnj. The 66 free games we got this year brought me back to that atmosphere, where every game was on in the background, at least. Thats what hurts the most about the rug pull, I was getting used to the routine of anticipating, then turning on the game. Just like Danley, bud light, cheers/golden girls promos, old style, feldco etc commercials were all a part of that summer vibe growing up, now windcreek, 4 seasons, culvers, yingling, xrt, b96, liberty insurance commercials were becoming embedded into the background audio daily, and it felt good to hear familiar sounds every day. But Jerry said "F them poor people", so now the Palehose are only for no life losers who are sad enough to cough up 120 a month for the dreck that is cable TV. If I meet anyone who pays for cable, I immediately lose respect for that person. Imagine paying for "ridiculousness", reality shows, steve harvey reruns, pawn stars, etc. F that, the Sox aren't getting a dime from me. Let them lose, let the flubs sweep all 6 games for the 1st time ever. I'm completely checked out now because of the rug pull. Jerry had the chance to be truly bold, and at least give us a full season. But nope, Comcast took his lunch, and made him fold faster than Springfield to Lyle Langley. He's just a pathetic individual. May the sox and bulls suck in perpetuity. Whereas asking a GenXer that was like asking us if we breathed air. Mtv was the one thing that united us all. From the jocks to the nerds, to the stoners, goths, skaters, weirdos, wastoids, greaseheads... everyone watched mtv. You didn't ask anyone if you watched the channel, you asked who their fav VJ was, or Remote Control episode. Mtv and cable in general are crap now. I want my CHSN. If they were honest with us from the start, and said it was free only as a bargaining chip, then it'd be fine. But they lied to us and said it'd be always free, and the reason was because they cared about the fans. Stone cold lies, deceptive practices. Grounds for a class action lawsuit tbh. Does DumpJerry post here, maybe he can sue them.

What happened to that site, I thought it was the #1 Sox board, but it seems to have disappeared. There was once a sox board that always talked about "core of the core" meetups, and had a guy named Shoelundo, does anyone remember it

I watched almost every game when it was free, it's been the high seas ever since. It has to be a net loss of viewers since they ended ota. Just because the fools who were too rotten to get an antenna, were loudest, doesn't mean they were numerous.

How far back does this forum go. Is there a 9/11 thread like there was at WSI