Greg Hibbard

Look, I know you are jumping down my throat for number 3, but consider this: find me a WS winning team that 1) never faced the staff ace in the DS 2) never faced the staff ace in the CS 3) had the game 1 starter leave in the third inning because of injury those circumstances were extremely favorable for the Sox, and made all those teams SIGNIFICANTLY weaker. That's all I'm saying. Not trying to be a buzzkill, but things could've been much tougher for the Sox this playoffs. EDIT: and if any of those squeaker games does NOT go the Sox' way (and there were what, four of them this postseason????) we're never talking about this team as one of the best ever. It's not like they clubbed everyone 15-0 every night....

QUOTE(Felix @ Oct 26, 2005 -> 11:10 AM) Yet you said they couldnt set their rotation in your previous post. They could. They just have a bad rotation. Schilling?

I mean, I know you all want to kick my ass and all, but I just answered the question honestly.

The question was....best ever? And for the reasons I listed...the answer is clearly no IMHO. Has the team played one of the best postseasons ever? Yes. Is this the best White Sox team ever? Yes. Am I having the time of my life? Yes. I just think there are more dominant teams than us in recent history and I don't think our set of opponents were all that great. The Red Sox had NO STARTING PITCHING. Clement was just awful. Wells is over the hill. A younger Wells might have picked Graff up. After game 1, I never thought we really had to worry about that series. Going into the Angels series, I was licking my chops at a Colon-less Angels. I felt as though we would win in four or five easily. Did anyone really think Paul freaking Byrd was going to beat us twice? Was anyone really that intimidated by the remnants of that staff? Not me. The Astros? Great story, coming back from 15 under to win the wild card. Strong team? Other than their front three starters and their closer, not so much IMHO. Their hitting is anemic and as soon as Clemens went down in game 1 I thought we had a real good chance of winnign this thing in 5. Were they hard fought victories? Sure. Did we make a s***load of mistakes in game 2? Yeah. This White Sox team is obviously very good. Great even. World Class. Among the best ever? Well, not in my book. I think that's just really hard to say. There are so many great world series winning teams. They are world champions, and that puts them in an elite category of 105 out of probably 2000 or so teams that have ever been fielded. They are certainly better than many World Series winning teams. They have more grit and scrappiness than most winners, that's for sure. Yes, 4 complete games in a row is dominating. They pitched extremely well in the ALCS. Way better than I expected. Yes, 10-1 is one of the best postseason records ever. But the very best ever? I dunno, I don't think so.

ITS A WHITE SOX WINNER ON A TIMO SLAM IN THE NINTH!

crede = series mvp?

I probably won't go so far as calling in completely, but I will come in late tomorrow if they clinch tonight and my boss will understand.

I did not move from inning 9 until inning 13. Not for water, not to go to the bathroom, not for commercials, nothing.

It doesn't really bother me that much as much as it's just UNREAL. I just can't imagine this being reality, with everyone wearing Sox gear all over the city and all my friends suddenly so into the White Sox - friends that never even really followed baseball before.

The White Sox' 10-1 record thus far is a bit overinflated IMO 1) all of the teams they faced could not set their rotation 2) Colon was out for the CS, Rocket only lasted three innings, we didn't even face Schilling 3) All of the teams, overall, were among the weakest set of opponents an eventual recent WS winner would face in my opinion. None of these teams are the 2001 or 2003 Yankees, who would've taken us deep and probably beat this team in the CS.

I got this email from a casual baseball fan this morning. 2 years ago, when the Cubs were in the CS, she adopted the Cubs and were saying how much they'd always followed the Cubs. Now she's saying "Wow! I can't believe we won!" So I confronted her with "what gives!" "I've always been a white sox fan...my dad is a huge fan and has tickets to a game" YEAH BUT I DATED YOU THREE YEARS AGO AND YOU WOULDN'T EVEN WATCH THE SOX GAMES WITH ME anyone else have any funny stories about people jumping on the bandwagon?

HELL f***ING YEAH

HOLY f***ING s*** WE WON THE f***ING GAME

I'll take burls over marte here in a country f***ing mile

burls is coming in

oh my f***ing god

COME ON MARTE

f***ing bradley delp is up

THROW f***ING STRIKES

oh man is that really marte? DAMASO marte? Are you sure?

it's marte

it's not a gw homer yet. let's not get ahead of ourselves here.

okay guys here we go

one more scotty

if it gets to a three run lead I use marte until someone gets on or takes him deep