BigEdWalsh

Congrats!!!! I smoked for about 40 years and I quit back in June. I really didn't think I could do it. I didn't even think I wanted to if that makes any sense. I just pretty much figured I was hopeless. But, it can be done. For years and years I always encouraged young people who were wanting to quit to do it. Telling them how much I wished I had quit when I was younger because it just gets harder and harder. But, no matter how long you've been doing it, it can be done.

QUOTE (Jose Paniagua @ Sep 28, 2012 -> 08:30 AM) The people enraged at Wise over Jordan Danks have experienced weeks and weeks of wrongness What took you so long?

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 09:53 PM) For the rest of time you can bring up 2012 and it's not going to bring positive memories, just pain and anguish for me. Only trouble with that kind of thinking is that you will live a life of pain and anguish over ALL the failed seasons then. And, inevitably there will be plenty of them. I'd rather enjoy and remember what WAS good.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 09:34 PM) Sox are in a heap of uncertainty moving forward. THIS WAS OUR YEAR. Last year at the season end there was very very little to be optimistic about in regard to the next (2012) season. Most thought it was going to be a rebuilding year. As this season progressed and the Sox were actually contending (much to most people's amazement), then yeah this "became our year". They've let us down at the end but who really honestly thought at the beginning of the season they would be "fighting" for 1st place. This end to the season has been painful but hey, I and probably most, never would have dreamed that the 2012 Sox would even sniff 1st place. The Sox are in a heap of uncertainty moving forward though, but that's sure not anything new.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 09:18 PM) Dunn will K. LOL. That was really going out on a limb.

The stage is set, Adam!!!

Can't we even get a break?

Well let's get a F***ING run.....or TWO???!!

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 09:11 PM) Disagree. I think he's done a tremendous job getting this far with a bullpen of rookies. Sure he made his mistakes, but to compete for the division until the last week of the season? I don't know how you can be hard on the guy. It's not like he was handed the keys to the Yankees.

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 09:06 PM) Rays will score at least once here. You just knew after that ridiculousness in the bottom of the 8th that the Rays would score. I'm not even mad at Myers. This pathetic White Sox offense is what has pi$$ed me off.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 08:58 PM) No, I think the triple play takes that one. OH God. Ya had to bring that up!

Let's get a bunch of f***ing hits!!!!

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 08:50 PM) Myers still reliable, still a great pickup. Let's score some god damned runs and put a scare in those Tigers! HELL YEAH!!! Let's win this thing!!

Way to go Brett f***in Myers!!!

Wow. Don't see that very often. Well, it worked.

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 08:44 PM) That's one mad dude. Great f***ing outing tonight Jake. Absolutely dominated those guys. The guy sure deserves a WIN. I love Jake's emotion. I wish more guys had it.

Please let that be the start of SOMETHING.

Rios

F***ing Kansas City finds ways to win against the Sox. Against everybody else they find ways to lose.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 01:08 PM) Rally Butler!!!!

QUOTE (SI1020 @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 11:27 AM) Demographic studies have shown that Sox and Cubs fans are very similar overall, with some slight variations. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-06...s-wrigley-field "Cubs fans are more likely to own cats." Leaves me very confused.....I own cats.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 09:39 AM) Maybe I'm the only one who sees it, but this team has left everything on the field this year. They're gassed at this point. If they can win 6 or 7 in a row or whatever it is at this point and they can steal the division away from Detroit, that's fine, but I absolutely have no problem with this year. I lean towards thinking like this too. I went to spring training for the first time in my life (for anyone who's never been...do it!! It's a blast.) and saw every game. The Sox looked to me to be a .500 team at best and I thought they might struggle to do that. With low expectations, this year has been very surprising and mostly a lot of fun. I saw Humber's perfect game and the Sox series sweep in Seattle. Robin's first year as manager has been pretty damn good. Of course blowing the 1st place lead and all the dreadful games with f***ing Kansas City has been tough, but all in all, I can't complain. And, there still is a little bit of hope. It ain't over quite yet.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 11:06 AM) Cubs attendance is down 20% this year, and will be down HUGE next year when the ticketbrokers who got boned in the ass on tickets this year, don't renew. Couldn't happen to a finer organization. To be honest, a long time ago when I was in my late-teens and early 20's I use to obsess about Sox attendance. I used to go to as many games as I could thinking in part that I had to do my part to help save the Sox. In those days there was a lot of talk and concern that the Sox might move. Man, back then a good crowd was 10,000. I was often there when there about 1,000-2,000. In 1970 total attendance wasn't even 500,000! I used to check attendance in the box scores, always hoping to see that they had a "good crowd". But, especially in this day and age when I think that it's pretty safe that the Sox aren't moving elsewhere, there is NO good reason for fans to fret about the Sox attendance woes.

Be an Ace, Jake. Go White Sox!!!

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 10:26 AM) Sox still drawing better than contenders OAK and TB, and just under BAL. This is historically inaccurate. The Sox and Cubs swung back and forth, but the Sox did better more often, up until basically the time that Reinsdorff et al bought the team. At that point, the new ownership made the incredibly stupid decision to pass on a WGN TV contract and go to Sportsvision (and almost no one had cable then). Add to that the neighborhoods around The Cell had been going downhill and were getting worse, and the final and biggest blow: Wrigleyville, which was a decent but not-that-special neighborhood, suddenly became a huge draw itself beginning in the 80's. From that point (basically for the past 30 years or so), the Sox have only outdrawn the Cubs 2 or 3 seasons. And none since '93 or so. Things change: nieghborhoods, TV contracts, winning and losing... and I think the Sox are doing a lot of things that will help them down the road, particularly building in a lot of great kids stuff and a much better family experience than at Wrigley. Tickets are cheaper than Wrigley, but parking is expensive in either case. As for the people complaining about parking costs, there are a myriad of ways to avoid that if you just look around. CTA Red Line, CTA Green Line, Metra Rock Island (and soon to be other lines as well), buses (they have special expresses from various suburbs, in addition to the CTA options)... you can park somewhere else a lot cheaper, like in the South Loop, and take transit. So for many people, it is really a lame excuse. But, I will say, if you have small kids and are trucking in from the burbs, the mass transit options are a lot harder to do and less appealing - so the Sox could certainly do something better to bring down parking prices for that crowd (for example, discount parking if you buy X number of tickets together of the same game). I'm fully aware and remember when the Sox outdrew the Cubs in the 50's and early 60's. And I remember a few times since then, too. But, in terms of fan base, especially outside of the Chicago city limits, the Cubs have for a very long time had the much larger fan base.