wow! 25 pages on this sucker! im not about to read it all but ill tell yas how my parade/rally experience went. started off da day wit a little breakfast and newspaper and proceded to board da Metra bound for LaSalle & Wacka. armed with my white sox flag and Luck o' the Irish '83 hat and traveling with my family and buddy to the rally point. Proceeded to wait around for hours with 1.5 Million of my friends for Our Bhoys! i was approx. 30 feet from the intersection of LaSalle and W. so we ended up luckin out as far as positioning goes (considering most parade goers got f***ed position wised.) The sights and sounds as we waited for the 2005 World Champs was outta this world as many of you know. When the time came, it was well worth the wait to see my man Mark Buehrle really gettin into the moment as well he should be. Undoubtably everybody has b****ed about the rally and sadly i am no different. "We cant here you" chants were frequent (and shodily executed.) Dispite being about 1/4 ofa block away from the stage, audio was pretty much non-existant and the screen was obscured by people who soared above me. Being short really blows. But who am i to b****? hell people, were b****in about not being able to hear the World Champion Chicago White Sox speak. who the hell cares, when in reality we could see the re-broadcast on TV later and, oh yes, We Have A World Series Winning Team! I firmly believe this overshadows any things to complain about. Ok my little tangent is done, and im back on track. The ticker tape or should i say "recycled SunTimes" was quite a site to see dropping from the baseball heavens. I had in the backa my mind thought that the day that id be able to see My Team celebrate a fall classic victory in the downtown streets of Chicago may never come in my lifetime was broken today. Thank You Lifelong, Loyal Southsiders and Sox Fans. to those of you who have struggled thru the hard times, never wavering or missing a game, never "switching sides ?" or giving up hope, this victory is ours.