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I've always found this a little peculiar. Obviously these aren't the ’68 jerseys in question, but some M&N jerseys are shown with lettering: while others are shown without: In other cases, they show numbering which is completely inauthentic: However, the last is not an M&N jersey as I'd originally recalled, but a replica made by Majestic. Why they wouldn't go with the true-to-form navy block numbers and lettering is beyond me.

QUOTE (Baines3 @ Oct 10, 2008 -> 09:56 PM) Dodgers are in trouble. Fortunately they are playing in L.A. now. I'll be at Chavez Ravine in just about eight hours, rocking the blue. I spent summers in LA when I was a kid and thinking Los Angeles was the coolest place on Earth, going to games with my cousins and listening to Vin Scully, whose vivid descriptions and storytelling of the game really impressed upon me its drama and aesthetic beauty at a very young age. And to this day, what resonates with me the most about the grand game are the traditions, the aesthetics, and the stories—sure, there are great stories in any sport but to me, none are quite the same as baseball. Now that I've been out here going on 4 years I wonder what the hell I was thinking about LA being so cool, although I love my neighborhood and a quick fix for a bad day is just to walk down Sunset to the Ravine and take in a game. And I hate to say it but...Chavez Ravine during a Cub series is one of the best places to pick up women. Waiting in the beer lines it's like a high school reunion for Midwest expatriates.

Seeing as how I can walk to Chavez Ravine and I've got a friend in the League Office who can get me tickets... ¡Viva los Doyers!

QUOTE (joesaiditstrue @ Oct 5, 2008 -> 12:15 PM) lmao, aj 2nd? wise in the lineup? see you next year I like AJ in the 2 spot. I think he's had some success there, slap hitting and dropping bunts and moving runners over. Who I want to see higher in the order is Alexei Ramirez, who is seemingly low in the order so as to not offend the delicate sensibilities of the veterans who aren't producing.

QUOTE (CryptviLL @ Oct 5, 2008 -> 09:45 AM) im looking at a 1959 jersey, love those colors You know what I love is the 1959 jacket. The wool with leather trim, just beautiful. Closely followed by the '68 jacket. I wear the jersey to the game, what have you, but the old-school stuff is everyday-wearable.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Oct 4, 2008 -> 09:55 PM) i'll admit i'm upset and was rooting for the cubs. i have tickets for tomorrow's game right behind the dodger dugout. was really hoping to be there for the elimination/celebration. Ditto. I had Loge seats. Mine came from a friend of mine who works at the League office. Maybe I can get NLCS tickets. Where in LA are you? I'm in Echo Park, and walk to the Dodger games.

A few I remember, with help from baseball-reference.com: June 8, 2001 vs. Cubs. Carlos Lee walk-off grand slam in the bottom of the 10th. Sox win, 7-3. May 6, 2006 at Anaheim: AJ Pierzynski pinch-hit home run in 8th off Scot Shields, game-winning RBI in 10th. Sox win, 4-3. September 13, 2006 at Anaheim: Freddy Garcia took a perfect game into the 8th, Sox win, 9-0. 2005 ALCS game 3 at Anaheim: Jon Garland CG 4-hit win, 5-2. 2005 World Series game 1. Rocket runs out of fuel, Cotts and Jenks strike out the side in the 8th. Sox win, 5-3. August 10, 2006 vs. Yankees: Vazquez battles to beat the Bombers, at least one E5 from Slappy McBluelips, Ozzie got tossed arguing a flagrantly blown call by Eric Cooper—motioning safe before Giambi even touched the bag, Konerko had the tag down and on him. Worst-umpired game I remember, but Sox still won, 5-4. August 13, 2006 vs. Detroit: Swept the Kitties and at the time it seemed the Central was ours. We were on top of the world. Sox win, 7-3.

grandstandsox.com I ordered mine from there, they do the lettering for the ones the players wear on the field. IIRC, my authentic road jersey with lettering ran $190 about 2 years ago.

My dad received two copies for Christmas last year and I ended up with one of them. It's great, but what really chaps my ass is that Boston and the Yankees get all of their playoff games on their commemorative DVD sets and we only get the DS/CS clinchers and each of the WS games. What gives? Since I didn't have cable and had to miss a lot of the games because I was working my restaurant job at the time, I was really hoping to have DVDs of all the games. The ones I am missing are ALDS games 1-2 and ALCS games 1-4. Anyone have these? Shipping and blank media paid for, of course.

Two down.

When I lived in Koreatown I cooked a lot of Mexican food—carnitas, asada, those sorts of things. Now that I live in Echo Park, I can get really good Mexican food just down the hill. So I figured out bulgogi as it's one of the only things I miss about K-town. Food is my main creative muse. I do a lot of cajun/creole stuff, mainly gumbo because it's easy—jambalaya is difficult to figure out the right ratios of trinity to meat to stock and rice. And the rice is so easy to mess up with all the other variables. I make my own stocks as I often roast 2-3 chickens per month, just to have on hand for stuff to make quick meals out of. One of my roommates was a full-blooded Argentine who taught me his family recipe for limoncello. I've adapted it to different citruses and berries since. The only thing I feel like I've really mastered is creme brulee. Never fails to impress a date when you pull a perfectly-cooked custard from the fridge and caramelize the sugar with a blowtorch. Once I figured out the custard I used it on croissant bread pudding with stellar results. If you can make an omelet, roast a chicken, and have just one desert you can make, you can figure the rest out.

Konerko, Cabrera, Crede, Hall, Carrasco, Dye, Owens , Junior, Logan, Wasserman, Vazquez, and MacDougal. And the greatest of these is Vazquez.

When I went to Fenway a few weeks ago, my friend who is a lifelong Red Sox fan that I stayed with warned my brother and me not to wear any White Sox gear to the game. Horror stories ensued about Southie kids drinking too much and causing trouble and opposing fans getting carted off to jail because the cops side with the home team. Screw it, we were there to support our team. By contrast the fans were pretty nice to us, a welcome sight were the unexpected legions of White Sox fans in attendance. We got ribbed by some drunk Boston fans, mainly telling us we sucked. I simply said 'Well tonight? You're right. We did suck.' We got shelled, 7-2. But it shut them up every time. Even got a high five or two. The worst I got was at Dodger Stadium for the second of the three-game set that we were shut out, and even that wasn't that bad. Most of the time the props I get from fellow White Sox fans for daring to sport a Pierzynski jersey makes up for it in spades.

Vag-quez strikes again. When the levee breaks...

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Sep 20, 2008 -> 01:53 PM) Someone should be fired for a mistake as simple and harmless as that? If it were in print, possibly. A headline misprint is a pretty big boner. Thousands of dollars and lots of time to stop the presses and rerun. An agency I worked for in River North a while back almost lost an account over a reprint gaffe. A webpage, highly unlikely—it's a 30-second code fix. Embarrassing, maybe. Terminable, not on the first time at least.

Boston, easily. Pedroia and Ellsbury are gamebreakers. They were hitting everything off every façade the game I saw at Fenway.

1968 Ping Kushin putter. My dad had one that I loved that he bought as a Junior in high school, so I found one like it on eBay a few years back. I went through a bunch of different putters when I was playing golf a lot (or at least a lot more than I currently have), and that's been the best one I've ever used. I always liked Rawlings ballgloves the best, my Easton H5000 stiff flex stick, and those Black and Saturn yellow Macroblades I wore out in about two years.

QUOTE (stretchstretch @ Aug 28, 2008 -> 07:56 PM) any chance you can go on a 1 month road trip with the team...............??????????? Start passing the hat and I'll put in for the time off.

"O-for-Juan" Uribe.

My brother, dad, and I will be at Fenway on Saturday for the game. Sox 5-0 this season while I have been in paid attendance. Seen winners Dodger Stadium, Angel Stadium, McAfee Coliseum.

One of the greatest sports nicknames of all time: Warren "The Deacon" Newsom.

QUOTE (wilmot825 @ Aug 24, 2008 -> 02:14 PM) How ironic is it that the run-down interference call was on A.J. and was called by Doug Eddings? Just gave me a flashback to '05 vs. the Angels. This guy must have been raised a Sox fan lol or just has a man crush on "Billy Idol." All jokes aside, what a smart play by A.J. to win the game for the Sox. I think the more we watch him, the more likeable he becomes. Gotta love A.J. as long as it means that he isn't on the same crew as Eric Cooper and Dan Iassognia.

Two words: Cory Snyder. Put up stud numbers in Cleveland, lasted 50 games with us and not even getting to the Mendoza line. It could be argued that he was a flash in the pan after his first three seasons. I remember watching him slide to catch a ball in LF, which he missed, and then got up to look at his hand before locating the ball and getting it back into the infield.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Aug 10, 2008 -> 07:27 PM) That's weird she was in Great White's video of "Here I go Again" Maybe because she is a redhead??? "Here I go Again" is Whitesnake. The Great White tune you're thinking of could likely be "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" or maybe "The Angel Song."