White Sox Fan For Life

QUOTE(Sam @ Apr 18, 2006 -> 12:47 AM) Not a video clip...but it gets the job done. LOL!

Well thank you for trying to help me!

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Apr 17, 2006 -> 10:14 PM) The link you posted had mms: in it which sent it to a mineral mangement website. This should work: Video Do you happen to have a link where Hawk says "Mercy!" to the play? You see I was at the game on Saturday but my brother says that Hawk said "Mercy" in an excited way.

In the words of Hawk of tonight's game: "Mercy!"

OH YEAH WHITE SOX WINNER BABY!

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Apr 17, 2006 -> 03:36 PM) Crede's hair was my idol, I don't know if I have the will to live anymore. Oh come on you don't have to go suicidal on us. It's just hair.

It's okay I figured out another way to do it which I upload the new picture that I revised in my email account. Then I saved that one to my pc and then I uploaded the pic that I saved from my email account to soxtalk.com

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Apr 17, 2006 -> 12:31 PM) I used to tell myself that, now the birds are buying sunglasses due to my scalp blinding them all. LOL!

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Apr 17, 2006 -> 10:11 AM) Ummm, no. I want to be like the White Sox, not like the Yankees OR Red Sox. JR can run his ship as he sees fit. I agree!

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Apr 15, 2006 -> 12:41 PM) Just click on new poll at the top and make sure you've got both the poll and the post part filled out. Okay once when I tried to make a poll, I had all the information that I needed to create the poll. But there was one thing missing from the poll a heading, so I created the heading of the poll. But then it had a statement saying "polls have choices you need to have choices!" I was like huh? Does anyone know what they mean by the word "choice?"

I am so lucky that I went to today's game! I saw Konerko hit two homeruns! I saw that amzing play by Iguchi! It reminded me of a play that you would see in the movies! Buerhle was tremendous on the mound!

How do you set up a new poll? The first time I tried to set up a poll it said something about choices in polls? Which wouldn't allow me to post a poll.

Today I am going to the White Sox game! Where Mark Buerhle will pitch against those Toronto Blue Jays. I hope today is a definite win. I am not underestimating those Blue Jays one bit.

When I am pissed off I do something that will get my mind off it like for example I edit movies with friends. So then when they are not with me I just explore the other techniques of editing so that I can be more adapt to editing movies.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 01:51 PM) I wish you understood, but sadly you dont. Good luck with your paper. Thank you for wishing me good luck on your paper. But I think that we but don't understand each other so I guess I can say sorry for the both of us.

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 11:51 AM) 'there' meet 'their' When you write your paper differentiate between the two. Good luck!! FTR...I don't believe in curses. Thank you so much grammar police!

Actually I just needed some people's opinions on how they feel about curses in baseball. Also another reason I wrote this paper because my teacher is a Cub fan and she believes in curses in baseball so I am doing this just to get a rise out of her. One day she said that I didn't have a good enough information because I found a lot of people stating their opinions in the Sun Times, The Tribune, MLB.com's articles on curses and I use that against her and she still didn't except it. So I decided to post this on this little thread on soxtalk since there are so many people who use this site who are not from Chicago too and they can tell me their own opinions as well!

QUOTE(Beltin'Bill @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 11:28 AM) Feel free to call me for help with the thesis. What type of class is this anyway? I hope not theology. This is for my college writing II class and our teacher assigned us a thesis statement paper to do. So my thesis is "Curses in baseball don't exist." All my thesis statements have to be about baseball one way or another. Like when I was in high school I had a thesis statement project to do. My papers revolved around the issues like Shoeless Joe Jackson being innocent of not throwing the 1919 World Series on purpose and for my last term I wrote about how Ozzie Guillen is entitled to the first amendment. I wrote this paper when Ozzie was commenting on A-Rod's decision on who to play for in the World Baseball Classics. The media was all over Ozzie so that they gave me the idea in my College Writing I class that how come is it okay for certain individuals to speak out their mind without being criticized and their are others like Ozzie that get viewed as the bad guy. I got an A on that paper!

QUOTE(Beltin'Bill @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 11:07 AM) If you think something might happen, it probably will. Not because you are cursed, but because you lost your focus. You were thinking about how you were going to celebrate before the game was over. You said it best for me!

Then you want to start throwing random things into the equation like why Bill Buckner moved which have nothing to do with the curse. It is not random at all, because Buckner was tired of hearing crap for a mistake that happened years ago. So the only resolution was to move as far away from it all. You see Buckner played on the side of the supposedly cursed team and he was the one who in the eyes of the world called him a mistake. Now if there was really a curse then why didn't other Red Sox fans say to Buckner "Hey we know our team is cursed so that ball that last play which was an error for you was not your fault. You know it was the curses fault. It was just old Babe Ruth's apparition in the ball just to punish us Red Sox fans." I am asking you how come that didn't happened. All these individuals getting blamed for something and yet again no one tells them its okay it was the curse. I am not throwing random things in this equation I am also showing you things that you probably have not taken into consideration. See you were the one who happened to mentioned the Marlins and how they never really win a World Series in a six year span. Did the thought of the development of rookies and players to become and achieve to be a great team takes time to accomplish?

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 08:14 AM) Yeah, but you are only looking at curses in a very small window of time. How would you feel about curses if you were actually around when the blacksox scandal broke, and lived your entire life without seeing the Sox develop any sort of consistent success, and never winning the world series in your lifetime? I think you would view curses much differently then. Its easy for us to all say "Curses are horses***, we just disproved them.", but there were damn near 90 years passed before the White Sox made a serious pass at the World Series again ('59 notwithstanding), I bet there have been plenty of Chicagoans in that span of time who would tell you the White Sox were cursed. Personally, I guess I believe in curses as much as I believe in luck. I believe that when Bartman deflected that ball, the entire feeling in Wrigley was changed for the worse, and everyone saw the Cubs implode before they actually did. I know I did. We all knew the series was over RIGHT THERE. I dont know how to explain it, but it was just simple to me, the Cubs were going to lose after that happened. Was it a curse working its effect? Maybe. I cant tell you for sure. You did tell me how you felt about curses in baseball but then you started to ask me how would I feel if the White Sox were in the same position? So I am not the one who got off track. My examples are approving, because it is asking the question that if there really were a curse in baseball that when a baseball player on a supposedly cursed team makes an error in a game why is it in the outcome that player has to hear crap from everyone? Why is their no leniency for that? Isn't it suppose to be the curses fault on why a team looses if people so happened to believe in a curse and not on the team's performance? So what if the White Sox won the first game in the 1959 World Series against the Dodgers and lost the other games. It was not a curse because their are days when teams have their good games and when teams have their bad games. So if you are saying that if a team goes on a losing streak just right after having a great winning streak they are assumed to be cursed? Their could be other factors why the Marlins win a World Series every six years which is they go on a fire because they can't afford to keep their players who become free agents and then ask for a higher salary. When rookies come up to the big leauges their is an unlikely chance that they will have an extremely great year. A rookie needs to develop through a course of time to be good in the game.

QUOTE(rudylaw @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 10:07 AM) Superstitions yes, curses no. I believe in superstitions to and not curses. Like for example if I was standing in the exact same position when Posednik steals four bases in a game with out getting thrown out. And if I move from that position and for the next stolen base he tries to go for it but only to find out that he gets caught out. Then I would move to the exact same position I was at when Posednik didn't get thrown out.

QUOTE(Steff @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 09:43 AM) Gotcha. But hey thanks for letting me know that you think that curses are totally BS.

QUOTE(Steff @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 09:37 AM) What it looks like to me is you're asking a White Sox fan to come up with some excuse as to the reaction of Red Sox fans in that situation... when, IMO, White Sox fans don't really give a crap how or what they - Red Sox fans - felt. You've changed the question from the start of your thread. For the record, I think curses are BS. Actually I am not the one who changed this topic it was the people who responded to this thread. I was just hoping to see how many people believe if curses exist in baseball so that I can use this information as a survey in my paper. Also I am not asking White Sox fans to give me excuses for Red Sox fans I was just trying to let you know my point of view in my last post in this thread.