4 hours ago, Stinky Stanky said:

Didn’t Widger once take The Big Unit deep twice in a game? If he didn’t I plead senile dementia. 

I remember Greg Norton doing it. 

5 hours ago, greg775 said:

Say what you want: The Sox are rising.

Hard not to rise from rock botton Greg. Was easy to see the rise coming just by some of the youngs guys from trades arriving. It could end up being a 20 game improvement from last year.

Now it'll get harder there wont be a 20 game leap forward from this years win total. Im not saying it'll be impossible but it ' ll mostly have to be interally driven. Highly doubtful they get any highly impactful veteran player from elsewhere. 

6 hours ago, CaliSoxFanViaSWside said:

Wicky ! I feel like he belongs in a Transformers movie. Maybe I will need to translate that one . 

What happened to Sam Witwicky ?

 

Shia Lebouef happened to Sam Witwicky

8 hours ago, GreenSox said:

Without looking it up, I was thinking that it might be Davidson,  the catcher we took back from Seattle in the Garcia trade.  But I'm not sure as I just don't remember a backup catcher at all that season.

And speaking of Davidson, I saw him at some point this season; he's on the broadcast crew of some team.

Backup catcher in 05 was Chris Widger. Your thinking ben davis he was here in 04

Is this the 1st time they've won 5 in a row this season?

the sad part of seeing the highlights is it looks like a game played in 2020.

10 minutes ago, kitekrazy said:

Is this the 1st time they've won 5 in a row this season?

the sad part of seeing the highlights is it looks like a game played in 2020.

Why is that sad?  I take great pleasure in watching that org suffer lol

8 hours ago, DoUEvenShift said:

Torii Hunter still haunts me

I was thinking the same thing. I hate that MF> Still the dirtiest play I have ever seen.

7 hours ago, Stinky Stanky said:

Didn’t Widger once take The Big Unit deep twice in a game? If he didn’t I plead senile dementia. 

Widger had four 2-HR games. He hit two off of Mark Gardner of the Giants, and 2 off of Kevin Jarvis of the Rockies. 

7 hours ago, Stinky Stanky said:

Didn’t Widger once take The Big Unit deep twice in a game? If he didn’t I plead senile dementia. 

I think the Sox hit four straight homers off Randy Johnson. Widger had one of them- maybe the 4th. 

9 hours ago, bobbydanks said:

I don't know who or why but there was a dude wearing a Widger jersey next to a guy wearing a Jon Adkins jersey like 9 rows in front of me and I wish I wasn't too distracted by a lady with a purse filled of rum to go ask those dudes what was up

It is at least a 68% chance that it was actually them.

Also, were they bottles of rum or did the purse have a spigot where the rum came out?

7 minutes ago, flavum said:

I think the Sox hit four straight homers off Randy Johnson. Widger had one of them- maybe the 4th. 

it was three, I was at that game!! Iguchi, Rowand, Konerko.

evidently Widger hit a fourth that inning with two runners on. 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHA/CHA200508210.shtml

Randy gave up 6 runs in the 4th inning and still went 8 IP. Those were the days.

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Just now, wegner said:

It is at least a 68% chance that it was actually them.

Also, were they bottles of rum or did the purse have a spigot where the rum came out?

she had a very large purse with an entire handle of captain morgan 

8 minutes ago, flavum said:

I think the Sox hit four straight homers off Randy Johnson. Widger had one of them- maybe the 4th. 

Three straight, two singles, then Widger with a 3-run knock:

New York Yankees vs Chicago White Sox Box Score: August 21, 2005 | Baseball-Reference.com

Bottom of the 4th, White Sox Batting, Behind 0-1, Yankees' Randy Johnson facing 1-2-3
b4	0-1	0	---	6,(1-2)	O	CHW	Pablo Ozuna	Randy Johnson	-3%	40%	Groundout: SS-1B
b4	0-1	1	---	3,(2-0)	R	CHW	Tadahito Iguchi	Randy Johnson	13%	53%	Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep RF)
b4	1-1	1	---	6,(2-2)	R	CHW	Aaron Rowand	Randy Johnson	13%	66%	Home Run (Fly Ball to CF-RF)
b4	2-1	1	---	3,(0-2)	R	CHW	Paul Konerko	Randy Johnson	10%	76%	Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep LF)
b4	3-1	1	---	1,(0-0)		CHW	Jermaine Dye	Randy Johnson	2%	78%	Single to LF (Line Drive to LF-CF)
b4	3-1	1	1--	1,(0-0)		CHW	Juan Uribe	Randy Johnson	4%	83%	Single to RF (Line Drive); J. Dye to 3B
b4	3-1	1	1-3	4,(1-2)	RRR	CHW	Chris Widger	Randy Johnson	11%	94%	Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep LF); J. Dye Scores; J. Uribe Scores
b4	6-1	1	---	1,(0-0)	O	CHW	Brian Anderson	Randy Johnson	0%	93%	Foul Popfly: 3B (3B into Foul Terr.)
b4	6-1	2	---	5,(3-1)	O	CHW	Geoff Blum	Randy Johnson	0%	93%	Lineout: SS

That was not unlike the game I went to on my birthday in 96.  Baines, Thomas, Ventura hit b2b2b, then Lyle Mouton hit a Single, followed by a Chad Krueter home run.  That was absolutely wild live.  Baines homerun was a rope, probably didn’t clear 20 feet off the ground 

what an unreal game

10 hours ago, chw42 said:

He looked like Ken Griffey Jr after the HR swing. 

it is a bit unfair how cool every left hander looks hitting a home run.

1 hour ago, Kyyle23 said:

That was not unlike the game I went to on my birthday in 96.  Baines, Thomas, Ventura hit b2b2b, then Lyle Mouton hit a Single, followed by a Chad Krueter home run.  That was absolutely wild live.  Baines homerun was a rope, probably didn’t clear 20 feet off the ground 

My favorite of these was in the mid 80's Dave Steib has a no-hitter going against the Sox through 8, and then the first three guys hit homers in the 9th.  Rudy Law, Bryan Little, and Harold hit B2B2B to end the no hitter and chase Steib from the game before the pen shut it down.

1 hour ago, Kyyle23 said:

That was not unlike the game I went to on my birthday in 96.  Baines, Thomas, Ventura hit b2b2b, then Lyle Mouton hit a Single, followed by a Chad Krueter home run.  That was absolutely wild live.  Baines homerun was a rope, probably didn’t clear 20 feet off the ground 

https://youtu.be/UaOqna8PqNM?si=3FdmB1unRdgUlyV2

 

i had Baines and Thomas reversed.  But you can tell Baines hit a pea

10 hours ago, Stinky Stanky said:

Didn’t Widger once take The Big Unit deep twice in a game? If he didn’t I plead senile dementia. 

No he did not. He was part of the four home run outburst against Johnson in a single inning at home in August 2005. 

2 hours ago, flavum said:

I think the Sox hit four straight homers off Randy Johnson. Widger had one of them- maybe the 4th. 

It was not four consecutive.

3 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:

It was not four consecutive.

You can see the posts that follow, where people discuss and correct it, right?  There is no need for you to continue to correct the record 

8 minutes ago, Kyyle23 said:

You can see the posts that follow, where people discuss and correct it, right?  There is no need for you to continue to correct the record 

I apologize for inconveniencing you. 

3 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:

I apologize for inconveniencing you. 

How about for just repeating things to be right in a conversation in which it was already corrected, instead of the inconvenience

5 minutes ago, Kyyle23 said:

How about for just repeating things to be right in a conversation in which it was already corrected, instead of the inconvenience

It's not about "being right" at all. Didn't see all the corrections at first.

I assure you, it will not happen again. I hope that satisfies you.