January 25Jan 25 1 hour ago, Lip Man 1 said: https://awfulannouncing.com/espn/jeff-passan-2005-white-sox-overlooked.html This has been a long-standing problem with ESPN. I mean, they actually had an announcer for the Sox-Boston ALDS series actively rooting for the other team! Ohhhh noooo!!!! Everybody's safe!!! The Sox being forgotten and ignored over the last 10 or so years has been self-inflicted, but the way ESPN constantly disregards the team pre-dates the current franchise problems. Edited January 25Jan 25 by 77 Hitmen
January 25Jan 25 47 minutes ago, 77 Hitmen said: This has been a long-standing problem with ESPN. I mean, they actually had an announcer for the Sox-Boston ALDS series actively rooting for the other team! Ohhhh noooo!!!! Everybody's safe!!! The Sox being forgotten and ignored over the last 10 or so years has been self-inflicted, but the way ESPN constantly disregards the team pre-dates the current franchise problems.
January 25Jan 25 55 minutes ago, 77 Hitmen said: This has been a long-standing problem with ESPN. I mean, they actually had an announcer for the Sox-Boston ALDS series actively rooting for the other team! Ohhhh noooo!!!! Everybody's safe!!! The Sox being forgotten and ignored over the last 10 or so years has been self-inflicted, but the way ESPN constantly disregards the team pre-dates the current franchise problems. Berman gave a more wholehearted congrats to the Red Sox when our Sox sealed the series. It was pathetic. ESPN can suck a boner.
January 25Jan 25 21 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said: Berman is such a jackass. Ha! I forgot that David Wells was the pitcher for that at-bat. Two ex-White Sox involved in that play!
January 25Jan 25 Author 1 hour ago, 77 Hitmen said: This has been a long-standing problem with ESPN. I mean, they actually had an announcer for the Sox-Boston ALDS series actively rooting for the other team! Ohhhh noooo!!!! Everybody's safe!!! The Sox being forgotten and ignored over the last 10 or so years has been self-inflicted, but the way ESPN constantly disregards the team pre-dates the current franchise problems. Exactly correct, I wrote a story about this back in the day. One example, remember back in 2006 when ESPN was running a poll for each professional city asking who was the most popular franchise in it. For Chicago where the Sox had just won the World Series and the Blackhawks were not very good they listed four teams you could vote for: Cubs, Bears, Bulls, Blackhawks. That cause Scott Reifert, Sox VP to say, "ESPN is just mad because we eliminated their Red Sox..." And Berman after the 2003 All-Star Game ripped Sox fans for booing Cub, Twins and Indians representatives, he did it during an interview with a Connecticut TV station (he appeared to be drunk at the time). He said Sox fans were the worst in baseball. Yet next year in Houston when Astro fans were booing including their own manager who was there, he said nothing. I'll have to pull that column I did from the files to find the other examples.
January 25Jan 25 Mehh when you have an owner that actively doesn’t care about the team you can’t expect the rest of the country to. I too often wish I could pretend like the White Sox don’t exist
January 25Jan 25 Author 2 hours ago, TheFutureIsNear said: Mehh when you have an owner that actively doesn’t care about the team you can’t expect the rest of the country to. I too often wish I could pretend like the White Sox don’t exist I get your point but this is a professional media organization. What an individual owner does or does not do has no bearing on the preparation and job they are supposed to be doing.
January 26Jan 26 2 hours ago, southsider2k5 said: Wish I could be like ESPN sometimes. why" You're not the one who sucks
January 26Jan 26 Complaining about 2005 snubs is getting old and kinda cringe we just need to win again. Its been forever.
January 26Jan 26 1 hour ago, Green Line said: Complaining about 2005 snubs is getting old and kinda cringe we just need to win again. Its been forever. I mean there were more snubs this past season. Hardly old. Its been a weird routine from them that has gone on for decades now. Edited January 26Jan 26 by Buehrle>Wood
January 26Jan 26 Quote “I remember being on TV when we had Danny Mendick as Danny Medwick, I think it was. I was looking at it, and I was like, ‘No, that’s wrong! No! No, not the White Sox!'” This quote is great. Love Passan.
January 26Jan 26 Knowing that Berman was rooting for the Red Sox made winning that series even more sweeter.
February 1Feb 1 2 minutes ago, DirtySox said: How about the White Sox social media snubbing big Frank for Black History month? Such a horseshit organization
February 1Feb 1 14 minutes ago, DirtySox said: How about the White Sox social media snubbing big Frank for Black History month? 🤣
February 1Feb 1 Author 1 hour ago, WhiteSox2023 said: 🤣 One has to ask why if this is true a "young kid" who "doesn't know much about Sox history" is: *Even working for the Sox *Didn't have someone else check his work, someone who does know Sox history
February 1Feb 1 40 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said: One has to ask why if this is true a "young kid" who "doesn't know much about Sox history" is: *Even working for the Sox *Didn't have someone else check his work, someone who does know Sox history Well, this is the organization who hired Schriffen to be their TV PBP guy. He didn't even know how to pronounce Bill Veeck's last name!
February 1Feb 1 2 hours ago, fathom said: Such a horseshit organization Maybe Frank was too critical of the team during the 121 loss season. If you're not a total ass kisser, you're persona non grata in this organization - it's the Jerry Reinsdorf way.
February 1Feb 1 Author 2 hours ago, 77 Hitmen said: Well, this is the organization who hired Schriffen to be their TV PBP guy. He didn't even know how to pronounce Bill Veeck's last name! Good point.
February 2Feb 2 I am not going to cry, wring my hands and clutch my pearls over the Frank Thomas thing.
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