Ever since last night, I could not help but keep thinking of my first year watching the White Sox (1997). (I am an immigrant to this country so I was not born here. I used to come home from school but always want to watch the Sox and not the Cubs (it was when we had the young team with Durham, Foulke, Howry, Baldwin etc)).....Frank Thomas made me a Sox fan. We had Albert Belle then too....

 

Then I could not help but remember going to the Sox games and shouting Cleveland Sucks every time the powerful Tribe was in town....they had a great team then and it bugged me to no end. Though I was happy to see them lose the WS to the Fish

 

And then I could not help but remember when I was there in person when the Sox beat the Tribe & the Spankees for the magical 14 game win streak against the Tribe and Spankees in the magical 2000 season....

 

And then I could not help but remember the Sox losing in 2000 to the focking Mariners.....my bro is a M fan so I got some ribbing from him

 

Then I could not help but remember going to the Cubs-Sox game when Boomer Wells was pitching and Carlos Lee hit the extra innings grand slam to win it for us. We were shouting C LEE in the EL all evening on the ride back home....

 

And then I could not help but remember the pain of not being able to duplicate the 2000 season despite trying out Wells, Richie, Colon etc with injuries striking this team at key times all along (Frank, Wells, Maggs, Frank etc)

 

And then I could not help but remember telling my wife one Sunday after the Bears lost that will I ever see any of my teams (Bulls, Bears, Sox, Blackhawks) win a championship ever ..... was very depressed and wanted to give up watching sports all along since I could never root for anyone else (Bulls won their last championship before I got to Chicago) ..... and just wondering why a great city like Chicago cannot have winners

 

And now when it has all been accomplished, I cannot stop smiling and remembering how sweet this s*** is today. I am still letting it all sink in.

 

We can actually tell Spankee fans 2000 now....

Ever since last night, I could not help but keep thinking of my first year watching the White Sox (1997). (I am an immigrant to this country so I was not born here. I used to come home from school but always want to watch the Sox and not the Cubs (it was when we had the young team with Durham, Foulke, Howry, Baldwin etc)).....Frank Thomas made me a Sox fan. We had Albert Belle then too....

 

Then I could not help but remember going to the Sox games and shouting Cleveland Sucks every time the powerful Tribe was in town....they had a great team then and it bugged me to no end. Though I was happy to see them lose the WS to the Fish

 

And then I could not help but remember when I was there in person when the Sox beat the Tribe & the Spankees for the magical 14 game win streak against the Tribe and Spankees in the magical 2000 season....

 

And then I could not help but remember the Sox losing in 2000 to the focking Mariners.....my bro is a M fan so I got some ribbing from him

 

Then I could not help but remember going to the Cubs-Sox game when Boomer Wells was pitching and Carlos Lee hit the extra innings grand slam to win it for us. We were shouting C LEE in the EL all evening on the ride back home....

 

And then I could not help but remember the pain of not being able to duplicate the 2000 season despite trying out Wells, Richie, Colon etc with injuries striking this team at key times all along (Frank, Wells, Maggs, Frank etc)

 

And then I could not help but remember telling my wife one Sunday after the Bears lost that will I ever see any of my teams (Bulls, Bears, Sox, Blackhawks) win a championship ever ..... was very depressed and wanted to give up watching sports all along since I could never root for anyone else (Bulls won their last championship before I got to Chicago) ..... and just wondering why a great city like Chicago cannot have winners

 

And now when it has all been accomplished, I cannot stop smiling and remembering how sweet this s*** is today. I am still letting it all sink in.

 

We can actually tell Spankee fans 2000 now....

I'm just glad that i have got the gift of experienceing a World Series Championship for the White Sox at least once in my lifetime.