whitesoxfan101 Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sp...cs-home-utility Well done, even has some Cubs bashing in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sox It To Em Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 Thanks! Great read. LMAO @ the last line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 that was fun... i really love being a fan of the world series champs. Everything tastes better...maybe that's why i've gained ten pounds! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve9347 Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 wow, great read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnB Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 good article, it's always good to read a positive buzz about this team, but I have a beef with one quote. Crede-to-Fields is the kind of positional evolution that is the lifeblood of good franchises. The White Sox do it all the time, but not the Cubs. we do? last time i checked we were having an awful time with our prospects developing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 QUOTE(SnB @ Dec 9, 2005 -> 11:42 PM) good article, it's always good to read a positive buzz about this team, but I have a beef with one quote. we do? last time i checked we were having an awful time with our prospects developing. well, we look towards the prospects but sometimes they don't develop...i.e. durham to willie, lofton - rowand, valentin - uribe (kinda)...frankly, my mind is on fire from last night still so...help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDF Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 QUOTE(bmags @ Dec 10, 2005 -> 06:12 PM) well, we look towards the prospects but sometimes they don't develop...i.e. durham to willie, lofton - rowand, valentin - uribe (kinda)...frankly, my mind is on fire from last night still so...help 1 thing he neglected to say and should have is this, when was the last time the sox picked higher than what, let say 10th????? all the sox picks have been in the middle where as the sCrubs been picking much higher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chitownsportsfan Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 Well "prospects" have helped net us Jon G and Freddy, so I'd say they "developed" in that regard. As for position players in the infield, I agree, this team hasn't developed an everyday shorstop, 2nd baseman, C, or 1B in years. Ever since I've been a fan (I'm 22 now) it seems like the Sox have focused on drafting and developing pitchers, for better or worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlaCWS Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 (edited) The article makes me feel a lot better about the deal, especially since I didn't know a whole lot about Mackowiak. However I still feel a little uneasy about giving up a lefty with such a live arm after 1 1/2 bad years. I'm sure I'll feel a lot better once we get another lefty in here to help Cotts (which we better do. :-) Edited December 11, 2005 by FlaCWS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevHead0881 Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 Here's another nice Trib article on Mackowiak. (By the way, plenty of room in the Rob Mackowiak Fan Club).... Trade really hits home Sox utility player Rob Mackowiak could not be more thrilled with his new address By David Haugh Tribune staff reporter December 10, 2005, 7:44 PM CST The Mackowiak men sat next to each other inside U.S. Cellular Field for Game 1 of the World Series like so many other fathers and sons who bonded over baseball. Just two lifelong Sox fans who had waited their lifetimes to share the joy and savor the moment for generations. Bob Mackowiak turned to his son, Rob, the former Pirates utilityman just traded to the White Sox, and asked, "'Can you imagine being out there one day playing in the World Series?"' the elder Mackowiak recalled on the phone. "And Bobby said, 'I hope I get the chance."' Thanks to Sox general manager Ken Williams, Mackowiak is even closer to the World Series than his seats along the third-base line were that night. Joining the same Sox team he grew up rooting for in Oak Lawn and later across the border in Schererville, Ind., Mackowiak fills a utility void created when Geoff Blum returned to the San Diego Padres. His addition to a solid Sox roster, coupled with the acquisition of Jim Thome, makes it plausible to suggest the next time Mackowiak attends a World Series game, he will not need a ticket. "When he called to say he had been traded, he was so excited about not only coming home to the Sox, but coming to a winner and a team that wanted him," said Bob Mackowiak, a mechanic who lives in Lowell, Ind. "I don't know if I can put into words how great this is." His wife Stephanie did not even try when she got the good news. She was working for her brother-in-law's trucking company in Alsip when one of the drivers called to report what he had heard about the trade on the radio. "I could not even talk, so I started screaming at the top of my lungs," Stephanie said. "Now we'll be able to spend a lot more time with Bobby and his family." For the record, to the Mackowiak family, he always will be Bobby Mackowiak. Not Rob, Robert, Robby or Junior. Just Bobby, the same name they called him when he was a Little Leaguer in Oak Lawn emulating the sweet left-handed swing of his favorite player on his favorite team, Harold Baines. "He loved to watch him hit," Bob Mackowiak said. Now Baines, the Sox's bench coach, can help teach him how. Bob Mackowiak's family, Sox fans for generations, would attend as many as five or six games at Comiskey Park a season when Bobby was a child. Mackowiak attended Oak Lawn High School before the family moved to Indiana at the beginning of his senior year to be closer to his dad's job in Hammond. After graduating from Lake Central High School, Mackowiak chased his dream at South Suburban College, where cold, hard reality beckoned. Not many 53rd-round draft picks, which the Pirates made the second baseman in 1996, wind up wearing major-league uniforms. But Mackowiak, who lived by the grinder rules before the White Sox marketing team numbered them, proved almost everybody wrong but himself. Relying mostly on moxie and versatility, Mackowiak moved up the Pirates' system and made his major-league debut in 2001. It was July 6 of that year when he started for the Pirates in right field at U.S. Cellular in an interleague matchup that made the Mackowiaks thank the baseball gods. About 150 extended family members and friends showed up on the South Side. "You wouldn't believe what a thrill that was," Bob Mackowiak said. A mad scramble already has begun for tickets for April 2 at U.S. Cellular Field for opening night against the Cleveland Indians, a good excuse for a Mackowiak family reunion. "That might be the best part about this, being able to bring everybody together," Stephanie Mackowiak said. "Of course, I'll get to see my grandson more." That would be Garrett, whose birth was announced all over Chicago. He entered the world May 28, 2004, a bouncing 8-pound-5-ounce boy at 11:15 a.m. About eight hours later, his proud papa would hit a walk-off grand slam to beat the Cubs before following that up with a ninth-inning, game-tying two-run home run in the nightcap of the doubleheader. The Cub-killer reputation alone makes Mackowiak a favorite of Sox fans before his first at-bat on the South Side. And if he struggles in subsequent at-bats and loses a few fans along the way, Bob Mackowiak says his son can handle hometown criticism if it comes. Even if it could sting the rest of the family. "That's the only part of it that might give you mixed emotions," Bob Mackowiak said. "In baseball, good hitters hit three out of 10 times but fail seven. Good players have to learn from that failure and have thick skin. We do too as his family. He's going to strike out with the bases loaded. But you have to take the bad with the good, and deal with it. … I'm just glad he'll be dealing with it here." Copyright © 2005, The Chicago Tribune Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felix Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 Hell, I'll join your Mack fan club Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevHead0881 Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 QUOTE(Felix @ Dec 10, 2005 -> 09:20 PM) Hell, I'll join your Mack fan club Welcome aboard! I'd say "we have jackets", but we don't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milkman delivers Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 His name's Rob, not Ron. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevHead0881 Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Dec 10, 2005 -> 10:14 PM) Worst.Fanclub.Ever. Yah, just noticed that. There goes my credibility! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitesoxfan101 Posted December 12, 2005 Author Share Posted December 12, 2005 Anybody that goes to a Sox WS game with his dad as a fan, even though he plays for an NL team, is ok in my book. I'll be in the Mac fan club, definitely. Also, as much as the Trib blows, I think Phil Rogers does a real good job overall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnthraxFan93 Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sp...cs-home-utility Well done, even has some Cubs bashing in it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Is that even allowed at the Cubine? There goes his X-mas bonus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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