2005 World Series

WHITE SOX ARE CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!!!!
Chicago gets first title in 88 years

Congrats to the White Sox Nation!!
Though I am not a true "I bleed black-and-white" Chicago White Sox fan in any fashion.... it was hard not to champion the White Sox Cause on this blog quite a few times.

This is a franchise that hadn't won a Series in 88 years. Hadn't won an American League pennant in 46 years. The franchise that gave up on Sammy Sosa only to watch him become a Hall Of Famer uptown. The franchise that had a father and his son run onto the field and beat the tar out of a Royals coach. The only street cred the White Sox have ever had was (a) Bo Jackson and (b) Dr. Dre ["I had my chrome to the side of his White Sox hat"].

The championship was magical and the team dominant - the White Sox were the best team all season long. Then, when the chips were down....they killed off the Indians, Red Sox, Angels and Astros. In those 15 games....they won 14 of them.

Sure...they got through the playoffs with a bad call that allowed AJ Pierzynksi 1st base and Jermaine Dye's "hit by pitch". They won Game 2 of the World Series on a walk-off home run.....Game 3 of the World Series in the 14th inning....and Game 4 of the World Series by a score of 1-0. You could argue a possible Game 5 tomorrow night, with the Astros holding a 3-1 lead. But it didn't happen. And so for the second straight season, a long suffering franchise ends over 8 decades of frustration by sweeping the Series. Maybe it will be the Cubs turn soon. Or the Indians.

Congrats to my new home's team, the Chicago White Sox.