Posted on 06/22/2005 9:04:58 PM PDT by Nachum
Cubs fans are metrosexuals. White Sox fans are real men. --- Clemenza, Chicago Resident 1997-1999.
Bill Melton, Wilbur Wood, No-Neck Williams bump to you.
Two Words. And a rejoinder...
Steve Stone
20-game winner AFTER he joined the Orioles...
Full Disclosure: Heh heh heh. :-)
Same here... but when the Cubs are doing good I will root for them also. My first choice though is the Sox, I have been to Sox games and never been to Wrigley Field.
Well, yeah, sure - in the sense that getting to and from a Sox game requires a flak jacket, armored car, and a bazooka.
Bill Melton led the A.L. in homers in 1971.
Wilbur Wood (IIRC) went 20-19 and 20-20 in successive years in the late 60's - early 70's neck of the "Woods". (sorry for the pun).
Gotta love those knuckleballers!
Remember, when at Comiskey walk west to Schaller's Pump on Halstead, not East over the Dan Ryan.
I was at the Cubs-Brewers game in Milwaukee last night. They might as well count that game in the Cubs' home attendance numbers. The Brewers fans were outnumbered.
I think Wilbur actually went 24-20 one year -- maybe the year they were wearing those shorts. I remember they had him and Jim Kaat on the same pitching staff -- talk about junkballers!! They didn't throw 90 MPH combined!! I can even remember Billy Pierce, Nellie Fox, Looey Aparicio, Jungle Jim Rivera and Sherm Lollar. And who could ever forget Mike Hershberger?
I think these are significant factors.
Before I post some more, let me explain "where I'm coming from": Born and raised on the north side of the city, back in the days when the North/South "wall of separation" was even more intense. Went to hundreds and hundreds of games at Wrigley Field as a kid and young adult, saw hundreds and hundreds more on WGN local TV (pre-superstation). But in the 1970s--the Bill Melton, Wilbur Wood, Dick Allen, Richie Zisk teams, when Veeck owned the team and Harry Caray broadcast for them--I also went to a fair number of Sox games at old Comiskey Park. The Sox put an entertaining good product on the field, even though it was on the stinky South Side (literally--between the Stockyard smell wafting in and the beer & piss smell of the drunken, brawling fans).
This current Sox team deserves more support than they're getting.
I've made that road trip to see a Brewers-Sox game (when I lived in Illinois). It was a great park, fans, and a lot of fun. The pubs in Milwalkee serve up a good burger too.
The '67 team managed by Eddie Stanky was pretty darn good. Came real close.
Don Buford, Bart Johnson, Tom Bradley, Rich Gossage, Terry Forster. . . .
I remember Luis Aparicio, and also Walter Williams and Gail Hopkins.
Dick Donovan, Early Wynn, Minnie Minoso. . . .
And that's for a day game. At night you have to be REALLY well armed.
I've only been to one Sox game (before that nasty new stadium was built) and will likely never go again.
Plus, it was a chance to see some of the big AL stars. I remember seeing Frank Howard and Reggie Jackson launch MAMMOTH home runs there.
And do you remember Dave Nicholson? He was one of the few guys to hit a ball over the ROOF at Old Comiskey.
Remember the famous poster of Bart Johnson throwing a punch? The poster's motto was "Fighting White Sox".
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