[Charles Henrickson]

Were any of you at the celebration today? I am living in a far south suburb of Chicago (St. Louis), so I wasn't able to be there. But the last few days when I'm out and about here, I've been able sometimes to pick up the sports talk station WSCR (formerly WMAQ, 670 on your AM dial), to catch the mood of what's going on in my home town. Go ahead and jump in here on this thread, to give those of us in the diaspora a feel for things.

[Dengar01]

Were any of you at the celebration today? I am living in a far south suburb of Chicago (St. Louis), so I wasn't able to be there. But the last few days when I'm out and about here, I've been able sometimes to pick up the sports talk station WSCR (formerly WMAQ, 670 on your AM dial), to catch the mood of what's going on in my home town. Go ahead and jump in here on this thread, to give those of us in the diaspora a feel for things.

I just got back a little bit ago. We were right in front of City Hall on LaSalle Street about 4 people back from the double decker buses. It was great, I took a ton of pictures, I'll try to post them later.

I've never seen that many people in one place in my life. It was a tremendous atmosphere. The crowd was well behaved, no incidents of any sort. There had to be well over one million people massed from Waker down to the Merc. It was absolute insanity.

Today it finally all sunk in.

[Inyokern]

They have a sign up on wall of Comiskey, er CELLULAR Field that says something like "Crying is OK in baseball if it is because your eyes are stinging from the champagne."

[Prince Charles]

I wasn't able to make it to the parade myself, but saw it on the Boob Tube. Swirling streams of confetti made it seem like a blizzard was underway down on LaSalle St.

I just hope that the Sox management is able to find a way to keep the team together for next year, but, deservedly so, the guys will be looking for a raise from the boss.

All the local TV channels -- except the eggheads at PBS -- covered the motorcade as it swung its way thru the near south side neighborhoods and into the Loop. It was way cool, reminding me of the last ticker-tape parade we had back in January of 1986 for the Bears. But that was a cold, cold day! However, I think there were more people by far in the Loop today than 20 years ago.

Even my diehard Cubs fan relatives were all cheering the Sox on.

And to think that the Sox were #1 from wire to wire and throughout the postseason still stuns me.

Cheers!

[BureaucratusMaximus]

Were any of you at the celebration today? I am living in a far south suburb of Chicago (St. Louis), so I wasn't able to be there. But the last few days when I'm out and about here, I've been able sometimes to pick up the sports talk station WSCR (formerly WMAQ, 670 on your AM dial), to catch the mood of what's going on in my home town. Go ahead and jump in here on this thread, to give those of us in the diaspora a feel for things.

Not me. Remember? We're White Sox fans...we have day jobs to go to! /shameless shot at Cub fans and their early day games at home.