White Sox 2005 Champs!!!
 

I was born and lived until I was 12 on the Southside of Chicago and OMG there is no place I would rather be right now than in a bar there!!!

GO SOX!!!! 88 YEARS!!!!!! CHAMPIONS!!!

Go Sox, fan since I started following baseball at a young age some twenty years ago. Glad to see them do it finally!!! Hopefully the parade is this weekend so can see it.

That's awesome - I'm glad you got to see your team win a World Series.

I think they're doing it on Monday. It'll start at Comisky and end at Grant Park.

A hell of a year for the Sox - probably the best post-season pitching team that I can remember, to follow up a sick season on the mound. Congrats to the long-suffering, long-overshadowed southsiders

I've lived on the Southside for all of my 30+ years, was at Disco Demolition, and have season tickets for the Sox. This is the most amazing thing to happen to Chicago baseball. I'm still in shock, though...I was sure they'd fine a way to screw it up. Absolutely amazing!!

Funny how all the Cubs fan in Chicago (specially up North) all of a sudden became Sox fans.

-Rudey

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Amy, you know I love you to death, but I also know that you are a Cubs fan. That being said, I'd be happy for any team in my hometown that won a national championship, so I'm not ragging on you too hard.

I'm just glad baseball is finally over. Meh.

I live in Houston and the past couple weeks here have been nuts!

HAHAHAHAHAAHAHA!

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I heard tickets were cheap to the games because people didn't care that much. Probably not as bad as when the Marlins were playing the Yankees, but less than the Sox?

The Sox are a great team except their fans come from neighborhoods like Bridgeport and Canaryville, which makes them prone to violence.

-Rudey

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Yes I am a Cubs fan, but also a Sox fan. Just Cubs first. ;) HAppy to see ANY CHicago team win, as a rule.

Cubs
White Sox
Padres
Dodgers
Angels

is my order of fav teams.

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Thank you, thank you very much. I don't understand why this is so hard for people (esp. out-of-towners) to understand.

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Because, in general, baseball fans don't love the two teams from the same city - especially two teams with fans that dislike each other so much.

Anyway I thought someone might enjoy this:

"In addition to winning their first World Series
in 88 years, the Chicago White Sox eclipsed
Bobby Brown's record of beating Houston (4)
times in one week."

- mayor: Richard M. Daley

-Rudey

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I was born and raised on the North shore, and am a lifelong die-hard Cubs fan, but I never knew that Cubs and Sox fans disliked each other. Where I grew up, we were indifferent to the Sox, but no bad feelings. For myself, I am thrilled for the White Sox because it gives the City something it hasn't had in 88 years. Yeah, I wish it was the Cubs, but it's the next best thing.

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OH SNAP!

Anyway, it didn't feel like there was a World Series without the Yankees.

Congrats to the WHITE SOXS that is awesome! 88 years -- so good to see new teams in the world series this year. woooohooo!

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Ditto, ditto, ditto. I think this is how most northsiders feel.

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Aren't Northsiders and "North Shorers" different?

-Rudey

Originally posted by irishpipes
I was born and raised on the North shore, and am a lifelong die-hard Cubs fan, but I never knew that Cubs and Sox fans disliked each other. Where I grew up, we were indifferent to the Sox, but no bad feelings. For myself, I am thrilled for the White Sox because it gives the City something it hasn't had in 88 years. Yeah, I wish it was the Cubs, but it's the next best thing.
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Maybe it's more of a Southside thing, but, trust me, most of us HATE the Cubs. You'll never go to a bar on Western Avenue and see a Cubs game on, unless it's the Crosstown Classic. I've seen people removed from these bars wearing Cubs gear.

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A northsider is anyone living north of Madison. That would include the North Shore.



Edited because I'm a stickler for grammar

Northsiders are from within the city limits. North shore would be the suburbia North of the city but along Lake Michigan (think of the neighborhoods for virtually every John Hughes film, Risky Business, Ferris Bueller, etc.). I haven't done a study, but I would guess that most North shore dwellers are Cub fans. If southsiders hate the Cubs, as one poster said, I would guess that it may be because the media - both locally and nationally - gives the Cubs WAY more attention that the Sox. Growing up the Cubs had the media outlet of WGN, which broadcast on TV and radio, every Cub game all season. (Even though the Cubs ALWAYS had a losing record.) The Sox were never on TV. Recently WGN has picked up a lot of Sox games, but I guess the damage was done. Considering that the 2 teams were equally bad all those years, there wasn't much sense in the Cubs getting more attention - they were just always favored, and maybe the Sox fans felt like the unloved step-child or something. I just know that my household and friends never cared one way or another about the Sox. This was before interleague play, so there was never a reason to pay any attention. I think it is great that they won - at least someone from that great city did.

ETA: The term "Northsiders" is also used to refer to the Cubs, so a lot of people who don't technically live on the North side will refer to themselves as "Northsiders" if they are Cub fans.

I wouldn't say northsiders are limited to just the city. Most suburbanites in the north/northwestern suburbs refer to themselves as "northsiders" just as most suburbanites to the south refer to themselves as "southsiders".

North Shore includes some of the suburbs near the lake, and some just west of there. Roughly, it's from Evanston to Lake Forest. Waukeegan, Zion, etc. are not North Shore! It's not just right on the lake, either. For instance, Northbrook is usually considered part of the North Shore.

[Way back in the '70s, White Sox games were carried on Channel 44 before it became a Spanish langauge network. This was pre-cable, so the reception wasn't great. The Cubs and the Sox both stunk, but, thanks to Bill Veck, the Sox could be entertaining to look at. Anyone remember them wearing shorts?

I'm glad the Sox took the series. I like seeing teams win when they haven't in a long time.

Channel 44! OMG! Magilla Gorilla, Grape Ape, Underdog!

Wasn't Channel 44 WFLD? The same station that broadcast the Banana Splits?

I don't *think* they were WFLD; I think 32 and 44 were always different stations. I do know that 44 had the best cartoon ever - Speed Racer!!!

WFLD has always been 32, at least since the mid 70s.

I don't remember channel 44, although I do remember 60 & 66! What I wouldn't give to have one of those old yellow and black channel 60 t-shirts...

I just remember as kids, my brothers and I were all about Ch 44, it had all the best cartoons.

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Maybe. It's really not that important to me. I've just never heard anyone outside of the city called a Northsider. If you go out of the city limits, I don't know where it would stop. I have heard people say they're from the South Suburbs or the North Suburbs but not to refer to themselves as southsiders and northsiders if they were.

It's more than baseball though from what I've seen. It's there during the marathon (http://www.chicagotribune.com/featur...chi-health-hed), the St. Patty parades, and even where Daley lives is a HUGE political issue.

-Rudey

I can't believe that the Sox won the World Series!! Everywhere in the city people were going crazy, but in a good way. I too am a Cubs fan, but I also root for the White Sox too. Heck, if their shirt says CHICAGO, where I am from, and they aren't playing the Cubs, hell ya I will root for them. As some one said already on here I do know ALOT of Sox fans that just hate the Cubs (including my husband), but I know some Cubs fan that hate the Sox too!! In my opinion, if Cubs fans weren't rooting for the Sox to win this Series then they shouldn't have been rooting for any team because Hoston is the Cubs second biggest rivial next to St. Louis.
I am just sooooo happy that we FINALLY have a World Series champ in this town after 88 long years!! Put it on the board, YES!!

Congrats White Sox

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Congratulations White Sox! Yay!

thats so yesterdays news

That reminds me of the Urbina-Pudge days in Florida and then later in Detroit. I have heard that this is Ozzie and his son though.

JOke my co-woker sent:

Q: What do the White sox and Bobby Brown have in common?

A: They both beat Houston 4 times a week!

NEW YORK -- The Chicago White Sox's first world championship in 88 years was also the lowest-rated World Series ever.

Chicago's four-game sweep of the Houston Astros averaged an 11.1 national rating with a 19 share on Fox. That's down about 7 percent from the previous low, an 11.9 with a 20 share for the 2002 World Series between the Anaheim Angels and the San Francisco Giants.

While the 2002 World Series, which went seven games, rated higher overall, it was only averaging an 11.0 through four games.

This year was a drop of almost 30 percent from last year's series, in which the Boston Red Sox swept the St. Louis Cardinals for their first title in 86 years. That had a 15.8 rating with a 25 share.

Wednesday night's 1-0 Chicago win had a 13.0 preliminary national rating with a 21 share. It was the highest-rated prime-time show on Fox since the final of "American Idol" in May, but still not enough to save the series from being the lowest-rated.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playof...ory?id=2206044