Reboxing Day

by The Cheat on Dec 27, 2005 4:18 PM CST in White Sox News

[Baseball Prospectus: Year in Quotes]
"I don't think they have the team to go to the World Series now."
--Magglio Ordonez, on his old team, the White Sox (Chicago Sun-Times)

"Most of these guys have never been in this situation, but I have. And I have to lead them. You might want to go to your room, call your mom and cry. But when you come to the ballpark and put on the uniform, you have to be a man. I have 30 men to lead."
--White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen, a few days before his team clinched the AL Central (Chicago Sun-Times)

"That's manly. Journey is manly. Why is Journey not manly? I heard Joe Theismann say on the radio that Journey was his favorite group, and Theismann was pretty manly, wasn't he?"
--White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski, when asked why they didn't choose a song that's manlier than "Don't Stop Beliving" by Journey (MLB.com)
MLB.com takes a look back at the Sox 2005 season.
Daily Southtown columnists look back at '05 -- [Ladewski] [Cowley] [Whalen] [Vorva]
Sox title is named AP story of the year.
Phil Rogers 2005 retrospective.
Ron Rapoport 2005 retrospective.

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Interesting

How the hell did your 2005 recap link have the Cubs' MLB domain?

by Sox Machine on Dec 27, 2005 7:07 PM CST reply actions

That's how it arrived in my inbox

It said there were multiple sources. I'm sure the team names are interchangable. The link will work if you use any of the 30 team names.

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by The Cheat on Dec 28, 2005 1:29 AM CST up reply actions

I saw that too...

odd, very odd, yet strangely poetic.

James

by james@lifeinthecell on Dec 27, 2005 7:20 PM CST reply actions

Any Chance Hollywood is Interested In Us?

I just watched "Cinderella Man" last night, and it reminded me of how the the power of the big screen to depict the struggles & triumphs of the human spirit. There is no place in all of sports that could parallel such a story better than a tale of South Side and it's baseball team. I sure hope to see a comprehensive movie someday of the true White Sox story, interweaving the team into the history of the South Side and vice versa. I think if done the right way it would make for really compelling drama, a drama that was vastly understated in Fox's presentation of this year's World Series. Hollywood loves underdog stories, what would it take for them to get on board with this?

Turning the Chicago Baseball Tide - One Championship at a Time

by WestSideSoxFan on Dec 28, 2005 11:48 AM CST reply actions

What would it take?

Fever Pitch 2, unfortunately.

Straight to video.

by Sox Machine on Dec 28, 2005 12:49 PM CST up reply actions

NO - I want an Anti-Fever Pitch Movie

I'm not talking about a pseudo chick flick that makes a mockery of a fan's passion. I'm suggesting a complex drama that plays on the social mosaic of the South Side, paralleling the struggles of that fractured part of the city with the media's utter ignorance of the Sox. The Sox have played in the same neighborhood for longer than any team in professional sports (but who knows that besides Southsiders?). Plus the South Side has arguably the most intricate urban landscape in American history (but who knows that outside of Chicago?).

How can there not be a movie to encapsulate this marriage of two quintessential American phenomena? Why isn't this being rammed down people's throats until they can't ignore it anymore? I can't imagine I'm so far out in left field here, am I?

Turning the Chicago Baseball Tide - One Championship at a Time

by WestSideSoxFan on Dec 28, 2005 1:20 PM CST reply actions

read the book

if anything the book is more about the relationship between a boy and his father brought together through their love of Arsenal football.

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by The Cheat on Dec 28, 2005 1:23 PM CST up reply actions

Fever Pitch

As far as I know, and I could be wrong about this since it's been awhile since I read it, Hornby's father doesn't play a very big role in the book either. In fact the book isn't really a story at all. It's more like a diary (complete with dates, times and scores) of important moments in his life, and how they were so severely intertwined with his love for Arsenal football.

It's a terrific book, and it's painful to think people will forever be associating it with Fallon's crappy movie.

Great players make great plays.

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by simplesinger on Dec 28, 2005 2:53 PM CST up reply actions

It's been years since I read it

Late 90's sometime. but I remember him reflecting back routinely on why he tortured himself so much with the crappy arsenal squad. Could be faulty memory. Could be me projecting onto the story itself.

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by The Cheat on Dec 28, 2005 2:58 PM CST up reply actions

What book

are you referring to here?

Turning the Chicago Baseball Tide - One Championship at a Time

by WestSideSoxFan on Dec 28, 2005 2:30 PM CST reply actions

Fever Pitch

Nick Hornby

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by The Cheat on Dec 28, 2005 2:59 PM CST up reply actions

Thanks

I'll have to read it. That is quite the bummer indeed that it turned into such a sappy movie.

Turning the Chicago Baseball Tide - One Championship at a Time

by WestSideSoxFan on Dec 29, 2005 12:54 PM CST reply actions

fever pitch

sadly, fever pitch was actually turned into two bad movies. there was a more faithful british version made in 1997 that was pretty poor. at least hornby's other good book 'high fidelity' was made into a decent film.

by goldstone97 @ South Side Sox on Dec 29, 2005 3:02 PM CST up reply actions