Goodnight, Sweet Prince...Au Revoir, Dewayne
by homesickalien on Dec 4, 2009 6:37 PM CST
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in 7 days.Dewayne Wise ($10 to renew for 1 year)
Here lies Larry "Dewayne" Wise.
He came to us with high hopes, a willing attitude, and a grindiness so rarely seen in colored athletes. ;)
Today, I want to take a moment to formally bid him adieu.
In less than a week, my year of proudly sponsoring Dewayne will come to an expiring close. I have the option of renewing my sponsorship for even less than I paid for him last year; but since he'll be donning another team's colors in 2010, I am choosing to part ways with fond memories in my heart and a single tear slowly making its way down my cheek.
Dewayne Wise made Thursdays memorable.
Dewayne Wise made The Catch.
Dewayne Wise hit a PH grand slam off of Farnsworth with 2 outs in the 8th, on September 14th, 2008.
You may recall the night...Zambrano was pitching a no-no or something like that, whatever, who fucking cares :) and stole all the media's attention. Well, I haven't forgotten your September 14th, D-Wheezy. Your slam led us to win that game, therefore keeping us alive in the home stretch and leading us to take the division in 163 a couple weeks later.
Oh, and BA wouldn't have done that!
I raise my glass to Dewayne Wise!
And just for good measure, here's one final "Is this your homework, Larry???" from your loving sponsor of yesteryear: The PS.
Please sign your name or leave your favorite Dewayne moment in the comments.
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"The Catch"
Without a doubt the greatest play by an outfielder I have ever seen.
piss up a rope fuckstick ...................by hoodlight
He cemented himself into White Sox history with one play.
As did Uribe with the final out(s) of 2005.
Don't the circumstances/context confirm what Mick posted?
I doubt there’s a greater catch, at least in Sox history.
"his ballerness could not be stoped which rose his era to 5.42 "
by Chiburb on Dec 5, 2009 3:43 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Hard to top "The Catch".
I still marvel at the timing of the whole thing. Defensive replacement that inning, left-handed-ness (necessary), Billy Pierce, absolutely perfect speed and timing, The Juggle. If that is not proof there is a God, I don’t know what else could prove it.
Absolute perfection. And a horseshit gift from MB. D-Wise, you deserve better. Buehrle should sponsor you in perpetuity. Adieu.
"don tink about new jork. jus come in ready to wing de gay."
by winningugly on Dec 4, 2009 8:07 PM CST reply actions 3 recs
Rec'd despite the god thing..but there certainly is something larger than us. Miracles happen in baseball!
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by homesickalien on Dec 4, 2009 11:35 PM CST up reply actions
yep, the travesty is all dwise got from it was a bottle of scotch
i'm alex rios' last fan
by onlysoxfaninboston on Dec 5, 2009 10:42 AM CST up reply actions
10 years working hard in AAAA purgatory
Then put in a position to make one of the greatest catches in major league history. I think he got everything he deserved for the hard work he put in just by being in that position, any gift from Buehrle would have paled in comparison to what that probably did for his life.
He goes from being a guy no one has ever heard of to a guy who will be mentioned in perfect game lore for the rest of his life, Buehrle pitching a perfect 8 innings to put him in that position was his gift.
by Grinder in Training on Dec 7, 2009 11:08 AM CST up reply actions
I can't disagree
After reading what I wrote.
by Grinder in Training on Dec 7, 2009 11:47 AM CST via mobile up reply actions
I remember
that the fans turned on him before he even had an opportunity. Sure he was probably going to suck…. but at least give the guy more than 1 at bat…..its not like Anderson was any better. That was bad news…then everyone was on his knob after he saved buehrle’s day.
Kenwo4life=ratings
I'm talking as a starter. give the guy a fucking shot before you throw him under the bus
maybe he took steroids last winter….how do u know
Kenwo4life=ratings
huh?
he was 31 years old. starter, bench, who cares. you don’t magically become a good baseball player at 31.
well then blame the fucking idiot they have as a general manager
because Wise was the best option in camp… yah it was like being the tallest midget….but he was the best guy they had. The fans shouldn’t have turned on Wise before opening day and in the same time slob on williams knob. Williams was the dick wod that gave wise a guaranteed contract and was the guy that didn’t provide anyone in camp that was better than him. Wise did what he was asked to do- win the job in spring training.
Kenwo4life=ratings
I know what you meant. And I agree.
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by homesickalien on Dec 7, 2009 9:33 AM CST up reply actions
Gotta disagree on that...look at the spring training stats.
G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB BB SO SB CS OBP SLG AVG
Dwise 20 70 9 20 4 3 2 10 36 1 15 3 1 .301 .514 .286
BA 24 69 12 20 0 0 4 9 32 9 14 0 1 .375 .464 .290
BA got on base more, had more HR, SO less, and played the OF better… Yeah, I was a BA fan… guilty secret.
Dwise’s horrid start sealed my disdain for the guy… O for the first 3 or 4 games?nothing personal, but I would have rather seen BA in every time Wise took the field. Except for the catch, but I think BA still woulda caught it (as unrealistic as that is)
There's Your Zagnut!!!
by DrEmilioLizardo on Dec 7, 2009 4:52 PM CST up reply actions
So... someone can post golden unicorn pics of Q...
but I mention that I like BA over Dwise and I am a sick freak.
OK. I can live with that.
There's Your Zagnut!!!
by DrEmilioLizardo on Dec 8, 2009 12:28 PM CST up reply actions
Why have disdain for a bad player, and none for the guy who put him on the team?
No baseball team should have Dewayne Wise as their Opening Day centerfielder. Why the fans would boo someone they probably knew was going to suck makes no sense to me.
The 2009 White Sox....like a 40 degree day.
by Ozzie Montana on Dec 8, 2009 12:45 AM CST up reply actions
Should they boo someone they knew was going to be great?
Should they boo someone whose talent is unknown?
Who do I get to boo? tell me!! I need rules, dammit!
There's Your Zagnut!!!
by DrEmilioLizardo on Dec 8, 2009 12:15 PM CST up reply actions
You do not boo your own players
It’s fucking uncouth!
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by billyok on Dec 8, 2009 12:20 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
So... I dont boo linebrink?
There's Your Zagnut!!!
by DrEmilioLizardo on Dec 8, 2009 12:22 PM CST up reply actions
Brian Anderson. Now there's a player.
fuckingpussyassprettyboyloosesphincterstudmuffinstrikeoutswingingifyoucanevencallit
aswingthefuckingassholegoldilocksfratboygonnafuckyourmothermotherfucker,
motherfucker……
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by homesickalien on Dec 8, 2009 9:23 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
hmm... I get the impression you dont like the young man...
did he forget to tip you? ;)
There's Your Zagnut!!!
by DrEmilioLizardo on Dec 8, 2009 12:24 PM CST up reply actions
Smartest thing ever said on this site.
The 2009 White Sox....like a 40 degree day.
by Ozzie Montana on Dec 5, 2009 2:43 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
I hurt myself fake-skateboarding
Signed
Always liked Dewayne and felt ashamed when he got booed on Opening Day. Also, before THE CATCH, there was the catch — that play he made against Detroit where he separated his shoulder and still threw the ball back. Great play and made for some great photoshops thanks to that one snapshot of him in agony that looked like his was laughing.
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I thought better to acknowledge Schadenfreude at that picture.
Glad to see you have no such filters.
"don tink about new jork. jus come in ready to wing de gay."
Any time "amusement", "enjoy", and "pain" cohabitiate in a stream of consciousness,
Schedenfreude is in play.
"don tink about new jork. jus come in ready to wing de gay."
There was a home run in KC the last weekend of the '08. It made 162 v DET necessary, which made 163 v MIN necessary.
That. And the catch.
The Mitch. Family
2 great catches this year
the one in detroit when he blew out his shoulder (i think Qperman hit two dingers that game?) and the catch.
If the woman is offering an opinion, you are doing it wrong. - HSA
Sweet 2-out, 3-run homer in Game 1 of 2008 ALDS
Exciting moment that gave us the lead briefly in the 3rd inning
He came to us with high hopes, a willing attitude, and a grindiness so rarely seen in colored athletes
Did you refer to him as “colored athlete” what color is he, have to let you know this is a very derogatory discription of an African-american.
Tongue in cheek. There's even a winky-smiley next to it, for fuckssake.
We all know colored/black/brown/people of Africa/African-American players aren’t grindy.
Not picky, but very sticky....
by homesickalien on Dec 8, 2009 9:25 AM CST up reply actions
winky-smiley or whatever don't make it acceptable
you seem intelligent enough to make the point without the “colored” reference, now I could be toungue in cheek with, the reason african-american ballplayers don’t need to be grindy is they are gifted physically and are graceful by nature. But that ain’t always true and you know it,
What point? It was a joke. We have a long-established ability and tendency to laugh at race here (all races, including pasty-asses like me). Mainly because we are secure enough to figure out that we aren't actually racists just because we do.
Your taking offense to that is your issue.
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by homesickalien on Dec 8, 2009 10:57 AM CST up reply actions
Are you serious here??
Everyone here knew she wasn’t being racist, anyone who has posted here more than a day knew exactly what she was going for with that comment. Go to BCB if you are too soft to take a sarcastic joke.
by Grinder in Training on Dec 8, 2009 11:23 AM CST up reply actions
thin skin,thick skin
colored is derogatory, that it’s okay to you does not make it ok to me, I like sarcasm as much as the next person, racism has nothing to do with this, I like to laugh and joke too, but this is over the line, maybe you don’t know.
Not over my line...
why dont you take your overly sensitive and whiny lines back to (insert name of contintent/landmass here).
If you like sarcasm as much as the next person perhaps you might appreciate my suggestion that Obama nominate you for the new post of Politically Correct Czar, so you can tell us all what is in taste and is not.
Or , find the door and let yourself out.
There's Your Zagnut!!!
by DrEmilioLizardo on Dec 8, 2009 12:21 PM CST up reply actions
Jesus, you guys are mean! No need to be so upset about it; he/she's just conveying his/her opinion, even if it is one of sensitivity.
I personally can’t keep up with what each race prefers to be called these days, but I do know that “colored” is one of the least offensive joking words I could use to describe black people.
Shit, is “black people” ok?
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by homesickalien on Dec 8, 2009 12:38 PM CST up reply actions
I prefer to just call them "Tall"
There's Your Zagnut!!!
by DrEmilioLizardo on Dec 8, 2009 12:54 PM CST up reply actions
You can take the low road I will stay high
Not one thing has changed by all the garbage you said, Colored is a derogatory term for Black people that hasn’t been used since the 50’s.
So high......
:)
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by homesickalien on Dec 8, 2009 12:39 PM CST up reply actions
Great point- that is why the NAACP changed its name in 1988...
oooh…. wait – it didnt? really? It still is NAACP? wow… I am SOO embarassed.
There's Your Zagnut!!!
by DrEmilioLizardo on Dec 8, 2009 12:58 PM CST up reply actions
We would in that context any day of the week..
Although, maybe that’s just because my colored friends understand humor and satire.
by Grinder in Training on Dec 8, 2009 1:25 PM CST up reply actions
That should read
“Not one of you calls black people colored to their face.”
We first got our hair cut today. I am not very happy with this result.
-Rinku
well, if we're going to argue semantics
would “athlete of color” have worked better for you? you do at least get the joke that she was going for, non?
judging by your comment count (all being in this thread), you’re apparently new here.
These events have me frightened and on the verge of evacuating my bowels.
I am a big fan of this site
Let’s not get twisted, been a Sox fan since 1960, regular at old Comiskey, love the cleaverness and take no prisoners attitude that true Sox fans and southsiders are known for and I can take it, but I think that field here is for the most part is fair, and Colored is a bad term. Nobody probably meant any harm and I know that. Let us get back to tell it like it is, but know that it is hard to sarcastic and insulted at the same time.
tell it like it is?
colored people tend to be more athletic.
If the woman is offering an opinion, you are doing it wrong. - HSA
Also...white men can't jump.
Not picky, but very sticky....
by homesickalien on Dec 8, 2009 3:47 PM CST up reply actions
my colored person is black
and yes, that was possessive, as in i own a colored.
If the woman is offering an opinion, you are doing it wrong. - HSA
Point made
What I did in making my point was targeted to the good people who will probably see things in a different way, did you think I was naive enough to think someone like you would not come out with these stupid cartoons and wild statements. Oh and believe me I have seen enough and heard enough of this garbage to last ten lifetimes so the shock value is gone.“GO Sox”
I think his point was made to the rest of us..
Especially those who have seen this episode. I’d say it went right over your head though.
by Grinder in Training on Dec 9, 2009 9:27 AM CST up reply actions
I hear your point, sugarbear. I did not hope to offend anyone with that statement, but I also won't apologize for it because it was in good humor and I do know the difference.
I hope you at least distinguish that some people’s “points” here are merely providing common examples of this sort of racial satire (like South Park’s “NAGGER” or my Robin Hood ref above, which is a joke made generalizing white people’s lack of athleticism) to prove that you can have a sense of humor about this sort of thing.
It’s not personal.
I know the difference between the generalization that “white men can’t jump” and the reality that “some white guys CAN jump!” Doesn’t mean I can’t laugh at the idea of it, right?
Especially when you consider that a lot of this humor is exposing and addressing these common prejudices, conceptions and assumptions found in our culture. It’s not ignorance at all.
I think thatshortkid said it best – “satirizing soft racism in the media…..”
Go Sox – we can agree on that. :)
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by homesickalien on Dec 9, 2009 10:23 AM CST up reply actions
Love this post
thanks homesickalien, I completely agree with how you put this in perspective, I may have over reacted to the Colored thing, I feel good enough about your explanation to go back to what we do, Sox fans are hearty people, we don’t make excuses and we can take it. To everyone on this site “Go Sox”.
so when satirizing soft racism in media, don't use terms that embellish said soft racism. gotcha.
sox fan since 1960 and “sugarbear” in name? a word of advice: if a fellow here starts asking questions about gary, in, for the love of god RUN.
These events have me frightened and on the verge of evacuating my bowels.
I prefer my bears to be either gummi or huggy...
There's Your Zagnut!!!
by DrEmilioLizardo on Dec 8, 2009 4:53 PM CST up reply actions
It's hard to when I'm always on the other side of the street
(KIDDING)
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by billyok on Dec 8, 2009 2:51 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
you would lose that bet sir, im sure
If the woman is offering an opinion, you are doing it wrong. - HSA
whoa this thread is interesting
to say the least
Ugh that season completely sucked but i have so many other things to look forward to. GO BLACKHAWKS! GO BEARS! 2010 WHITE SOX!
That's the best you got for Dewayne?
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by homesickalien on Dec 9, 2009 9:42 AM CST up reply actions
i was talking aout all the racism flung about by sugarbear.
may he go in peace. well i didn’t really enjoy him except for the game saving catch he had on a thursday
Ugh that season completely sucked but i have so many other things to look forward to. GO BLACKHAWKS! GO BEARS! 2010 WHITE SOX!
by pierzynskirules on Dec 9, 2009 11:08 PM CST up reply actions
And so concludes this tribute
Up next: We celebrate Chris Getz in a segment we like to call, “Chris Getz: Not bad for an Ashkenazi Jew!”
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He gone.
Make it current, fer Chrissakes.
"don tink about new jork. jus come in ready to wing de gay."
"Gordon Beckham: Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)"
These events have me frightened and on the verge of evacuating my bowels.
by thatshortkid on Dec 9, 2009 11:32 AM CST up reply actions
Andruw Jones- : "Chunky Honkballer"
There's Your Zagnut!!!
by DrEmilioLizardo on Dec 9, 2009 12:05 PM CST up reply actions
The Catch
I’ll never hear the name D-Wise and not smile. Similarly, I’ll always associate him with MB’s perfecto whenever it is mentioned.
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