Rot in hell, Terrordome!

my guess is, that this particular game will stick in my head the most, therefore becoming my favorite moment in that shithole.

For once, I have the opportunity to watch a Sox game, and I go and fuck it up. Well, from reading the yahoo box score and recap, this was a hell of a way to win.

White Sox, FUCK YEAH! Comin’ to save the mother fuckin’ season YEAH! White Sox, FUCK YEAH!

(okay, maybe that’s a bit much, but any win in the terrordome is especially sweet)

My favorite memories of the terrordome were when I would go to games in the late 90’s and be able to sit anywhere I wanted for the grand total of $3 while watching the twinkies lose. That. Place. Sucks.

On a side note, does anyone know of any stealthy keen ways, other than stub hub, to score lower deck seats for the Sat. game against the boston shitheads? I appreciate any and all suggestions received until my friend calls back and I just buy the damn stub hub tix.

And with that, I think I’ve surpassed the number of words in your fanpost. Awesome. Oh yeah, and nice work HSA.

Beckham worked the count to 3-2 before hitting a then-meaningless HR. It was followed by 3 more runs and a White Sox winner!

Don’t recall when that was, but the memory is as beautifully fresh as if it just happened.

Nice recap, btw.

I just stared at the box score in shock for about 5 minutes.

game 164 will be at the dome

They’ll let anyone in that club.

Just wait until we make it to the playoffs and it turns out the game in its entirety represented our season!

jumps with arms in the air

freeze frame

fade to black

the dome couldn’t have ended any better.

would be if this started a september run that got us to the playoffs.

wouldnt that be sick?

Can this win propel us to a finish like the Rockies of 2007? I don’t think so… but its nice to hope.

Whenever I think of that outhouse, I picture Freddy Garcia sitting in the dugout in 2005 after losing on a 1 hitter.

This victory will now provide my final memories.

GOOD RIDDANCE TO BASEBALL IN THE METRODOME.

is the Freddy/Johan 1-0 masterpiece. The game was outstanding, and the loss seems more representative of our futility.

after the perfecto. First I was just pumped for becks. Then for the blown save by nathan, but I kept thinking it just meant the sox would get walked off… Thought we got cox blocked when the ball be dwise, but we didn’t, and then the wild pitch just cemented the win. The fact that they pinch hit for punto is probably why we won.

got a text from mlbgo saying 2 outs no one on with becks up to bat…down 2-0 in the ninth…said fuck it…we lose again little do i know…we win 2 games on the road trip fuck are we awesome

1991 world series, game 6.

Kirby Puckett gets all that mass in the air and makes a great catch, then wins it with a HR. I was too young to hate teh Twins and that was sweet.

I smoked a thunderblunt then played fake baseball inside a building, i made this really big ugly wall of anti baseball and paid all the umps for 30 plus years. terrible memories of freddys 1 hit loss,thunderdome 08 massacre.

Today and when the royals helped us force 163 are the best recent thunderdome memories.

what really bothers me is i like how the twins play baseball but they do it in a dome and well thats just wrong.

time to win the world series. the savior

But I loved when aj stepped on morneaus back last year and gardy got all bitchy about it

All I can say is triple h metrodome I want to be the guy that pushes the detonator. Fuck you

At least, that’s what the young right-hander is saying.

According to a Tuesday report in the Newport News Daily Press, Hudson said that he was told by the coaches at Triple-A Charlotte that he soon will be joining the White Sox. The 22-year-old right-hander, selected in the fifth round of the 2008 First-Year Player Draft, has cruised through the White Sox Minor League system this year. He posted a 14-5 record and 2.32 ERA over 26 starts between stints with Class A Kannapolis, Class A Winston-Salem, Double-A Birmingham and Charlotte. He fanned 166 over 147 1/3 innings.

During stops for the Barons and Knights, the highest levels of Minor League competition, Hudson has a perfect 9-0 record with a 2.02 ERA.

Hudson threw just three innings at Norfolk on Tuesday, striking out five, before telling the publication about the big conversation he had with pitching coach Richard Dotson.

“When they told me, I did a double-take. They had to tell me twice before I believed them,” said Hudson of reportedly getting called up after rosters expanded on Sept. 1. “It’s an awesome feeling. Just an amazing feeling.”

White sox pitching coach Don Cooper was asked Wednesday about Hudson’s arrival, but he deferred the decision to general manager Ken Williams as his call. Having pitched three innings Tuesday, Hudson won’t pitch Thursday against the Cubst. But he could get a chance when the fifth starter comes around next, depending on Jake Peavy’s recovery and the White Sox playoff standing.

from White Sox via facebook

By golly they’d be right back in the mix!

ESPN & Co. can still use the phrase ’has not won since his perfect game"

Alas poor Greinke, I knew him

When they demolish the joint…

Which makes sense, since it’s been nothing but pain and misery in there for so long.

New Years Day, 1995. NFL Wild Card Weekend. Chicago Bears vs. Minnesota Vikings.

The Vikes had won the division, the Bears broke into the playoffs with a wild card. But the Bears stormed that morgue and laid the wood to Warren Moon and those silly ass Vikings, and for the first time as a kid old enough to understand what the hell was going on, I got to see my first love, the Chicago Bears, win a playoff game.

Took twelve years to win the next one. Sadly, that is a lot of what made that win so much more special.

Aside from that, for all the Bears and White Sox losses over the years, for poor Rex Grossman’s ripped up leg at the end of a great touchdown scramble, and for all the bad shit I’ve seen in that place, fuck that dome… right in the ass.

From the Trib

But most of the amusement came off the field, where Konerko joked to reporters, “we own this place” before flipping his cap to a clubhouse attendant before walking into the visitor’s clubhouse, where the music was loud.

but since I did not see the game (and thus was not in tears, as I probably would’ve been had I been watching) I hope to Yahweh that this is not like another September dinger from another frustrating season:

http://www.southsidesox.com/2006/9/9/15825/36678

Q!, RF: +12.3 UZR (966 Inn)
Rios, CF: +9.6 UZR (932 Inn)
Crawford, LF: +13.6 UZR (8406 Inn)

i weep in quiet

JIM THOME in a dodger uni

i skimmed the thread but that’s good news

(I think; I saw something scroll by on ESPN 3 hours ago)

May 14, 2006, Buehrle’s crazy game where he gave up 7 runs in the first inning and ended up coming away with the win. The Sox hit three homers and turned a triple play.

box score

Even though the Twins won… the Sox clinched their playoff spot in Minnesota and Paul Konerko ran around the bases with a beer and slid into home. Consequently the Sox never played as well in that park again…….until today.

Ron Kittle’s daughter Hayley is in my Victorian Lit class.

1 – Ramirez SS
2 – Beckham 3B
3 – Pujols 1B
4 – Utley 2B
5 – Quentin RF
6 – Flowers C
7 – Crawford LF
8 – Figgins DH
9 – Rios CF

Rotation

Peavy
Haren
Buehrle
Floyd
Danks

Bullpen

Chamberlain
Carrasco
Papelbon
Rivera
Thornton
Rodriguez
Jenks

Kenny Williams does the unthinkable, pulls off trade with NL All Star Team.

• where SSS says “a chicago white sox blog community”, twinkietown says “the orlando cabrera reign of hustle starts now”. to that, i can only say, ugh my god.
• they want us to know how lucky the sox were to win that game and also how unlucky the twins were.
• at least one dude over there felt that randy williams hit mauer on purpose.
• when they have an overflow thread, instead of posting a link, they post “OVERFLOW THREAD! head on over guys, front page…” and “PLEASE MOVE TO THE OVERFLOW THREAD”. so polite.
• the first comment on said overflow thread was “first post”
• they don’t understand why we hate punto and gomez.

Gee, what a surprise: Jake Peavy might get shut down for the year. NOW are you glad the Cubs didn’t trade the farm for him? And, Carlos Torres will start Thursday’s game at Wrigley for the White Sox.

The stupidity is not surprising considering it appears the board is comprised of a bunch of anime nerds.

Tyler Flowers: Flowers cannot match Posey’s overall game but this White Sox prospect could make veteran A.J. Pierzynski expendable after the 2010 season – if not before. Flowers might struggle to hit for a high average because he has trouble making contact sometimes (30.5 K%), but he posted a .246 ISO in 248 double-A at-bats before moving up to triple-A. Flowers, an average backstop, also takes a ton of walks, having posted a 19.2% walk rate in 2008 and a rate of 18.7% in double-A in ‘09. Flowers has been a lefty killer in his minor-league career and hit .358 against them this year with an OPS of 1.119.

http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/index.php/minor-impacts-september-3

What are they gonna close next? The Adlai Stevenson Food Court? Thomas E. Dewey Dog Park?

I don’t know what the hell to say. I know Rios is awful at the plate right, but if you sit Dye play the guy who has a career OPS over .700.

Well here you go!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204731804574389073527854120.html

Both back to back…

Son was born on the 15th of August 05, and had to ironically travel for the first time ever for work, a week later. first stop twinkie town…i was so tired from the newborn, that i hadnt really had a chance to catch up on the schedule and all i knew was that they were holding first with a vengance…was not so bummed about the travel after i opened the sports page to see our sox were in town.

first game was awesomely long and drawn out near perfect baseball…we lost 0-1 but Garcia actually was a pitcher then. lots of great banter and shit talking with the surrounding twin fans as no matter what they said, or who would win that game, the sock were unfuckable with.

second game was even better cause they won and i got to see my ace buehrle pitch…only got to see maybe 6 games that year as i had left chicago ;(, but damn was that the greatest two games to see for me…unfortunately the other 4 were all away games as well… at the K against the Royals…all of em easy wins.

Lots of people at BCB feel like this is going to be the start of the Cubs capturing a post season spot… comparing them to the 07 Rockies.

Also, lots are claiming that it feels “like they are in the playoffs now”

Along with Chicago bragging rights, the White Sox and Cubs are clinging to outside shots at the postseason.

Damn right, hell with bragging rights, we’ve got a Pennant to win!