Houston Astros vs. Chicago White Sox - World Series 2005

[Frayed Knot]

C'mon fans, you can't let him catch that!!!

Helluva play though.

[Frayed Knot]

We may have just seen the closest 4-game sweep ever.

[metirish]

Yeah you could be right FK..congrats to the Sox, no more are they the second team in the second City..

[Guest Edgy DC]

Uribe should get MVP on those last two plays alone.

And applause to the Houston fans for letting him go in and get it.

And hey, Joe Crede, don't go running to tell everybody he caught it. Help him get off his face while there's a runner lookin' to go a-runnin'.

[metirish]

I think I heard Buck say Dye is the MVP...but yeah Uribe made two special plays, that's big time .

[Zvon]

Frayed Knot wrote: We may have just seen the closest 4-game sweep ever.

yea,all the games were good baseball.


No more baseball tho.....
woe is me.
I guess Ill fire up EA-MVP baseball on playstation.


Dye gets the MVP.
He did deserve it.

[Zvon]

HEY!..im George Theodore today!

and I am honored.

[Zvon]

say goodnight Gracie...



Goodnight Gracie.

[Frayed Knot]

So when's Opening Day?

[Guest SwitchHitter]

I just want to take a moment to say y'all Mets fans are a classy bunch. No one here is gigging me because my team lost. That is not true in other non-Astros forums I frequent. I love y'all.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

We love you too, Annie.

I wasn't rooting for your team (solely because of Clemens), but I know you're a true baseball fan and that you're hurting today. Take pride in the fact that your team made it to the Show - they done good!

[seawolf17]

Annie, two things: one, your team fought well and it was a good series, and two, Mets fans aren't usually ones to needlessly blast other team's failures... unless those other teams are the MFYs and Braves.

[Guest KC]

It was a nice run Annie and a remarkable season considering how dead
the 'stros looked earlier in the year.

[MFS62]

I like the Sox - They remind me of all winning teams - they have defense and timely hitting.

Incidentally, Edgy, Mike amd Mike (ESPN radio) were talking about a great column in today's Washington Post about how in the last 365 days, baseball has repaid most of its outstanding "debts".

Was it as good as they said it was?



Later

[Willets Point]

Fuck! I fell asleep during the game! And now baseball season is over. Waaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Congratulations to the White Sox. 11-1 in the postseason is pretty dominant even if it doesn't indicate how close many of those games were. All the more impressive that they managed to win all but one.

Annie, your Astros have nothing to be ashamed of. For a sweep this was a highly competitive and exciting series and the Astros were in every game unlike the Cards last year who were pretty much shut down after game one. And those Houston fans are awfully polite to allow Uribe in there.

[Willets Point]

Edgy was the first here to give props to the the White Sox back in August.

Where's Farmer Ted now for the report from Chicago?

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

]Fuck! I fell asleep during the game! And now baseball season is over. Waaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Me too.

[Guest Edgy DC]

My props came from a PoV of ignorance, though.

Even cooler in that, during Cleveland's amazing run, the writers were starting to write the stories about the Sox accomplishing the biggest tank job since 1964.

Not quite.

[Frayed Knot]

The only thing wrong from my intitial "scouting report" on that linked post:

] - They pitch well. Real well. - Ozzie loves the small ball better'n Willie ever dreamed of. - Posednik's running wild but gets thrown out alot. - This Rowland guy can play the heck out of CF and their defense overall is good - No one in the lineup hits .300 - Their 2nd sacker Iguchi is what we hoped Kaz would be - Big Hurt is likely out for the season with another ... well, big hurt of some kind - I'm not sure if they'll hit enough. They don't have a ton of power so they need their hits in bunches and when they don't get 'em they'll lose while out-hitting the Yanx 9-4 like they did tonight. - Who's older: El Ducky or Contreras? - Dustin Hermanson was terrible closing for the Giants last year but is good this year. Can he be trusted in October?

... is that they hit for more power than I credited them for. Only 1 true top HR hitter (Konerko) but a bunch of mid-power guys surrounding him.

And then as Jenks stepped in where Hermanson had been their bullpen became even stronger. Not often that you see a manager with 5 deep in the pen that he trusts in all kinds of spots. Relative unknowns like Politte & Cotts had some terrific numbers.

And so while 'Conventional wisdom' had them as paper tigers during much of the year as ALCentral winners had been in the past, including the end of the reg season they finished up 17-1 which is enough to be considered legit in any season.

So how big a share does Shinjo Takatsu get??

[Frayed Knot]

Nice Summary of the cast of characters who made up the ChiSox season.

[Elster88]

]For the first time in four years, a Wild Card team didn�t win the World Series.

Weird.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Ozzie, by the way, is a big kid. Every time he gave a shout-out to Venezuela, he seemed to laugh to himself like he just got away with something.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

This was one of the better and most closely contested World Series in years. This World Series was what championship baseball is supposed to be like. A wonderful seriesfor fans of the game. It's too bad it had to come to an end.

[Willets Point]

It's not over for the White Sox as Fox has scheduled another series.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Willets Point wrote: It's not over for the White Sox as Fox has scheduled another series.

I wonder if that's the work of sportspickler DJ Gallo

[Centerfield]

Oh and before I forget...what on earth is wrong with Aaron Neville? Did anyone else hear that version of "God Bless America"? Good lord Aaron sucks.

[metirish]

It looked to me that he had a dose of the shakes, nerves?..