Sox Dropouts

[witesoxfan]

I watched it on TV, I was alone and I really don't keep scorecards.

 

I figured when we went up 9-4, that it was over....but I kept the game on. After seeing his double that nearly went out, I called the shot....a little while later I saw we were down....so I figured we were going to lose. By the end of the day, I saw Thomas rounding around the bases and the Sox winning.

 

My memories aren't clear, but I did remember that much.

[Soxplosion]

I remember one game against the Tribe but I cant remember what year. We were down like 6-0 at the middle of the first and I left thinking unfortunately that they would be slaughtered. I ended up giving in and going back to the TV and watched them get a 13-6 lead at the end of the second. I think they won like 19-11 in the end. I also remember a game in 2000 where we slaughtered Seattle 19-3, that was real cool.

 

But in a thread highlighting our teams greatest comebacks in recent history, I must make sure that we all remember that awesome Sox-Scrubs game. That was the best. And Joe Credes multihomerun job in the 9th in tenth innings to give us that dramatic win over Toronto...

[Chisoxfn]

Was that the one that Kip Wells pitched in.

[witesoxfan]

I remember one game against the Tribe but I cant remember what year. We were down like 6-0 at the middle of the first and I left thinking unfortunately that they would be slaughtered. I ended up giving in and going back to the TV and watched them get a 13-6 lead at the end of the second. I think they won like 19-11 in the end. I also remember a game in 2000 where we slaughtered Seattle 19-3, that was real cool.

 

But in a thread highlighting our teams greatest comebacks in recent history, I must make sure that we all remember that awesome Sox-Scrubs game. That was the best. And Joe Credes multihomerun job in the 9th in tenth innings to give us that dramatic win over Toronto...

I think that Indians game was last year

[cwsox]

I remember one game against the Tribe but I cant remember what year. We were down like 6-0 at the middle of the first and I left thinking unfortunately that they would be slaughtered. I ended up giving in and going back to the TV and watched them get a 13-6 lead at the end of the second. I think they won like 19-11 in the end

 

 

That was Labor Day Sunday 2001, September 2.

 

We had quite a group at Comiskey - HSC, hotsoschildMiguel, hotsoxchildTonio, awesome, GUG, joeybatters, Jason Buehrle, and others that I cannot think of off hand, but probably the largest tailgate of the year, and I'd have to dig out the scorecard because it was one of those games where I got everyone to autograph my scorecard. iMadman, hoosiere, and imadmanson were there too as I recollect. I mean it was just everybody we possibly could find for a Labor Day blowout.

 

The game went as you said. We were down 6-0 and we started incessently cheering and the tides changed and we won 19-10 We were sitting behind home plate, thanks to GUG, the large group of us and we just had a wild time, one of the most fun games ever.

 

There was a great picture taken of Joey, HSC and HSCMiguel and HSCTonio, and me before the game which makes me cry when I look at it, such a great picture, and that was Monday, September 2nd, 2001.

 

9 days later our innocence and baseball as it were was all shattered by September 11th. And in those scary days after September 11th, I was thankful to have been with so many people who mean so much to me the week before.

 

I email that picture with the caption, "in happier times" since it recalls one of the those last moments when our biggest concerns were the Tribe and the Twins, not terrorists.

[CubKilla]

I remember one game against the Tribe but I cant remember what year. We were down like 6-0 at the middle of the first and I left thinking unfortunately that they would be slaughtered. I ended up giving in and going back to the TV and watched them get a 13-6 lead at the end of the second. I think they won like 19-11 in the end

That was Labor Day 2001., September 3.

 

We had quite a group at Comiskey - HSC, hotsoschildMiguel, hotsoxchildTonio, awesome, GUG, joeybatters, Jason Buehrle, and others that I cannot think of off hand, but probably the largest tailgate of the year, and I'd have to dig out the scorecard because it was one of those games where I got everyone to autograph my scorecard. iMadman, hoosiere, and imadmanson were there too as I recollect. I mean it was just everybody we possibly could find for a Labor Day blowout.

 

The game went as you said. We were down 6-0 and we started incessently cheering and the tides changed and we won 19-11 We were sitting behind home plate, thanks to GUG, the large group of us and we just had a wild time, one of the most fun games ever.

 

There was a great picture taken of Joey, HSC and HSCMiguel and HSCTonio, and me before the game which makes me cry when I look at it, such a great picture, and that was Monday, September 3rd, 2001.

 

8 days later our innocence and baseball as it were was all shattered by September 11th.

 

I email that picture with the caption, "in happier times" since it recalls one of the those last moments when our biggest concerns were the Tribe and the Twins, not terrorists.

Myself, Guido, RPS, and one of our favorite SOUTHSIDE bartenders, Dennis, were also at that game. It was a Sunday though I think. Tribe led 6-0 either at the end of half-an-inning or the end of one-and-a-half but the White Sox lit up Burba for, I think 8, in the bottom half of whatever inning the Indians scored their 6 in. Man was I drunk that day. Me and Guido were drinking Becks with breakfast at the tailgate and by first pitch, we were crunked. After the Indians scored 6, figuring it would be a long day, we drank more. And after the Sox scored 8, we drank even more cause now it was party time! A high scoring game meant a long game, so beer was plentiful before being cut off by the 7th Inning Stretch. We all went to RPS's dad's house for some brats and more beer at a neighborhood bar later that night. A fun day with good friends that I still remember to this day.

[cwsox]

By the way, the next day, Labor Day Monday, September 3rd, I went to Comiskey by myself and say the Sox lose 6-3 or whatever, it was so bittersweet to be alone at Comiskey the day after the wild times with the largets group that we ever had put together the day before. But I also enjoyed my solitary commune with my most beloved Sox, after a long day of seeing Chicago relatives and knowing I would return that night straight from Comiskey back to Michigan for my nonSox life. I sat in the upper deck alone and just felt so good about what being at Comiskey Park means to my life. I am more comfortable there than in my own living room, every noise, every thing that happens, as familiar to me as anything in life, this is the place that I go to be happiest. I didn't know then it was my last game of the season.

 

8 days later, September 11th.

 

When sports resumed, I had tickets for the Western Michigan game at Ann Arbor against my beloved Wolverines, originally set for the 15th, now chnaged to the 22nd, that I was taking my grandson to. And I also had tickets for Comiskey for the 22nd. It was a tough decison. I took my grandson to Ann Arbor, the largest gathering of people in America anywhere since September 11th. 114,000 of us in an area with by far the highest Islamic population in the US, in nearby Dearborn. If anyone were to try and make a statement of any kind by terrorism, pro bin Ladin or antiIslamic, it would be a likely site. Damned if we were going to be intimidated. My grandson and I bought flags to wave in honor of his father, my son the Marine.

 

So I never got back to Comiskey in 2001. The service of remembrance held in Ann Arbor at the UM football field, a place where there were real fears of a statement of violence being made by people who hate (be it antiAmerican terrorists or bigots who would lash out at innocent Muslims simply because they were Muslim). The unfurled American flag at halftime as about half the size of the football field and most of us were crying. The two school's bands combined on playing America, including the 2nd verse "thine alabaster cities gleam, undimmd by human tears... confrim thy soul in self control, thy liberty in law." Waving our flags for my son, my grandson's father, at Michigan Stadium with 114,000 others was an event that I will never forget, nor has my grandson. Show him a picture of the Big House and he will tell you exactly where we sat.

[YASNY]

Awesome post CWSOX ... thanks for telling that story.