Soxtalk: A History

[kapkomet]

Yeah, Soxtalk has produced some classic threads.

 

Going back off of the top of my head, some of my favorites include

 

mutherf***ing, dips***ass.... by Heather back in 03 or 04

That bizzarre Ronald McDonald thread

The Rally Crede thread

incorgible's outing thread

The thread from the Indians fan a couple of days before the 05 opener.

 

I know I am missing some good ones too...

I had forgotten about the ronald mcdonald thread, that was hilarious.

[FlaSoxxJim]

I had forgotten about the ronald mcdonald thread, that was hilarious.

 

Was that the "Grimace ate my balls" thread, or was there another immortal McDonald's thread I'm forgetting about?

[Molto]

I got an out of left field email from Molto .... I think, telling me about Soxtalk. How the hell he found me and knew I was a Sox fan, I guess I'll never know. But I'm glad it happened. I gotten a lot of enjoyment from this place over the years.

 

I used to post on the ESPN board under rio255 and on WSI as well ... maybe I remember you from one of those places. Not sure how I would get your email though and I wasn't really one to email, as I was a horrible promoter/marketer. Glad it worked out though.

[kapkomet]

The photoshop thread was a pretty funny one too.

 

[Iwritecode]

WSI ran into an issue where they banned numerous members.

 

That seems to be a reoccurring theme lately.

[Jake]

We need a Soxtalk Thread Hall of Fame.

[Flash Tizzle]

Haha, Ncorg. Remember when JimH researched his claims of being on the board of directors? Another classic thread.

[SoxFan562004]

sorry if this is answered, but is there a "Member No. 1" and if he's found and killed, do we all die?

[kapkomet]

well, I think everyone had to re-register because parts of the old board got nuke'd.

 

[Flash Tizzle]

We need a Soxtalk Thread Hall of Fame.

What's unfortuante is those threads which were really objectionable (and would qualify as being hall of fame material) were deleted.

 

Oh man, that reminds me of Beastly's old threads when he was Wsc245. "Showering while in high school" or his "what do people prefer sexually threads." Those were f***ing awesome.

 

HAHA, here are some old threads. It's like a treasure of long forgotten soxtalk members.

 

http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?sh...=9306&st=25 (note the argument on page 2 concerning nazi's with cwso and cerb. That epitomizes early Soxtalk)

 

http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=11150 (LONG read. Cwsox, an old member, was temporarily banned because of two incidents -- attacks within the infamous "are you gay thread; and alleged comments made towards Aboz). Even those these may be objectionable to post, everyone should know this site's history. It's the time on Soxtalk I refer to as the Dark Ages.

Edited August 28, 2008 by Flash Tizzle

[SoxFanForever]

What's unfortuante is those threads which were really objectionable (and would qualify as being hall of fame material) were deleted.

 

Oh man, that reminds me of Beastly's old threads when he was Wsc245. "Showering while in high school" or his "what do people prefer sexually threads." Those were f***ing awesome.

 

HAHA, here are some old threads. It's like a treasure of long forgotten soxtalk members.

 

http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?sh...=9306&st=25 (note the argument on page 2 concerning nazi's with cwso and cerb. That epitomizes early Soxtalk)

 

http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=11150 (LONG read. Cwsox, an old member, was temporarily banned because of two incidents -- attacks within the infamous "are you gay thread; and alleged comments made towards Aboz). Even those these may be objectionable to post, everyone should know this site's history. It's the time on Soxtalk I refer to as the Dark Ages.

Those were definitely some interesting times. I remember how insane it got and the posting rules that were born out of it. Haha, I almost kind of miss some of the ridiculous posts like these.

[Jake]

I remember being rather sad and maybe saying some things I shouldn't have when the censors were turned on. I still don't like it, but hey it's not a huge deal. It's funny, when looking at the archived soxtalks, many thread titles had swear words spelled out in them.

[FlaSoxxJim]

well, I think everyone had to re-register because parts of the old board got nuke'd.

 

This is true. I remember being PO'd that I lost like 500 posts when I reregistered in 2003. That's like a mediocre posting afternoon for SS.

[bjm676]

i remember Soxnet.net. I heard about soxtalk through WSI and never left. Before that, I used to post at the whitesox mlb boards. Those sucked.

It's funny looking at the past members, like Jabroni. That guy was relentless.

[T R U]

I was looking for porn when I stumbled across this site.. I accidentally typed in soxtalk instead of sextalk and here I am today

[FlaSoxxJim]

I was looking for porn when I stumbled across this site.. I accidentally typed in soxtalk instead of sextalk and here I am today

 

Ha! I did exactly the same thing! easy to make typos like that.

 

Of course, I was trying to type in chickenplookingmisgets.com, so I guess I really mangled the spelling to wind up here.

[MurcieOne]

SoxNet.net was initially founded in 2000/2001. The site was a news site which was founded by Mario Scalise (Molto) and Jason Gage (myself). Molto was the actual founder though and I somehow stumbled upon to his post that he was going to start a White Sox website which he made on WSI (where I would read on occassion). SoxNet had a message board which I was in charge of (Mario was in charge of the news portion) and that board was part of a sports-network which had made up with numerous sites which had been affiliated with Rivals (sportsinfinity network). For about a full season we used that network as our forums and than after the network continued to have server issues we felt it was necessary to make the next step and establish Soxtalk.com (the baseball fans forums had a core group of about 20 posters and would get about 100 posts a day, which we thought was insanely busy).

 

Soxtalk was my first venture into the server end side of things (from installing/building the forum to using PHP to make some customizations). Early in the Soxtalk days, WSI ran into an issue where they banned numerous members. We marketed and reached out to these members (which included being the official sponsor of SoxNRoll Radio) and eventually established a nice core-set of posters. Shortly after we gained a chunk of posters from WSI, we than lucked out into ESPN's forums being poorly moderated (we would consistently market our site by posting the articles on various forums, including ESPN/MLB) and picked up the likes of SS2k and slowly must have obtained about 90% of the consistent White Sox posters on such forums.

 

At that point Soxtalk had established itself. It would consistently get 1000 posts a day and was filled with action. We've grown many many more times since but the one thing thats never changed is our dedication to the members of this site and the Chicago White Sox.

 

In the middle of all this there was a time where this site was integrated with the "Insiders" network. This was something we thought was going to be a brilliant move which would give us the ability to provide the members with better content (giving us full blown credentials and access to getty images). However, there were differences of opinion between us and the people at the Insiders and legal actions had been threatened. There was a couple week span where we actually and we thought we might lose the site, however, we lucked out (although we were forced to close SoxNet.net at this time).

 

FutureSox & Soxtalk managed to survive and now we've continued to work on growing the network.

 

convenient I was left out of both Mario and your renditions of how this all got started. I'm glad I'm going to law school, because Im going to sue the f*** out of both of you!

 

[Soxbadger]

I dont remember how I found this place, I do remember it was a lot different back in the day.

[Reddy]

I dont remember how I found this place, I do remember it was a lot different back in the day.

me too. but man... all these names like Brando bring back memories. good times. i was thinking about qwerty the other day... seemed to me he joined up, posted like a madman and left all within like a year.

[qwerty]

me too. but man... all these names like Brando bring back memories. good times. i was thinking about qwerty the other day... seemed to me he joined up, posted like a madman and left all within like a year.

 

I guess you could day i never truely left. The 2005 season took a lot out of me, it was very hectic here, a good hectic, but hectic nonetheless. I saw how nuts (people still at one anothers throat) it was while the going was great/amazing throughout that 2005 run. There is nothing worse than ''OMG OMG OUR TEAM IS LIKE SO TOTALLY AWESOME!!!'' and then the next day ''OMG OMG SOX= AAA TEAM!?!?!''. I figured, and turned out to be right, that things would only get worse from there. 2006 everyone was floating like a balloon ( people played nice you could say) until late in the year when the sox skidded and then it all went downhill. That off-season, including the 2007 season were almost unbearable here as very few had a level head about the sox situation. Unlike any other sport baseball is a damn marathon, teams can play amazing one day and play even worse the next day, and in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter, there is still a whole hell of a lot of a season to be played.

 

For instance say the season long theme this season, '' the bullpen sucks'' well the numbers prove they are one of the better pens out there. Why don't i ever hear how much worse they realistically could and should have been this season? When you put into account the sox pen struggled when jenks went on the dl, linebrink has been out for five weeks, not to mention having a couple jokes in the pen for half of this season, i would say they have pitched pretty damn well, better than any could have expected coming off of 2007. Masset is a nobody and will not be missed and logan went through one of the worst stretches i have had the privilege of seeing this season, though i still believe he can be a valuable piece to a team someday, he has the make-up. Basically all that i have been trying to get to is people really need to see both sides of the story, regardless what the story is, take it in, then say what you please. Hell things piss me off too, and i like everyone else has irrational thoughts, but i try to not let it get the best of me.

 

I would wager to say i browse soxtalk more throughout the day than 98% board, it has been my homepage since shortly after i signed up, also helps that i work from home. Another thing is i miss a good amount of certain members, and i have also never seen see this many people favor players over the team, it is uncanny. I love the comedic value here, not the laughing type funny, moreso the '' holy s*** did he/she really just say that and i can't believe it'' type funny. Soxtalk and i have a love-hate relationship... but my love for it pulls through.

 

Wite's lady?

[ChiSox_Sonix]

What's unfortuante is those threads which were really objectionable (and would qualify as being hall of fame material) were deleted.

 

Oh man, that reminds me of Beastly's old threads when he was Wsc245. "Showering while in high school" or his "what do people prefer sexually threads." Those were f***ing awesome.

 

HAHA, here are some old threads. It's like a treasure of long forgotten soxtalk members.

 

http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?sh...=9306&st=25 (note the argument on page 2 concerning nazi's with cwso and cerb. That epitomizes early Soxtalk)

 

http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=11150 (LONG read. Cwsox, an old member, was temporarily banned because of two incidents -- attacks within the infamous "are you gay thread; and alleged comments made towards Aboz). Even those these may be objectionable to post, everyone should know this site's history. It's the time on Soxtalk I refer to as the Dark Ages.

 

I had only been here for a month when that went down. I cant believe its been 5 years already! Interesting seeing some of those names again.

 

[Texsox]

A major argument and I wasn't in the middle if it. That was probably the last time I missed one

[Reddy]

I guess you could day i never truely left. The 2005 season took a lot out of me, it was very hectic here, a good hectic, but hectic nonetheless. I saw how nuts (people still at one anothers throat) it was while the going was great/amazing throughout that 2005 run. There is nothing worse than ''OMG OMG OUR TEAM IS LIKE SO TOTALLY AWESOME!!!'' and then the next day ''OMG OMG SOX= AAA TEAM!?!?!''. I figured, and turned out to be right, that things would only get worse from there. 2006 everyone was floating like a balloon ( people played nice you could say) until late in the year when the sox skidded and then it all went downhill. That off-season, including the 2007 season were almost unbearable here as very few had a level head about the sox situation. Unlike any other sport baseball is a damn marathon, teams can play amazing one day and play even worse the next day, and in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter, there is still a whole hell of a lot of a season to be played.

 

For instance say the season long theme this season, '' the bullpen sucks'' well the numbers prove they are one of the better pens out there. Why don't i ever hear how much worse they realistically could and should have been this season? When you put into account the sox pen struggled when jenks went on the dl, linebrink has been out for five weeks, not to mention having a couple jokes in the pen for half of this season, i would say they have pitched pretty damn well, better than any could have expected coming off of 2007. Masset is a nobody and will not be missed and logan went through one of the worst stretches i have had the privilege of seeing this season, though i still believe he can be a valuable piece to a team someday, he has the make-up. Basically all that i have been trying to get to is people really need to see both sides of the story, regardless what the story is, take it in, then say what you please. Hell things piss me off too, and i like everyone else has irrational thoughts, but i try to not let it get the best of me.

 

I would wager to say i browse soxtalk more throughout the day than 98% board, it has been my homepage since shortly after i signed up, also helps that i work from home. Another thing is i miss a good amount of certain members, and i have also never seen see this many people favor players over the team, it is uncanny. I love the comedic value here, not the laughing type funny, moreso the '' holy s*** did he/she really just say that and i can't believe it'' type funny. Soxtalk and i have a love-hate relationship... but my love for it pulls through.

 

Wite's lady?

that's all fine and dandy... but when's the olsen twins avatar coming back?

Edited August 29, 2008 by Reddy

[DBAHO]

qwerty you really need to make more quality posts like that.

[southsider2k5]

convenient I was left out of both Mario and your renditions of how this all got started. I'm glad I'm going to law school, because Im going to sue the f*** out of both of you!

 

You are going to be a lawyer? Man I figured you would either be a gynocolgyst or a plastic surgeon specializing in breast implants.