The World Series [Mid-West Version]

by Jim McLennan on Oct 22, 2005 5:14 PM EDT in News Comment 3 comments

Along with most of the rest of the country - that sound you hear is Fox executives whimpering - my interest in the World Series is probably lower than at any point since I moved to Arizona. Sorry, Houston. Apologies, SouthSiders. But none of the teams I genuinely want to win reached the playoffs; those I had any opinion the other way about (hello, Mr. Steinbrenner) were eliminated early.

For what it's worth though, here's the reasons why I'm favouring Chicago and Houston.

Will really annoy Cubs fans
Go, National League!
For some reason, Roger Clemens irritates me
Go, wild-card!
They're not the Yankees
They're not the Yankees

You can tell I'm stretching here, can't you? About the best I can say about a White Sox-Astros matchup, is it means nine different teams have played in the World Series in the past five years [the Yankees, twice losers, being the only repeat participants] Neither team has a recent track record in the event: it's Houston's first appearance ever in franchise history, while the White Sox last reached the big show in 1959. Back then:

Major league baseball consisted of 16 teams
The Braves played in Milwaukee, and the Athletics in Kansas City
New York had one team, and Chicago as many as California, Texas and Florida put together
Only six players had 35+ homers
The population of all Arizona was less than 1.3 million
My mother was 22.

Goodness me. It's thus hard to begrudge either team a moment in the sunlight. It, is however, hard to care much about who wins. On balance, I'm probably going for Houston, simply because my SportsBlogs brother over at Crawfish Boxes is getting his day in the sun. Not that South Side Sox is unworthy, but they didn't pop in here and leave comments earlier in the season like Rastronomicals did. I thus throw my full weight behind the Astros bandwagon. Let's go, Houston, let's go...

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I will be participating with box blogs.

Jimmie:

I am registered to participate at both sites. The Southsidesox I will be the ghostofrayrayner. The Crawfishboxes I will be MrsBagwellsboytoy.

I am actually pulling for the White Sox so that us Cub fans and former Cub fans can suffer some more blight. Remember since the meltdown of 2003, there is now a whole new generation of Cub fans who can share the misery!

By the way, I am watching the pre-game and the idiotic and truly underqualified Jeanie Zelisko, who was trying to paint the 1919 Sox as some sort of curse. Her whole diatribe was very non-sensical and untranslatable. I remember when she was preggers earlier in the season, her hair was very permed up and she was wearing the bright orange dress that did nothing but accentuate her bloatedness. She looked like a giant pumpkin. Since she has birthed, she has softened her appearance. She still looks completely dishelved and still disorganized in her banter. I remember her shouting, during the White Sox Angels series, "Get the Primate Ready." I remember the Rally Monkey in 2002. She seemed very over-zealous in sparking the memories of the Rally Monkey.

Let's see if Joe Buck can do an adequate job of being impartial along with Tim McCarver. I am going to miss Tom, Bob, and Steve.

And it has begun.

Out!

livestrong & wear yellow; the truth is out there; it may not be true, but accurate, Dan Rather; bababooey to you all!

by icecoldmo on Oct 22, 2005 8:09 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs