[NU Sports] RE: White Sox vs. . . . Everyone

Wed Jun 28 10:28:57 CDT 2006

I'm not a fan of the TV team either, but the radio team of Farmer and Rooney
last year was, IMHO, one of the best.

Chris Singleton (John Rooney's replacement this year) has really struggled,
but Ed Farmer continues to impress.  One example is the 1-0 win last
Thursday against St. Louis.  The Sox were being no-hit on a tremendous
pitching performance by Reyes.  Garcia was equally brilliant and throwing a
shutout.  Iguchi led off the bottom of the seventh with a fly out and Farmer
said that he had a feeling that this game was going to be decided by a
single home run.  The team that hit it was going to win. Thome hit the next
pitch out.  The rest is history.

Jeff

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From: John A. DeGroat [mailto:johnadeg at bellatlantic.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 11:03 AM
To: Joe Thiegs
Cc: jeffb at hilgraeve.com; nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: White Sox vs. . . . Everyone

If there is a worse announcing team than the one the White Sox have, I don't
know who it is.  They are the most biased announcers that I have ever heard
and I've heard Rizzuto, Bob Prince and a few other homers in my time.  I
sort of liked watching the White Sox do well last year but couldn't stand
the announcers so would hit the mute button.

John DeGroat

Joe Thiegs wrote: 

<snip>

As far as your misplaced loyalties, I will refrain from criticizing the

masochistic fetish that is being a Cub's fan.  Chicago is slowly discovering

that there is a difference between soap opera and baseball.  Though I doubt

that those addicted to the Cubs will ever recover, you've already discovered

that the next generation of baseball fans prefer the 

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Sox.

^^^^

</snip>

Yikes!  I hope not!  I'll stage an intervention if I ever see symptoms of

that affliction in my kids.  :)  In the case of our very young friend, I'm

afraid it is a hereditary condition.  Probably incurable.  I just pray he

can grow up to lead an otherwise normal, productive, healthy life....

FWIW, I consider the Sox to be a JV version of the Yankees (my second

most-disliked team!).  Overpaid, boorish players (okay, just about all major

leaguers are overpaid, but relatively speaking, I mean); arrogant owners;

fans with chips on their shoulders who treat fans of any other team with

disdain; etc.

I don't experience too much pain from being a Cubs fan.  For one thing, they

are my secondary team and I have been rooting for them only about half my

life, so I don't feel quite the same emotional ups and downs that I do

depending on the Twins' performance.  I just enjoy watching the Cubbies and

remembering great times at and around Wrigley during college and the couple

of years after.  Secondly, I don't let my expectations for the Cubs get too

tremendously high--kind of like being an NU fan before 1996.  When I was at

NU, I had fun at the football games win or lose, and I didn't get too

depressed if we lost because that was what I expected.  Conversely, when we

won it was a huge thrill.  Since the 1995 season and the Rose Bowl (my

senior year), however, my expectations have changed, and now I actually get

upset when we lose.  You know, I'm not sure which is a healthier mentality.

:)

-Joe

P.S.  I'm sure Jeff knows, but for any wryness-impaired list members, my

comments equating being a White Sox fan with having a medical condition are

nothing more than a little tongue-in-cheek intra-conference ribbing.

Probably.

-----Original Message-----

From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On

Behalf Of Joe Thiegs

Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 2:20 PM

To: 'Ben Adler'; nwu-sports at tssi.com

Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Mariotti web site

No, Ozzie bought "jaythe[something you can get in trouble for calling

someone].com".  :) Honestly, I had heard snippets about a Guillen-Mariotti

feud over the past few days but never heard what started it.  I did a little

research today and found out.  Two interesting points I noticed from the

blog entries (deadspin.com and jaythejoke.com):

1)  It seems that most of the public hatred is being directed at Mariotti,

when he was the target of Ozzie's outburst.  People don't seem to be as

riled up about what Ozzie said as I might expect.

2)  Here's an excerpt from a Phil Arvia column in the Daily Southtown:

"In the span of 102 seconds, Guillen leveled 25 words one generally cannot

read in a family newspaper at the Sun-Times' Jay Mariotti.

For those scoring at home, there were 14 variations of the f-word, five

s-words, three a-words, a b-word, a G.D. and the straw that broke the

camel's back, a three-letter reference either to Mariotti's sexuality or

British slang for a cigarette."

Is no one complaining about the other 24 vulgarities?

Because the White Sox are the natural enemies of both my AL team (the Twins)

and my NL team (the Cubs), of course it follows that they are my least

favorite team and I root hard for them to lose all of the time--the single

exception being in last season's World Series, in which I wanted them to

uphold the honor of the AL Central--and Guillen as manager makes it that

much easier.  FWIW, one of my four-year-old son's favorite playmates

(probably his favorite) is the four-year-old son of one of our best NU

friends (my wife's former apartment-mate and sorority sister) and her

husband.  Both parents grew up in a town southwest of Chicago, and live in

that vicinity now, so unfortunately we only get to see them a couple of

times a year.  They came to visit us for a long weekend last month, and my

son's friend showed up wearing *gasp* a White Sox cap.  I still let my son

play with him, though, and allowed their family to stay at our home anyway,

despite some personal discomfort (he did take the hat off inside the house).

Just to let you know how magnanimous I can be.  ;)

-Joe

-----Original Message-----

From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On

Behalf Of Ben Adler

Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 12:46 PM

To: nwu-sports at tssi.com

Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Mariotti web site

Did Ozzie Guillen buy the domain name?

Jonathan Michael Hawkins  <mailto:spiritu at northwestern.edu>
<spiritu at northwestern.edu> wrote:  LOL!

Here's the Trib article that let the city know about this incredibly amusing

web site:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/chi-0606270164jun27,1

,1156673.story?coll=chi-sportsnew-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true

Jonathan

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, MHRJGScott at aol.com wrote:

Dedicated to the hatred of all things Mariotti:

jaythejoke.com

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