Have you ever noticed when your team wins you’ll hear, “WE won WE won! WE played so well today!”
(I wrote this on October 13th, 2020. It was the last Tuesday that I called Chicago the place I worked in.... after over 30 years on the trading floor)
If you don’t win the last game of the season you’re still a loser… 10-1 and the end of a roller coaster season. Thanks White Sox!
Today’s quote is credited to Robin Williams….
…… I’d take out the word madness and replace it with passion. Never loose that spark of passion that you were born with!
In March of 1986 I was an invincible 19 year old at a BB King show in Merrillville... my buddy and I left the show and parked next to us was a sedan with the hood up and three older black men underneath. “You boys got jumper lines?” we replied that we did and jumped their car.
On a rainout Monday when the Go Go White Sox should have carried their momentum into game four of the playoff series against a very strong Houston Astros, we were introduced to WSD or White Sox Dave.
I'm a White Sox fan, a well read fan who knows stats and current players and a strong knowledge of Palehose history. I don't know if I should be embarrassed or proud to admit that I never heard of White Sox Dave! Like most of the sports world I was introduced to him when he video blogged his confrontation with actor John Cusack.
Cusack doesn't know we've been buddies since he played "Gib" in "The Sure Thing." He comes from Evanston and Jeremy Piven's family theater program. He and I were born the week before fourth of July weekend in 1966.
I'll admit I was a little jealous when "Gib" was sitting in the premiere seats during the Cubbies 2016 World Series year. He won me back when I found out he was supporting the Sox during this years play off run.
This is Chicago.... we have TWO teams! It is proper to Love one and Hate the other, but if we have friends that love "the other team" we don't need to hate them! We argue with them, we root against them during the Crosstown, but we don't wish them ill feelings!
I got on the Lake Street elevated at Ridgeland Avenue in the late seventies and either stayed on it all the way down the Ryan line to 35th street (they were connected until the early 1990's when the Howard/Dan Ryan was formed) or I'd transfer in the Loop and get on a Northbound Howard. I went to both ballparks with lawnmower money in my pocket. Cusack has every right to do the same thing. This week he is a Cub fan rooting for the Sox. Just like when I went to Wrigley rooting against Pete Rose and the Reds or Mike Schmidt and the Phillies!
Now who the hell is White Sox Dave? He's a Sports Blogger and one of Dave Portnoy's "Yes men." He symbolizes the downward spiral of journalism and the rise of Mealy mouth know it all's.
Oh how I miss the days of "The Sportswriters on TV" when sports journalism was respected through men like Bill Jaus, Rick Telander, Bill Gleason and Ben Bentley. White Sox Dave is David Williams from Warrenville, Illinois. He played some baseball at North Central College before he got the attention of Barstool Sports. We've gone from four seasoned veterans with a deep knowledge of sports to a drunk kid from suburban Rockford who has Google!
Let's focus on a White Sox victory today and a trip to Houston! I hope the Gentleman with the voodoo cane casts his spell on the Houston Bats this afternoon! I sure as hell hope John Cusack is sitting in Mayor Daley's seats with a Sox hat, a boom box from "Say Anything" and maybe even Steve Bartman sitting next to him!
Today’s quote is from Jon Gruden… on the same day he resigned because of 10 year old emails with homophobic and racist slurs I used homophobic and racist slurs in a satirical post.
My conservative friends take the Columbus side, my Liberal friends the Indigenous People side….
Settling into October with a warm start makes me think that maybe October is the new September.
“You’re just Going through the motions!!!”
Heard that many times as a kid…. From coaches, teachers, my parents!
October 9th and I still have the GoldBond on the top shelf! One of you guys went out and bought new sweaters for Fall and the rest of us are sweating balls and boobs!
When I was in 7th grade I had to rake the leaves in my Gramma’s yard. She had a small house in Broad Ripple, but it had huge trees in the front and back.
Beatles “in my Life” was the first song of the morning…. Not a bad way to start off the day.
It’s Thursday already so there is so much that we need to share,
June is flying by quickly! Full moon this week, but a cloudy forecast might keep us from the shine of the strawberry moon!
2020
It took me years to realize all the Mickey Mouse Bullshit in my daily life was created by insecure people and on the days I was creating Mickey Mouse Bullshit… I was being insecure!
I’m just sitting here watching the world go round and round… though I slept through the tornado sirens last night!
Huge branch down across the street from my home when I walked to the Car.
I had so many sappy things to say for Father’s Day….. I’m just gonna say…. If today’s is the only day you are the King…. Let your servants serve you well!!!
Whenever things look horrible you need to rise up in the morning and have something you love give you incentive to sing off key or dance like Elaine Benes.
