Joel Goodson
- dawgville
Jerry is the best
Jerry is the best
Glad you two had a great baseball day. Sox park is great.I took my daughter to the Sox game today. It looked like they would pull it off for a while. Then Fedde left the game. When we got there we could see the wind blowing in from LF and towards the RF foul line. I said if they hit home runs, they will be to right. Anytime I get to spend the day with my little girl is a great day. We've been doing Daddy-daughter Sox games since she was a freshman in college. That's more than 20 years.
We were 19 rows behind home plate. That was a first for her. My 3rd time in 4 different ball parks.
It really says something for the Baltimore organization when you look at their line up and for the most part, all home grown players.
Time for a change ... lots of changes ... but i can't look away. Been a Sox fan since 1958.
Only got to listen to those teams on the radio. Most of the Saturday game of the week on tv were Yankees or Dodgers. First Sox games on tv i saw started with the Southside Hitmen. Fond memories of sitting on the porch listening to Bob Elson and the games.You are fortunate to have seen one of the great eras in Sox history from 1958 through 1967. Truly the best stretch of seasons in Sox history. It's too bad the franchise descended into hell beginning in 1968 and which in many ways has still never recovered.
Little Looey and Nellie and the great Sox pitching staffs. The magical defense played by the Sox... especially the center fielders. The ball park packed on warm Summer nights and filled with hard working South Siders who worked long hard days in the great industrial sites on the South Side.
Sox fans of later generations have no idea just how good the Sox used to play and be and how the Sox were THE team in Chicagoland. Nothing like how things are these days. The only year that gave a taste of this era was 2005. One single season since 1968. It's a miracle that Sox Nation remains so strong in face of such franchise incompetence.
If only the Sox could have built on that great momentum they had from 1951 to 1967. But they let it all slip away... or be swept away by New Yorkers who belong more in corporate tax accounting offices in Manhattan than they do owning a precious Chicago institution.
Just goes to prove that just because you may have money doesn't mean you have any clue about what you're doing. A lesson Sox fans see being played out every day since 1968.
Only got to listen to those teams on the radio. Most of the Saturday game of the week on tv were Yankees or Dodgers. First Sox games on tv i saw started with the Southside Hitmen. Fond memories of sitting on the porch listening to Bob Elson and the games.
i met Bill and Mary Frances Veeck at the state high school tournament at the Assembly Hall a year or two before he died. They were sitting a few rows in front of us and were signing programs and talking to people during the games. They were both very gracious and probably didn't see much of the games. i went to meet him between the quarters and told him that i didn't recognize him with a shirt on. Bill looked around and said that there didn't seem to be a shower around. She said thank goodness and they both laughed. I told him that i was a fan from both times he owned the Sox and that i had read his book 'Thirty Tons A Day" about his adventures in owning racehorses. He said oh you are the one who bought it. Saw a lot of great games and teams at those tournaments but getting to shake Bill Veeck's hand is my fondest memory.