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This is why I hate the White Sox

posted 17 years ago by nrabond007
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This is something that will always be remembered, it is a vivid picture of baseball's darkest time. This film consists of constant finger pointing and blaming for one Charles Comiskey, who, by all means, was a corporate figurehead, and probably the biggest one for his time. This is a series of events that people can never overlook. This scandal gives part of Chicago sports a black eye, and is something that Chicago can never live down. In reality, no one cares about what the Sox did in 2005 because this is so much more monumental. The Cubs may be cursed, but the White Sox deserve to be cursed. How can you corrupt something as pure and as American as Major League Baseball's World Series? The movie was very well done, but pertaining to these events, the White Sox should have been removed from Major League Baseball entirely.

On a side note: GO CUBS!!!

[–] acwoodcraft-1 12 years ago

You can't blame the entire White Sox organization, then or now. This was going on in all of professional sports at the time of the black sox, baseball, boxing, horse racing, you name the sport. These players were just the unlucky ones who got caught. And it did have a positive outcome. Because of Landis banning the guilty players, players were too scared to try anything like that again, for the most part. Baseball became virtually free of gamblers trying to influence the outcome of games, while in other sports the practice went merrily on for many more years.

A heart can be broken, but it still keeps a-beatin' just the same.

[–] Undeadzombie36 12 years ago

Being from Ireland we didnt get much Baseball on TV probably hightlight shows on Saturday, so I was looking for a team to follow and one day my dad told me about a film that was on TV that night about Baseball called 8 Men out so I said to myself im going to support this team. I didnt care that the film was on a team who throwing the World Series, cause I found my team. Ironically I followed the Bears to so when I got into Ice Hockey and Basketball guess which teams I started to follow lol

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[–] nirvana_rulz 12 years ago

By your logic you should hate the cubs too.

"Lee Magee of the Chicago Cubs was released just before the season began. Magee sued the Cubs for his 1920 salary and lost; court testimony proved he had been involved in throwing games and collecting on bets."

[–] collin-reid 11 years ago

Please remember on the Black Sox scandal. IT WAS EVERYWHERE in terms of gambling and from memory about 20 players were effectively banned. It was a huge vice at the time and gamblers would in the stands taking bets during games. (Remember with 5 - 10K in the stadium, somebody could better be heard.)Christy Mathewson and others fought against for several years and it really did take a major scandal for the owners to put stop to it.

Just read about Hal Chase and he was accused of throwing games from 1910 through 1919. Manager Frank Stallings accused him of throwing games in 1910 so the club made him Player-Manager during the next couple years???? Christy uspended him in 1918 and I don't why John McGraw had him on his team to drag in more players into his schemes.

[–] SunCanyonRoad 9 years ago

You act like you were a season ticket holder in 1919 and felt you got cheated. The statement that the Sox should have been removed from baseball is the most ridiculous thing I've read on IMDB in a long time, and I'm not even a Sox fan... I guess since I've got no emotional ties to the team I can look at it rationally, unlike you. You come across as a bitter Cubs fan jealous the Sox actually won a World Series.

BTW, as I write this the Cubs are down 2-0 to the Mets... I didn't have any interest in who won, but seeing what "Cub fan" is like, now I gotta say, go Mets.

LOL

"I don't want your watch, man. I want your friendship!" - Lightfoot

[–] cookieman108 8 years ago

To the OP, lighten up, Francis.