What did you do?

[Soxfan1]

When they got knocked out? I can tell you what some people did.

 

Crespoblows- Blamed me

 

Gabeluver- Cryed

 

Yeszir- Got into a bad mood

 

Youk of America- Took it out on foulkes wife.

 

YanksHater- Started cussing at the T.V.

 

Bunch of people- Ran to their comps. and went here or free agents list.

[bighurt]

Me, Asindc, and Podsednik21 cheered, but we're fans of the White Sox. We're not reveling in the Red Sox downfall, just cheering our team. By the way, I detest when people use the term Pale Hose. It sounds more like the women's hosiery section of Marshall Field's than a baseball team.

[stocker323]

Eh pretty much shook my head a couple times then came here to see how many people I'd have to ban.

[Sox Fan on Cape]

Swore a couple of times, had a couple of stiiff drinks, gave the wifey a quick squeeze, and came here to see how many the mods banned.

[riverside sluggers]

just as i did in 2003 and many years before just sat on the couch stunned by what I was just seeing, but I thought how they gave it all their and reflected on the good moments of 2005. Ortiz is still a viable candidate to be the AL MVP, walkoff hits aplenty and others that were done by the other sox bats. We were introduced to the future ace of the Sox, Jonathan Papelbon. As well as bullpen rookies Hansen and DelCarmen. Wakefield carried the pitching staff and was purely the Ace of 2005, if not for lack of run support and mirabelli getting hurt in May, Wake couldve been a 20+ game winner which would make him one of the top candidates to be the AL Cy Young. Theo was able to acquire during the season: the likes of John Olerud, Chad Bradford, Tony Graffanino (still my guy), and solid D backup Alex Cora. so many more good moments to think about as well

 

And before bed, I put in the dvd player, game 4 last october, reminding me to never give up my faith. And thats all you can do, keep the faith...

[BoSox84]

And before bed, I put in the dvd player, game 4 last october, reminding me to never give up my faith. And thats all you can do, keep the faith...

 

I did the same thing, Though this isnt nearly as bad as 03, that was haert breaking, this just blew.

[Soxfan1]

It kills me because I never have seen them eliminated for the playoffs beside that one time but I knew that was gradys fault.

[RedSoxRooter]

How young are you???? Jeez, I've seen them lose in '86, '88, '90, '95, '98, '99, '03 and now '05.

 

Wow. That's depressing.

[Soxfan1]

I'm 14. I became a fan in the year before jimmy williams was fired.

[bighurt]

Good God !!!! There's 14 year old kids on this site ?!?!? Is that the "mean" age here ?!?! If it is, there's some salty language out here for a 14 year old. Not that they haven't heard it before.

[yankeessuck013]

I went to a hockey game and watched the sabres beat the bruins, so it was a bad day of boston sports overall.

[podsednik20]

Me, Asindc, and Podsednik21 cheered, but we're fans of the White Sox. We're not reveling in the Red Sox downfall, just cheering our team. By the way, I detest when people use the term Pale Hose. It sounds more like the women's hosiery section of Marshall Field's than a baseball team.

it does kind of sound like that doesnt it? At first when i heard People call the whitesox pale hose, i thought they were talking about Jose Contreras. haha

[example1]

I shook my head, took a deep breath, and felt a large weight lifted off of my back. The pressure of needing to repeat, beat the Yankees, live up to the clutch billing, etc., all just kind of evaporated.

 

Then I started rationalizing, where I noticed how nice it was to just get creamed rather than working myself up into a frenzy only to have the sox fall in a game 7. Compared to 2003 this was a piece of well-deserved cake.

 

Then I realized that I will suddenly have 4 hours everyday that I had been using to watch a better than mediocre Sox team. I can start going to the gym again, seeing friends, going outside...

 

...or I can just get the hockey package and get back into the Bruins... I haven't figured out which I'm going to do yet.

 

I'm excited for hot-stove baseball to come back again. This team was very very good, they just had some weaknesses that were too large to address at the trade deadline with the constraints we had financially. I think this year isn't too different from the Angels season last year: we barely made it into the playoffs with some enormous strengths (hitting, veteran leadership, good team chemistry) but were ultimately taken down by our obvious weaknesses in a playoff sweep. I think the angels were very good last year, but they didn't have enough at the end. The sox are the same way.

[stevece80]

I shrugged, got up and did something else. I really feel bad for anyone who has angst after last year. There's always next year, and an improving farm system to help give hope. A win wouldn't change the fact that we saw part of the future of the Red Sox giving his all in a losing effort. Jonathan Papelbon is going to be a good one, and I have a feeling this won't be his last shot at the playoffs.

 

Congrats to the White Sox, and maybe they'll bring one home after nearly 9 decades of hoping.

 

The silver lining is I'll get some sleep until the hot stove keeps me up.

[example1]

I shrugged, got up and did something else. I really feel bad for anyone who has angst after last year. There's always next year, and an improving farm system to help give hope. A win wouldn't change the fact that we saw part of the future of the Red Sox giving his all in a losing effort. Jonathan Papelbon is going to be a good one, and I have a feeling this won't be his last shot at the playoffs.

 

Congrats to the White Sox, and maybe they'll bring one home after nearly 9 decades of hoping. And if this thread was meant to be a flame thread, seriously, get a life.

 

The silver lining is I'll get some sleep until the hot stove keeps me up.

 

Honestly, Stevece80, I'm pretty sure the hot stove has been keeping you (and the rest of us) up for a few months already. You're a realistic fan and, like the rest of us, probably thought this team MIGHT make it through on heart alone, but even by last week it seemed obvious that the sox didn't have the best team in baseball and their flaws were not something that could be accounted for by veteran leadership or clutch leadership.

 

Let's fire up that stove now, screw waiting for the playoffs to end!!

[stevece80]

Actually I wasn't shocked, nor did I doubt they could repeat. They are just as flawed as every other team, and they just happened to have their opponent play nearly perfect throughout the series, which is all it really takes. I didn't suspect the bullpen to be the problem, which it wasn't. It can be argued that it wasn't the team's flaws that made them lose, just some bad luck, some bad pitches, and a combination of the offense not getting the big hit, and the White Sox just outplaying them.

 

I hope that Graffanino isn't scapegoated for anything, the guy came into a tough situation and played great ball for months, stablizing a position that was a problem for most of the season. It could be argued that the team wouldn't even have been in the playoffs if it weren't for him. It was just an unfortunate play, and not that I blame Wells too much for Iguchi golfing an alright pitch, would have been forgotten if it weren't for the home run. I don't believe any blame should be handed out, s*** happens.

[yeszir]

I re-watched game 4 of last year's world series. And I almost banned a 13 year old girl.

[empirestrikesback26]

I ate a cheeseburger.

[schillingouttheks]

I was on the bus back from my football game at Lawrence Academy in high hopes because we just won. I didn't get excited about the Sox after game 2's loss, so I just shook it off and am currently waiting for next year. Wasn't as mad as I thought I'd be.

[example1]

Actually I wasn't shocked, nor did I doubt they could repeat. They are just as flawed as every other team, and they just happened to have their opponent play nearly perfect throughout the series, which is all it really takes. I didn't suspect the bullpen to be the problem, which it wasn't. It can be argued that it wasn't the team's flaws that made them lose, just some bad luck, some bad pitches, and a combination of the offense not getting the big hit, and the White Sox just outplaying them.

 

I hope that Graffanino isn't scapegoated for anything, the guy came into a tough situation and played great ball for months, stablizing a position that was a problem for most of the season. It could be argued that the team wouldn't even have been in the playoffs if it weren't for him. It was just an unfortunate play, and not that I blame Wells too much for Iguchi golfing an alright pitch, would have been forgotten if it weren't for the home run. I don't believe any blame should be handed out, s*** happens.

 

I would argue that the starting pitching was this teams fatal flaw and that the starting pitching let the team down in the end. I think Wake pitched admirably, as did Wells, but Clement was disappointing in the playoffs (and down the stretch), Arroyo was also disappointing. The fact that we had to start Wake in the first 3 games at all speaks to the weakness of the rotation. The white sox had better pitching in all three games, and would have had better pitching in game 4 as well. Traditionally SP is a Sox strength, but not this year. That lack made the relief pitching all the more important and, therefore, contributed to the bullpen's woes. That put too much pressure on the offense, to which they responded well for most of the year but they ran out of steam.

 

That being said, I agree that s*** happens and don't actually blame any individual for this loss. Graffanino should DEFINITELY come back, I think he's the second-base equivalent of Billy Mueller at third, he will give a solid bat, decent power and great consistency and leadership for the younger Youk-like guys coming up at 2nd. I don't blame Graff at all.

[YanksHater213]

Uhhh... I dont cuss...

[Manny Goes Boom]

I was at practice when I found out, my coach told me. I said "Damn" under my breath and kinda was bummed.

[stevece80]

I re-watched game 4 of last year's world series. And I almost banned a 13 year old girl.

 

What the hell did I ever do to you?

[Soxfan1]

Uhhh... I dont cuss...

that one was pretty much a guess.

[User Name]

Well, I was at the movies, in the bathroom, with my radio. I just screamed a few obsenities, and then when back to the move all pissed. I was jumping at people all night.

[Ray10]

I sat there and stared at the tv for a good 10 minutes. Trying to figure out what the hell just happened. I didn't want to believe what i was seeing.

[BoSox21]

typed up my 2005 year in review then watched Mueller's walkoff homerun against the Yankees from '04 about 15 times

[mosox]

I just realized this team just didn't have the pitching. I thought about last year, took my kids to a movie, and then watched Game 3 of last year's ALDS at home. I woke up the next day looking forward to spring training.

 

This is interesting:

Fox Sports Radio reported Saturday night that a number of MFY players were seen clapping in the dugout when the Sox score went on the scoreboard Friday night. I can't figure out if this was some backhanded sign of respect indicating they wanted no part of the Red Sox again, or if this is just another classless display by a franchise that is increasingly becoming disconnected from its glorious past.

[Calebvision]

I realized that i'm a White Sox fan after all!

 

Seriously, I paid a silent trinute to manny becaus eof what may happend and wondered what I would watch on TV from now on! This sucks!

[BoSox21]

This is interesting:

Fox Sports Radio reported Saturday night that a number of MFY players were seen clapping in the dugout when the Sox score went on the scoreboard Friday night. I can't figure out if this was some backhanded sign of respect indicating they wanted no part of the Red Sox again, or if this is just another classless display by a franchise that is increasingly becoming disconnected from its glorious past.

 

they showed the clip of that on ESPN and it was just the batboy going nuts and clapping. the rest showed little to no emotion