33 Comments - Bill-O' the Clown - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 5:56 pm: Boo, it’s the Sox News Channel. Excellent play, though. - South of the Loop - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 6:01 pm: Wow I am ready to spend some time at the cell. I will be there starting this month, and as often as I can. I look forward to many more games this season and post season! Go Sox Go. And that team up north……who cares. - Reddbyrd - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 6:06 pm: Speaking of baseballI guess it only fair to note the likely 2010 WS Champ St. Louis Cardinals showed the value of adding BigMac to the payroll. Even Molina gets his first career grand slam! - Tom B. - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 6:19 pm: but the atmosphere, Rich, the atmosphere! - Carl Nyberg - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 6:24 pm: I was in O’Sullivan’s in Forest Park. It was mostly Sox fans, but only a few of us were paying attention due to the comfortable lead. When I saw this I whooped and got up to pump my arm. I said something along the lines of everybody else who watched this. This play is gonna be on the highlight reels. After all the noise I made the rest of the people paid attention to the replay. - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 6:29 pm: A perfect game and now this. If Buehrle doesn’t end up in the Hall, there’s something very wrong with this world. - unclesam - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 6:32 pm: What this actually means is that Buerhle will now follow up his incredible showing with a very disappointing season (see Buerhle’s record after his perfect game). Sorry Sox fans, but you know that is what will happen. Go Cubs! - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 6:35 pm: ===but you know that is what will happen.=== Only perennial stumblers who actually love losing think like that. We ain’t part of that ideology, so please keep your North Side abominations to yourself. lol - unclesam - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 6:43 pm: == “We ain’t part of that ideology” == Not ideology, but a history lesson. Also, at least the majority of us “perennial stumblers” remain forever committed regardless of the outcome at the end of each season (good or bad). I know too many of your “South Side Brethren” that — prior to 2005 and after 2005 — give up on your beloved Sox EVERY YEAR before the season is even halfway over. - Responsa - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 7:07 pm: A great, great defensive play. I’m not sure Konerko is getting enough credit for his part in the result, however. He really could not see where that ball was coming from, and then to catch it barehanded with his foot firmly on the bag while the runner was bearing down the baseline—-amazing. - Boone Logan Square - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 7:23 pm: Glad you’re back, Rich. Best wishes for the whole family, and here’s hoping yesterday’s results set the tone for the season. - 47th Ward - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 7:30 pm: Careful Rich, it’s a long season. It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish. To quote the disgraced former city clerk/current WGN radio personality Jim Laski: Go Cubs! Despite your south side allegiance, I’m glad you’re back. Best wishes for a speedy return to health for all of the Millers. - Amalia - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 7:31 pm: that Sox game was fantastic. sure Juan Pierre is a little bit confused on the jumps in the outfield, but Rios? great catch and great homer. getting in the grove. Paulie? Money. Beckham, getting in the groove too. CQ? hit and getting a hit just like usual. and Buehrls……amazing. we who are Sox fans, who’ve been there and won that, when it comes to a recent world series and could do it again, should pay no mind to the team of yuppieland, the baby blues. The Sox got to the promised land in 2005. it’s pure bliss. - Michelle Flaherty - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 7:36 pm: That was Buehrle and Konerko’s baseball rendition of Madigan and Cullerton passing the pension overhaul. The unions are the guy running to first. - Still Gettin Twisted - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 8:06 pm: I was kinda off the reservation for a while, but now Miller’s bashing Cub fans.. love it.. Go Sox - Vote Quimby! - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 8:08 pm: ==Cub fans, how did that season opener work out for y’all? Touchy subject?== No, we’ve learned not to expect much from Z on Opening Day…still only counts as one loss. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 8:09 pm: Rich, Mark Burhele struggled greatly after the perfect game going something like 2-6 with an ERA close 5.00 after that wonderful perfect game in late July. That is a fact and if you want to dis Cubs fans go ahead. Want do you want — A perfect game or a few more wins down the stretch? Either way, you’ll spin it to make a hit on Cubs fans, I know to bend over and take it when I’m here. Hall of Fame? Not right now. 137-97 with an ERA at 3.97. Maybe 5 or so All Star appearances and a World Series. If he plays another 6-7 years (and he can since he’s never had heat) and wins an additional 100-110 games, yeah. Enough idelogy bs. I don’t like walking off the Red Line at 35th and seeing t-shirts in bright green or pink: “Welcome to World’s Largest Outdoor Gay Bar: Wrigley Field” Stay classy, San Diego. - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 8:19 pm: Anonymous, I will say it again, that sort of attitude has no place with Sox fans. You Cub fans look at something that happened in the past, like some goat not getting served or whatever, and conflate it into some grand evil spell. You’re doing exactly the same thing with that Buehrle play. Give it a rest, man. Sox fans don’t believe in silly evil goat spells. We believe in winning. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 8:20 pm: Trash talking after one game Rich? That’s like calling an election when the polls open. Don’t count your votes just yet. - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 8:20 pm: You must be new around here. We trash talk all season long, baby. Get used to it. - Cub Fan, but....... - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 8:37 pm: I was in the bleachers yesterday so I didn’t really appreciate what an awesome play that was until I saw the replay. That guy is something else. But what’s up with Sox fans booing Obama when they showed him throwing out the first pitch at the Nationals game? He had a Sox hat on and everything. - OLD GUARD - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 8:43 pm: The St. Louis Cardinal looked G R E A T !!!!! - Michelle Flaherty - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 9:03 pm: For perspective, I seem to recall Yankee fans calling for Girardi’s head about this time last year. How’d that go for him/them? Then again, the ‘10 Cubs ain’t the Yankees. - OneMan - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 9:15 pm: Not every pitcher can end up with an ERA of 45 after their first outing of the season… Year 1… Of more of the same - Quinn T. Sential - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 9:55 pm: ngQTS was in the SOX caucus on the southside; sitting in section 123, and that play was directly in front of me. There is a great deal to this play that has been over-looked.First of all; Buehrle’s cat like reflexes, which had him make an instictive kick save on that thing, to keep it in the infield in the first place. Next; he had the presence of mind to chase it down, and beat the runner, crossing the foul line ahead of him, enabling him to make the play. Straddling the ball, rather than trying to field and pivot while his momentum would have carried him away from the play and made it impossible to make the throw any other way. Finally, Konerko was positioned to be able to field the throw from the foul territory side of first base; so he would not be screened out by the runner passing between them, and then doing so barehanded. Spectacular on so many levels; and QTS had a front row seat to history. - Chubby Cubbie - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 9:58 pm: No fence sitters allowed here… Love it!!! Excellent play…thanks for posting it. However…. Go CUBS. - Quinn T. Sential - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 10:09 pm: P.S. Mariano Rivera just shut down the Red Sox who were trying to stage another late inning comeback again against the Yankees; to no avail. Mark your calendar Rich for Labor Day weekend; when there is a SOX caucus field trip opportunity to see the SOX SQUARED play in FENWAY PARK. You too can sing along with Neil Diamond while choking down a Fenway Frank: Where it began I can’t begin to knowin’ But then I know it’s growin’ strong Was in the spring And spring became the summer Who’d have believed you’d come along Hands, touchin’ hands Reachin’ out Touchin’ me Touchin’ you Sweet Caroline Good times never seemed so good I’ve been inclined To believe they never would But now I look at the night And it don’t seem so lonely We fill it up with only two And when I hurt Hurtin’ runs off my shoulders How can I hurt when I’m with you Warm, touchin’ warm Reachin’ out Touchin’ me Touchin’ you Sweet Caroline Good times never seemed so good I’ve been inclined To believe they never would Oh, no, no Sweet Caroline Good times never seemed so good I’ve been inclined I believed they never could Sweet Caroline - wordslinger - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 10:18 pm: –The St. Louis Cardinal looked G R E A T !!!!!– Dude, there’s something unnatural about your robust use of spacing, caps and exclamation points. You didn’t sample Coach McGwire’s coffee did you? The side effects can be alarming. Buerhle has most of the highlights that Hall voters like — no-hitter, perfect game, World Series — except for Cy Young. At 136 wins, he’s going to have to keep going for at least another 10 years for the Hall. Still, not bad for a 38th round draft pick. - OLD GUARD - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 11:00 pm: Wordslinger. Get out of Chicago and you can enjoy some real baseball. 10 Rings and counting. G O S T. L O U I S C A R D I N A L S !!!!!!!!! - wordslinger - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 11:24 pm: LaRussa, McGwire and “real” baseball? That doesn’t sound right — something not quite natural about it. I would have loved to see McGwire face my all time favorite Cardinal, Bob Gibson. He would have knocked that weepy cheater back on his pin cushion, then double-dog dare him to get back up. - Capitol View - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 11:45 pm: Ozzie agrees that Mark Buerhle should be limited to six or seven innings — h said that if there is another no hitter after six, he would pull Buerhle so that the pitcher would not be worn down over his next three or four starts. I’m not convinced that the Sox manager would actually do that, but at least he’s thinking about it. Old House Republican staff Sherwin Swartz was at the opener - he must be frustrated that he has nothing to grumble about. If Sherwin got so excited that he forgot to pick up my 2010 Topps set to update my complete Sox collection, I forgive him. - Louis G. Atsaves - Tuesday, Apr 6, 10 @ 11:58 pm: As a Cub Fan experiencing Opening Day? Well . . . grumble . . . grumble . . . grumble . . . But what cheered me up was the baseball knowledge displayed by the President of the USA on TV and a so-called avid, rabid White Sox Fan. Called the original park “Kominski” and couldn’t name a single White Sox player as his favorite? Changed all my grumbles into snickers! - Beowulf - Wednesday, Apr 7, 10 @ 7:09 am: If only the Cubs could have had Barack pitching for them. Things might have been different? Now, “THERE” is a guy who knows how to throw a baseball (as well as b.s.)! Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.