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The Most Untouchable Stretch In Sports History


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1 hour ago, animaltested said:

Completely forgot Anaheim won a World Series. Had to google that team. What a sad sack of crap as a team. Bunch of fleas and tryhards. 

2005 White Sox weren't much better either. What a weird time in baseball. How the hell did they only lose 1 game in the playoffs?

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On 4/30/2020 at 7:32 PM, animaltested said:

Completely forgot Anaheim won a World Series. Had to google that team. What a sad sack of crap as a team. Bunch of fleas and tryhards. 

Salmon, Glaus, Anderson, Percival, Rodriguez, and Lackey all had CS prowess. The rest of the team was pretty much fleas. Winning a WS with that starting rotation is quite an accomplishment. 

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9 hours ago, TLO said:

Salmon, Glaus, Anderson, Percival, Rodriguez, and Lackey all had CS prowess. The rest of the team was pretty much fleas. Winning a WS with that starting rotation is quite an accomplishment. 

Those fleas could hit singles with the best of them, 1-9. Highest team batting average that year. 

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1 hour ago, swoosh said:

Those fleas could hit singles with the best of them, 1-9. Highest team batting average that year. 

Erstad and Eckstein were 1-2 on the team in rWAR interestingly enough. Fullmer was a real meathead CS too. 

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21 hours ago, Slateman said:

Sometimes you get hot 

 

2005 White Sox had the 2nd best record (1 game behind St.Louis) that year with 99 wins. That was a really good baseball team, pitching and defense basically with enough timely hitting and for all of Kenny Williams' flaws he brilliantly constructed that team adding guys like Jermaine Dye, AJ Pierzynski, Dustin Hermanson, El Duque, and even picked up Bobby Jenks off the scrap heap to go with solid to outstanding internal players like Konerko, Crede, Rowand, Uribe and their pitching which included guys like Buehrle, Garland, Contreras,  and Garcia and a very capable bullpen. No, it was not the 27 Yankees but they were the best team in baseball that year.

Williams made more moves after the 2005 season, but none were huge wins like prior to 2004, though the Thome trade was pretty good. The pitching in 2006 just wasn't quite as good as in 2005, and despite winning 90 games they were not really competitive for a repeat. I remember part of the reason Aaron Rowand was traded was because the Sox had two terrific young prospects in Ryan Sweeney and Brian Anderson ready to roll, but both pretty much flamed out badly. I think that's the point Ken Williams decided to just eff it with prospects and after that he started free wheeling trading them all away until he finally had the White Sox farm system as one of the worst in baseball, yet with no playoff appearances to show for it since 2005. In fact, since 2005 other than a couple decent years (2010 they were solid) the team has been an absolute ****show. 

As a White Sox fan I am hoping we are turning the corner.  

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