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Title: No big deal?
Post by: pravata on June 23, 2006, 05:57:36 pm
Guillen crawfished on the handshake thing and the "crazy" whatever.  He allows that he might have been distracted at the hand shake opportunity with Garner.  Nobody is making a big thing of the WS rematch.

"I don't know yet," Sox captain Paul Konerko said when asked if this series would be different from other because of the Series. "... I know they're good, so obviously we're concerned about beating them. I have to wait and see if it gets the emotions going. It will probably be nothing or a lot."

"Obviously, it's a rematch of the World Series. Other than that, I think it's going to be another series,...Pierzynski said. "I wish we could face Clemens, but we still will get Oswalt and Pettitte. It's going to be fun...."

"No, there's not [anything special]," starter, Pettitte, said last week when the Astros were in town to play the Cubs. "We lost, we lost two games at their place, so it wasn't that special. ...The only thing I can tell you is it's the beginning of tough road trip, so that's what's important about it."

Garner and third-base coach Doug Mansolino have a past with the White Sox while they were in Milwaukee, including an on-field scuffle, run-ins with Sox broadcasters and a verbal volley with Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf.

Mansolino cautions against emotion. "If anything," he said, "it will be more of a personal pride thing for us. I wouldn't say it's like a grudge match."

Of course, Houston hasn't had to watch the Sox's pregame tribute to 2005 champs on the center-field scoreboard yet either. Link
Title: Re: No big deal?
Post by: geezerdonk on June 23, 2006, 06:28:50 pm
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run-ins with Sox broadcasters



There is no bigger tin horn in broadcasting than Harrelson.
Title: Re: No big deal?
Post by: Col. Sphinx Drummond on June 23, 2006, 09:13:57 pm
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run-ins with Sox broadcasters



There is no bigger tin horn in broadcasting than Harrelson.





I'll tell you what, hatchet-face's monotone delivery makes Ashby's voice and cadence almost Scullyish. He was a sub-par player with only a couple of decent seasons but was always a prima-donna. He was hired as White Sox general manager in '86 and promptly canned the same season--Reinsdorf called it his worst mistake ever. Check out the "Heave the Hawk" website  The Link .
Title: Re: No big deal?
Post by: astrojo on June 24, 2006, 01:06:45 am
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Of course, Houston hasn't had to watch the Sox's pregame tribute to 2005 champs on the center-field scoreboard yet either.  





Here's a cards fan's description in a little more detail...


The Link

Damn, I wish Pettitte could have gotten out of that 4th inning.