The White Sox are Champs

I love baseball. It was great to see the historic franchise win it's first WS since 1917. I attended a CWS baseball game in Sept. 1990 with my Dad and Uncle Rick. We saw Bobby Thigpen set the single season saves record that day against the Kansas City Royals. Old Comisky Park was a beauty, albeit a run down one at that time. I still have a piece of brick painted white from the stadium that I took out of the right field exterior wall. It was only weeks later that it was torn down and made into a parking lot. New Comisky (US Celluar Field) was looming across the street at that time. I was a big White Sox fan then, Ozzie Guilllen, Frank Thomas, Robin Ventura, Craig Grebeck, Ron Karkovice and the bunch were a promising team at that time. They made it to the ALCS in 1993. Now they organization has the World Series Trophy. Well deserved.

I took Kenden to his first baseball game this September. Cincinnati was playing the Pirates in a meaningless game between two very bad teams. But it wasn't meaningless to us. I'll save those ticket stubs just like I saved the one from September 1985 - my first game, Cincinnati vs. the LA Dodgers at Riverfront Stadium. Kenden and I had a great time. We saw Adam Dunn hit his 39th Home Run. He and Sean Casey are KJ's favorite players. He has been able to say their names since this past Opening Day when I picked him up early from daycare to watch the Reds on TV Joe Randa won it with a walk off HR. Kenden calls them "the baseball Reds". It's too cute. He still asks me sometimes when we get in the car if we are going to the baseball reds game. He's only 2 yrs. 7 months.

Billy and I went to a great Reds game in 2003 when we sat right behind the Reds dugout when they got in a big brawl with the Phillies. It was awesome. In 2004 Billy got on the big screen at the Reds game during a contest where if Sean Casey got a hit Billy would win a Meijer gift card. Casey ground out - he does that alot - but he gets a lot of hits too.

MJ