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The 05 White Sox were clearly the best team in baseball that year and one of the best teams in recent memory. This is just foolishness.

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Well when people actually remember it , sure.
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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

You'll never forget.

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Last time I checked Kluber started 3 of the 7 games in the WS. Maybe baseball reference loaded incorrectly for me.

If I remember the Indians had 4 key players out. But, for the Cubs to overcome Joe's many poor managerial moves has to put them in high regard. Maddon was basically doing all he do to aid the Indians.

This is like the discussion of tv ratings. I don’t give a fuck who else remembers it and I imagine most Sox fans agree. I remember it. That’s enough for me.

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The Astros may well have caught lightning in a bottle. The Sox curb stomped them regardless. That's what historically dominant teams do.

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I’m glad the Sox have won a World Series in my lifetime.

I’m glad the Cubs have won a World Series in my lifetime.

Hopefully, they can play each other in the World Series in my lifetime.

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JBills in meme form...

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....And you're absolutely ecstatic that Bronny James has grown three inches since March!

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Yes petty Patty.

It’s cool to see.

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Their best pitcher was not one of those players.

No question. Cubs fans can ding us for the one year wonder stuff and lack of sustained success. That’s fair. There’s no question who the more dominant team was between the 05 Sox and 16 Cubs though and we each only have one ring that matters to any fans alive today.

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Plus they beat the great Theo Epstein in a sweep who also happened to be the defending World Series champions.

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I know we go back and forth giving each other shit on this stuff but at what point did you baseball geniuses decide Corey Kluber wasnt one of the Indians top 2 pitchers?

The best 2 pitchers on the Indians in 2016 were Kluber and Miller and they both got run over by the Cub train in Game 7.

The World Series can have a game 7?

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Greatest baseball game ever played

Definitely the best team all year in 05. Same for Cubs in 16.

Not sure about historically great season. Sox playoff run was at least the 2nd best of the WC era

I don't think the facts bear out that Sox team as a one year wonder.

From 2005-2008 the White Sox: won two division titles, won a world series, and won 90 games w/o making the playoffs.

2006 was the 90 win season but didn't make a WC. 90 wins is a pretty good shot at a WC, it just didn't happen that year (Detroit took the WC with 95 wins).

I think sequencing is what makes people say the Sox were a one year wonder. If the sequence went like this:

2005: crummy year
2006: 90 wins - no WC
2007: Division title
2008 Division title + WS

That sequence is the traditional building to a title that people think of, and wouldn't be considered a one year wonder. So I really think that sequencing is why people might claim one year wonder, but for that 4 year period, the White Sox were in position to contend for a title every year but one. That's anything but a one year wonder.

Uh, it's clear and undeniable that the Sox swept the Astros, but a curbstomping?

That's just not the case, the composite runs were 20-14. Those are four incredibly tight games in which the White Sox won all four to get a sweep. Sweeps are great, enjoy it, but it wasn't a curbstomping.

Curbstomping. Deal with it.

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yeah, sox only won four straight. They didn't win each of the games by enough runs.

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The Sox also didn't hit their home runs hard enough for them to really count.

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Schwarb's sends his goodbyes :

five out of six years only because 3/4 of the division was actively tanking

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Gonna miss Schwarber

alway sthoiught hed be a .280 35 hr 121 rbi guy

No full page ad in the newspaper? I guess that tells you what he really thinks about Chicago.

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