PennStater98r
10-18-2005, 05:42 PM
If you're an insider at ESPN.com, you can read the Rob Neyer article on the Sox. It's pretty cool. I'd post a link if it were legal to do so. Here's part of it
When midnight struck the evening of June 30, the deadline passed and the Illinois House still hadn't approved the bill authorizing $150 million for a "new" Comiskey Park. As John Helyar says in Lords of the Realm, "Cheers rang across Tampa Bay -- but Florida didn't know Illinois politics. The clock on the House floor had been turned off, the deadline ignored. A few minutes after midnight, Thompson" -- Governor Big Jim Thompson, a longtime acquaintance of Einhorn's -- "picked up his sixtieth vote. The stadium was approved, 60-55, and the House Majority Leader declared the time 11:59 P.M."
The Sox got their new ballpark, they got three division titles ... and now they've got a real shot at their first world championship since World War I.
When midnight struck the evening of June 30, the deadline passed and the Illinois House still hadn't approved the bill authorizing $150 million for a "new" Comiskey Park. As John Helyar says in Lords of the Realm, "Cheers rang across Tampa Bay -- but Florida didn't know Illinois politics. The clock on the House floor had been turned off, the deadline ignored. A few minutes after midnight, Thompson" -- Governor Big Jim Thompson, a longtime acquaintance of Einhorn's -- "picked up his sixtieth vote. The stadium was approved, 60-55, and the House Majority Leader declared the time 11:59 P.M."
The Sox got their new ballpark, they got three division titles ... and now they've got a real shot at their first world championship since World War I.