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The Chicago White Sox won it for the first time since 1917.

Last year, the Boston Red Sox won it for the first time since 1918.

Who won it in 1916 again? Might be the winner in 2006!

Lest it is the much-maligned Cubs - they who always feel deep sixed!

*lol* At least we know ONE thing for sure - it won't be the damn Yankees! Yes - I had to post about MY SOX - after all, tons of similarities exist between the two Sox franchises - among others, the most striking one is that both ended 80-plus years droughts by winning 8 straight post-season games to finally recapture the title of "World Champions"... Synchronicity there, for sure... Note: the poster is actually another example of revisionistic, outright rewritten and fictionalized history - as the Boston team was not called the Red Sox until 1908. (Ironically, 1908 is the last time the Cubs won it all too - hmm... Odd!). Originally, the Boston club had in fact... no name at all! The Red Stockings of Boston were actually the eventual Boston Braves who then moved to Milwaukee and finally Atlanta. Before swiping and modifying (thank God) the Stockings name, the Red Sox were... the Pilgrims, if I recall correctly (and I usually do!). But when they faced Pittsburgh in the first ever World Series (which they won handily too) - the Boston baseball club was only known... as that! The Boston baseball club! (Opponents would refer to them as the Bostons - or the Bostonians - they sure did talk trash back in those days as well... but that is another story!).