DDY Sighting

[LordofDaRing]

None of you Sox fans saw DDY on CSNBC last night. I was surfing through when I caught the 10 minute interview, strictly baseball stuff. DDY was his usual funny self defacing self. Only mention of his former band was the close of the interview when the interviewer said former Styx singer and more importantly tonight Sox Fan. To which DDY closed with "Hey Tim, Domo Arigato Mr Roboto".

[SuiteMadameBlue]

Yes, a lot of us DeYoungians saw it and talked about it on other boards.

Here's a transcript from the show - this was found by a good friend :)

>>>Not only is it 46 years since they've played in a World Series, it's 88 since they won one, 1917. We're still in between. The White Sox played in only one other series, lost it, 1919, and some of the players were accused of taking bribes to lose it deliberately for the sake of gamblers.

It has been a long march for White Sox fans, longer even than it had been for Boston Red Sox fans, yet without the martyrdom points that those Boston counterparts enjoyed for so long.

Joining me now one of the long suffering, long silent supporters of the Palehos (ph) Dennis DeYoung, former lead singer of the band STIX, now a solo artist and fan of the American League Champion White Sox, welcome and congratulations.

DENNIS DEYOUNG, WHITE SOX FAN: Well, thank you Keith. You know for those of us here in Chicago, we've been checking the night skies, you know, because the last time something like this happened a star rose in the east.

OLBERMANN: Yes. It really is amazing how long this has been. I mentioned that the last time the Sox were in the series the quiz show scandal had just broken. They also since the end of that World Series they started letting hockey goalies wear masks and the hockey skaters wear helmets. Ford stopped making the Edsel all since the Sox were in the series. How long have you been a fan?

DEYOUNG: Well, my dad was a fan and when you mentioned 1959 I still remember when they were playing Cleveland. We were listening to the game on the radio outside because it was really hot. Nobody had air-conditioning.

And I think it was Vic Wertz (ph) hit a ground ball to Louie Aparisio (ph) and he made a double play and Jerry Staley (ph) threw the pitch and the air raid sirens went off and everybody in Chicago went nuts. I mean some of us thought the Russians were attacking but it was-I remember that night clearly but I know there's a lot of frontrunners now.

Wherever I go around the country I'm traveling I see everybody's got Sox jerseys on suddenly. You never saw that in this town hardly ever. In fact, they are offering a two week course right now, a crash course in how to pronounce Pesednick (ph) and Prezinski (ph) around here.

OLBERMANN: The great Midwestern humorist from northern Indiana and Chicago, Gene Shepherd (ph), said that as a lifelong White Sox fan from about 1930 to the mid-'90s, he said "Death holds no terrors for a true White Sox fan because they've know it every day of their lives." Is that a fair assessment?

DEYOUNG: Well, if you're a Chicagoan, you know, the city is divided north and south and the south side has always been the underdog, chip on the shoulder, working class ethnic kind of person and, you know, recently in the last 25 years that area around Wrigley Field where the Cubs play has become very, I hate to say yuppified (ph) but there's a lot of young people living there and, you know, and so there really is a dichotomy in the city between the north and south side.

So, for this to happen for the White Sox fans it really is a miracle and we're, you know, last night my son who is 25 and my wife, who I have been married to for 35 years, we sat and watched the last game and at the end we took this White Sox pennant that my wife bought and we ran around the whole house about seven times and screamed. It was unbelievable, 911, they called the police on us but we're OK. We're out of handcuffs, no marks.

OLBERMANN: So, Shepherd said this again that to the point that you just raised about the division in Chicago, to be a White Sox fan is to be a south sider in a world of north siders. Tell me about the abuse that you must have gotten all these years because if you, if you're not from Chicago and somebody sees that you're a baseball fan and you're from Chicago, I guess they must just assume that you're a Cubs fan.

DEYOUNG: They do and the fact-here's the perfect example, two things. Number one, I know about abuse because I played accordion as a kid, so I mean there it is right there. But, you know, people think that for instance, for instance, now Keith you know this is true.

OLBERMANN: Yes.

DEYOUNG: If the Cubs were going to the World Series right now today, I would be like the 18th or 20th guy you would have called for this interview but I'm telling you the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, the Tribune, the Sun-Times, you guys, everyone is calling.

I had people calling me up saying "Please do you know any other celebrities who are White Sox Fans? Here's my number. Here's my e-mail. Please." So, all I know really in this city is I think it's like, it's Mayor Daly, right, Rich Roeper who is a friend of mine who is on Roeper & Ebert and I think they say Jesse Jackson, although I think Jesse just shows up whenever anybody's successful. I'm not sure.

OLBERMANN: Yes, we're not seeing-Bill Murray is not poking his head out of anything today that Cubby guy.

DEYOUNG: Oh, no.

OLBERMANN: But let me give you while I still have the time here the ultimate question on this. The first World Series since 1959, second World Series since 1919, do the White Sox now have to win it or is just being there enough for you?

DEYOUNG: I think-I don't think they have to win it but we sure would like them to win it. If they do win it, I think it was like when the Bears finally won the Super Bowl. I know personally for me I just said, "OK, they never have to do it again in my lifetime. I got to see it once."

OLBERMANN: Dennis DeYoung, formerly of the band STIX, and of more relevance tonight White Sox fan, congratulations again. Thanks for joining us.

DEYOUNG: Keith, Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto.

OLBERMANN: That's me.<<<

[LordofDaRing]

Aw ya snuck it in in that related to thread....my bad. That is what I get for not coming in as much as I used to.

[bugsymalone]

Lord. Was that the interview you saw? This transcript is from MSNBC and from Monday night.

Sounds like the same, or similar one.

Bugsy

[LordofDaRing]

That was it. Maybe they repeated it, slow night for MSNBC no hollywood murders.

[Rockindeano]

Lord. Was that the interview you saw? This transcript is from MSNBC and from Monday night.

Sounds like the same, or similar one.

Bugsy

Same network, different call signs

MSNBC=NBC=CNBC

[bugsymalone]

Same network, different call signs

MSNBC=NBC=CNBC

Thanks for the info. Dennis has popped up from time to time on all the cable news outlets I believe -- MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, CNNfn. Not sure about Fox. So I was wondering if the CNBC appearance was perhaps a different interview.

I read in an article found by a friend that he is really going to try to be at the Sunday game. (I assume to watch his team lose their second game?? )

Bugsy

[sadie65]

Same network, different call signs

MSNBC=NBC=CNBC

Thanks for the info. Dennis has popped up from time to time on all the cable news outlets I believe -- MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, CNNfn. Not sure about Fox. So I was wondering if the CNBC appearance was perhaps a different interview.

I read in an article found by a friend that he is really going to try to be at the Sunday game. (I assume to watch his team lose their second game?? )

Bugsy

Testing out your psychic abilities since graduating from the Carnac school of psychic phenomena?

[bugsymalone]

Testing out your psychic abilities since graduating from the Carnac school of psychic phenomena? :Twisted Evil

You are CORRECT, sir! Uh, Madam!

Wearing the big hat now. Holding up that envelope!

(Heeeeeere's) Bugsy!!

[sadie65]

Testing out your psychic abilities since graduating from the Carnac school of psychic phenomena? :Twisted Evil

You are CORRECT, sir! Uh, Madam!

Wearing the big hat now. Holding up that envelope!

(Heeeeeere's) Bugsy!!

I often wondered about that mayonnaise jar on the porch over at Funk and Wagnall's.

'Stros are going down! LOL

[sadie65]

Testing out your psychic abilities since graduating from the Carnac school of psychic phenomena? :Twisted Evil

You are CORRECT, sir! Uh, Madam!

Wearing the big hat now. Holding up that envelope!

(Heeeeeere's) Bugsy!!

I often wondered about that mayonnaise jar on the porch over at Funk and Wagnall's.

'Stros are going down! LOL

[bugsymalone]

Yeah, yeah. I heard ya the first time.

Bugsy