Full Text of HR0705 94th General Assembly
HR0705 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, On October 26th, 2005, the Chicago White Sox won | 3 |
| the 101st World Series of Major League Baseball in record | 4 |
| breaking fashion by defeating the Houston Astros by a score of | 5 |
| 1-0; and
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| WHEREAS, The White Sox defeated the Houston Astros in the | 7 |
| second game of the World Series with a walk off home-run from | 8 |
| All-Star Scott Podsednik, who became the first player in major | 9 |
| league baseball history to hit a World Series walk-off home run | 10 |
| in a year that he hit zero regular season home runs; history | 11 |
| was again recorded as the third game of the series lasted 14 | 12 |
| innings, constituting the longest game by time and innings in | 13 |
| World Series history, and ended after 5 hours and 41 minutes | 14 |
| with a game-winning home run by Geoff Blum on his first ever | 15 |
| World Series plate appearance, and the Chicago White Sox went | 16 |
| on to sweep the Houston Astros in the 2005 World Series four | 17 |
| games to none; and
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| WHEREAS, The White Sox tied the 1999 Yankees for the all | 19 |
| time greatest postseason record since the introduction of the 3 | 20 |
| round playoff system by winning 11 games and losing 1; and
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| WHEREAS, Jermaine Dye was named the 40th World Series Most | 22 |
| Valuable Player for hitting .438 in the series and hitting the | 23 |
| game winning RBI in a decisive game four; and
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| WHEREAS, Mark Buehrle became only the 2nd pitcher in World | 25 |
| Series history to both win a game and pitch for a save in the | 26 |
| same World Series; and
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| WHEREAS, The 2005 Chicago White Sox, under second-year | 28 |
| coach and manager Ozzie Guillen, demonstrated the essence of | 29 |
| teamwork by winning 110 games and losing 64 in 2005, and the | 30 |
| Chicago White Sox have won sixteen of the last seventeen games; |
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| WHEREAS, With 99 wins in the regular season the Chicago | 3 |
| White Sox became the regular season American League Central | 4 |
| Division champions and entered the post-season by defeating the | 5 |
| 2004 MLB World Series Champions, the Boston Red Sox, sweeping | 6 |
| the Red Sox three games to none in the American League Division | 7 |
| Series, and then soundly defeated the Los Angeles Angels of | 8 |
| Anaheim four games to one to become the first Chicago White Sox | 9 |
| team in 46 years to reach the World Series, and finally, the | 10 |
| 2005 Chicago White Sox swept the Houston Astros with four | 11 |
| straight wins to become the first Chicago White Sox team in 88 | 12 |
| years and to become Major League Baseball's World Champions; | 13 |
| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 15 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 16 |
| the 2005 Chicago White Sox be honored and applauded for their | 17 |
| accomplishments during the 2005 season, for their talent and | 18 |
| teamwork displayed on the field, for their excellence and | 19 |
| humility off the field, for the outstanding coaching staff | 20 |
| leading the team, and for the brilliant ownership and | 21 |
| management that crafted and built the 2005 Chicago White Sox; | 22 |
| and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 24 |
| presented to each member of the Chicago White Sox executive | 25 |
| board, to each member of management in the Chicago White Sox | 26 |
| organization, and to every player on the 2005 Chicago White Sox | 27 |
| team.
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