A pep rally like no other was held Chicago\u2019s Bridgeport neighborhood, and some of the White Sox’ youngest fans even scored tickets to a massive game at Rate Field. <\/p>\n
The party started early on the South Side Wednesday as young fans went crazy for the White Sox at school. Some students say been waiting their entire lives for this postseason game at home in October. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe vibe is high as ever,\u201d said Immanuel Hernandez, 8th grader. \u201cThe city is going to go crazy.”<\/p>\n
Students at Bridgeport Catholic Academy are fired up for the White Sox. The energy was palpable with students hyping up their favorite team. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been to all the 100 loss-season games and I\u2019m very excited to go to one of the playoff games,\u201d said Donald Vilimas a 6th grader at the school. <\/p>\n
Vilimas got emotional speaking with NBC Chicago ahead of the potentially clinching game against the Guardians. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis might be their chance, this might be their lucky year like in 2005,\u201d he said. \u201cThis just matters a lot to me\u2014the White Sox are my team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Over at St. Gabriel Catholic School, 240 students, teachers, and chaperones will get to experience the game in person too. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt just means a lot to me for \u2018Mattress Mack\u2019 to give us all these tickets for my school,\u201d said 6th grader Molly Powell.<\/p>\n
The school\u2019s principal told NBC Chicago that Mattress Mack, a businessman down in Houston, made a wager that if the Sox beat the Astros in the Wild Rard Round, he would gift them tickets.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had researched us and he knew that we had a connection to the Pope,\u201d said Julie Jurisic, St. Gabriel School Principal. \u201cThe Pope\u2019s brother was once our principal here at St. Gabriel.\u201d<\/p>\n
The principal said she\u2019s so happy to be able to take her students to experience this historic game. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re very blessed for some of them it\u2019s their first game and I\u2019m sure for most of them it\u2019s their first playoff game,\u201d she laughed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pep rally like no other was held Chicago\u2019s Bridgeport neighborhood, and some of the White Sox’ youngest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[2318,363,99],"class_list":["post-874479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}