Lanier's 1906 Ring, Was he talking about the White Sox? Options Track this topic Email this topic Print this topic Download this topic Subscribe to this forum Display Modes Outline Switch to: Standard Switch to: Linear+

[BrianL03]

Okay, this may seem like the most nit-picky, meaningless bit of trivia ever, but I was curious about one thing that shows up in System Failure, at the end.

When Villiers mentions he had the Yankee's 2017 (or something) ring, the last time the Yanks won the World Series, Lanier makes a comment about trying to deal with "this" team, and shows him a 1906 ring.

Now, 1906 was the year the Hitless Wonders, those Chicago White Sox, upset the Chicago Cubs to win the World Series. And that'd be fine since SF was published in August of 2005, before the White Sox won that awesome World Series against the Astros. However, the White Sox had won previous to that, in 1917, the World Series against the Giants(? Can't remember).

Is Lanier wearing the ring, then, symbolically, due to the White Sox having not had the greatest batting ability, but still coming from a lowly perceived ability to win the Series? Or is there greater symbolism behind the ring?

As a Sox fan, I personally would hate the idea that the Cubs would have won before the Sox did (and as such, the Cubs have not won in my SR universe since 1908). So perhaps Lanier is actually a Cubs fan, wearing the ring in reference to that while the Sox may have upset the Cubs in the 1906 Series, that they proceeded to take the next two before their slump?

Or am I just reading too much into an author's flavortext? ~_^