BRUTAL

I know that they werent ‘supposed’ to be here so this shouldnt be as bad as say, the misery the misguided bunch on the north-side are feeling, but still,

THIS FEELS PRETTY FUCKING BAD.

That many guys on, getting to Kazmir that early, then letting him back in, it sucks.

and we let him off the hook.

the thunderdome is an odd place filled with odd people. winningugly is a nice man. that is all.

listening to tom waits. drinking jim beam.

I’ll be in the gamethread Sunday

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The Brewers are dead. The Cubs are dead. The Angels, if they lose Friday night, are dead.

I know, I know … They’re not dead dead. This is sports, and of course anything can happen.
But all those teams (including the Angels, potentially) are nearly dead. The Brewers aren’t as good as the Phillies. The Cubs have to win consecutive games in Los Angeles. The Angels aren’t as good as the Red Sox. Even leaving all that “analysis” aside, the history is stark: Of the 54 teams that have lost the first two games of a best-of-five postseason series, only seven have come back and won (and nobody’s done it since 2003).
But I don’t believe the White Sox are dead. Not quite yet.
Are the Rays fundamentally better than the White Sox? Yeah, they probably are. The Rays outscored their opponents this season by 103 runs; the White Sox outscored theirs by 82 runs. While their respective hitting and pitching/defense stats are roughly equivalent, the Rays certainly played in the tougher division.
You have to like the Rays in a best-of-five series, straight up. So you have to really like them now, needing to win just one of three. But the White Sox have a shot because they’re heading home, where they have thrived. The Rays’ 57-24 record at home was the best in the American League; the White Sox’ 54-28 was third-best. The White Sox finished second in the American League in home scoring, and their 143 home runs at home were easily the most in the majors.
In Game 3, the White Sox will turn to John Danks, their best pitcher. If they win that one, Ozzie Guillen will have a tough decision in Game 4: Start Javier Vazquez again, or turn instead to Gavin Floyd?
Whatever he decides, the White Sox will need a bit of luck to win both games in Chicago. But they’ve got a puncher’s chance. And if they can extend the affair to a fifth game, anything can happen.

and try to get him to switch away from P.O.D. to “Must be Bobby” as suggested a few nights ago.

idk, i’m just trying not to think of this series

Though somehow Sox fans were louder in Tampa (and there weren’t many of us) than Cub fans in Wrigley, with less dread. I’ll write more tomorrow. However, for those who care, larry is not the a-hole you might expect. (But the fact that his Mom is my wife’s age kicked the shit out of me. OY!) A good time with a good fan. But a horseshit game.

The next President and the new Congress should make it against the law to play Major League Baseball indoors!

They are overrated

while the rays were burning up the base paths and putting pressure on the defense to make plays, the sox were plodding along, playing station-to-station baseball.

the rays, in some respects, are shades of the sox in 2005: good starting pitching, acceptable pen, plus defense, and the right combination of power and speed.

I told a few friends before the series that anything from this point on was gravy and because of that I haven’t been too mad about the losses. The Sox had their chances in the first couple innings to bust it open a bit and once they failed to do that (and subsequently let Kazmir get into a small groove), you kind of had to feel that the Sox were going to regret that later in the game. I thought all told they had a very good approach against Kazmir, they just needed that one two-out, RISP hit…

From here I’d like to see them force a game four but even if that doesn’t happen, it’s nothing to be ashamed of. The Sox battled the best team (or one of the top two) in baseball and played ‘em close the first two games. It could just as easily be 1-1 heading to Chicago but alas, it isn’t. To go all cliche on you guys, I just want to see ‘em go down swingin’…

but i do like the still screen of “jim thome, why do you hate america?”

http://blogs.chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports_hardball/2008/10/cubssox-attack.html

You have to go out there and make smart decisions, myself included, and I know I tried to do too much at the plate tonight. Instead of accepting the single or trying to square one up, I probably was trying to drive the ball or swing too hard.

Q: Hey Brian, can you grow back your long curly locks of magical gold? You are the Greatest American Hero!

ANDERSON: My hair is the least of my concerns right now. I’ll worry about that in the offseason. I’ll change it up from time to time.

http://banderson.mlblogs.com/?partnerId=rss_cws

for shame cheat, for shame.

guys a hack