Thought it might be interesting to compare the remaining schedules to see if either team has a big edge over the other for the rest of the season.  I split the AL teams into three general categories. 

Good teams:  Tampa, Boston, LA and Oak

Average teams:  NY, Baltimore, Toronto, Detroit and Texas

Bad teams:  Kansas City, Cleveland and Seattle

Minnesota's remaining games (with home and road splits)

TB 4  0/4
Bos 3  0/3
LA 4  0/4
Oak 7  3/4

NY 6  3/3
Bal 3  0/3
Tor 3  0/3
Det 7  3/4
Tex 3  3/0

KC 9  6/3
Cle 9  3/6
Sea 9  3/6

White Sox remaining games (same splits)

TB 3  3/0
Bos 7  4/3
LA 3  3/0
Oak 3 0/3

NY 4  0/4
Bal 3  0/3 (and postponed game end)
Tor 4  4/0
Det 9  6/3
Tex 6  3/3

KC 15  6/9
Cle 6  3/3
Sea 3  3/0

And probably the biggest games left for either team, the White Sox play seven more games versus the Twins, all at the Metrodome.  Outside of the head to head games, I'd give an edge to the Sox.  Add those games back in...let's just say that I hope they've overcome the dome curse.

Score by inning, opponent:
1st 15
2nd 12
3rd 4
4th 6
5th 5
6th 3
7th 9
8th 5
9th 4

Score by inning, Sox:
1st 7
2nd 2
3rd 3
4th 15
5th 11
6th 3
7th 3
8th 11
9th 6
10th 2

The Sox haven't scored a first inning run since game four and in the last 12 games have only scored four total runs in innings 1-3.  I don't have the starter/relief numbers but I bet they're dramatic.  Any theories on why this team doesn't hit starting pitching?

Ok, change of subject, since our team is driving us crazy...football.  With the NFL season just around the corner I've set up a Yahoo Pick Em and Survivor league for the upcoming season.  Feel free to join in.
Pick Em ID #50849, password 'pleasewin'.
Survivor ID #19672, password 'pleasewin'.

Good luck and try to remember all the joy we had last October.

Update [2006-9-5 21:57:51 by The Cheat]: Fixed the typo

Many people have commented on how glad they are to have this site to come to (and I agree!).  The biggest plus for me is that I have intelligent people I can discuss my favorite team with.  This probably isn't a problem for you Chicago based readers, but for the rest of us it's a big deal.
This made me wonder where the other out-of-towners live.  I know we've got some on the west coast, some on the east and even one devoted fan in the UK.  Just curious about the rest.
I'll go first.  I live in Minneapolis.  I became a White Sox fan almost by accident back in '87.  Followed them on a whim and have loved them ever since.  
Where are the rest of you from?

The White Sox have played 200 games since the start of the 2005 season.  188 regular season games and 12 memorable postseason ones.  Their record:

128 - 72

Runs scored: 957
Runs allowed: 788

One run games 42 -23

Not too shabby.  The only teams I can think of with similar runs would have to be the '98 Yankees and '01 Mariners.  That's pretty impressive company.

Since I figure many of us are watching this.  For the record, I'd have taken Bush with the first pick.  Curious who the Bears fans are hoping for.  And a small prediction, the Vikes trade with SF for the 6th pick.  Who do the Packers take at 5?  If Millen picks another WR, does he survive the weekend?
Bonus question, does anyone watch the second day?

Almost all of the sabermetric previews of the White Sox have noted how they overacheived their pythagorean expected victories last year.  Most have added that teams that exceed their pythag will return to earth the next year.  Whether that means winning fewer games than their pythag should allow or be back to even isn't clear to me.  But I was curious as to how true that really is.
Last year I put together pythagorean standings for the past decade or so.  (If anyone knows of historical pythagorean results somewhere on the web, please point me towards it!)  I decided to look at only teams that exceeded expectations by 5 or more games.  These should be the truly lucky teams.  What I found suprised me.
From 1994-2004 there were 41 teams that qualified.  Of those 41, 19 played above their expected rate, 5 played even and the other 17 played below.  As a whole, the 41 finished 9 games higher than expected.  
From this admittedly small analysis, it seems that there's no special reason to expect a large swing of fortune for the White Sox.  

I'm trying to decide which way to go this year and I'd love some input from you guys.  For the last few years I've gotten Extra Innings through our cable provider.  The cost has been about $160.  I've gotten to see the majority (90%+) of White Sox games with about 60% of them with home announcers.  I can use DVR to record the games but they don't announce the channel until the day of so you can't plan ahead if you're out of town.  
MLB.TV will cost about half as much.  Will it cover all of the games or just most?  Do I get to pick home/away announcers?  Can I replay past games?  Are there any hidden things I should know about?

Any input will be helpful.  Thanks!

Tooling around the dial tonight, looking for the T'Wolves game and stumbled across Juan Uribe at bat.  Seems that FSN is showing classic Twins games from last season and tonight is the Santana/Garcia gem from August.  You may recall that game as one that the Sox lost 1-0 on a solo homer in the eighth.  Cheat described it as an ESPN instant classic - if the Yankees and Red Sox had been involved.  
Yes, the Sox lose this one.  But it was one of the best games of the year.  And a rare (and unexpected) treat in February.  
April can't come soon enough.