The 35th Street Review

Notes on an evening watching your run-of-the-mill season-deciding mediocrity from a bunker deep in enemy territory.

They lost tonight - so who needs tomorrow? Everyone, that’s who.

The myth of “Perfect attendance” infiltrates the American League East.

The Cleveland baseball decade in review, starring JoBo as himself.

There are probably some interesting stats out there about Cuban exiles getting their first major league hits, nice guy sluggers getting booed by an angry Cleveland fan base, quasi-controversial catchers hitting solo home runs three pitches too late, or improved bullpens actually showing struggles easily as bad as their predecessors’, but here’s one that certainly stands out above all the rest: excluding the preseason and 0-0 record to kick off Opening Day, the Chicago White Sox have not been a .500 team for 306 days. Yikes. [Whitesox.com]