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Into the Missed Third Pitch

The only thing worse than a sweep is the very team being swept. A gentle calm befalls the earth, and all is suddenly well. [The Beachwood Reporter]

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Logan’s Run

Throughout the history of the Chicago White Sox, many pitchers have come and gone. Boone Logan is one of those pitchers.

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Eulogy

Looking back at the season that was. Next year can’t start soon enough.

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Just What I Needed

If you thought their chance had passed, you were totally right.

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I Don’t Like It Any More Than He Does

Oh yeah, I used to be an American League manager. It’s a tough racket.

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Hang Ten

Swept by the Rangers. The ****ing Texas Rangers.
Elimination number is down to 10.
On the week, the Sox went 1-4 in the last “soft” part of the schedule, which is even worse when you consider that after tonight’s games, the D-Rays are only 3 games back for the MLB-wide basement.
Every team the Sox play for the [...]

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Giving It Back

In New York tonight, the Red Sox played the Yankees much to the delight of ESPN, Fox, MLB, and 40 million self-entitled loudmouths.
This afternoon, the Angels and Mariners went head-to-head in the latest in a string of increasingly important series for the hanging-on-by-a-thread-because-of-the-goddamn-Yankees Mariners.
Elsewhere, the Padres and Diamondbacks squared off with first place on the [...]

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But the Question Is “Why?”

Four game sweep by Boston, outscored 46-7 by the time it was over. What else can you say? If you’re the White Sox marketing team, apparently not very much:
Before kicking off a four-game weekend set in Boston — where Paul Konerko launched home run No. 26 on Saturday — the White Sox got the week [...]

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You Got That Right, Partner

What counts is not the total of five runs surrendered with two outs to the Royals that ultimately spelled the difference between winning 6-2 and losing 7-6.
What matters is not new acquisition Mike Myers sporting an ERA with the Sox of 18.00, a number only slightly better than the combined ERAs (18.31) of Dewon Day [...]

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Cheering at the Seams

Finding the silver lining on 162 games of gray.

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The State We’re In

Welcome to Chicago, where “speed” is just another word for “no.”

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A Moment of Half-Silence

We were going to be a look at some of the possible September call-ups, but we’re going to save that for another time. Last night, two horrible things became true within a few hours of each other:

The Sox made their way into last place.
The Cubs clawed their way into first.

This is so wrong for so [...]

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The Mediocrity Report: Weekend Edition

In which your editor is right and everything else in the baseball world is horribly, horribly wrong.

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Out of the Basement and Into the Light

Playtime is over; time to get spiteful.

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Sanitarium

It was a good night if you’re a Tigers fan (and it sounded like there were quite a few at Comiskey tonight) as the kittens kicked off what this writer is certain will be a five-game sweep of the last-place Sox. The Good Guys were up 6-5 when Mark Buehrle left the mound and by [...]

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You Are Not Your Embarrassing Fenway Series

Maybe, just maybe, Ozzie Guillen and Charlie Sheen are the same person.

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