The 35th Street Review

Seeking vengeance from beyond the DFA list for the man who wasn’t there.

Three things to watch for as those dirty Canadians sneak across the border to steal honest American Jobs:

Their better be some fireworks. Of their 80 wins, only eight have come in games where the White Sox didn’t hit a home run. Eight. Meanwhile, Blue Jays pitching has served up 126 homers in 1,275.7 innings. The rain part is taken care of, so let’s instead get to work praying for extra innings.

Bill Wirtz is still dead to me. The night half of Tuesday is Blackhawks Night at Comiskey. Could this mean fans waiting nervously for the resolution of a tense 2-1 victory? An overtime shootout? Nick Swisher punching Jesse Litsch in the face over a dirty cross-check? Captain Paul Konerko arguing icing calls?

Stop by and tell them you love them. In a throwback nod to, uh, something or other, Hawk and DJ will be broadcasting the night game from the Fan Deck in center field. Please resist the urge to use this knowledge for evil.

Is respectability a good substitute for victory? No. No it’s not. Lloyd the Barber offers a case study in Canadian baseball.

The staff at the always excellent Ghostrunner on First invited your editor to weigh in on the upcoming Sox-Jays series. Check that out for now, and their metric-compliant rebuttal will be posted here shortly.

How do you get excited for a long weekend of third-place baseball? Ask a Canadian. Guest writer Lloyd the Barber reports from Hogtown.