So...anything interesting happen in baseball yesterday? Seriously, that would have been much more painful last year. Over the last five years (excepting golden 2005), when the White Sox have faded it's been in August or September. Most of those years have had the team in contention and a bad stretch of games dashed their chances and broke my heart.
This year they did me the favor of getting that out of the way in May going 3-41 during on period of games (or something like that). Any chance of being a playoff team was over at that time. Recently they played well against the very bottom teams of the AL, maybe enough to make fans think that a hot streak could turn things around. Yesterday's games promptly took care of that. This team won't challenge for third place and will probably need to work to stay ahead of the Royals. So be it.
I was able to follow yesterday's game at work. It was one of the strangest displays of offense I've ever followed. With 34 total runs scored there was plenty of scoring. The strange thing was how regular it was. Each team scored in seven of the nine available innings. I don't remember ever seeing one team do that much less both in the same game. The runs just kept coming. I can tell you that the Twins fans at work didn't feel secure until the final out.
The season is still shaping up to be entertaining even with my personal rooting interests out of it. With any luck the Yankees will continue to fail. The Mariners are playing well, which is good to see. The Tigers are doing well, making Roxane happy. And you never know what turns and twists are up ahead.
And...the Vikings season starts in 64 days!
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I lit a candle just in case....
Yes, and then what happened on Saturday? Hmph. Dang Twins can't take a series to save their asses. My guess is it will be Detroit going the distance this year.
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