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White Sox Spoiler In AL Central?
Chicago White Sox starting pitcher Jake Peavy delivers during the first inning against the Detroit Tigers
The White Sox are mathematically eliminated from this year’s postseason, but it may not stop them from playing spoiler. The Sox could be the key factor in determining the AL Central winner as they play the Tigers five more times before the season ends.
In Friday night’s game the Tigers bats struggled against recently activated starter Jake Peavy. Peavy threw seven scoreless innings, striking out eight. That game could be a taste for the White Sox future. Alex Rios scored on a Gordon Beckham home run, leading the offense, Jake Peavy had a great start, and Matt Thornton closed out the game.
Fallen Idols
Posted by briansuerth in Baseball, Morality on August 7, 2009
Canseco, A-Rod, Manny, and now Big Papi!
by Brian Suerth
In the ever-changing world of sports we often find ourselves lost in the myriad of the basics: ball versus strike. No more is this evident than in the case of Major League Baseball. Let us think about this for a second.
It was only a mere eleven years ago when Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire and Ken Griffey Jr. were locked in a race that would go on to changing the world baseball. Its mark, 62*.
Today, we are faced with the facts that the asterisk is more than just a mark on a record. Rather, a simple punctuation now defines a near twenty years of baseball and sports history. Not to say that every record broken during this time period should hold the asterisk, but we now find ourselves in the midst of an existential search for what baseball and its players mean to us.
Whoever thought it would come to this?
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