Monday, July 03, 2006

Sox v. Cubs

I'm quite surprised I didn't post anything last year about the Chicago White Sox winning the World Series.

Imagine a world in which the White Sox and Red Sox are the two most recent World Series champs. Wait a minute, that's reality!

Too bad for the Chicago Cubs. Their poor fans have to take solace in taking the third of three games against the World Champs by pouncing on an uncharacteristically poor Mark Buehrle outing. The Sox made it close, but as we should expect, Cliff Politte poured kerosene and gunpowder all over the field, then lit a match and broke wind on the mound.

In the Saturday game, A.J. Pierzynski got sweet revenge against the Cubs and Michael Barrett, who punched Pierzynski in the face after Pierzynski scored during their first series back in May. Pierzynski clubbed a two-out, three-run, ninth-inning, game-winning homer onto Sheffield Avenue. Pierzynski's not known to be much of a power hitter - he's more of a contact guy who hits for a decent average but rarely walks - but he demonstrated he has silver and black ice water running through his veins.

Pierzynski is sort of a Dennis Rodman character. He won't kick camera operators in the groin, but he will step on an opponent while rounding third and if given the choice, will take out an opposing catcher while trying to score a run (even Dusty Baker admitted that Pierzyski made a clean play when he knocked over Barrett) if that catcher is blocking his path to the plate.

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