By Paul M. Banks, Soxman and Jason Moe
(PMB)Â There are two things in our favor that make me very optimistic about the stretch run. Yes, this week’s visit to Boston looks very formidable for us, but once we hit September, we’ll only have one series against a contender the entire month: the HUGE Minnesota series in the final week) Look at it this way, the Yankees are fading and could very well be mathematically dead by the time we play them and the Angels clinched their division back in….early 2006. (I exaggerate for effect sometimes) So they will likely be resting their “varsity squad” for the playoffs and most of the teams we face in September will be playing their “J.V.”
(SM) All good points once again. However, you can’t discount the fact that bad teams love to be “spoilers†AND the White Sox seem to have more trouble against unknown players than with established ones. I think the last month of the season will be like a Rocky movie between the Sox and Twins. We will keep trading blows until one of us goes down for the count. Oddly enough, we’re both on the road for ten games now. I want to see the Red Sox continue their skid so we can develop a nice Wild Card lead…just in case. Finally, the heck with J.V., how about J.D.? Quentin and Dye are first and second in the AL in homers. How about a Bash Brothers poster? LOL.Â
(Moe) Quentin and Dye are AWESOME! We need to come up with a name for the Sox Bash Brothers poster. Any Ideas? I’m also very optimistic going into this week. We need to win the series against Baltimore and Boston, Too much to ask for? I have been saying all year that the Twins will die down, but they obviously will not and are in this Race until the end.  Swisher had a great four game stretch going, and I hope he can keep it up. Paulie came up with a big hit in yesterday’s game, so I hope that turns his season around.
“Dye With The Catch, Swisher With The Worm, I can’t Stand It” I love Hawk…
(PMB) I like the enthusiasm here. Secondly, every time the Sox have lost first place this season, they seem to get it back right away. We’ve seen nine AL central lead changes this season. That is a good sign and measure of the White Sox resolve…Do “share this passion†and “show this swagger?â€
(SM) I just YouTubed a Rocky fight montage. LOL. Seriously, it shows they are taking the race seriously and not going down without a fight. Aside from some consistency, that’s all you can hope for. Perhaps some more controversy from AJ would help as well.
Another manufactured and melodramatic run was produced by the King of Controversy on Sunday afternoon. It appears AJ’s pro wrestling career helped as he totally faked a fall to get a player interference call…and score the winning run. Strangely, Paul Eddings was the same umpire who made the infamous “dropped third strike†call in favor of AJ in the 2005 ALCS.
With AJ’s new platinum hairstyle, perhaps he should start using Eminem’s “Without Me†as his walk up music. Â
(Moe) AJ looks like a Chunky Nick Carter. With the blond/platinum hair even more so. I love AJ, he is always thinking of something to keep the Dennis the Menace thing alive and well. The Sox always find ways to win, it is not always pretty, but a win is a win. Right now the Sox are a game up and by the end of the week, I think they will be up 2 1/2 games. You heard it hear first. MOE DIDDY is always right!…..(sometimes)
Soxman, love the “Without Me” walk up music. I think his second at bat…They should play “Bad Boy For Life” by Diddy.
(Moe) AJ looks like a Chunky Nick Carter. With the blond/platinum hair even more so. I love AJ, he is always thinking of something to keep the Dennis the Menace thing alive and well. The Sox always find ways to win, it is not always pretty, but a win is a win. Right now the Sox are a game up and by the end of the week, I think they will be up 2 1/2 games. You heard it hear first. MOE DIDDY is always right!…..(sometimes)
Soxman, love the “Without Me” walk up music. I think his second at bat…They should play “Bad Boy For Life” by Diddy.
(PMB) And what a Gutsy call by Coxy to send Anderson when he would have been out by a mile had the catcher not flubbed the ball. (Almost as bad as the time Thome was not even half way down the line when get nailed in a throw to the plate in a game last month) Sunday had a big time play that we’ll remember a key point in the season. For this week’s non-baseball discussion we’ll describe the SICA for people who don’t know. (Ya’ll better ask somebody!) It certainly is Sox Country and I feel more Sox fans better recognize. When Moe and I were out at the Mokena sports bar 191 South, I saw a scene that could be the SICA post card: playing bean bags on ramps with Sox logos on them…in a big parking lot next to a vast open field. And some chicks with big hair hanging around!
(SM) Sounds like pre-game tailgating at the Cell to me. Go ahead Moe Diddy, bring us home. Soxman out!Â
(Moe) OH, The SICA life is great. Only in the SICA are big-haired girls playing bags. Let me tell you, those SICA girls know their Sox trivia. I once asked a SICA chick who is the ugliest Sox player in history? She replied “Ron Karkovice.” She was darn right!!!!!! MoeMan Out!!!!
Upcoming Sox Exchange Schedule
Sept 2nd- TSB commenter “Ghost in the Machine†will join us
9th-TSB contest winner. The contest quiz will be posted on Labor Day Sept. 1st!
16th-Â Pennant Race Exchange I with TSB Twins writers. Peter Christian vs. Soxman, Andy Weise vs. Paul M. Banks
23rd- Pennant Race Exchange II Christian vs. Banks, Weise vs. Soxman
30th The two original Soxiest men alive Paul M. Banks and Soxman return to the orginal format
October 6- Not gonna say anything that might jinx anything
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