This is baseball's annual All-Star break, the mid-point of the season, and tonight is the All-Star game, this year being played at Washington's Nationals Park. It is a time when the best players in baseball are honored by being voted in to play, and the remaining players get a 3 or 4 day break. And as of today, the Colorado Rockies are a mere 2 games out of first place, with a .531 winning percentage. Back in my home town of Chicago, the north side Chicago Cubs are in first place by 2 and a half games with a .591 winning percentage. Meanwhile, on the south side of Chicago, where I grew up, the Chicago White Sox are 19 games out of first place, with a .347 winning (or is it called a losing?) percentage. As my sister Susan - quite a White Sox fan herself at one time - recently said, "and you are surprised why?" But hey - we still have the last half of the season to play, right? Miracles can happen. Especially on the south side of Chicago, right? Right?
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