I watched the Chicago White Sox play a series against the San Francisco Giants - in San Francisco, by the way - on MLB.com this past weekend and was happy to see that they won all three games. I really believed that as their top players returned from the injured list, the Sox would start their march into first place. And so I was sad to see that they have lost the first two games of a three game series against their division rivals, the first place Minnesota Twins. They are now 6.5 games back, and I am beginning to worry that they might not make the playoffs this year.
On the bright side, the White Sox broadcasting team, Jason Benetti (on the left in the photo on the right) and Steve Stone (on the right) are very entertaining, and they make watching the game fun no matter what the score. Stone was Harry Carey's broadcast partner for the Chicago Cubs games on WGN back in the day, and Benetti, although a relative newcomer, attended Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Chicago's south suburbs, and thus has bonafide Southside credentials. I read in Chicago Magazine that even Chicago Cubs fans are tuning in, which is high praise indeed. And happily, the next opponent for the White Sox are the Detroit Tigers, who are absolutely terrible. Perhaps things aren't so bad after all.
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