My South Side heros, the Chicago White Sox, seem to be healthy again after their best players were on the injured list for most of the first half of the season. I was hoping they would immediately start a major winning streak, but that has not happened, at least not yet. I watched their game Sunday on MLB.com against the Detroit Tigers, who are a pretty bad team, but the best the Sox could do was split the series. Currently they are playing a series against the Cleveland Indians (I refuse to call them the Guardians - that name is stupid), who are mediocre, but the Sox will have to win their game today to split that series too. I am actually amazed the White Sox have achieved a 42-45 record so far, just 5.5 games out of first place. Will they be able to make a run for the playoffs during the second half of the season? I always remember what humorist Jean Shepherd once said about the team, which was that if he was in the army and had to ask for volunteers for an almost certain suicide mission, he would first ask if there were any White Sox fans among them, since they are used to hopeless situations. Still true after all these years.
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