Major League Baseball's All-Star Game takes place tonight, marking the mid-point of the season. It is also the time sports analysts review how each team has performed during the first half, and speculate on what to expect between now and October. I tuned into a rebroadcast of the White Sox-Cardinals game played this past Sunday, and White Sox announcers Jason Benetti (in the photograph above on the left) and Steve Stone (on the right) opened the broadcast with quite a few first half team highlights, and seemed really upbeat about the team's prospects, despite the fact that my South Side heroes are 16 games under .500, although a mere 8 games out of first place, in one of baseball's weakest divisions. Their North Side rivals, the Chicago Cubs, are actually doing much better, just 5 games under .500 and 7 games back. Of course, here in Colorado, the Rockies are 23 games under .500 and a whopping 18 games out of first place, but since everybody expected them to be really, really bad this year, nobody cares. In other words, if you placed all your money on either of my old hometown's teams to win it all, you are in serious trouble. If you placed all your money on the Colorado Rockies, you are in desperate need of professional help. For God's sake get that help NOW!
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