A Baseball Update

With a mere 7 weeks left in the major league baseball season, it is time to take a look at where things stand. My South Side heroes, the Chicago White Sox, have been a big disappointment this year, and are currently 22 games under .500, but to be fair, only 13 games out of 1st place (it is a very weak division). Their North Side rivals, the Chicago Cubs, are actually having a good season, after making a lot of positive moves during the off-season. Although they are only 3 games over .500 (a true sign of a mediocre, as opposed to really awful, team), they are only 2.5 games out of 1st place, thanks to also playing in a weak division. As for the Colorado Rockies, whose victory celebration over the Oakland A's I recently captured from the upper deck at Coors Field, as seen in the photograph above, they are indeed the worst team in the National League, but they are NOT the worst team in baseball. That honor belongs to those A's, who I might add beat the Rockies 2 games out of 3 during their recent series at Coors Field. And what conclusions can be made from all of this? For White Sox fans, they have seen all of this before, and are resigned to the inevitable. Cubs fans are, of course, hopeful about getting to the playoffs, but know in their hearts that the team would soon get eliminated. As for Rockies fans, they could care less. Coors Field is a great place to spend an afternoon or evening, most fans root for the opposing team anyway, and according to a national survey that came out before the season, their ballpark has the cheapest beer (at $3, believe it or not) of all the major league stadiums. Of course, we who live here in Colorado are still trying to figure out where the hell they are selling it. Even this late into the season, the search goes on.