The Bats Are Back
Looks like Ozzie’s rants and some negative publicity helped the Sox figure out what they’re bats are made for. The Sox have scored a total of 54 runs and just today they scored 12 on the Twins for their 6th straight win. Swisher finally broke out of his slump along with Konerko, Crede, and Ramirez. Quentin had some action as well and has definitely been consistent. Every Sox starter made it to base and scored today except for Orlando Cabrera. Pretty damn good if you ask me, but will this continue? I guess I’m just nervous considering how terrible the ‘06 and ‘07 seasons were. Before Ozzie had his little flip out a few weeks ago, I found out that around the same time last year the Sox were in the same position and well, we all know what happened after that. Everything was going great, then kaboom, down the hill we fell. I know the Sox and I wouldn’t really be surprised if they fell into another slump. Don’t get me wrong, I have faith in the Sox and I always have. I definitely think things can change this year and I don’t want to jinx it. But with the Sox, anything can happen. That’s the thing with baseball, it can break your heart. Actually, this kind of sums it up for me:
“Baseball is a game, it’s fair yet completely not, its something we know but will never understand, it let’s us love unconditionally and hate in the same fashion, it gives us joy we cannot comprehend and sorrow that can never be matched, it shows conformity where it’s expected and loyalty where it’s not, it lets us over joy in excitement and cry in defeat, we hope for what is impossible and doubt what is certain, it lets us pray unreligiously and wonder ceaselessly, baseball is wrong yet perfectly right, its something we’d give away in a second but never let go in a lifetime, it lets us see that the good times will always outweigh the bad despite the ratio, its heartbreaking, cruel, inconsiderate, and yet amazingly unbelievable, basically baseball is life.”
Tags: , Alexei Ramirez, Carlos Quentin, Chicago White Sox, Homeruns, Joe Crede, Minnesota Twins, MLB, Nick Swisher, Orlando Cabrera, Ozzie Guillen, Paul Konerko
June 9th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
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