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Worst record the white Sox can end up with is 80-82. If the Sox go .500, the Astros have to go perfect. By the way Houston are 2-9 against the mariners this year.

I imagine MLB will want some sort of photoshoot with the white Sox in their playoff merch. Probably a small celebration.

Two factoids today: September 22, 1959 - The White Sox clinched the American League pennant beating the Indians 4-2 in Cleveland. Al Smith and “Jungle” Jim Rivera hit back-to-back home runs in the game. Smith also threw out former Sox star “Minnie” Minoso trying to score a run. A crowd estimated by the Chicago Sun-Times at 125,000 was at Midway Airport to greet the Sox when they returned home. All this on a night when Chicago fire commissioner Robert Quinn ordered the air raid sirens turned on to celebrate the title, causing fear and panic in a number of non-baseball fans who thought the Russians were attacking. The Sox would wind up winning the 1959 pennant by five games over the Tribe with a mark of 94-60. While they were near the bottom in most offensive categories the pitching was stellar and the defense had three Gold Glove winners in Nellie Fox, Luis Aparicio and Sherm Lollar. The Sox also won 35 games that season by one run with 15 losses. September 22, 1966 - In a game at Yankee Stadium, pitcher Joe Horlen and his teammates stopped New York to the tune of 4-1. Only 413 fans were in attendance at the gigantic stadium. It’s believed to be the smallest home crowd ever at a Yankee game.

And he's just taking Jerry's half assed plan to ask for more money and doing it right.

September 27, 1967- The Sox finished the season with the two worst teams in the league, Kansas City and Washington and the fans could smell that elusive World Series in the greatest pennant race ever. However, it all began to fall apart this night as the Sox dropped a double header to the A’s 5-2 and 4-0 after rain postponed the single game Tuesday. The Sox, in the middle of a pennant race, got over three days off, not having played since Sunday afternoon in Cleveland. Pitchers Gary Peters and Joe Horlen got tagged with the losses on “Black Wednesday” but the final embarrassment was yet to come. The normally fundamentally sound White Sox made three errors in the twin-bill disaster and got seven hits. September 29, 1967 - The Sox still had a chance for the pennant before they lost 1-0 to the Senators. The only run was set up when first baseman Tommy McCraw wasn’t able to catch a pop up off the bat of Washington’s Fred Valentine in the first inning. NBC-TV had erected a barrier for their field level cameras in case the World Series came to Comiskey Park and Valentine’s pop fell into that enclosed area near the visitor’s dugout. Valentine then singled driving in the only run. Two errors by the Sox in that first inning led to the unearned run. That season marked the 17th straight year that the Sox finished better than .500 at 89-73.

Sox just need to take it game by game and find a way to win a ballgame as David Kaplan likes to say

Both Toronto and Baltimore down to 2 for their elimination and they have 2 more against each other.

Getz can breathe a bit easier. Mason Adams scheduled for WED now. would be Gabriel Hughes (0-8, 6.33), then Jose Quintana or Sugano and either Sugano or Freeland to end the season against the Sox Or they could skip Hughes and go Quintana Sugano Freeland in theory Don’t they want the Sox to make the playoffs to provide encouragement/hope to Rockies’ fans lol???

If they can beat both Gilbert and Kirby in Seattle...get on that plane for four games in SAC, then things just might get interesting again

I recall the KC interim manager was our Luke Appling. The nerve!

Houston is probably the one we would have to worry about anyways.

Blue Jays lose, now 77-80 and behind in the tiebreaker too 3-3 for White Sox and 5-0 Toronto still leaves them 1 full game behind White Sox would still advance at 2-4 even

jays lose, balmer came back in the 8th.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/articles/controversial-ump-shares-scathing-reason-155249378.html Laz(y) Diaz goes off

I reject the suggestion this is more off topic than other polls I am subjected to in Pale Hose Talk

Harbaughs having a heckuva weekend. Chargers might be headed to 0-7 and Dart/Nabers both hurt. Nabers back in at least.

Only Harrelson and fans mostly born in the 1950s and beyond remember that. Plus, the scenario was 4 teams fighting for just one AL spot in the playoffs.

Uh oh. History. Remember 1967 when the KC team ruined our Sox season? Horlen and Peters were going in a DH in KC before a couple thousand fans. Sox lost both games and totally fizzed. WIll anybody pick up on the historical significance of this series? Is it 1967 revisited? Sad I can only log in at the library. I've basically taken a year off the board with no way to log on. That said I love this team. The grinders never give up. I even like Muni despite the BA near .200 now. Fave player is Banana Man tho. I like Meidroth a lot and Antonucci. And Vargas is simply amazing. This team has done so well with one of the worst pitching staffs in Sox history. I'm thinking in this era of lift and pull u really don't need dominant pitchers. Guys who are trying to hit it out at all times sometimes frankly miss on the launch angle and the quality of pitch really doesn't matter. How many batting practice homers are missed off fat pitches? A lot. I'd say our pitching staff is ridiculously ordinary. And yet we win.

Hi haven't been able to log on. Am wondering how good Br. Rice is this year. I think we are 2-2. Haven't been able to watch any games yet on Br Rice TV. My general feeling is this team will peak late once the state title glisten wears off the kids and they realize they are in a dogfight. Don't like the way Loyola killed our defense late. TD after TD. I doubt we'll beat Mt Carmel. Are the playoffs in jeopardy? Thanks for the link on the Rice youtube stuff. I will watch and try to get a feel if everybody's fat and happy after the state title. I know it's changed my attention a bit. We finally won state so I am not stressed about my high school team. I like Q's program.

That's all fine and good until he has an elbow/forearm or shoulder issue as a result of compensating. Eg., I currently have plantar fasciitis from walking too much...which then led to a right calf injury because I changed my basic gait to protect the left foot and put slightly less weight on it.

Yes and yes. The guy is funding the entire thing himself and only receiving help through taking advantage of existing federal programs for loans/grants. Although I can see the historical appeal of developing the existing area, since Ishbia’s paying for the whole damn thing, he’s more than entitled to use his preferred location.

More QB injuries... Dart wasn't planted in the turf, so probably just very very sore and out a week or two.

KC only has two Big 4 professional sports franchises...while Vegas will have 3. So part of it's a scarcity argument in those markets.

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