The Mighty Mite

Vargas is back!

I see Colson is back in the clean up spot tonight, a mistake in my book.

Some of the crowds down through the years at Sox park have been embarrassingly small in April and May mainly because of some of the frigid days. I’m sort of anti dome but if I knew attendance would increase dramatically in April and May because of a dome I would be all for it, I’m sure Ishbia could afford the extra bucks.

I was at the July 31, 1977 DH and after we won the first game, Comiskey went insane, I probably attended close to 200 games at the old park and that day had to be the noisiest ever at old Comiskey , we were sitting way out in left center field in the upper deck and I thought Comiskey was going to come tumbling down as the 50,412 in attendance were so loud and delirious the place was shaking. It’s a shame we didn’t win that 2nd game which would have given us the 4 game sweep and IIRC a 7 game lead. Things went downhill from there as the Sox were under .500 for August and September and they finished in 3rd but what a ride those first 4 months of the 1977 season were, Comiskey Park was the place to be that summer in Chicago.

Yep, we’re not firing on all the cylinders right now, if we get Vargas, Colson and Peters going again we should make a WC fairly easily.

Sox are playing at a .528 clip which projects to 86 wins. I also did a series by series prediction and came up with 85 wins, that should be enough for a WC spot and maybe the division. With 54 games left if they won half which would be 27-27 they would go 84-78. With only 2 teams in the AL that are probably going to win 90+ games I think we can do this and make the playoffs especially if we trade for a starter and a catcher. Should be quite a ride.

Yeah that game we blew to the Astros was the difference.

Outstanding to come back and split the series.

Ant keeps it going.

Should have bunted

OK, now we win it.

That was a great pitch.

Dominguez in, we need a miracle.

f***

A well placed single scores Beni, he’s no speed demon but he’s no Paul Konerko,

That’s why he’s here, the old pro.

That helps big time.

That’s what you do with the game on the line, Yanks take the lead.

Keep your fingers crossed as it’s bull crap baseball time.

The way he’s going he won’t even be an Adam Dunn.

He’s completely lost it.

Sometimes guys just don’t understand the situation. Drives me crazy.

Never saw him live, just on TV in the 55 and 56 World Series. My first live game was at Comiskey in July 1955 with my Cub Scout pack.

Colson just refuses to go the other way, usually you can break out of a slump by doing that.