September 4, 200619 yr A baseball adage is it doesn’t matter who you play, it matters when you play them. The teams that the White Sox just played, Tampa and Kansas, have both been playing good ball of late. Kansas is even and Tampa -1 over the past 2 weeks. Breaking even with them, despite their poor reputations, is not the collapse some would have you think. But the White Sox will soon run into some other very hot teams. Using records since 8/20, the White Sox have the toughest schedule among American League contenders. In the chart below WPCT is that team’s win percentage and SOS is the combined winning percentage of their opponents, based on the last 2 weeks. The White Sox play 3 at Boston (.286), 4 v Cleveland (.750), 3 at LA (.500), 3 at Oakand ((.750), 3 v Detroit (.385), 3 v Seattle (.667), 3 more at Cleveland (.750) and finish with 3 at Minny (.500). Only 6 games against teams who aren't playing well and one of them is freaking Detroit. I think the White Sox will need 16 more wins to get in. The odds are against them, if they do get in it will be a hell of an accomplishment, worthy of our cheers.
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