Is it to early to get excited?

the Rays've been a thorn in the side to both the yanx and the 'other' sox this year...

For those who care... inter-league play began today.

So far the score is:

White Sox: 1
Cubs: a big fat goose egg

I'll say this while a healthy streak backs me up... watch out for the Padres.

Sorry JP no sweep for you.

All the Cubs have to do is leave their starters in the entire game.

At least the one or two that are healthy

Good series even though. Good pitching from the starters on both sides and some good late game come backs. I love Sox/Cubs series.

The Cubs/Sox games are always fun. I was watching the game in a bar close to Wrigley and the Cubs fans and Sox fans were in equal numbers.
You would have thought it was the seventh game in the world series the way we were acting.

i think its pretty safe to say the cubbies are truly cursed...

By the way:

40 - 19 and 4.5 games ahead of Minnestoa. Still the best record in baseball.

I have a friend who's even older than I am, and a lifetime Chisox fan. He's guardedly hopeful. His life is also more complicated now that the team is competitive. The other day he told me that he had to root for the Yankees because they were playing the Twins...

Tell me about it. We are so used to failure it is dangerous to get to optimistic. I keep telling myself: There is a long way to go.... there is a long way to go... there is a long way to go...

jp,
there is a long way to go...

Man was that a butt whoopin' today

Whitesox: 12
Cubs: 2

Still the best record in baseball. 9.5 games ahead of the second place twins.

The White Sox always squash the Cubs nosh, even in years when The Cubs come 5 outs from The World Series, and even in years when The Sox are bottom feeders.

The cubs took the last two of the series so once again they split the season series 50/50. Prior looked good on Sunday. I'm suprised they marched him out there so fast after his injury but it looked like a good decision.

I agree, about Prior. But Kerry Wood will do a stint in the minors.

Yeah that is the weird thing. wood pitched a couple simulated games then went to the minors and started 3 (ithink) games there.

Prior gets his arm broken by a line drive. He pitches one simulated game and they march him back out there. I really hope they don't ruin him. He is a special pitcher and I would hate to see his career shortened because of bad decisions by the training staff.

Wood, IMO, is finished. He has never won more then 14 games in a season, is continually injured by flawed mechanics which he refuses to correct. It is only a matter of time before he is hurt again.

Anyone want to hazard a guess on how NYY will do? They managed to win one last night, avoiding a sweep (at home) vs. the Mets. They are now one game over .500.

Will they wake up and win the division, as per usual? What's interesting to me, among other things, is how weak their minor league system must be, given the (ahem) quality of the guys they've been calling up...

I'd like to thank the Sox for allowing the Brewers to have a player who bats above .300 and hits more than 10hr a season. It was kind of them. If he keeps doing well though, he'll invariably go to another team, because that's what good Brewers do.

Budweiser park? Are you nuts? It's Miller Time beeatcch.

I long for the early 80s, when the Brewers actually looked like REAL brewers, like they just clocked out at Miller, big mustachioed dudes with long hair, some with full on beer guts...oh, and they were good.

Great team, those early 80's Brewers.

As for the Yanks, I suppose they'll play .600 ball in the second half of the season. So the question is, will the Orioles & BoSox play well over .530 to leave the Yanks out?
Boston will, most probably.
I only pray for the Orioles.

C Lee was one of my favorite players... but the trade for Pods is working out quite well for us. I like it when a trade makes both teams end up better then before.



Miller??? They may as well call it Watered Down Swill Park.