Midwest Sports World Roundup: More Amazing Shots From LeBron and More Amazing Ineptitude from the White Sox
I promised myself that I wouldn’t dwell on the White Sox continued poor play. However, I can’t help myself. Perhaps my high hopes for this season were misguided, but even in my worst case scenario I never imagined the 2009 White Sox evoking memories of 2007 this early in the year. I know that our aging power bats usually take a while to heat up, and that we made no significant upgrades to the top of the order in the offseason, but I at least expected Gavin Floyd and John Danks to continue to be solid #2 and #3 starters and help us weather the early season storm.
Unfortunately, that isn’t happening and the White Sox are one more bad week away from being in last place in the AL Central. Right now, they look like a last place team; and while it’s still relatively early in the year, the Sox are not offering much hope that a significant turnaround is on the horizon.
So…onto more exciting sports news, starting with a long overdue announcement by FOX that they will be starting MLB playoff games earlier in the day. According to Ken Rosenthal, FOX and MLB have reached an agreement that all weeknight games with start a 7:57 ET. I would be much more excited about this if the White Sox weren’t already six games under .500, but…damnit, so much for not dwelling on the White Sox.
In other news around baseball, the Milwaukee Brewers have a disturbingly obsessive fan captured via photo with a disturbingly obsessive smile. For all of your fantasy geeks (like me), Rays pitcher Andy Sonnanstine now qualifies as a utility player on offense….and in his one start was more productive than David Ortiz has been all year. The Tigers are in first place, but Armando Gallaraga is struggling mightily and looking more and more like Joaquin Phoenix. Cubs fans and haters alike will get a good chuckle out of this completely incomprehensible and unrealistic flight of fancy. World Series tickets? Give me a few moments to compose myself while I pick myself up off the floor after ROTFLMAO.
Wait a minute, maybe I shouldn’t have stopped laughing so quickly. Apparently Brett Favre’s agent Bus Cook says there is “no substance to speculation” that Favre is coming back. That is beyond laughable.
And finally, since I am now pushing my self-imposed deadline to get to actual client work this morning, I leave you with yet another incredible shot from The King. Here is LeBron James at his shot-making best, nailing the shot that chubby, white stiffs like me have attempting in HORSE games for years:
Enjoy your Monday everyone.
Tags: chicago cubs, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, lebron james
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So my thinking preseason when I bought my tickets to the May 21st afternoon battle between the White Sox and Twins was:
A) I will miss Hawk Harrelson saying, “Joe! Crede!” (of course, Hawk rules)
B) This could be a battle for first place on that date and time. (wrong)
C) I have to get RF bleacher seats right above the beloved “Bullpen Bar” (bought them for me and two friends, look for us in body paint spelling out “S-O-X” on our respective chests)
D) I hope Thome or AJ or both hit a dinger right at me in RF (TBD)
E) I hope we are dominating the division and we cruise past the Twinkies faster than a 1-0 play-in game (wrong)
F) I hope we are not in a slump and trying to hit our way out of a wet paper bag (correct)
Now that I am correct on “F” I…….. STILL CAN’T WAIT! GO GOOD GUYS!
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JRod Reply:
May 18th, 2009 at 11:51 am
@KVB, I love your optimism KVB. I’d say that I wish I could have what you are smoking…but it wouldn’t simply be euphemism, it would actually be true.
Despite my displeasure with the past two weeks, I still have faith. Once we get Carlos “Little Cal Ripken” Quentin healthy and our big boppers’ warning track fly balls starting hitting the seats, and Gavin Floyd finds his nutsac again, we’ll get things turned around and be right back in the race. I’m sorry, but until we’re out by double-figures or September hits, the teams ahead of us in the AL Central don’t scare me enough to give up hope.
Plus, you know Ozzie will be energized after missing two games this weekend. Hopefully he can light a fire under our butts and we’re on a winning streak when you’re at The Cell.
(P.S. Can you get that shirtless cardboard cutout of me that you have in your room and paint an exclamation point on it and bring it to the game with you? That would really mean a lot.)
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