For just the second time since the Black Sox scandal, the Chicago White Sox are going to the World Series.
This will call for all sorts of fun stuff - we'll have to look back at the last AL champs to come out of Chicago, Bill Veeck's Go-Go Sox of 1959... we'll have to preview the Fall Classic itself, once we know who the opposition will be...
But in the meantime... well done, Ozzie. Well done, Kenny Williams. Well done, Joe Crede and Paul Konerko. And the starting rotation, who put up four consecutive complete game victories in a post-season series, which hasn't happened in at least forty years.
Bring on... whoever. Chris Carpenter will try to keep the Cardinals alive for another day, as he goes up against Andy Pettite and the Astros at 8:28 this evening.
And how about that Phil Cuzzi, tossing Jim Edmonds for arguing strike two? Cuzzi, by the way, has a history with the Cardinals and Tony LaRussa (and Dave Duncan.) Ejections and suspensions, back in 2003...
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