The heart can hardly stand it. Three do-or-die games in a row. Three amazing victories in a row against three different teams. No other baseball club has done this to get into the playoffs. The White Sox will break your heart and teach you about Life. Sometimes, the Good Guys wear black. And now, for the first time in 102 years, the White Sox and Cubs are in the same playoffs.
It was Bill Veeck who once said, "If there is any justice in the world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance."
And it was Jean Shepard who nailed it: "If I ever had to storm an enemy pillbox, the kind in the old Van Johnson movies, the kind where there's no return from this certain, sure-fire death mission, the Colonel would say: 'Shepard!! Get me 6 men from your platoon!!' And I'd pick 6 White Sox fans. Because White Sox fans have lived with certain death all of their lives and it holds no terror for them now."
Playoff begins Thursday afternoon against the Tampa Bay Rays.
2 comments:
If the White Sox end up playing the Cubs for the title it will be mass chaos. Here's hoping...
I second that one, Captain! Go Cubbies!
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