1948. So with Boston and Chicago winning the last two years, we're due.
2006 is ours.
Posted on 04/10/2006 4:11:11 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
After snapping a four-game losing streak, the Chicago White Sox head to Detroit on Monday to begin a three-game series with a team that reminds the world champions of themselves at this time last season.
The Tigers started 5-0 before losing 5-3 to Texas on Sunday, but have hit 17 home runs and are tied with Cleveland atop the Central Division standings.
Detroit has posted 12 consecutive losing seasons and hasn't made the playoffs since 1987.
"The worst thing you can do is call them a fluke," Chicago first baseman Paul Konerko said. "That's what people were calling us a year ago.
"They have the talent to win. They will be there. There are no pushovers in this division. It's not going to be an easy road."
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From one year ago:
"He's a piece of (expletive)," Guillen told White Sox beat writers after learning of Ordoñez's contempt for Guillen and alleging his manager steered him away from the Sox and to Detroit. "He's a (expletive), that's what he is," Guillen continued. "He's another Venezuelan (expletive). (Expletive) him." "He has an enemy. Now he has a big one. He knows I can (expletive) him a lot of different ways. He better shut the (expletive) up and play for the Detroit Tigers."
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"We never clicked, even when we played together," Ordoñez said. "I don't consider him my friend. I have nothing to say. I don't want to see him or talk to him. He's my enemy. "If he comes to me and wants to apologize, I wouldn't accept it." "I don't talk bad about people when people are hurt," said Ordoñez, who is on the disabled list and will be examined Monday in Philadelphia by a hernia specialist. "I'm very straightforward. There are a lot of people who try to push you down and do the opposite, and not try to help you."
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"Why do I have to apologize to him?" Guillen responded while sitting in his office chair and tapping his right foot frequently. "Who the (expletive) is Magglio Ordoñez? Why ever talk about me. He doesn't do (expletive) for me. But if he thinks I'm his enemy, he has a big enemy. He knows me. "I just take it the way he wants to take it."
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/sports/articles/0424alplugger0424.html
The thing about baseball is teams can look good all the way till September and then the bottom can still fall out.
I heard Hugh Hewitt on the radio the other day say that the Indians "own the White Sox" this year.
So I sent him an email, asking him when the Indians last won a World Series.
He replied, "October 2006"
Anybody have a response to Hugh?
Well, let's hope he's right on that count.
Yeah, was he thinking Little League?
1948. So with Boston and Chicago winning the last two years, we're due.
2006 is ours.
Congrats!
The Indians are on top of the AL Central. Maybe after 58 years, this is the year that Cleveland wins the World Series again. After all, now that the Red Sox and White Sox have done it, it's gotta be their turn.
The bad news is that, by October, Major League Baseball will have decided to follow the example of the NCAA and ban all teams from post-season play unless they have names that are more sensitive to feelings of native Americans :)
Such a thing could only happen to Cleveland....
LOL!
I got a buddy who's a Tiggers fan--it's a birth defect. I was just saying to him the other day, there's nothing like Tigers baseball in April, is there? Sort of like Lions football in September.
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