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This happened a couple of days ago. I missed it of course, because lately I seem to be missing everything the White Sox do that is even remotely exciting, but I did see the replay and it was pretty great. It’s also great to see Gordon Beckham’s name in the headlines for being awesome, as opposed to, like, “Gordon Beckham: Still couldn’t hit a beach ball with a cricket bat.” (Gordon Beckham: Forgets what sport he is playing, it all works out.)
Just in case this isn’t clear from my tone, I love Gordon Beckham. I find him completely delightful and adorable and very sincere, and I want him to get everything that he wants out of life. But I do really want him to do it with the White Sox because I don’t have room in my heart for another baseball team — and for this to happen he has to become indispensible.
Currently he seems to be working on it, which is fantastic. I love to watch him do well.
However, I haven’t actually seen him do anything spectacular. Again, not because he hasn’t done anything spectacular — I just haven’t seen it. He’s hit four home runs this season, and even though I’ve watched every game that wasn’t either blacked out or on too late for me to watch, I’ve missed every single one.
A few days ago I was so excited to see him hit a ball out of the park… only to see Vernon Wells make a fantastic jump and catch it. Out. Yesterday I actually was watching the game, but I was getting a glass of water during his at-bat. Home run.
I’m worried that I’m jinxing him. That’s the last thing I want to do. But if he’s being awesome when I’m not watching, does it actually make a difference whether he’s on my baseball team? That’s a question I just don’t want to answer.
It’s really hard to be a baseball fan sometimes.
As a baseball — and White Sox — fan, I’d be remiss not to mention this Kickstarter campaign to produce a documentary based on the extraordinary life of Minnie Minoso. So far the project is about 3k short, and the campaign ends at 8am on Saturday, May 12th.
Tom Weinberg explained to ChicagoSide just what it is and was about Minnie Minoso that makes him so special, and why this project is so important to him.
There are about 48 hours left to make it happen, so let’s do it.
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I know I’m a girl and all, and maybe I don’t understand everything that there is to understand about sports, but how on earth is it a good idea to celebrate Phil Humber’s perfect game by piling a literal ton of baseball players on top of him?
Big Donkey’s got the right idea, just patting him on the… somewhere.
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This happened. I cried. (Tears of joy, obviously.)
Congratulations, Phil Humber. You’re perfect.
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Yesterday I turned off the game because I was convinced that I was jinxing the team. This happened literally two minutes later. I did not turn the game back on until after it was over. You’re welcome, White Sox.Alexei Ramirez and Gordon Beckham turn an excellent double play on a Miguel Cabrera grounder to escape the eighth inning, 4/13/12
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Is it just me or does Gordon Beckham look incredibly short in this photo? How the hell tall is everybody else?
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NOT WITH THAT ATTITUDE, JOSH BECKETT.
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According to Boston.com, Gavin Floyd is a Sox. Killer. Red Sox, that is.
Color me skeptical.
The White Sox swept the Red Sox at Fenway Park in 2010 and 2011. It was pretty awesome, even if it made no sense whatsoever, and everybody was asking Paul Konerko just what it was about the White Sox that had the Red Sox so scared. The words “voodoo curse” might have been thrown around a bit, even. It was pretty crazy.
Of course, the Red Sox were basically fielding a minor league squad by the end of the 2010 season. I don’t know why nobody ever brought that up.
So anyway, Gavin Floyd.
He pitched one of the games that I went to last year; Tim Wakefield was pitching for the Red Sox. It didn’t really start out splendidly for the White Sox, as the Red Sox had already scored three runs by the top of the fourth inning. I got a text message while I was at the game that said, “Do something. This is a massacre.”
For the (Red) Sox killer that Gavin Floyd supposedly is, they sure got a good start on him. Eventually my lucky White Sox hat kicked in and the White Sox scored seven runs. But that was luck. That was not Gavin Floyd being especially outstanding and unstoppable. He gave up four runs. To the Red Sox.
I’m not in the mood to look into Gavin Floyd’s other instances of Red Sox domination, so for all I know he could have been 27 up, 27 down in every other game he pitched against them. Although I’d probably be aware of that. And it’s not like I mind that he has the Red Sox shaking in their cleats, that’s awesome.
(Things don’t have to make sense to be awesome.)
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I can’t process this. I just don’t know what to do with this image, but in the best way possible. I just can’t.
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I watch this video whenever I am feeling iffy about exercising, and I think: “Would AJ sit around being lazy? No, AJ is too awesome for that.”
If AJ motivated the White Sox as well as he motivates me, they’d be freaking unstoppable.
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