Sep 09 2009
White Sox Odds for Post Season
With the Detroit Tigers sitting atop of the AL Central the magic number for them to win the division is at or around 20. What does this mean to the White Sox faithful or the rest of the division? Well bleak hope but stranger things have happened in Septemeber. One thing is for sure the White Sox must take this final game against Oakland after getting slammed by the A’s last night. This game was to be expected as recent call up Carlos Torres had a let down, after blanking the Cubs, as most young pitcher’s try to find that consistency of always arising to the occasion no matter who you face accross the diamond.
This next stretch of games on the west coast could decide the fate of a White Sox team that has struggled to get back to five hundred baseball. After Oakland, the Sox must go to Anaheim for 3 and Seatle for 3 if the Sox think they still have a fighters chance then they can ill afford to lose any of these series. With Detroit winning seven of their last ten and playing very well and Minnesota still lingering this is no time to start a losing streak.
If the Sox can survive this next week they then begin the last big home stand of the year where they will face Kansas City Minnesota and then Detroit. Another plus for both the White Sox and even the Twins is that the AL Central will be determined among each other as evry team in the central will face one another in the last three weeks of the season. If there is anytime to start beating your division rivals the time is now and you know that Cleveland Indians and even the last place Kansas City Royals want to make the next few weeks as difficult as possible for either three of the top teams in the Central.
My final thought is this if the White Sox can survive a west coast that historically has plagued the Sox then they still have a fighter’s chance but you do not want to be too far behind heading into that last home stand in which the Sox can then control theri own destiny. If Detroit thinks this thing is wrapped up already they better think other wise, there is still a lot of baseball. Just ask the New York Mets of last year who failed to win their division after leading for most of the year only to collpase the last tow weeks of the season. Or even the Colorado Rockies the year before that won 20 plus games in the month of September. If you have lost all faith then you haven’t been around baseball much the last few years.
PS today my son had his first day of pre-k superdad is very proud today, way to go buddy.
