He looks up…

Cait Higgins, Sox Superfan

How great was it to see Podsednik’s bat wake up? I have gotten the luxury of seeing all of his homeruns in the past two seasons (including one walk off home run in Game 2). He never seems to think he should have it one that far. Take Monday night for example, he walked back into the dugout with this look of awe on his face almost like, “Was that supposed to happen?” I love it. I also love seeing numbers in the .400s for a batting avg. so early in the season. Keep it up, Pods!

Anyway, I agree with what was said about the lack of “Grinder Ball” in the game last night. On Monday, it seemed like it was all falling into place together. I guess I was most disappointed in the fact that we couldn’t score more than one run last night. Jon Garland was golden on the mound. Absolutely stellar. I hate to lay all the blame on Bobby, but I honestly think it would have taken a miracle for Scott to perfectly execute those two plays to keep us tied up. If your closer gives up two or more hits in a row, I think it’s time to take him out.

As I write this, we have just strung three hits together. I was going to write about how Mark was getting pounded, but I think things might just be looking up! I was happy to see Jermaine finally get a hit and bring his .100 batting average up a little. I was unhappy to see what just went down with the terrible rundown that happened between Iguchi and the A’s… I’ve already seen that this season, and I hope I don’t have to see it again.

Finally, I’ve been really angry at the media lately calling our beloved White Sox “weather wimps” because our game on Friday night got cancelled due to extreme wind chills. Please. It’s not like people that have to report the news, like Ryan Baker, would enjoy sitting in 10 degree wind chills with the chance of snow. He should lighten up on us a little bit. The Cubs got snowed out today, so it will be interesting to see how they give them a pass. Let’s see if they call them “weather wimps” on the news tonight. I was at the games Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday and the temp didn’t get above 45 the whole time! At game time on Wednesday, the temp was 25 with 45 mph winds, and 10 degree wind chills. I wouldn’t have wanted to sit through that again on Friday night, either. Oh well, Go Sox!