I’m Back Like DeWayne Wise

Mike Steadman, Sox Super Fan

Super Fan here, sure is nice to speak to you all again. I’m back from Tennessee and ready to talk some Sox. Its a strange experience in this hyper-connected world we live in to step away from it all. I was out of town for nearly five days with no computer, cordless telephone, or color television. I felt like I was on the moon. Now I come back to earth only to learn that R. Kelly got acquitted, Iowa is underwater, and the Sox have lost five of six. The latter calamity is by far the most trivial, yet its what I get not paid to talk about here…so much more on the Sox later.

First though I have to come clean with you my fair readers. I was not at a music festival in Tennessee for purposes of research for this blog. I hope the kind folks at NBC-Universal don’t get too upset about this little deception, but I don’t think they would have let me expense the trip anyway. No I was there to listen to a whole mess of different bands, drink heroic amounts of beer in the blazing hot sun, and to generally behave like I am not actually a grown adult. But I did make one important observation there. This observation came after I saw probably fifty or so people wearing Yankees or Red Sox gear. And it was much after I saw literally hundreds of folks with blue hats with the little “c” on them. My ground-breaking observation was that there in Nowhere, Tennessee I spotted one whole person wearing a White Sox t-shirt. Like out of 80,000 people there. Way far away from the South Side of Chicago. Its really great news everybody…White Sox Nation is spreading like wildfire. I hope my little blog had something to do with it. I wanted to go up and talk to this guy and see if he is a reader but he was all sweaty and I think he spilled beer all over most of his clothes. Well I hope it was beer.

Well I promised you some insightful White Sox analysis and I have lied once again. I haven’t watched the Sox the last six games so I’m having a cold one and enjoying tonight’s broadcast. Let’s talk about it soon.