Welcome to "From the Bard's Room". This is where I will give somewhat daily updates on my team of teams, my heart of hearts, my source of summertime joy and depression, the Chicago White Sox.
Our junior reporter Dook!e will be doing a similar dealy for the Cubbies, who judging by what I've been reading this offseason should win anywhere between 110 and 115 games this year.
But that's the last you'll hear of that team at Clark and Addison from me. My job isn't to bring the hate for them, it's to bring the love for the Sox. So here we go.
*Hawk Harrelson appeared on the Mike North Show this morning, and his chit chat with Pappy added to the air of bubbling optimism surrounding the 07 White Sox, that is matched only by the optimism surrounding the Troop Surge, and the Mitt Romney presidential campaign. Among my observations:
- Hawk confided to Tigers manager Jim Leyland last September that he didn't think the Sox would snap out of it and grab a playoff spot.
- Hawk thinks last year's Sox were the most talented team in baseball, and the best team he has ever been around, but that they lacked a killer instinct.
- Hawk says part of the problem last year was that Ozzie Guillen was tired.
- Hawk expects a 3 team race between the Sox, Tigers, and Twins again this year, but did not seem confident that the Sox would come out on top of that race.
In a nutshell, Hawk pretty much sounded about as enthusiastic about this year's prospects as he sounds on a mid-August night when the Sox are in the midst of going 3-7 in their last 10 games, and about to sink 7 games behind Minnesota.
*In other news, GM K Smooth is pulling out the Hoover Flag for Jermaine Dye, Mark Buehrle, and Tad Iguchi, whose contracts are all up after this year. None of them are getting extensions, and all 3 could be elsewhere in 2008.
*Bobby Jenks was said by K Smooth to be "in good shape for him". The corpulent closer had an ERA over 5 after the All-Star Break last year, and a weight well over 3 spins.
* Smooth says that this year's pitching staff, "Is kind of reminiscent of 1998. We had the Parque and Sirotka crew on the mound." Great, I'm ordering my season ticket package tonight! All I ask is that you make good on your promise of returning me to the glory days of the vaunted late 90s rotation of Sirotka and Parque and Pray For Death.
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