The day was just odd. No, I mean ODD. On a day where... Uday and Qusay Hussein are killed in a firefight, dark smoke billows from the top of the Eiffel Tower, and reports of a guy in Vienna who got a tounge transplant...
It was late and the weather was as odd as the day - it's the lattter half of July and it's in the upper 60's and the clouds almost look menacing.
I went to "The Cell" for an afternoon baseball game. My time at uemployment just got me to the park late. In the bottom of the first, I was on Wentworth at 35th, waiting at the stoplight right at the park when Frank Thomas hit his 399th homerun. He's now tied for 36th all-time with Al Kaline, and it was his 23rd of the season, and his 91st career first-inning home run (seventh in 2003). (Want to hear something weird? Houston’s Jeff Bagwell hit his 400th career homer on Sunday at Cincinnati, and Frank is just one away from 400. Thomas and Bagwell both were born on 5/27/68, were 1994 Most Valuable Players and hit two home runs apiece on Sunday! Weird, eh?) By the time I got to the parking lot Maggliio Ordonez hit his 19th of the season. By the time I got into the park, it was the bottom of the 2nd. Bartolo Colon, who has been 0-4 over his last 7 starts, gave up a lead-off double to start the 1st (to the left fielder Coco Crisp - please tell me that's a nickname... oh, good his real name is Covelli L. Crisp) and then retired the next 17 batters. He looked a hell of a lot better than he has been lately. He threw 111 pitches, 107 were fastballs (the others were two changeups, a curveball and a slider). Carlos Lee had a homer in the 6th, and that made 17 over the past 7 games for the team. With the win, the boys are now 50-50 - yes, that's .500. It's about time. We're 5 games out.
(Boxscore)
2006- White Sox 3 - Rangers 1
2005- Furlough #2
2002- Cute bunny
- The need for speed