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CWS 5 — Det 3, Work Day at the Old Ball Park

The White Sox chan­neled a bit of 2005 as they won a double-header ver­sus the AL Cen­tral lead­ing (and defend­ing AL Champs) Detroit Tigers. In a wel­come depar­ture from how the sea­son has gone, the sox got good (great in game 1) start­ing pitch­ing, good offen­sive pro­duc­tion, and solid work out of the bullpen. It’s been a rough sea­son on the south side as the early sea­son offen­sive woes were exac­er­bated by an inef­fec­tive (to the point of being hor­rid) bullpen, so today was a sur­pris­ing (good, but sur­pris­ing) respite from the bad times on the South Side.

My group from work was at the after­noon game as part of our staff appre­ci­a­tion effort. A good time was had by all! The White Sox won our game 5–3 behind a solid 8 innings of pitch­ing from Javier Vasquez. I’d orig­i­nally bought the tick­ets for April 26th which was rained out, but as it worked out it was a much bet­ter day for the game today and we were able to get a big­ger group together. Fun.

This was my first base­ball game of this sea­son. I typ­i­cally make it to 3 or 4 games a sea­son (which includes the occa­sional game at Wrigley).

Related: I’ve been putting off writ­ing about “Fan­ta­sy­land” because I want the White Sox sea­son to get past the trad­ing dead­line and want to see if I can actu­ally follow-through and exe­cute my deci­sion to get rid of cable tv (the main thing I use cable TV for is base­ball in the summer/fall and bas­ket­ball in the fall/winter).

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