Andy

I would think about bunting here unless Lane has proven himself completely inept at it.

Talk about bouncing back, what a great 1 1/3 innings by Lidge. Hope he is done though, don't want to exhaust him.

Somebody tell me what the phenomenon is of average players signing with the Sox and having great years. Dye, Everett, Pierzynski, El Duque and probably more I am not thinking of.

If it comes down to the pens in extras, the Sox have the advantage...ugh

That ball one pitch was legitimately the first time I've seen a Sox pitcher throw a strike and have it be called a ball in a very long time.

Think they walk Fat Elvis?

Typical. First strikeout the Sox have earned all postseason.

0-2 count. Maybe no squeeze after all.

Anyone else sensing a LaRussa? (aka squeeze play)

Well, perhaps they are. Come on Willy!!!

El Duque is doing a great job with baserunners this inning, hahaha. And they're not walking Biggio?

Buck just jinxed the "never ended 2 WS games in a row with walkoff homers" statistic. The Stros are hitting one this inning.

Of course they are, conveniently ignoring the fact that the umps have already gifted them two games this postseason AND have been squeezing their opponents' pitchers all postseason as well.

No obvious ones, but they're making a point of squeezing the Astro pitchers while giving the Sox a strike zone roughly the size of Barry Bonds's ego. It's a wonder to me that the Stros are tied right now.

Couldn't the Sox have beaten up an inflatable first base coach before each game or something? Why do they have to sully a GOOD team's name by stealing their tradition?

Wow did I not see that coming. What the hell was Everett's problem? As if Oswalt would be going after Crede in that kind of situation...

The Stros are ahead 3-0, but I can't enjoy it because I just KNOW the Sox are going to catch a bullcrap call from the umps or a pop fly into the Crawford boxes at some point during this game and end up winning.

There's no such thing as karma where the Sox are concerned. A team full of rejects from other teams shouldn't be this good to begin with, nor should they have caught all the breaks they did in the regular season, nor should they have caught the Bill Buckner II break in the LDS, nor should they have BSed a win in Game 2 of the LCS, nor should Dye have been awarded first base, nor should Roger Clemens have been injured for the first time in eons, etc. etc. Not only will the White Sox not catch bad karma, but they will catch key breaks that will win them Games 3 and 4 of this series too.

Surprising, I thought my comments about the Sox being lucky would be the ones you guys would take issue with. In any case, those "big bullies" are not bullies at all, but it is incessantly annoying that I and most other Cub fans are going to take epic amounts of crap about a World Series championship that was won largely due to extra outs being granted them by umpires and Graffaninos and by the other team choking with RISP time and time again. Ozzie Guillen said he hated Wrigley Field recently. Check out SI.com's Scorecard Daily in the Truth and Rumors section for today (10/24). Even the Sox manager is obsessed with the Cubs in the MIDDLE OF THE WORLD SERIES!

Small sampling of the school records broken at the ND/BYU game: Quinn - Most passing yards in a half, breaking his own record from the Purdue game Quinn - Most TDs in a game, six, breaking his own record of five from the MSU game Quinn - Most TDs in a season, twenty Stovall - Most receiving TDs in a game, four Stovall/Samardzija - First time that two receivers had double digit catches That was fun. I was surprised at the BYU turnout...the Coug fans were pretty loud there for a while till ND took over. Brady Quinn, Maurice Stovall, Jeff Samardzija, Darius Walker - Four reasons why Ty Willingham was fired Speaking of Ty, who else noticed that he came closer to beating SC on Saturday than he ever did at ND? 8)

We've been losing forever ... but this is different. I love this team, and I don't want to see those who have been spitting in our collective face for generations derive joy from a championship they frankly don't deserve. If the Sox win, most of those overjoyed with the conclusion will be people who despise the Cubs, and most of those despondent over the conclusion will be dyed-in-the-wool Cub fans. I don't know how anyone with Cub ties can miss that. Absolutely correct. If the Sox win this damn thing I have at least two obnoxious White Sox fans I have to deal with. If the Stros win I don't have to deal with anyone making fun of me. The Sox are the only fan base in all of American sports that cares more about another team losing than their own team winning. I think if you injected a Sox fan with truth serum and asked him which he enjoyed more, this season or the 2003 Cubs collapse, they'd say the Sox...but not by much. In addition it burns me up that the Sox are winning a lot of their games with help from the Baseball Gods. When was the last time: - That an ump overturned his own call for no discernible reason? - That Roger Clemens left a game (and it looks like, an entire series) with injury? - That a ball fouled off a bat was called as a hit by pitch? - That about ten players on one team had career years at once while that same team also had exactly one semi-major injury the whole year? This team has no business being in the Series, but I'm going to have to hear them called the greatest team ever for the next six months because all of this crap happened this year...

Well, I'm off for the weekend, will be at the ND/BYU game. GO IRISH!!!!

She's actually very attractive when she plays Mary Jane, but for some reason she looks like a 13-year-old in most of her other movies. Maybe she should go redhead full-time.

May be just a coincedence but all the offensive talent on this team (Lee, Ramirez, Barrett) have had their best seasons under Baker. They've all entered the age ranges of 29-33, generally considered to be a player's prime years. This has nothing to do with Dusty. Ask Corey Patterson, Jose Macias, Neifi Perez, Paul Bako, and Jason Dubois how much Dusty helped their offense.

No, this can't happen. Konerko needs to stay so I don't lose any reasons to hate the White Sox.