And they didn't copy the White Sox either. The White Sox won on the back of healthy starting pitching and hitting a ton of homers. The entire "small ball/speed and defense/guys who can catch" thing was almost entirely a fabrication of bad sportswriters. No, Soctt Podsednik wasn't the face of the Sox (much like Eckstein isn't the face of the Cardinals). The Sox won because they got 152 starts from their starting 5 pitchers and guys like Konerko, Dye and company went bonkers offensively.