Thankfully, these games don’t count. The White Sox didn’t have a six game losing streak in all of 2005 and here they find themselves 0-6 through the first week of spring games. Ozzie Guillen isn’t happy with the start and today, the White Sox dug themselves a hole they couldn’t get out of against the Diamondbacks. Down 6-1, the Sox scored two in the eighth and two in the ninth but couldn’t manage to tie things up. It’s mostly offense. The White Sox are averaging less then three runs a game, and if you go down the individual player stats, you don’t see too many standouts.
This is old, but a week ago, Baseball Analysts began their Two on Two division previews with the AL Central. The White Sox finally got some representation as Cheat from South Side Sox joined Aaron Gleeman as they looked at the division. Last year, nobody really gave the White Sox any consideration. Three of the four participants picked the Sox to win the AL Central and only Rich Lederer went with the Indians.
The White Sox travel to play Colorado tomorrow. Jon Garland will get the start. I signed up for MLB.com’s Gameday Audio so I can listen to my team (I’m currently working on an out of town job in Nebraska and I live in Northern Michigan) but unfortunately they don’t allow streaming audio at work so I’ve had to miss the weekday games.
I’ve been continuing to work on the 1906 White Sox diary and man, were games different back then. Even the box scores take some getting used to (RBIs didn’t exist in the statistical sense). I should have the next installment of the player retrospectives up some time this week.
