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Article: Sox playing like champs, but stay tuned: In the excruciating death march that is a baseball season, Soxdom can relax a bit.
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 14, 2006
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Whoever called Ozzie Guillen "the Hispanic Jackie Mason" needs to
recalibrate his pop-culture meter. Aren't we actually dealing with
the modern-day Yogi Berra here? "A good team will lose 50, and a bad
team will win 50. That's 100 games," the Blizzard of Oz theorized.
"The difference is who plays better in the other 62."
While I'm not sure if that's a baseball epiphany or the logic of a
math flunkout, let me explain what is happening with the White Sox in
clearer terms. They are winning now thanks to starting pitchers who
understand they can't post ERAs that resemble home equity rates. The
reason they won the World Series was because their rotation ruled
October like the Great Pumpkin. ...
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Article: Contreras again inconsistent for Sox -- Tigers 7, ...
Naperville Sun, The (IL);
July 20, 2005 ;
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... ... nearly out of the inning. The Tigers' 7-1 victory snapped the Sox's win streak at five games ... had put down 12 consecutive Tigers. An inconsistent Contreras still was not the Sox's only problem. Tigers starter Jeremy Bonderman ...
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