The Funeral is Delayed: Game 107 Thoughts

That's a White Sox Winner 6-4!

• So maybe I over-did it a little after Wednesday's crap fest.Okay, maybe not. Maybe some of the White Sox actually read our blog and felt sorry for their fans. Okay, maybe not. Maybe the Deadspin.com plug had karmic repercussions, and the Sox are destined not to lose again. Okay, maybe not. Whatever the case, today's game was a 180 from Wednesday, and I'm happy to report my impending funeral is hereby delayed.
• Roy "Doc" Halladay versus California Jon Garland seemed a mismatch on paper even with Jon's recent hotstreak. And after the first inning, the paper looked to be correct. Troy Glaus is a man, baby, and he golfed a change-up over the centerfield fence. People like to say that was Jon's one mistake for the game; I, however, disagree. If it was one mistake it would have only cost him one run, but it was a 3 run homer. I will say that it was Jon's one bad inning, and they were the only runs the Blue Jays would score on Jon for the next 6 innings.
  
• Enough Garland slurping. Alright maybe a little more...he threw 4, count 'em, 4 double play balls. He pitched out of trouble. Very, very nice. (Again, are you watching, Javy and Mark? By the way I feel bad calling out Beurhle as he's probably earned a little trust from years of service, but Javy get's no reprieve.)
  
• The gunman, Doc Halladay has a 3 run cushion, so the Sox are dead in the water, right? Not this Sox team. Our Clanton brothers, Jimmy and Paulie, return to rewrite history going 6-7 with 3 walks against the deadliest arm north of the border, and the White Sox version of Jake (Kevin Costner's character in Silverado) delivers the big blast with a 3 run dinger. Oh, and don't you just love it when Jim Thome nails a double down the left-field line, rendering that ridiculous defensive shift moot?
  
• Bad Ozzie Move of the Game: Ozzie Mack'ed us again, and after his misplay in the first I thought a follow up to my ledge-jumping was gonna be appropriate, you know, something like my decent into hell. Mack, my pick to click, wasn't any better at the plate either (0-4 w/3ks), but in all fairness CB Bucknor, the homeplate umpire, was just brutal to Mack, almost like Mack pissed in his Cheerios.
• Good Ozzie Move of the Game: shortening the game by pitching B-Mac two very effective innings and getting to Bobby Jenks. (Let me say, I'm not worried about the homerun Jenks gave up to Glaus. Glaus is just a man, baby.)
  
• Let me nominate Scotty Pods as the most maddeningly inconsistant position player on the White Sox this year. He went from awful on Wednesday to magnificent today (2-5, run, 2-out rbi, sb). I wonder if his playmate wife thinks the same of his other skills? (I know, that was a cheap shot.What can I say?)
  
• So, in conclusion...the Sox win a big big game against a tough tough pitcher playing good solid all-around baseball.
• Big Ups of the Game goes to AJ (Dick's Pick to Click) for a monster shot, and B-Mac for some clutch relief work.

And my White Sox Player of the Game is (drum roll please)...





Jon Garland (4)



White Sox Record: 64-43