Week One

The first week of the World Champion Chicago White Sox 2006 campaign is over... and much different from 2005, the Sox find themselves in last place. Despite a good win today in KC, the Royals still managed to win 2 games vs the Southsiders. The Sox won on that strange opener last sunday to Cleveland, then dropped the next 2 games to the Indians.

Here are my observations so far for 2006:
1) Dye gets injuried. No big surprise.
2) Boone Logan, this year's 'spring training feel good phenom' has not been overly impressive in his 2 outings. He'll get more chances...
3) For Matt Thornton, see #2 above. At least he hasn't blown any games yet. Maybe coop can fix this turd.
4) sPods is 1 for 22. His OPB is .087 when, for a lead off hitter, it should be closer to .400. Keep it up, Scott - summer in Charlotte is nice... or maybe you prefer Kansas City?
5) I don't care that Thome has struck out 8 times, cause he's hit 5 homers.
6) Pablo Ozuna is my favorite player, so I was disappointed to see his wind-induced error cost the Sox a game in KC.
7) Harold Baines caoching first base - welcome back #3!

The Sox head to Detroit to take on the red hot - SMOKIN - Tigers. While I've been a big fan of the play of this team since last year, I especially like Curtis Granderson. Though it appears Chris Shelton may be off to the hottest start in baseball history.