Sox Sweep & Win 7th Striaght

Streaks, streaks, and more streaks. Mark Buehrle won his 8th consecutive decision with his win over the Royals this afternoon and pitched into at least the 6th inning for the 43rd straight start. His scoreless innings streak was snapped though, due to a Jermaine Dye throwing error. The Sox moved to 9-0 on the season against KC and are winners of their last 7.
Minnesota lost for the 4th time in a row today, thier longest losing streak of the season to date, and fell to 10 games behind the Sox. The Sox double digit lead could possibly only last a day though, as they're off Thursday while the Twins will be wrapping up their series against Detroit. Detroit starters have thrown complete games in their last two games against Minnesota.
I had a stroke of luck today when I was offered two UD tickets for Fridays opener against the Cubs for only $35 a pop. I've never been to a Sox-Cubs game. At that price, especially considering the ridiculous amounts of money that people shell out for tickets to these games, I could care less if the seats are in the top row behind the foul pole, I was not turning them down. This is most difficult ticket to get in town every summer, regardless of how either team is playing, and it's the first time I've ever even had a chance to go. I can't put words to how much I'm looking forward to the game. I can't wait too feel the energy of the sold out crowd. This will be the first sellout Sox game I've attended since game 6 of the ALCS in '93. Freddy Garcia (6-3 3.75) will face the Cubs Sergio Mitre (2-2 4.19).

Quick update about those Scrubs: They lost tonight to the Brewers as Carlos Zambrano was roughed up for 8 runs in the second inning, the most he's ever given up in a start. He was pulled after only 1 2/3. Carlos Lee continued to kill the Cubs, racking up 2 hits in that second inning alone, one of which was a 3 run bomb. He also hit one more solo shot later in the game for good measure. He finished 3-4 with 4 RBI, increasing his RBI total to 64 on the season, good for tops in the Major Leagues. Its funny that with how well the Sox are doing, that doesn't bother me one bit. The only drawback to that trade was that we should have gotten a better pitcher than Vizciano has been.