Sox Ride Garland, Buehrle to Victory

The Sox have not fared well at home of late, but they managed to win the final two games of their series vs. Seattle on Saturday and Sunday to salvage a three game split on their latest 6 game homestand. During the homestand Paul Konerko produced 47% of the Sox runs, hitting .350 with 9 RBI.
With Sunday's victory the Sox notched their 72nd W of the season, and it just so happened that the Sox unveiled Pudge Fisk's statue in the outfield concourse. (For those not in the know, Fisk wore no. 72 when he was on the Sox.)
I happened to notice this evening that the Sox are only 11 wins shy of their win total from all of last season, and they still have 50 some odd games left to play.
Tomorrow the Sox will be in the Bronx and El Duque will be going up against the Yankees Mike "Hunchback" Mussina.

In other baseball related news: The Scrubs have lost 5 straight, falling to 3 games BELOW .500. Even the low budget Brewers are looking down at them. They now trail 6 teams in the NL Wild Card race and are 6 games behind Houston.
The streaking A's have fought their way into a first place tie with the Angels in the AL West. After being as many as 15 games below .500 in May, they currently sit at 17 games over. I hope they either keep winning and leave LAAAA to fight for the wild card, or they start losing and let someone else grab the last playoff spot.

In other non-baseball related news: Peter Jennings passed away from lung cancer this evening at age 67. He was the last of the Big Three network news anchors to go off the air. (He was preceded by Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw in the past year.)
A quick follow up to my comments in the previous post regarding the Bears practice scrimmage at Soilder Field drawing 23K people; The Packers had a scrimmage game at Lambeau against Buffalo recently and they sold out the joint. 60,000 people were there to watch a practice game, not even a pre-season game. Now that is crazy.