After
the White Sox lost the American League pennant by all of three games, they made
a series of offseason moves highlighted by trades for Luis Aparicio and Tommy
Davis. (Note: Don Buford and Tommie
Agee, the traded-away Sox, would face one another in the 1969 World
Series). There would be no stopping the
South Siders in 1968, which turned out to be true for all the wrong
reasons. The Sox dropped the season
opener 9-0 before a home crowd of less than 7800 fans on their way to ten
straight losses and 85 more that year.
This
offseason, the Sox made a number of moves, not the least of which was acquiring
righty starter Jeff Smardzija, who started the season opener against the Royals
in Kansas City. Smardzija gave up five
runs and the new if not improved bullpen added another five-spot for a 10-1
smack-down. If Sox fans weren’t fatalists
by nature, this would be really depressing.
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