The Yankees are Coming! The Yankees are Coming!

So, by the time the Yankees leave town on Sunday, the White Sox will be anywhere from two games over .500 to six under.  Here’s hoping.

 

If it seems like Sox fans are big haters, well, that’s true as far as the Cubs and Yankees go; we want our success to happen not only in the face of their failure but as a result of it.  That said, I’m grateful to have such inviting targets.

 

Charles Comiskey double-decked the outfield at Comiskey Park after the 1926 season because fans couldn’t get enough of Babe Ruth.  Then it was  Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Reggie Jackson, Derek Jeter….You can also toss in Moose Skowron and Bucky Dent with one team or the other.

 

I never got to go to the great games from the early ’50s to the mid-’60s, and by “great” I mean in terms of 30,000-plus attendance; the SOBs from the Bronx were too much in the habit of winning.  But as a 12-year old in the summer of 1964 I definitely enjoyed listening to the games on the radio when the Sox swept those nasty visitors four straight games in mid-August to move into first place, if for just a day.

 

That Sox team ended up losing the pennant—yes, to the Yankees—by all of one game.  That’s enough baseball heartbreak in one lifetime for me.  I don’t expect the Sox to sweep or even take three out of four.  But Eloy Jimenez hit a 462-foot homerun on Tuesday.  I’d like to see multiples of that over the next few games.