The Chicago White Sox are the World Champions of baseball after sweeping the Houston Astros last night 4-0 in the World Series. Most of you couldn’t give damn about baseball and I wouldn’t blame you, I didn’t either until earlier this year. I always viewed baseball as a boring game lacking in the variety that is required to captivate my attention for 3 hours. How wrong I was! Baseball is a tactical game, the subtlety in the tactics and the minor nuances in skill and luck that can swing a game are dramatic.
So in the season that I finally understood the game of Baseball the White Sox have come out champs. Last year it was the Boston Red Sox who reversed the “Curse or the Bambino” by winning the WS for the first time since 1929, this year the Chicago White Sox reversed the curse of the “Black Sox” where Shoeless Joe Jackson conspired with 7 other teammates to throw the 1919 World Series.
You have to read this article, as passionate as any I have ever read!





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