This is about short memories, I guess. You see something your entire life, your father's life, your grandfather's life, and you just learn to get used to it. Then everything changes for a few months.
I'm not sure Ryan Dempster understands. He is the stable one. Fans have grown to count on that.
When the Sox went to Wrigley Field last week, they talked about rats and complained about the park and its smell.
'This is ah, ah, ah.... It's ah. It's ahhh ...'' Ten seconds pass.
The latest issue in the sportsworld, as you surely know, is over the Shaquille O'Neal rap flap. He takes the mic and raps:
Greg Couch: Here's the thing. When Jose Contreras is walking around ... very ... slowly ... in circles behind the mound, pushing his cap back on his head, it's a sign. ''It happened so quick,'' Sox manager Ozzie Guillen said. Here's the thing. When the first six batters in the inning get two homers, a walk and two singles, and your pitcher is a member of AARP, it's a sign to start warming up someone.
Greg Couch: So you tell Ted Lilly that he has lost the zip off his fastball, and his face turns bright red, and his brow comes down and his fists go into a clench, as if the top of his head is going to blow off, and then. ...
It was just before noon. A bunch of kids crowded outside the fence, trying to get a peek. TV cameras formed a semicircle in an area near the side door at the Berto Center, pointing at the spot that The Man was expected to fill. Reporters packed the area tightly, waiting.
You think Cubs-Sox tickets are hard to come by? Nah. Sure, if you sent an e-mail to Brian Garza in the Cubs' ticket office Wednesday, you got one of those automatic replies, saying he was out of the office but that ''we do not have any ticket availability,'' for the Sox series.
Greg Couch: The White Sox have some serious issues, such as Paul Konerko's injury and Carlos Quentin's slump. ''Lou Piniella does two things better than me,'' Sox manager Ozzie Guillen said before Tuesday night's game against Pittsburgh. ''Managing and eating.'' Yes. Well.
Greg Couch: By now, Jim Strickland surely has seen everything, with more than six decades around the gym and boxing rings. For 10 years, he was Evander Holyfield's cut man, working the corner the night Mike Tyson bit off part of Holyfield's ear.
The unwritten codes and rules of baseball have been in place forever, put in by the thugs playing the game, defining the players for their manliness. Stupid manliness.
It's hard not to take things personally when you come up to someone nicely and mention that he had tied a ...
Jim Edmonds is 37 years old, can't run anymore, can't hit. That's what the critics were saying when he signed with the Cubs. Stupid critics. The least they could have done was give the guy a chance, and ...
Well, this is just getting embarrassing now. The Bulls simply don't know what they're doing in looking for a new coach.
