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Hell Freezes Over; Cubs And White Sox In Playoffs Simultaneously

By Dan Filler

With a razor thin 1-0 victory tonight, the White Sox sealed a place in the playoffs.  It's never fun to end your season in a slide (the Sox made a heroic late-season effort to blow it), but the last time the White Sox ended the season in a similar swoon, they won the World Series.  The big news, though, is that the two Chicago baseball teams are in the playoffs simultaneously for the first time since 1906.

1906.  You remember: the year of the San Francisco Earthquake.  When Teddy Roosevelt was the President.   When Bradbury Robinson threw the first legal forward pass in an American football game. Matisse completed Self-Portrait in a Striped Shirt.  And the Sox topped the Cubs 4 games to 2 in the World Series.  Because those were the playoffs.

I'm not a baseball fan anymore.  I pretty much stick to football and basketball.  But some events are too huge to ignore, especially if you're a Chicago nostalgic.  Does this all suggest that anything is possible this year.   Barack Obama in the White House even? 

Yeah, right.  I'll wait til I see a subway series.  It's the Red Line, by the way.  And the fare is two bucks.

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on October 01, 2008 (boomark / email).