Know-it-all Blogger here today. Hiya, folks. I'm glad to be here today to dispense my wisdom to all who are in dire need of it. After you read me, you'll all feel much better. A glow shall form around your faces, the glow that comes from coming within my aura. Me on the other hand, I'm going to feel even worse, knowing I still have to share the planet with all 6 billion of you dopes.

My first take is on the 49ers-Giants game. It was won after the son of Kenny Williams made a crucial...

We're going to SoxFest. There -- I said it.

I'd been waffling all winter because I was frustrated with the 2011 season and with the ragged way the season ended. But then it snowed.

I was shoveling the snow and thinking how much I wasn't looking forward to the work week. Then I thought about SoxFest coming up in a couple of weeks. Then I learned that son-of-tebman, my faithful baseball companion, didn't have to work that weekend. Then I remembered I have vacation days...

My family and I emigrated from Cuba in 1971. My parents brought me to the United States seeking a better life. As the oldest daughter in blue-collar, working class family, I was encouraged to focus on my studies and do well in school. My parents were kind and generous people who showered me with love and attention, and rewarded me by taking me to baseball games at Old Comiskey Park. I have been a White Sox fan for as long as I can remember.

When I was 10 years old, the one thing...

As posted in Talking Baseball:

Let's invent a curse! Texas hasn't won in 50 years and they were one strike away twice-will we now see poems, plays, and literary lights moaning and groaning about how woeful and awful and cursed they are, and how there is something glorious and noble in their suffering?

The Curse of JFK-As we know, President Kennedy threw out the first ball before the first game in Senators/Rangers history. He was gunned down on a Dallas street two years...

29

The greatest number of runs scored by one team in a regular season game in the 20th century, accomplished twice.

On June 8, 1950, the Boston Red Sox set the record when they defeated the St. Louis Browns 29-4 at Fenway Park.

On April 23, 1955 the White Sox equaled the record when they slammed the Kansas City A's by a 29-6 score at Municipal Stadium, Kansas City.


Sherm Lollar, Walt Dropo

The two players who played in...