Holy Crap!

This is post number 1,000 on our little cow-town blog.  Who'd have thunk we'd be making that much interweb noise?

Not me, that's for sure.  Especially over the last year or so.

Raindrops

If I may quote golden-age rocker Dee Clark, there must be a cloud in White Sox general manager Kenny Williams' head, because rain keeps falling from his eyes:

• Williams on the pecking order in Chicago: "Our fans don't care about injuries and other things that happened last season. It's all about what you do on the field. There's only one sports team in Chicago that will get a pass. I won't name them. But it ain't us.''

Gee, who could he be talking about? Maybe these fine folks?

Of course not. White Sox family members whine about one thing, and one thing only. And that's the team that gets free passes.

You know, like that free pass those evil-doers have been getting all year about 1908. And the free pass they got last year after the NLDS. And I guess it must be a free pass when predictions of a 91-win season and division title are spun as a disappointment.

And free passes about injuries? Maybe Kenny should talk to these guys about those free passes.

In the meantime, keep the waaaaahhhh-mbulance on call. Just in case it gets cloudy in Kenny's head again...

All Right, All Right

You can lay off now, Jim. The peer pressure has worked. It's been a while, but now I'm back.

Like Jim, I've been away for a while, and for mostly the same reasons. Although the White Sox' crappy season didn't affect me nearly as much as it did Jim.

So, also like Jim, I'm going to give this blogging thing another go. No promises about the frequency of posts, but perhaps the quality will improve over last year's output...

New Year's Resolution

Hello and welcome back to Jim and Bob's Palatial Baseball Blog. Most of you probably didn't notice (hell, most of you probably aren't noticing us now) but we were away for a while. Why? Well, I can't speak for Bob (although I sometimes try) but in my case, it was a combination of the following:

1. An incredibly dull, painful, disaster of a White Sox season that I could barely stand to watch, much less comment on.

2. A lack of interest in participating in the shrill discourse about Alex Rodriguez and Barry Bonds.

3. General apathy.

But this is a new year; a chance to start fresh. And so, I hereby resolve to post daily every other day at least once a week in 2008. And if I don't, your money back, guaranteed!

What say you, Bob?