We Busted Outta Class. Had to get Away from those Fools. We Learned More from a 3 Minute Record than we Ever Learned in School.

Good day everyone. So Mark Buehrle throws a perfect game...wow. Always fun to watch. I tuned in at about the 3rd inning, and even that early in the game you just had the feeling that he wasn't going to give up a hit all day. I thought for sure that he'd walk somebody, but man, it's fun to watch that guy just pound the strike zone and work as quickly as he does. A tip of the cap to you sir.

For as much as I like President Obama, his whole "I'm a die-hard Sox fan" thing is getting a bit tired in my opinion. I thought that it was cool how he wore the Sox hat everywhere after he was elected, and I dug the fact that he sported the White Sox jacket when throwing out the first pitch in the All-Star Game, but come on...first he called Comiskey Park "Cominsky." I thought that maybe it was just a slip of the tongue, but he proceeded to call it "Cominsky" again so I knew that that's what he thought that it was called. Now anyone who claims to be a White Sox fan (or even a baseball fan for that matter) knows Comiskey Park, but I forgave him. Then yesterday, he calls Buehrle to congratulate him for his perfect game...cool, but in an interview later on in the day he said that he told Buehrle that he better buy the Center Fielder "Weiss" a steak dinner for making that great catch. Maybe this is just a Sox fan thing? (Like the whole Javier VazqWez fiasco that we all dealt with for so long), but I'd like to think that a "die-hard Sox fan" would know who DeWayne Wise is and not refer to him as "Weiss." (Not sure if it's Charlie or Walt). I still love our President though, I just want him focusing on real issues and not pretending to be this huge Southside fan when he clearly is not.

In other baseball news, I'm reading that Cubs Manager Lou Piniella is weighing his options on whether he'll return for the final year of his contract next season. It's being reported that he had no idea what he was getting himself into, and that he said that the fans/media on the Northside are more difficult than anything that he's experienced in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and other crazed baseball markets. All I can say is...thank you. Thanks for the compliment. Ever since 2003, there is no such thing as the "Lovable Losers" anymore, and I couldn't be happier. A lot of my friends have always called me a "Sox fan who roots for the Cubs," because I always treated the Cubs the way that White Sox fans treat their team. I held them accountable, didn't accept losing, and didn't go to the games win, lose or draw just to go sit in "The Friendly Confines" and get drunk on a warm summer day in Wrigleyville. Well it seems that a large portion of Cubs fans are now buying into that philosophy and I think that it's a good thing. I like the fact that we put pressure on players to perform. I like the fact that we outspend our division like New York and Boston, and compete payroll wise with anyone in baseball. I enjoy hearing boos when they're deserved (although I've never been one to boo). They always win in New York/Boston/Philadelphia and maybe it has something to do with the fact that their fans hold the team to a higher standard seemingly forcing them to translate it on the field.

I used to play a game with myself and friends after going to a Cubs game (long before the culture change at Wrigley). We'd be walking out of the park and towards all of the bars in Wrigleyville and I'd ask 15-20 people who were all just at the game, what was the score of the game that you just attended? No joke, if I asked twenty people (15 guys, 5 girls), only about TEN of the TWENTY would know the final score of the game that they just spent three hours watching. Seriously. When someone got the score wrong or would just say "I don't know," we'd ask them to take off all of their Cubs memorabilia because they clearly were NOT Cubs fans...not unlike our President with the White Sox.

It's been fun rapping with you this week. Hit me up on facebook or in the comments section of this blog. Right now I'm listening to an acoustic version of "No Surrender" by Springsteen. Drinks of Choice: Headed to Wrigleyville for Old Style, me thinks. My prediction: The Chicago Cubs will be 1/2 game out of first place on Mondays edition of "Webby Files."

Peace the F.
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