I have never seen a team get as consistently lucky with the umpiring as the White Sox have been. Jermaine Dye was not hit by that pitch, and with two strikes and two outs, he gets to go to first to load the bases in front of Konerko's slam. The umpiring this postseason has simply been embarrassing to baseball. It completely changed the complection of the ALCS, and now it has changed the World Series.

The good news for the Astros is that Oswalt is a stone cold lock for game three. Garland is a schmuck.

Playing baseball in 45 degree weather is also crazy. The four games scheduled for Chicago are all weekend days. Why not play them in the afternoon when the weather approaches decent. The weekday games are in Houston, with the roof if the weather gets chilly.

Baseball just becomes more and more of a disaster as the years go by. But at least we are just nine days away from the ring ceremony and the opening of the Spurs season.