At Least This Takes My Mind Off How Much I Hate Lance Briggs

What a difference a year makes. As a White Sox fan, this season can't start soon enough, which is the opposite of how I felt last year. I've heard fans of other teams say this before, and it's completely true. In baseball, probably more than any other sport, when your team wins the World Series you don't want the next season to start. It just feels like it comes too fast.

"Baseball? That can't start this soon. WE ALREADY WON BASEBALL"

But this year I'm ready to go. You know that part in the Super Bowl Shuffle where Steve Fuller sings "Bring on Atlanta, bring on Dallas"? That's how I feel about this White Sox season. Bring on Cleveland. CC Sabathia is a fat asshole and their closer is Joe Borowski. How embarassing. Detroit? Their whole lineup hit like .265 last year, they just got timely hitting. That's a lot of luck, no way do they replicate that this year. Plus, Guitar Hero 2 is coming out soon for Xbox 360, so you know Zumaya's screwed. And Minnesota could have been the favorite in the AL if Liriano didn't get hurt, but losing him and Radke is going to be a tough blow for that pitching staff, no matter how good Matt Garza is.

And the Sox are LOADED this season. It's a team that won 90 games in 2006 and everyone was fucking pissed. They realistically could have won 110 if the dumb shit didn't happen, like their bullpen imploding (Cliff Polite's ERA in 05: 2.00. In 2006: 8.70), Buerhle having a horrible second half, and Vazquez not being able to get out of the fifth inning. That stuff probably won't happen again this season.

And what's not to like about the Good Guys? How many teams have four proven starting pitchers and four guys in the middle of their lineup that can hit .300/30/100? We got JD and Buerhle in contract years. Our entire bullpen throws 100 mph. We have John 'Muthafuckin' Danks.

I'm not saying the White Sox going to win the World Series again, because crazy things can happen in baseball (like the Cards winning the World Series three months after the Sox beat them about 38-7 in the first two games of a three game interleague set). But the Sox should crush some teams this year, and win a ton of games. If nothing else, this season should take away the sour taste 2006 left in everyone's mouth, and could be one of the most exciting in White Sox history.