The season isn't technically over, but it might as well be now that the Sox have lost the first two games of a three game series against the Twins right in the middle of September. Coming into the series the Sox were 6 games back. The really depressing part is that they just came home from a road trip that saw the team go 7-3. Normally that kind of record on a ten game road trip is worth celebrating over. But the Twins just refused to lose, and the Sox ended up losing ground as a result. It's hard to be mad at the Sox for this. But the last chance they had at making a run at the division title was this series, and they've obviously failed miserably. Yet you can't just focus on this single series with the Twins as the reason the White Sox will not make the postseason. There are a bunch of things that went wrong. And there are also a lot of things that went right to even get them into contention at all. Let's go over these things...

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 It's hunting season again in my small mid-western town, and around this time of the year we usually have several athletes who come to the area to hunt. Former major league catcher Charlie O'Brien usually organizes some kind of autograph session every year during this period as a fundraiser for local athletics. This year they had Wayne Krenchicki, Boo Weekley, Jake Peavy, and of course Charlie O'Brien. And since Peavy was traded to the White Sox this past season I was especially looking forward to meeting him and getting his autograph.

I threw on my Freddy Garcia jersey and headed over to the elementary school gymnasium where the event was taking place. I got in line and about half an hour later the guys showed up and sat down at the table they had set up. Jake was about 15 minutes late, and after he'd arrived they began signing and taking pictures. After a few minutes it was finally my turn and I made my way up to the table. I really didn't care about anyone else up there so I focused my attention on Jake. I had been to Spring Training back in March and I had a baseball with a bunch of signatures already on it, including Quentin, Danks, Beckham, and Flowers. So I brought that same baseball with me for Jake to sign.

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