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Good Sox 4, Bad Sox 6: Contreras to Popular Belief

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Ugh, a Sox loss and a Yankee win. Got to be one of the best games Jose Contreras ever pitched against the Sox - I did love to see him get beat up by the Sox when he was a Yankee.

100 degrees out there in the field. They always say it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity. (A question on one of my favourite topics, regional dialects of English: do you say “humidity” with an “h” sound or a “y” sound at the beginning?) But I always associate the mental image of Chicago and heat with that horrific 1995 heat wave where about 739 people died…

Randomly: every season there are always bizarre injuries - Clint Barmes and his bag o’ meat, and then Jermaine Dye had to sit out this series because of a spider bite.