13 (Wild Card)

The Tigers eliminated the White Sox from the Central Division race over the weekend, despite the Sox winning two out of three games from the Lowly Mariners (The Update has decided to capitalize Lowly since it seems to have officially become part of Seattle's name, but you wouldn't know it from the way they play against us.) The Magic Number posted above is for the Wild Card, and the Sox are on the verge of being eliminated from that derby as well. Minnesota has whittled its own Magic Number for clinching a berth in the post-season to two. That means the Sox pretty much -- but not quite -- have to win their remaining games and the Twins have to lose theirs. If it happened, it would be up there with the 1964 Phillies for the biggest collapse in baseball history, and there's no reason to believe the Twins will pull an El Foldo -- or that the Sox will win out.

So let's just enjoy what we can about this season, starting with a home attendance record of 2,957,414 or an average of 36,511 per game. If only an average of 526 more fans had attended each game, the Sox would have broken the Three Million mark. Hey, it's the last week of the season and the team still hasn't been mathematically eliminated yet. They've already won the 24th most games in franchise history and there are six left to play. Winning all of those would move this year up to a tie for 12th place and would also signify that Hell had frozen over. But we can still dream, can't we? Go Sox!