87

"Slip slidin' away. Slip slidin' away. You know the nearer your destination, the more you're slip slidin' away." Paul Simon must have been talking about the White Sox when he wrote those lyrics. After tuning things around a bit and positioning itself to make some sort of run to get back in the race, the team implodes. The Update doesn't even want to talk about the details -- it's too painful to think about blowing four-run leads in the bottom of the ninth against the lowly Orioles like the Good Guys did on Saturday. The Sox are now 14 games out, with a Magic Number of 87, and heading into Cleveland (the team with the best home record in baseball) for a series they almost have to sweep. Since the Update opened with song lyrics, we'll close with them too. Think Elvis Presley just back from the Army: "It's now or never!"