86

The Sox-Cubs games this weekend made The Update think of two famous shower scenes. What the Cubs did to the Sox was reminiscent of Psycho, with the Cubs as Norman Bates repeatedly sticking a knife into the heart of the Sox/Marion Crane. It also made us wish that it were like the scene in the TV show Dallas where Pam Ewing wakes up to see husband Bobby step out of the shower and finds out that all the bad things that had happened over the past year -- including Bobby's death in a car accident -- were just a bad dream. Unfortunately, this was a real baseball nightmare. Not only did the Sox lose three to the Paper Boys, but the Twins won three from the Diamondbacks. The Magic Number is right where it was when we left you -- 86 -- but the Good Guys' A.L. Central lead has shrunk to 1.5 games. And now the Sox have to spend their off day flying across the country to play three games against the Dodgers, and then they fly right back again to play the Cubs the next day. At least those games will be at the Cell, where the Sox have a great record, and the Cubs will be on the "road," even if that road is just the Kennedy and the Ryan. Go Sox!