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The White Sox are on the verge of doing something that we suspect no team has done before -- playing four different teams in the space of five days. Cleveland on Sunday, Detroit on Monday, Minnesota on Tuesday, and if they beat the Twins, Tampa Bay on Thursday.

That's right. In case you were living in a cave, the Sox rallied to trounce the Tigers, 8-2, in the final regular season game -- a makeup of the September 13 game that was washed out by the single largest rainfall ever recorded in Chicago. Monday's game saw a little rain of its own. Actually, more than a little. Enough to delay the start of the game three hours and four minutes. But it was worth the wait.

Gavin Floyd, pitching on short rest (we should have a macro made of that phrase, we've been using it so much lately) gamely threw 118 pitches over six innings, allowing two runs -- only one of them earned -- while striking out eight Tigers. He pitched himself into and then out of a jam in the fifth inning, allowing a run to score on three hits, but shutting down Detroit after they had men on first and third with no outs. Floyd did throw wildly to first an inning later, which led to an unearned run that gave the Tigers a 2-1 lead, but wild pitches by Detroit's bullpen and Alexei Ramirez's fourth grand slam of the year allowed Gavin to improve his record to 17-8. The grand salami set a rookie record -- not so fast in handing that Rookie of the Year award to Evan Longoria -- and a White Sox team record with 12 in one season.

John Danks, pitching on short rest (where's that macro when we need it), will pitch the tiebreaker against Nick Blackburn of the Twins. The whole season comes down to one game. It's still win or go home, but at least the Sox are at home. They've beaten the Twins seven times in nine games at the Cell this season, so its almost as lopsided as the Twins' advantage over the Sox in the Metrodome. Let's hope that continues for one more game. Go Sox!

Tuesday is also the end of the line for Super Sox Fan, Les Reiter, who is calling it quits at CNA on September 30. We wish him the best in his Golden Years and hope that the Sox give him a nice retirement present. We hear that CNA will be retiring his desk code. Go Les!