The White Sox needed this one. For about 102 years the White Sox have needed this one.
The Sox got a two-run home run from All-Star shortstop Tim Anderson in the bottom of the ninth inning to defeat the New York Yankees 9-8 in the \u201cField of Dreams\u201d game in Dyersville, Iowa Thursday night, a contest that was far too dramatic, sensational and yes, we\u2019ll say it, corny, for even the most heartfelt Hollywood screenwriter.
Damn, this one was fun, kids.
The Sox have a division lead bigger than an Iowa cornfield and a lineup potentially more daunting than a ruling from Kenesaw Mountain Landis. We know this. But the Medias Blancas have not been very good the last month or so with the only highlight being last weekend\u2019s delightful three game massacre of the team from the North Side of town.
Then came Thursday. A Hollywood setting, and a hero\u2019s triumph.
Do you love the movie \u201cField of Dreams,\u201d which tells the story of a man reconnecting with his deceased father through the phantoms of the 1919 White Sox, who live in infamy for allegedly throwing the World Series?
Some of us love it because it\u2019s very much about the White Sox and so it falls into that tiny category of popular culture that actually recognizes Chicago has a South Side.
But most of those who love it do so because it\u2019s really about rediscovering your youth, finally getting the love from your father you thought was lost forever, and because it has Burt Lancaster and James Earl Jones.
But we love anything with Ray Liotta. And the White Sox.
The Sox are soldiering through a bizarro season which has seen them put half their team on the injured list, discover a diamond in the rough only to see him turn back into coal, be both disappointing and inspiring, dominating and infuriating, and all the time being led by a manager who may or may not have played against Shoeless Joe and Happy Felsch.
If you watch them, they will unnerve you. They will emerge from the corn and rise from the South Side and, if nothing else, give us an August night to remember. A memory that won\u2019t last 102 years, but might glow until October. –TK
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