Indians or White Sox? Is it safe to talk about this yet? I hope it is because I am.

I really wanted this game tonight. After seeing that we were still hanging in it with Penny on the mound and Schlerry getting out of a jam, the W seemed attainable. This win meant that we couldn't lose a series away from home to a legitimately good team, and that we'd be up 5+ games on everyone in the AL Central. It also meant that I could calm down a bit because I was not expecting anything better than two games from the Rays.

We got that tonight with a weakened lineup, so I feel at leisure to take a step back and look at the landscape. The Twins are too far gone to be any reasonable threat, and thank fuck for that. But I'm hard pressed to find a discernible reason why the Indians or Sox would be a bigger threat than the other, if either a threat at all.

I can't help but lean toward Chicago as the team I'm more worried about if only because I'm finding it more and more difficult to worry about the Indians. They were inches from losing two at home to one of the worst teams in baseball today. It seems like the Ubaldo trade is creeping toward disaster. They've lost 2 big players to injury. It just seems like the wheels are coming off. I feel like if we do swoon, the Chi Sox are the more likely team to still be hanging around near .500.

I don't expect to be caught. Today was a major relief for me. I'm just wondering what other people thought of the situation.