Sunday, September 03, 2006 - Posts

Widger eulogized

Chris Widger was one of those guys who summed up the Sox's tremendous amount of fortune in the first half of 2005.

Kenny Williams picked him off the scrap heap -- he was playing independent-league baseball and beer league softball when the Sox came calling -- and he started the season like he'd started 130 games the year before.  In fact, for a couple of months he was better than he'd been in the new century.

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(This completes the White Sox Eulogies series.  With the team looking particularly disinterested in October baseball, I figured this was the right time to put the 2005 writings completely behind us.)