Just to add a little historical perspective to current events, consider that in the many days since June 1, 2007, the following things have come to pass:

• Jim Thome hit his 500th home run, then another 48 just for good measure.
• Sox uberprospect Jerry Owens became derided bust prospect Jerry Owens.
• Derided bust prospect Brian Anderson became Key to the Game Brian Anderson.
• Scott Podsednik was released by the White Sox, signed by the Rockies, released by the Rockies, then signed by the White Sox. One perfect circle, that Scotty Pods.
• The Cubs lost six times as many playoff games as the Good Guys won.
• The Athletics released Frank Thomas to the custody of the Blue Jays, then welcomed him back to Oakland a mere six months later.
• The Tampa Bay Rays followed 96 losses with 97 wins and a pennant.
• Joe Crede, Juan Uribe, Tadahito Iguchi and all other reminders of winning a World Series left town.
• Andy Gonzalez made three errors in the same inning. Three.
• Barry Bonds went from the starting lineup of the All-Star game to the unemployment line.
• Roger Clemens, Alex Rodriguez, Manny Ramirez, etc.
• Bobby Scales became the lone Cub even this grizzled writer would elect as an All-Star.
• The mightiest front three of any rotation of the 90s became retired, hurt beyond repair, and a Red Sox farmhand.
• Jay Mariotti lost himself a fine job.
• The Seattle Post-Intelligencer ceased its print operation; the Denver Rocky Mountain News put a stop to the whole darn thing.
• Guns N’ Roses finally released the seventeen-years-in-the-making Chinese Democracy album.

So if all those things can happen, if that’s enough time for the stars can align for one man and shine a light on the crookedness of others, for a reclusive wizard can be exposed as but a moderately talented maniac and a combined 286 years of journalistic enterprise can come to a screeching halt, why can’t the Sox just beat the Blue Jays in Toronto already? Come on.