Sour Grapes Anyone?

The whiney little bitches that are the Saint Louis Cardinals have accused the White Sox of stealing signs in their sweep. Whitesox.com is reporting that a Cardinals source has said, "They looked like they knew what was coming the first two nights. They looked like they had no idea [Thursday]. You figure it out." The Cardinals claim that their catcher's signals were being relayed to the Sox by the centerfield camerman.

Quite frankly, this makes no sense at all. Coming in to the series, the White Sox had scored 8 runs or more in 6 of their last 8 games. Six of those games were played on the road. Are we to believe that the cameramen for the Reds and Rangers were helping out the visitors as well, or is it possible that White Sox hitters are hot right now?

Part of the proof cited by Saint Louis is that they changed their signs in the fifth inning on Wednesday, and the White Sox stopped hitting after that. Of course, they fail to point out that they removed Jason Marquis from the game in the fifth and replaced him with Braden Looper. That couldn't have had anything to do with it. No, it must be that the White Sox were cheating. The Tigers must have been cheating last night, too. They put up ten runs last night in Saint Louis.

Here is my take. Dave Duncan and Tony Larussa were coming back to the team the fired them twenty years earlier. I am sure they want to beat the White Sox worse than most teams, and they probably feel bitter about the thrashing their team took this week. More importantly, Dave Duncan probably feels that he needs to justify his employment after his pitching staff took a beating against the White Sox. It must not have been his coaching or his pitching that lost the games. The other side must have been cheating.