The Astros and White Sox are currently going into extra innings in a wild 5-5 game. I just realized that the White Sox are attempting to do something that's never been done.

If Chicago sweeps the Series, it will the first time that two separate teams from the same league will have completed a sweep in two consecutive World Series. The Red Sox swept the Cardinals in last year's Series, and the White Sox are trying to do the same to the Astros this year.

There are three instances in baseball history in which the same team has swept two straight World Series. As one would expect, they are all Yankee clubs:

As an NL fan, that's not very encouraging. And I must say that neither does Phil Garner's managerial prowess nor the sartorial spender of the Astro fans (bee hive hairdos?). Since when have face painters, monkey dolls, and "thunder stix" become de rigueur? Oh yeah, when Angel "fans" started doing it when they discovered that they had a team during their playoff run a few years back. I have to think that most fans in Houston are used to dressing more for football (or maybe truck pulls).All I can say is, "B-G-O".