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Wednesday Stray Cast: Sinking Sox Ship

By  Sun-Times Wire
   
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It only seems apt to run the Stray Cast here.

Afterall, this Web log is named for the Stray Cast, which has snapped off the end of the outdoors column in the Sun-Times on Wednesdays since April 2, 2003.

Here’s today’s:

Saying the White Sox are alive because they’re only six games back is like congratulating a crappie fisherman for clinging to a capsized johnboat.

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