My all-time favorite baseball radio call (besides "That's a White Sox world series winner!") has always been the late Jack Buck's call of Kirk Gibson's game winning home run in the first game of the 1988 world series.  As the fist pumping, limping Gibson circled the bases, Buck, one of the all-time greats, intoned "I don't believe what I just saw.  I don't BELIEVE what I just saw!."   That pretty much sums up my feelings about yesterday's rainy day special between the White Sox and the Baltimore Orioles. The game that kept on giving will continue to give at an undisclosed date and time.  The lowlights:

• The game was delayed for 2 hours and six minutes due to steady rain.  In truth, if the Orioles had another trip to Chicago, the game would have been postponed.  Honestly, it should have been postponed anyway.  I'll give the Sox the benefit of the doubt that this wasn't one of those games played simply because the Sox wanted to keep the gate.  This was clearly an attempt to avoid what won't be avoided...an additional trip to Chicago by the Orioles.
• Javy Vazquez was terrific, making only one mistake, a home run to Aubrey Huff.  Huff would later celebrate by getting tossed out of the game.
• The Sox offense stranded 12 runners in the first nine innings.  On a day like yesterday they should have issued them life preservers.
• The Sox held a two run lead going into the top of the ninth.  As strong as Vazquez was, Ozzie Guillen elected to remove him for closer Bobby Jenks.  95% of the managers in baseball would have done this, so you can't really fault Ozzie.  Jenks promptly gave up a double to Brian Roberts and a single to Melvin Mora, tying the game at two and ending Vazquez's chance for a win.
• In the bottom of the tenth, Carlos Quentin led off with a double and advanced to third on a Joe Crede sac fly.  Then, in what would prove to be the most bizarre moment of the game, Ozzie Guillen called for a squeeze play. Brian Anderson whiffed on the bunt and Quentin was thrown out trying to get back to third.  Funny thing about the squeeze play in that situation: If it works you are a genius, if it fails you are a goat.  Ozzie Guillen is now sporting horns.
• In the eleventh, the Orioles got a lead off home run from Ramon Hernandez.  Just when the Orioles thought the plane was boarding, Juan Uribe answered with a solo shot in the bottom of the inning. Uribe entered the game in the top of the ninth as a defensive replacement for Alexi Ramirez.  Good thing, too as he made a big play throwing out Huff to lead off the tenth. 
  
• The Sox had legitimate chances to have big innings in the 2nd, 4th, 5th and 7th innings and did very little with the opportunities they were given.  This needs to change if the Sox really want to compete for a playoff spot (thank you, Captain Obvious.)
• The thing you hear most about the Orioles is "they won't be there in July", in the thick of the AL East race.  Yet, after 5½ games against each other, you see two very evenly matched teams.  This should concern Sox fans.  A lot.
• So far, the Carlos Quentin trade has vaulted Kenny Williams' genius to stratospheric proportions.  Call it payback for Chris Young.
• The Sox open a two game series against the Twinkies tonight in the Roller Dome.  Pink Gavin Floyd, coming off a lukewarm performance against the Yankees, gets the call tonight against Boof Bonzer.  I like the idea of the Sox starting Nick Masset Wednesday afternoon to give the rotation a day off plus an off day to get back in sync after all the rain delays. Besides, Masset has always pitched well against the Twinkies.  The only way this strategy backfires is if Floyd gets bombed early and the Sox need several innings from the bullpen.  If that happens, I suggest sending Alexi Ramirez down after the game and bringing Lance Broadway up (if he's available) for a spot start.
• FINAL WORD: Here's what our hero and role model had to say about Mike MacUseless getting his bus ticket to Charlotte: "Mike MacDougal, gone. What's the parade route?"  The man is an absolute genius.  That's why we love him so.