Paulie Paulie Paulie

SOX win their last game of the year. I hope Paulie comes back next year but if he doesn't he gave Chicago fans lots of thrills even in this season of disappointment. Monster numbers. He was always dangerous for the South Siders. He didn't have his typical Paulie season where one half was great and the other half was meh at best. He went wire to wire, relatively injury free and seeing the ball well the whole way through.

Paulie hit the first home run Alex ever say, major or minor leagues. We saw a great pair of Paulie moments in the game vs KC we saw in the last three weeks of the season. The AL Central race was all but won by the Twins so the game, in the grand scheme of things baseball was relatively meaningless. Royals jumped out to a 6-0 lead on Lucas H in the first. The next inning the SOX captain hit a two run home run, then a few innings later, he hit another two run home run.

It was Royals 6, Paulie 4 and we fans were going nuts. There were chants for him to come out of the dugout and tip his hat...but after being womped on 6-0 and still trailing 6-4, Paulie had too much pride to come out and tip his cap.

SOX ended up winning 12-6 so it all worked out in the end.

Here's hoping things work out for one of my favorite SOX players of all time. Good luck Paulie K. SOX fans will always love you.