Good post. Hopefully this helps explain why I was so bothered by them selling last July. There are also plenty of near misses. The 2005 season might be a good comp. In 2005, the White Sox had a 15.0 game lead on Cleveland on August 1st. By late September, that lead got as slim as 1.5 games, with a season ending series against Cleveland looming. Alas, Cleveland could not make up that final difference, and the Sox won the division and then the World Series.