Seven MLB Headaches for the Chicago White Sox

It's not quite the ''seven headaches'' that the Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen spoke about a few weeks back.

He had the aspirin close at hand after a 7-3 loss to the Kansas City Royals that denied the defending MLB World Series champions of a sweep.

In missing out on a three-game sweep at Kauffman Stadium, as well as having to endure a rain delay of an hour and 46 minutes, the Sox once again found themselves looking at the standings as though they were a Sudoku puzzle.

In other words, the very thing Guillen was hoping to avoid. When asked about the playoff picture in July, Guillen insisted that winning the American League Central would be much easier than winning the wild card.

''I'd rather have just one team to worry about than seven headaches,'' Guillen said at the time.

But with their latest loss, the Sox slipped 8 ½ games behind the Central-leading Detroit Tigers and dropped a game behind the Boston Red Sox in the MLB baseball wild-card race.

Guillen wasn't waving a white flag after the game, but he kept true to his reputation of telling it like it is.

''We're still there, but it's going to be hard for us [to catch the Tigers],'' Guillen said. ''We saw what happened to us last season down the stretch, but [the Tigers] are playing so well. We face them 10 more times, and you never know what's going to happen. But if you're talking reality, yes, it's going to be hard. It's in our hands, and we understand that.''

''The wild card, there's just too many teams there. We'll see.''

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