Sweet! The blue-collar blue state team sweeps the oil team in Bush's backyard

It's really hard to care about the World Series when you have zero investment in either team or its players.

Still, the clean sweep of the Houston Astros by the Chicago White Sox last night smells sweet as a spring morning today. And this most blue-collar of teams in this most blue-collar neighborhoods in this blue state; this largely minority team with its Venezuelan manager, African-American GM, and Jewish owner, did it in Bush's backyard.

And this team which has been scarred for 86 years by the infamous "Black Sox" scandal of 1919, one which saw "Shoeless" Joe Jackson banned from baseball for all eternity even though he didn't take the dive, finally won the series in a year in which two ballplayers were caught doing steroids -- and neither one was banned.