So, the White Sox Need More Junk Food?

↵Attacking postseason food metaphors is Fire Joe Morgan’s bag, but this Phil Rogers Chicago Tribune lede is weird enough to make laymen like myself laugh:↵↵⇥Home runs are baseball’s version of junk food.
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↵⇥They tempt, taste great and provide a jolt of energy upon entering the system. But when October rolls around, they won’t sustain you like a balanced diet of clutch hits, whether they’re for one base or extra bases.↵↵Rogers goes on to point out the Sox didn’t hit any homers in Friday’s loss to Tampa Bay, but did hit a ton of singles. A balanced diet of hits, you could call it. No junk food. Just what Rogers says you need in October. Um, except when you could use some extra base hits because no one is scoring on the singles?
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↵I think Rogers is arguing that a lineup built to hit home runs and not clutch hits won’t do well, and that the Sox only have a recent World Series victory because the power line-up was augmented with good pitching. (Wait, you have to be able to hit and pitch to win a title? Whoa.) It’s hard to decipher Rogers’ column, though. As FJM has long insisted, food metaphors don’t help explain anything. They just make everyone hungry.↵