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• Doubleheader gamethread: Nationals at White Sox

Pedro Grifol stares blankly at his inept baseball team while pondering their collective existential crisis. | Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Let’s play two? Are you ready for a double dose of abominable baseball, Sox fans? Well, you’re in for a treat! Your Chicago White Sox play not once but twice today! Double the fun on the South Side! The Sox welcome the Washington Nation...2024
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• Nationals at White Sox: Rained out, doubleheader tomorrow

The White Sox look to put yesterday’s Mother’s Day debacle behind them as they play host to the Nationals, starting tonight. | Quinn Harris/Getty Images Straight DH starts at 3:40 p.m. CT, so savor that six-of-10 stretch for one more day Well, you’ll probably see some version of this gamethread tomorrow, because: pic.twitter.com/3zvHNFpK20— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) May 13, 2024 ...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: May 10

Johnny Mostil was a serious and underrated hitter in White Sox history, and 99 years ago today he clubbed a walk-off for the Pale Hose. | Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics, Getty Images Johnny Mostil, again a hero 1909 The White Sox knock off Walter Johnson and the Washington Senators, 1-0, in 11 innings. Johnson suffered his second straight 1-0 loss. By the end of 1909, he’d have 10 lo...2024
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• White Sox 3, Guardians 2: That’s two in a row, baby

With another great start, Erick Fedde is solidifying his role as ace of the staff. | Griffin Quinn/Getty Images Erick Fedde tosses a gem and improves to 3-0 on the season We’re finally .500! Well, that’s a bit of a stretch, but technically, the White Sox ARE 4-4 over their last eight games. Let’s go! Erick Fedde was simply fantastic tonight. He earned his third victory and third qualit...2024
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• Gamethread: White Sox at Rays

Chris Flexen, like many of the Sox pitchers, is just bad | Peter Aiken-USA TODAY Sports A payback is in order for Tampa Bay Welcome to another edition of ‘How will the White Sox lose today?’ The Tampa Bay Rays are seeking redemption tonight, aiming to avenge the sweep they experienced last month at the hands of the South Siders. Let’s lead off with this season’s first veteran fire sale m...2024
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• Rays 8, White Sox 2: TKO, fifth inning

Jonny DeLuca tapped a two-run single in the second inning, and the Rays never looked back. | Julio Aguilar/Getty Images Five walks - three Ks = runaway loss [In response to the White Sox activating an alleged spousal and child abuser, serial philanderer and domestic abandoner, and demonstrably horrific and selfish teammate, we present a limited recap that steers around direct details of ...2024
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• Twins 10, White Sox 5: Minnesota clubbed their way to another sweep

Tommy Pham slams his first bomb of the season | Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports Bad defense and a horrific bullpen were the death knell as Chicago continues to crash and burn Veterans Robbie Grossman and Tommy Pham tried their best to be the heroes we needed in this getaway day contest. And yet, another poor showing by the bullpen and more sloppy defense from the Sox ruined a decent en...2024
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• Phillies 9, White Sox 5: Another day on planet earth

Dominic Fletcher struck out in the fifth inning, but doubled during a ninth-inning rally that unfortunately fell short of the 10 runs Chicago needed to win. | Mitchell Leff/Getty Images Ninth-inning rally falls short, South Siders slip to 3-17 With one out in the top of the sixth inning, I turned to the TV, which I had not been facing, and watched Braden Shewmake fly out to shallow center...2024
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• Keeping tabs on old White Sox friends ...

Instead of watching Jake Burger launch bombs for the White Sox, we are forced to view from afar. Thanks, Kenny! | Brennan Asplen/Getty Images Because it’s certainly more fun than what we’re watching now Hey there, fellow White Sox fans! I’m excited to introduce a new feature this season where I’ll update you on how one of our favorite former players is faring with his new team. Not just ...2024
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• White Sox 7, Guardians 5: Moncada falls, Kopech rises

Michael Kopech brought the heat in victory! | Dustin Bradford/Getty Images South Siders overcome Cleveland, and themselves, to earn their second win of the season The White Sox offense went from drought to deluge early in this one, as nine batters came to the plate in the first, scoring five runs on five hits and a walk. White Sox are up 5-0 in a game?! Did the rapture really happen and...2024
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• Gamethread: White Sox at Guardians

AL Central Best vs Worst: A Collision Course | Ronald C. Modra/Getty Images Black Hole Sun, won’t you come, won’t you come ... If you were too busy making preparations to view the coming solar eclipse, the Pale Hose pay a visit to “The Land” fresh off of a four-game sweep at the hands of the bad-but-still-better-than-us Kansas City Royals. The South Siders enter play with a only a single ...2024
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• Gamethread: White Sox at Royals

Michael Soroka gets his second start. | Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images An extra day of rest in hand, the Sox begin the sisyphean climb to two wins While the weather is still not cooperating with my personal tastes, it’s at least possible to play baseball in it today, which is what’s going to happen in Kansas City at Lame Duck Kauffman Stadium at 6:40 p.m. CT today, provided you consider a ma...2024
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• 2024 AL Central preview: The search for signs of life beyond Minnesota

Photo by Frank Jansky/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Twins needed only 87 wins to take the division title in 2023. The ceiling probably won’t be much higher. In 2023, the AL Central was easily the worst division in baseball. It wasn’t in danger of going full 1994 AL West or anything, but at the All-Star break, the Cleveland Guardians were in first place at a dead-even 45-45. All four...2024
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• Vote for the 2024 South Side Sox White Sox Hall of Fame!

Jack McDowell came the closest to being elected, without topping the 75% threshhold, in our last Hall of Fame election. | Otto Greule Jr/Allsport/Getty Images Let’s immortalize our sixth class of the best South Siders of all time Once upon a time, the Chicago White Sox had a team Hall of Fame — until they decided to put it in mothballs, in favor of an extended gift shop. Now the Sox have ...2024
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• White Sox 15, Brewers 4: Who are these guys?

Jordan Leasure is one of our spring surprises. | Norm Hall/MLB Photos via Getty Images Bats are unleashed for a second straight game The red-hot White Sox bats from last night carried over to this afternoon, resulting in an offensive explosion that sure would have been great to witness or hear. But alas, I was stuck with Gameday, which crashed in the fifth inning and didn’t start up agai...2024
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• White Sox 15, Brewers 4

Jordan Leasure is one of the spring surprises | Norm Hall/MLB Photos via Getty Images Who are these guys? The red-hot Sox bats from last night carried over to this afternoon, resulting in an offensive explosion that sure would have been great to witness or hear. But alas, I was stuck with Gameday which crashed in the fifth inning and didn’t start up again until the game was already over....2024
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• Orioles 9, White Sox 0: Nothing to see here

White Sox baseball is bad. Joan Jett is not. | Jess Rapfogel/Getty Images I love rock ’n roll but despise South Side baseball The most exciting thing about this game is that Joan Jett was in the house! The “I Love Rock ’n Roll” superstar is a big-time Baltimore Orioles fan. If she isn’t seriously the most adorable baseball fan. Don’t mind me why I fangirl. Joan Jett is a real one, ...2023
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"The sudden claims that the Armour Square home of the Pale Hose since 1991 is no longer adequate, and the newfound desperate need for a new park in order to survive, seem awfully reminiscent of they dying days of Old Comiskey."

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"Frank Thomas is the only Pale Hose to ever win the contest in 1995, out-hitting future teammate Albert Belle."

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"The White Sox knew when they signed Joe Kelly that the righty likely wouldn’t be ready for the start of the season, and the reliever tells Daryl Van Schouwen of The Chicago Sun-Times that he is targeting late April for his Pale Hose debut."

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"Jimenez has had a great season for the Pale Hose."

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"The 36-year-old righty pitched just 13 1/3 innings for the Pale Hose, allowing 14 runs on 19 hits and six walks with only five strikeouts."

2018
"Red Sox exercise club option for Chris Sale"

2015
"2015 A.L. Central Preview: Chicago White Sox"

2014
"Bell tolls for Chicago White Sox Dayán Viciedo?"

• White Sox 3, Guardians 2: That’s two in a row, baby
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• Gamethread: White Sox at Rays
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• White Sox 8, Rays 7 (10 innings): The Andrew Benintendi Game

Just one of TWO homers tonight for Andrew Benintendi! | Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Back-to-back wins for the Pale Hose The White Sox did the unthinkable tonight — they pulled off another win, making it two in a row for the first time this season. Despite what happens tomorrow, they also won the series against the Rays. Am I the lucky charm? I’ve got three wins under my coverage belt. All...2024
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• Games Eighteen and Nineteen: Kansas City Royals at Chicago White Sox

Jamie Sabau-USA TODAY Sports Let’s play two! The Royals of Kansas City will play two games this afternoon against the Pale Hose of Southside Chicago. Yesterday’s game was rained out, so it will be made up as part of a straight doubleheader, with the second game slated to begin shortly after the conclusion of the first. Brady Singer will start the first game for Kansas City. He has been out...2024
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• Moon briefly blots out sun, perhaps permanently blots out White Sox offense

Cleveland shortstop Brayan Rocchio assists in searching for the White Sox offense. In the case of such dangerous hunted game, protective glasses are recommended. | Mike Lawrie/Getty Images Pale Hose blanked for the fourth time in 2024. It’s only April The White Sox and Guardians played baseball this evening ... well, the Guardians did, at least. The South Siders seemed to be present in bo...2024
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• Gamethread: White Sox at Royals
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• 2024 AL Central preview: The search for signs of life beyond Minnesota
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• Guardians 8, White Sox 5: UGLY

Luis Robert Jr.’s struggles continue, with an 0-for-4 afternoon. | Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Don’t let the final score fool you: This one wasn’t close Before the team took the field in Glendale this afternoon, the Pale Hose announced that Garrett Crochet has been named the White Sox Opening Day starter. While this will be Crochet’s first career major league start, he has been electric s...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: March 18

On this day eight years ago, dumb got dumber. | @BNightengale/Twitter On this day eight years ago, dumb things got much dumber for the South Siders 1942 White Sox manager Jimmy Dykes granted Black players Jackie Robinson and Nate Moreland a tryout with the White Sox, while the Pale Hose conducted spring training in Pasadena, Calif. Neither player made the cut. After also failing to make t...2024
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• Bird App Recap: Goose Eggs

Your 2024 Chicago White Sox, making baseball history with every shutout ... Hello friends, and welcome to another Bird App Recap! The last time I tweet-capped Pale Hose happenings on a baseball diamond, the plucky South Siders bravely faced major league competition for the very first time in the young 2024 season. Too bad the White Sox failed to field a major league-quality squad on Day one, and ...2024
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• Phillies 9, White Sox 5: Another day on planet earth
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• White Sox 7, Guardians 5: Moncada falls, Kopech rises
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• Gamethread: White Sox at Royals
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• 2024 AL Central preview: The search for signs of life beyond Minnesota
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• Vote for the 2024 South Side Sox White Sox Hall of Fame!
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• Guardians 8, White Sox 5: UGLY
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• White Sox 15, Brewers 4: Who are these guys?
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• Texas Rangers 4, Chicago White Sox 2

Eloy’s two hits and two RBI were about the only bright spot in this tedious snoozefest. | Photo by Melissa Tamez/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Early spring offensive woes continue ... In a game you had to be there to see, and should probably be thankful you couldn’t, the South Sider’s offensive struggles were on full display. While the Pale Hose managed to collect six hits on the aftern...2024
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• Rays 8, White Sox 2: TKO, fifth inning
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• White Sox 9, Rays 4: The Martín Maldonado Game

Martín Maldonado’s huge home run. | Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Did Tommy Pham’s arrival fix him? I don’t mean to alarm you, but the White Sox have won their fourth game, this time at home and against the Rays. Chris Flexen looked great on the mound tonight and the offense finally decided to help its pitcher. Right off the bat, pun not intended, Nicky Lopez and Tommy Pham started the hit...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: April 15

Future Hall of Famer starter Red Faber helped the White Sox to a 2-0 start 109 years ago today. He also improved to 2-0. How? Find out below. The South Siders count the Browns down and out 1915 It was the biggest shutout in team history, as the White Sox pasted St. Louis, 16-0. The Pale Hose put up seven runs before the home Browns even got to bat, and scored in every inning but the third...2024
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• White Sox 7, Guardians 5: Moncada falls, Kopech rises
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• 2024 AL Central preview: The search for signs of life beyond Minnesota
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• Let’s get new White Sox nicknames!

Now, this is a real Pale Hose. | Grainger.com A picturesque, picture-filled plea Now is the time to put the Pale Hose to death! No, not the team — that would be a tad drastic — the nickname. It was apt in 1910 when it was created. It ain’t apt now. We’ll take a look at hose, pale and otherwise, through the years coming up, complete with pretty pictures. But first, we digress. A NEW AND A...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: February 16

On this day a century ago, Frank Chance tried to leave his White Sox managerial post due to poor health. | Chicago Tribune Illness shakes up the coaching staff 1924 Early on this day Frank Chance resigned as manager of the White Sox, having been stricken ill with pneumonia some time after accepting the helm during the 1924 Winter Meetings in Chicago the previous December. However, owner ...2024
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• White Sox “need” new stadium to compete?

Apparently, billionaire Jerry Reinsdorf needs more money, and he doesn’t even feel he needs to ask you for it. | John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images We’ve heard this song and dance before Haven’t we heard this story before? Jerry Reinsdorf is again making specious and unsubstantiated claims that the ballpark his White Sox play in inhibits them from competin...2024
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• Luis Robert Jr. to participate in Home Run Derby
Luis Robert Jr. and his majestic swing will partake in the Home Run Derby festivities next week. | Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports La Pantera on the hunt for the clouting crown Luis Robert Jr. announced on his Instagram account earlier today that he will participate in the 2023 T-Mobile Home Run Derby in Seattle on Monday, July 10, at 7 p.m. CT. View this post on Instagra...2023
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• White Sox 5, Guardians 3: Comeback in Cleveland

Today’s hero Elvis Andrus and Yoán Moncada celebrate after coming back to win, 5-3, in the ninth inning. | Ken Blaze-USA TODAY Sports Ah, dang. What a tough break for the vanquished. Keep respecting the game, though The Chicago White Sox have silenced the Cleveland Guardians and their fans after taking the series and the game this afternoon, 5-3. This came after a crazy ninth inning. Alth...2023
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• Athletics 12, White Sox 4: Sox are Ice Cold

Lenyn Sosa was one of the few highlights. Also, given the concert cancellation, perhaps it’s time to finally put Elvis’ gangster chic in the dumpster. | Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports Sosa and Jiménez bombs were the only solace for the South Siders That was too much suffering, even for an opening act. With three errors in the game, two courtesy of Andrew Benintendi on almost-consecuti...2023
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• Diamondbacks 5, White Sox 0: Nothing to see here folks

Bryan Ramos was one of the very few bright spots on Sunday. | Michael Reaves/Getty Images Arizona pitching blanks Chicago In a game that offered very little in terms of excitement for the South Siders, pitcher Jonathan Cannon was the bright spot. The righthander put up goose eggs on the Diamondbacks for the two innings he was on the mound, allowing no hits or walks and striking out two. ...2024
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• Blue Jays 5, White Sox 4: Bluebirds soar while South Siders free-fall
A season-low 15 games worse than .500, and the free-fall seems inevitable. | Jamie Sabau/Getty Images Time to do the laundry, because the Pale Hose just stink The Good Guys were hoping to avoid the doubleheader and three-game sweep, but alas, it wasn’t meant to be. They did manage to generate some offense in the finale to make the game somewhat entertaining, even if the outcome was prett...2023
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• White Sox battle but fall short again, 4-2

When Elvis Andrus ’23 is an offensive star, you know there wasn’t a lot of scoring from the Good Guys. | Ken Blaze-USA TODAY Sports Offense continues to struggle in a winnable game, the song of the season After a brutal offensive week, the White Sox (43-68) dropped the opener to the Guardians (54-56), as the bats lost their mojo yet again. The South Siders already had difficulty producing...2023
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• What is next after the front office dismissals?

Cleaning house: Jerry Reinsdorf is taking the team in a new direction | Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports After the departures of Rick Hahn and Kenny Williams, the organization must avoid its past mistakes It is really over. Rick Hahn and Kenny Williams have been relieved of their duties. It still has not fully sunk in, but this is the reality. For the first time since 1990, Jerry Reinsd...2023
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• Brash Monkeys Those Funky Pale Hose
Dropping 98 MPH 4-seamers, maxing out at 99 MPH, with a bye-bye 82-87 MPH knuckle curve with a 3100 spin rate that has 48-inches of break, followed by "Oh, okay, that was a change, okay, I see what you did there" as the batter swings and misses. Is the answer to, "Are we sure Matt Brash is real?" Oh, he looked very real. Really real. My favorite sequence was right after giving up his first run, he...2022
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• Doubleheader gamethread: Nationals at White Sox
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• Nationals at White Sox: Rained out, doubleheader tomorrow
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• Gamethread: White Sox at Rays
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• Bird App Recap: Goose Eggs
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• Games Eighteen and Nineteen: Kansas City Royals at Chicago White Sox
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• Game 18 Thread: Royals vs. Pale Hose

Kansas City, Missouri, USA; Kansas City Royals catcher Freddy Fermin (34) talks with pitcher Nick Anderson (63) at the mound against the Houston Astros after Anderson walks in a run in the sixth inning at Kauffman Stadium. | Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports The White Sox are bad! Gosh heckin’ darn tootin’ the Chicago White Sox are bad. To win two of your first 15 games? That’s the kind of sta...2024
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• White Sox Minor League Update: April 9, 2024

Among several sweet pitching performances on Tuesday, Tanner McDougal’s ranked way up there. | @Tanner_McDougal/Instagram A tough day for offense, but some great hurling down in A-ball for the Mcs Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp 4, Charlotte Knights 1 (Gameday box) (Statcast box)It might not be worry time over Nick Nastrini, but for a second start of the season, he fell short. Tonight, it was ...2024
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• White Sox 7, Guardians 5: Moncada falls, Kopech rises
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• Gamethread: Angels @ White Sox

Man undeserving of job fails upward in perpetuity. | Michael Reaves/Getty Images Oh, there’s a spring game to follow? It’s a gloomy Thursday afternoon in Chicago, a day befitting the official start of yet another White Sox attempt to rebuild through half-measures, hubris, and detritus washed to the banks of Bubbly Creek. Yes, 2016 was indeed eight years ago, but it sure doesn’t feel lik...2024
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• Rox: 7, Sox: BAD

Starter-not-starter Michael Kopech had himself another miserable spring outing. | Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Maybe the org is secretly doing us a favor not letting us watch? In a game that none of us could see or hear, probably for the better, the White Sox put on another indefatigable display of atrocious baseball. Unfortunately, I don’t foresee much of anything changing when the calendar...2024
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• South Side Sox Summary: Week 23

Chris Getz is all smiles, while the rest of us are steeped in anger. | Matt Marton-USA TODAY Sports Off-the-field drama again grabs the headlines Welcome to the SSS Summary — a little review of what happened this past week in Chicago White Sox baseball, including on-the-field play, the front office jibber-jabber, and everything in between. Even if you don’t want to remember what happened,...2023
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• Cub Tracks is just a biscuit short

Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. Cubs only have one comeback, and it isn’t enough. But nobody is going to fault their effort. Welcome to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’...2023
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• Bird App Recap: A bad baseball brew

And we’ll do it our way! Lose, that is ... Happy Friday, Friends! The Brew Crew is in town, to take on the Pale Hose on the South Side! pic.twitter.com/FKVXPa629l— Ryiin (@rfoto) August 11, 2023 This bit is probably very tired for most readers, but I don’t care, it still amuses me. And if we can’t be entertained while watching bad baseball, what are we even doing here? Another of Pedro’s in...2023
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• Cub Tracks’ secrets in the stars
Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. So how much longer can we have stars in our eyes and on our team? Tell us true, Jed. It’s the dawning of the age of asparagus. Welcome to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB basebal...2023
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• South Side Sox Summary: Week 17
The bad just got worse, way worse Welcome to the SSS Summary — a little review of what happened this past week in Chicago White Sox baseball, including on-the-field play, the front office jibber-jabber, and everything in-between. Even if you don’t want to remember what happened, sorry, we will tell you anyway. If there was any remaining hope about whether or not this team could salvage the season...2023
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